How Does Your Garden Grow??????

I picked the first pole bean yesterday. Soon these will be out producing the green beans.

Squash seeds from the BIL are up and doing well. Other squash seeds are not as quick sprouting. Only 1-2 sprouts between the acorn and spaghetti.

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nice, wish i had that big a space that wasn't shaded by trees i'm not allowed to cut down...

Looking good Thumper. Is your soil that dark naturally, or have you amended it?

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Nice setup Thumper. Looks like you spend some time out there.

too larry said:

Looking good Thumper. Is your soil that dark naturally, or have you amended it?

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I just side dressed with compost an watered straw going down today I don't like weeding

BarnBuster said:

Nice setup Thumper. Looks like you spend some time out there.

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haha this time of yr pretty much live in the garden once I get straw layed down I will be on easy street,labor of love

thumper60 said:

haha this time of yr pretty much live in the garden once I get straw layed down I will be on easy street,labor of love

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Yep, once the mulching is done, it's Silk Stocking Avenue for me too. But until then, I did a little side dressing and plowing this morning before work. {and between showers} I got the okra, corn and peas done.

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wow, nice

I've been doing a bit of transplanting this weekend. Got my pumpkins into their final home and the cucumbers are set up in their final pots and I set a trellis net facing east for that full morning sun. I'm hoping for a wall of cucumbers.

Also remember these:


Well here they are today. Taking a page out of Larry's book and putting several in one big container.

look like they're recovering nicely, good work

Roger A. Shrubber said:

look like they're recovering nicely, good work

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Thanks. I'm happy that they made a full recovery. Now to see what they do.

Beans climbing like crazy



My first English cucumber



Corn is growing well



I've harvested a few yellow squash. My Zucchini is about a week away before I can start harvesting. I only planted one this year because one is all me and my girl need. Last year I couldn't give them away I had so many.



I'm having fresh peas for dinner tonight to go with the squash.



A roasted beet salad sounds good.



All my tomatoes are setting fruit. Some are showing signs of bug activity on the leaves. I'm going to have to get on top of that.




The giant pumpkins are starting to grow almost a foot a day. Well it seems like it. I'm not actually measuring.



I love this time of year. Watching things grow and being able to walk in my backyard and pick dinner. I wish I had the room some of you do. I always try and grow too much and everything gets crammed together and I end up with an unmanageable jungle having to contort my body into positions it doesn't like just to keep from stepping on things when I go out to harvest what's ready. I've identified a couple more areas where I'm going to rip up the grass for more gardening real estate. I'm going to have just a patch of grass about ten feet wider than the patio going to the back of the yard where the grass ends under a few fir trees and I have a little wooded area with ferns. Has anyone ever used a sod cutter? Will the work when you have large rocks under the grass? My backyard is like a riverbed with rocks some the size of basketballs just under the grass. I can rent one for the day for under $100 so it would be money well spent unless the rocks would cause too much of a hassle.

socaljoe said:

I've been doing a bit of transplanting this weekend. Got my pumpkins into their final home and the cucumbers are set up in their final pots and I set a trellis net facing east for that full morning sun. I'm hoping for a wall of cucumbers.

Also remember these:
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You did such a good job reviving those maybe you want some more? I still have some starts in the greenhouse. I feel terrible for the plants but I have no place to put them and nobody to take them. I gave away dozens of plants but I still had too many. I'll probably cram them into a big pot and put them on the corner of the patio. I feel like a bad parent.

my first handful of Thai "prik kee noo suan"....."mouse dropping chilis"....they say for their small size, we'll see as soon as i find a guinea pig to try some. supposed to be about halfway between a jalapeno and a habanero heat wise, with a tart flavor. sounds like good salsa chilis

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my first handful of Thai "prik kee noo suan"....."mouse dropping chilis"....they say for their small size, we'll see as soon as i find a guinea pig to try some. supposed to be about halfway between a jalapeno and a habanero heat wise, with a tart flavor. sounds like good salsa chilisView attachment 4152779

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Get a green papaya and make some Som Tum or make some Nam Pla Prik. It's good on a lot of foods. All of a sudden I'm hungry for Thai food. I wish I had a plate of Pad Kaprow Gai (Thai Basil Chicken) in front of me right now.

Yesterdays picking. {the long ear of corn is field corn} The pole beans are coming on at just the right time. As the green beans are just about all dead. Too much rain for them, the peas and squash.

some kind of lime green caterpillar did a number on 2 of my small pepper plants and tomato plants. they may not recover.

the caterpillar didn't....

I've got six tomatoes in total, the bigger ones went in a few weeks earlier, thought I'd risk the weather on a couple to get earlier tomates, there were about a month old now. Some basil and oregano (lots of tomato sauce coming!) the basil was having a tough time but it's going to do okay..