How Does Your Garden Grow??????

xtsho said:

I'm sure your peppers in pots look better than mine in the ground. Mine are fried. I started mixing my own fertilizer from organic ingredients. Bought 50 lb bags of kelp, crab meal, alfalfa meal, rock phosphate, guano, etc... I used that to amend the soil and everything is doing great except my peppers. For some reason I decided to toss another handful in the hole when I transplanted my peppers and it was too much. They're starting to come around but I lost at least a month of growth. They're stunted and burned up. I blew it with my peppers this year. Everything else is doing great so I can take comfort in that.

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Yea, peppers don't like soil as hot as tomatoes do. When I can, I have two soil mixes. If not, I just add more peat moss or potting soil to my tomato mix to tone it down a little.

I'm down to about 4 healthy green bean plants. And the young ones are not looking great. About a 1/4 of them have died this week.

The saved seed okra that did make it is making a few pods a day now.

The bought seed okra is just getting ready. I cut about half a dozen pods this morning, but that number will be increasing rapidly.

The pole beans are catching their stride. {I left 6-8 big pods to get fully mature before I pick them for seeds} A couple Acorn and one yellow squash. And just about the last of the sweet corn.

No pictures, but saw the first Armenian cuke. Yea!!!!

And the Nina {Indian Broad} beans are 10-12 inches long. They haven't started to fatten up at all. I hope to see her at the thrift store tomorrow. I'm going to take one of the beans and let her tell me how much longer it needs.

xtsho said:

I'm sure your peppers in pots look better than mine in the ground. Mine are fried. I started mixing my own fertilizer from organic ingredients. Bought 50 lb bags of kelp, crab meal, alfalfa meal, rock phosphate, guano, etc... I used that to amend the soil and everything is doing great except my peppers. For some reason I decided to toss another handful in the hole when I transplanted my peppers and it was too much. They're starting to come around but I lost at least a month of growth. They're stunted and burned up. I blew it with my peppers this year. Everything else is doing great so I can take comfort in that.

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it's early enough to start again, still time to get some peppers, especially if you go around to garden centers and look for decent sized ones to tranplant

Sorry, but I didn't get a picture of the peppers the wife picked until they were in the fridge. Hard to see, but it's one big bell, and the rest Mammoth Jalapeno and Cayenne.

I raked up some leaves and pinestraw to mulch the peppers. My contractor can't use the straw close to the edge because of the oak leaves, so. . . . . .


I got all that I raked on my "wagon", but it didn't all make it back to the garden. lol

dude, you work all the time !!!!! lol. great production from the garden too...

Sour Wreck said:

dude, you work all the time !!!!! lol. great production from the garden too...

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I did lay down after lunch for 45 minutes. I go to work so I can rest.

too larry said:

I did lay down after lunch for 45 minutes. I go to work so I can rest.

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no shit !!!!! lol

Ok. Little picture update on the outdoor coco/hydroponics stuff.

First we have the beastly pumpkins. Starting to vine out and spread their wings. Gonna be a mini pumpkin patch in the backyard



Next up. Straight Eight and Armenian cucumbers. I've started training them onto the trellis netting and they'll soon be taking over. Dog for scale.



These are the hempy bucket tomatoes that started all this nonsense. Still trucking along, really healthy plants and some perfect looking tomatoes. For some reason the left-middle plant is refusing to grow vertical.


These are what I'll just call my Death's Door tomatoes. They're growing quick now.


And cap things off with a group shot of the kids...and some broken down, old fencing.

socaljoe said:

Ok. Little picture update on the outdoor coco/hydroponics stuff.

First we have the beastly pumpkins. Starting to vine out and spread their wings. Gonna be a mini pumpkin patch in the backyard

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That dog is cute. What is it? I like small dogs.

Here's my kids. Brown one is a Chiweenie, Dachshund + Chihuahua. The white one is Chihuahua and I think Boston Terrier. We have the AKC papers for the Chihuahua father and that's it. She was a Second Chance rescue dog I got from the pound. She was abused and it's taken me a couple years of work to get her social. She still bites sometime though. Especially if anyone makes sudden moves towards me. She's bonded with me. She's Daddy's girl.

xtsho said:

That dog is cute. What is it? I like small dogs.

Here's my kids. Brown one is a Chiweenie, Dachshund + Chihuahua. The white one is Chihuahua and I think Boston Terrier. We have the AKC papers for the Chihuahua father and that's it. She was a Second Chance rescue dog I got from the pound. She was abused and it's taken me a couple years of work to get her social. She still bites sometime though. Especially if anyone makes sudden moves towards me. She's bonded with me. She's Daddy's girl.

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They're adorable. I don't think I've ever seen a chiweenie, awesome.

That's my Piper in the pic. She's a Rat Terrier, maybe with some Chihuahua mixed in, she isn't from a breeder, so it's anyone's guess. The Rat Terrier definitely is the dominant side of her character, and she'll hunt for rats/gophers all night if I'd let her.

Here's a shot of her with a gopher she killed.

socaljoe said:

They're adorable. I don't think I've ever seen a chiweenie, awesome.

That's my Piper in the pic. She's a Rat Terrier, maybe with some Chihuahua mixed in, she isn't from a breeder, so it's anyone's guess. The Rat Terrier definitely is the dominant side of her character, and she'll hunt for rats/gophers all night if I'd let her.

Here's a shot of her with a gopher she killed.

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She's a beauty!

xtsho said:

She's a beauty!

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Thanks. She's a good girl. Funny thing is, I never cared for small dogs until she came along, I always thought of them as nervous, yipey and neurotic. But I've never had a dog with so much character, she can be energetic one minute and ready for a nap the next. We're best buds.

Lots going on in the garden this week. I used a better powered wagon to haul leaves and pinestraw with.



The first load around the Armenian cukes.

Speaking of Armenians. . . .

We had bad thunderstorms Wednesday night. Laid some of the corn over. {I've got to get this corn side dressed. The other is only a few days older, but is knee high]

I did get the corn {in the saved seed okra} cleaned out. That was what was holding me back from side dressing.