How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry said:

My pickle bush cukes are making now. The Armenians are not keeping up with demand, so it's good to have more in the mix.

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my cucs aren't doing well at all this year.. started off with four plants, and i'm down to two, and only one really dong well.. they started off with these weird spots / discolored leaves, and they didn't ever really seem to take off doing good, minus the one of course.. strange thing, on the walks with the dog, i noticed my neighbors cucs that were looking great all seemed to die back as well.. .

Roger A. Shrubber said:

no squash growing yet, but the bee's are out there doin their thing, so it's just a matter of time
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i've had a bunch of summer squash and had a few zuchinni so far .. they're doing pretty good..

umm, pix are obviously an eggplant, lol, some squash and zuchini and a few peppers and a cucumber, plants are i think those are the summer squash, with the tomatoes to the right and last pix is the eggplant plants..

oh yeah, had started some stuff indoors from seed early spring, and planted everything that came up and was doing well.. used the soil from a few of things that never germ'ed on a few outdoor house plants, and like a week or two ago, noticed that i had a cucumber plant growing out of an orchid, lol, so the other day i carefully dug it out and planted it out in the garden, i'll see how it does..

i bet toilet paper sales peak in the late summer/early fall

We finally got some hot humid weather. What a difference in growth it makes for these tomatoes, basil, and green peppers. Everything in this picture was brown and barely had a leaf on it after our last really late frost in the second week of june.



Gotta love reusing your indoor soil lol I added nothing but crushed oyster shells to this soil from this past winter.
Cheers

The cucumbers are becoming too much work for too little return. Cutting them down and will start some new ones around September. Picked up several varieties of parthenocarpic cucumbers to try out.

If any of you guys are interested in trying some parthenocarpic cucumbers, shoot me a pm. I'm going to have a lot of seeds, and I'd be happy to share some out.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

i bet toilet paper sales peak in the late summer/early fall

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I've found that when I'm eating a pint of okra at every meal, I spend more time on the shitter working Sudoku than actually shitting. That part of it is over pretty quick.

racerboy71 said:

my cucs aren't doing well at all this year.. started off with four plants, and i'm down to two, and only one really dong well.. they started off with these weird spots / discolored leaves, and they didn't ever really seem to take off doing good, minus the one of course.. strange thing, on the walks with the dog, i noticed my neighbors cucs that were looking great all seemed to die back as well.. .

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I've been replanting about once a month. They look great for a couple three weeks, then start to slide. This time I planted in cups. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are good transplanting days, if my memory is working.

Today's pepper picking. I've been giving away as many as I can, but it looks like we will have to make poppers and pepper sauce soon.

I always miss a few pods of okra and it's too big next go round.

I picked the first two ears of sweet corn off the 2nd planting. Could have gone a day longer, but I work all weekend.

Habs are not too far from ripe. The two in the pit anyway. The ones in the trench are a bit behind them, and the ones in pots by the big oak are a little behind the ones in the trench.

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Here it is. I have these 2 in the new pit, 2 in the trench and 2 in pots over by the oak tree. These are saved seed Habs, so. . . . .

These can't ripen fast enough.

I cut down one of my hempy bucket tomatoes, it hasn't produced anything for a while and had nothing on it. Anyway, I snapped a pic of the rootball...pretty cool.

Today was the day my tomatoes decided to start producing. These are Brandywine and Pruden's Purple, but also got about a quart of cherry and yellow pear. We had to cut around a few splits, but I finally had a tomato that needed slicing.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow are good transplant days. The plan was to get most of the Armenian and regular cukes in the ground today, then work on Acorn squash tomorrow. I was backed up on my F1 watching, so didn't get in the garden until after 0900. It took until lunch just to pick over everything, then there was a huge thunderstorm. Although the nap was nice, it would have been better to have got some of those in the ground.

And tomorrow is a shopping day.

{I did pick up two truck loads of mushroom compost last week, so at least I have something to work with when I do get them done}

Chopped my Armenian cukes today. My niece and nephew helped me plant some more cucumber seeds. Trying 5 parthenocarpic varieties.

My main goal this go round is to work on suckering the plants to avoid them growing in every direction. I think this approach will be more efficient for my vertical trellis growing.