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Gardeners
How are your gardens coming along?
Ours... well I've learned a lot of things so I think that's the highlight.
Corn is doing okay as well as multicolored carrots and green onions. We'd have tomatoes if Ana didn't keep picking the green ones. I've got pumpkin or watermelon going crazy (can't remember which square I planted which in) The other didn't come up at all.
Everything else didn't really do well. Our beans didn't come up at all. Must have been a bad pack. strawberries didn't even flower. So far no cherries and a total of two blueberries. No pears. We do have 3 apples so far. Iceburg lettuce is doing marginally and bib lettuce is doing a little better. Something (likely some bug) ate our broccoli and cauliflower to the point where it couldn't grow any longer.
So like I said, we learned a lot. I won't plant by seed again unless it's carrots and onions. lol!
Re: Gardeners
We bought starter plants for all of our stuff so we sort of cheated.. But we have been getting quite a few green beans, a few jalepenos and are starting to get zucchini on a daily basis. Our yellow squash is growing but the veggies themselves are puny so far. Tomatoes and cucumbers are flowering but no veggies yet. Bell peppers are flower and a few tiny ones growing. Raspberries are out of control but no red berries yet. Asparagus we started from a seed and it never came up. I think next year I am moving the vine plants (ie squash, zucchini, cucumber) to a different plot because they are choking out my green beans!
Spinach -- bolted
Broccoli - bolted
Kale -- doing super well .SO far, I've harvested it 4 times and it's still growing like crazy!
Beans -- look fantastic
Peppers -- look fantastic
Tomatoes -- best year yet!
Beets -- got killed by the hail
Kohlrabi -- about ready to harvest. Doing great
Eggplants -- not lookin' so hot
Onions -- great
Strawberries -- were doing well then they just kind of shriveled up and died. They are 4 year old plants, so I think I'm going to tear them up and start new ones for next year.
MrsReem: DId you just plant your berries this year? If so, they won't produce much their first year, but net year you'll get TONS!
Neena Mae. 1/7/10
"A baby nursing at a mother's breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature." - David Suzuki
I think I read somewhere that you aren't supposed to let your strawberry plants flower their first year so they'll produce better the second year. So...maybe it's a good thing? I think the same might be true for all fruits, so I bet things will look much better next year.
I'm not a veggie gardener, but it has taken me a good 4 or 5 seasons under my belt to get things figured out. One of these days I will actually have things looking the way I want it!
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I bet things will really take off in this heat! Veggies love it!
This is our first year with a veggie garden and I will say it has exploded. We started everything from seed except for the tomato plants...
Bush Beans - doing REALLY well
Snap Beans - just got flowers on them
Pepper Plants - doing great - next year trying them in 5 gallon buckets
Cherry Tomato Plants - waiting for them to ripen
Tomato Plants - just got flowers
Onions - doing great
Squash - only had one plant survive and probably better as it is huge! Have 4 squash on it right now!
Broccoli - how do you tell if it has bolted? It is huge but we still don't have anything.
Herbs - DH tried to help me out and planted them for me. And then we had a monsoon and apparently nothing survived
My tomatoes have blight. Anybody have any good fungicide recommendations?
My early girl tomato is doing awesome. The other tomato is doing okay. Lots of blooms but no fruit yet.
Cucumbers are doing well.
Cayenne peppers were doing awesome until the freaking deer got a hold of it. I hope it comes back.
Yellow bell pepper took a hit early on because of a night that got a bit too chilly but its fighting back with a vengence now.
None of my lettuce came up.
I have random corn growing in my garden. Pretty sure that is courtesy of the dang deer. Frankly I'd rather have my peppers than the three stalks of corn they planted. I also have a pumpkin that is growing in my compost pile from last years jack-o-lantern. Another surprise but we will see if it turns into something.
My garden seems like it is getting a slower start this year.
We have tons of lettuce and snap peas. We had strawberries, but I didn't stay on top of it and the bugs got to a lot of them. SOMETHING is eating my pepper plants. I don't know what it is. It's annoying. They are literally down to a stem sticking out of the ground. I didn't think rabbits could get in, but maybe they found a new way. Everything else is still slow growing this season.
LOL this made me chuckle. I love your commentary!
My tomato plants are insane..they're HUGE and starting to produce..I'm going to have tomatoes out my ears.
My Kale is also INSANE I have harvested 4 or 5 times..and by the ton and it just grows and grows.
My eggplant is doing great..one growing many flowers
My peppers are all growing
My spinach is good and my cucumbers and green beans are all looking really nice. I have a ton of green onions..not sure how long these grow until they can be harvested?
My basil is getting crazy...time to find basil recipes and my squash just may make a comeback!
Overall it looks like a jungle, but I guess in the scheme of things that's not so bad.