You Reap What You Sow (Garden Harvests)

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What a haul we had last night. We probably had to toss about 15-20 lbs of tomato. I think our cucumbers are done. Getting ready for fall planting

[Wayne SW/MO]

Well while my leaf problems on my squash kind of comes and goes I'm not so lucky with the cukes. It appears, according to the internet that a virus or bacterial infection has taken over and set to wipe them out.

I'm still having a fruiting problem on everything. Lots of flowers, lttle fruit. I suspect that it might be a lack of bees or other insects? The only insecticide I've used all season was on my eggplant leaves when they weren't flowering. I don't know if I need to think about planting more flowers next year, I have a crap load of honeysuckle around all ready, or if one of my part time neighbors is overdoing it?

[BilletHead]

Still stuff in the garden. While we were gone two weeks I had asked my elderly neighbor to water and harvest the stuff out of the garden if he wanted to. Had my trail cams out in case something went awry while we were gone. When we got home there was a plethora of tomatoes and peppers in the fridge. The trail cams seen him and his wife there almost everyday. Lucky we are to have such good neighbors. After talking to them found out they ate and ate from the garden plus took trips taking excess to the town food pantry. This pleased us immensely. Some of what we found coming home,

Then there is what we have picked since getting back. I know need to ripen more but like Ness pick then before critters get them,

Peppers still coming on but not like before we left,

Had a small pot of hot tai peppers last year. Well I did not have anything there this Spring but a thousand volunteers came up. I plucked and plucked little ones until I had a half dozen good ones and let them grow.

There was one plant that is larger in size, peppers on it too. Hybridization?

Now the tomatoes are pulled except for a couple of plants. Hated to do this as still may green ones hanging on. But seasons in the past has had me hoping for ripening and this late has not produced well. Out with the old and in with the new,

BilletHead

[tho1mas]

Fried green tomatoes?

[BilletHead]

Yes fried green tomatoes. I never developed a taste for them much. Mom does and she gasped when I told her they were gone

BilletHead

[Feathers and Fins]

Pulled all but two of my peppers and im still pruning the maters, I swear pruning them keeps them producing well in to September. Put the fall Beans, Carrots, Onions, Leeks and Garlic. Watermelon is going insane 8 nice ones forming from the size of a nerf football to a nfl football.

Started building more raised beds for next year and im going to put in an overhead sprinkler system.

[BilletHead]

Ok Scott if your overhead waterier works I will let you build mine

[Seth]

Our cukes are pretty well done. We got a lot of spicy dill and bread and butter pickles canned up for winter. I pulled up our sweet corn and replanted with fall beans for dad. The beans we planted this spring are still producing pretty well so I've been picking them and giving them to dad. Okra is starting to produce well. Zucchini is still producing well especially since our second hill we started from seeds got caught up and started producing. We are about zucchini'd out so most of what we pick from now on will be given away or shredded for zucchini bread this winter.

Tomato plants looked rough, but produced well. I'm pretty sure the issue we had with the leaves was due to not enough water. After I bought a rain gauge and actually checked how much water I was giving them, I realized it was only half of what I thought. What I just assumed was an inch of water a week was more like a half an inch. Several of the plants still had good tomatoes until we got 3.25" of rain last weekend. It busted nearly every one of them open. I think I'm going to just pull up the peppers, tomoatoes and cucumbers and call it good. I'm not as thrilled about going out and picking stuff as I was a few months ago.

I'm a whole lot more interested in shooting my bow, food plotting and other things related to the upcoming fall season.