OA 2015 garden thread

[ness]

Gotta be happy with what you've got.

[BilletHead]

Hey that will work Ness!

Like that great Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song "Love The one Your With" Ha I bet that will stick in some of your brains. I know it is stuck in mine right now.

BilletHead

[Quillback]

Cukes are coming in well, and the squash has just started producing last week.

I'm also stuck with green tomatoes, I'm hoping some may get ripe in the next week or two.

[Johnsfolly]

I picked a couple of cukes this morning. Only thing we have ready right now.

[jdmidwest]

Pulled up my snap peas today and cleared out the lettuce bed, its done. Replanted both for late summer.

Picking a few small grape tomatoes, green beans, jalapenos, and cucumbers. Zucchini just starting to set fruit. Dill is headed out. Everything else is catching up. Sweet corn is only about knee high as is the patch of okra. The other patch of okra is only about 5 in high, it was planted only a few weeks ago after a short drying period. Cowpeas are looking pretty good, no blooms yet. Horseradish is doing good, should have some nice roots this year.

We went from too much water and no sun, to hot and dry. I am watering the beds now to keep them happy. Tomato plants still look weak this year, all vine and no foliage. I am going to cut some trees this fall to open up the main garden to the sun again.

My pole beans are vined and looking great, but. Jap beetles have started on them and they are not producing flowers or beans yet, just vines.

Bees are still packing in the honey.

[ness]

Still waiting on that first real tomato. Looks like Celebrity will be the one. Getting a few Sun Gold cherries a day, which is good for a little snack here and there, but I want me some maters! I have one Cherokee purple that I started indoors in February -- a very healthy looking plant, but about the size it should be on May 1st. I'm sticking with it -- it's the 'little tomato that tried'. Pruned out a lot of diseased tomato leaves -- need to spray tonight.

Been pulling red and yellow onions the last couple weeks -- not very good size, from ping pong to pool ball. I have a second variety of yellow onions (Alisa Craig) that still going strong -- I hope they get a little better size with the additional time. Garlic and shallots to come soon too.

First round of bush beans are winding down (Dragon Tongue, a really tasty wax bean), and the first round of pole beans are just starting to produce. I did second plantings of bush and pole beans (Rattlesnake) in the space available from spring lettuce and peas. The pepper plants are finally taking off -- the rabbit is finally leaving them alone after I sprayed them with a hot pepper spray -- but they've got a long way to go. Cylindra beets slowly but surely growing to size.

[ness]

Crummy results this year. Tomatoes and peppers are just not producing. I've been getting a few things -- beans, onions, shallots. Pulled beets and carrots today. Not too bad, but certainly not what I usually get. First year growing group cherries. Fruits come in a papery husk, like a tomatillo. A bit of a hassle to open all those little buggers. No thorns on the plants and they drop to the ground when they're ripe. They're not very big, but have a very nice taste -- a little like pineapple. I'll do more next year, fo sho.

 

[podum]

Green tomatoes a problem? Never!

 

2. Pickle them.

I agree with this.

 

[jdmidwest]

Poor year for tomatoes here.  Not much to speak for hear.  

Squash and cucumbers came and went with the black fungus.  Lots of fungus, so we this year and humid.  Pole beans made great vines, but did not produce a bean.

Honey crop was a dud too.  2 hives out of 14 produced a surplus.  What they made was too high in moisture content and has to be refrigerated to keep from fermenting.

[Seth]

Our tomatoes did decent this year. I think the side dressing every couple weeks really helped out. We got far more big healthy tomatoes than in years past even without suckering the plants. The cherry tomato that we planted produced like crazy. Our squash and zucchini never produced much at all this year though. Lots of flowers, but very few amounted to anything. Guess we won't be eating zucchini bread this winter. That breaks my heart. Peppers did so-so. My bell and jalapenos never seem to get very big. The okra is starting to produce, but I haven't stayed out top of it so I'm sure it's full of over grown okra that aren't worth fit eating.

I'm done messing with it at this point even though I'm sure I could still get some more produce from it.