GARDEN 2023

[Bacpacker]

Ill check Bakers Creek out. Thats where I get the bulk of my seed

 

[LadyLocust]

This has been a fairly productive day - garden wise:
Outdoors, pulled and sprayed weeds, harvested lettuce, spinach, squash, onions, and radishes. Planted more onions, spinach, broccoli, turnips, and peas.
Indoor Vertical Garden, Planted another 6 spaces. I now have 11 empty spaces left. I am trying to plant about once a week.

I keep hoping to have the wife help plant starter trays, but by the time dinner is done she is no longer functional...

I tried using that vinegar, salt, and dish soap DIY weed spray, using my hand pump sprayer, some of the broad leaved weeds on the driveway turned brown really quick, Now I am wondering how well the sprayer needs to be cleaned to avoid any unwanted killings....

If you are me, you put big XXX on the one that holds poison and green name of fertilizer on a completely separate sprayer - preferably different looking sprayers in case reading big letters is somehow not a thing, there is still a chance I can tell them apart

 

[LadyLocust]

Got about 26 lbs. of spuds so far. There are still more that aren't ready yet, but not too bad from a small space and vole problem.

 

[Neb]

Dug up the first batch of garlic today.

That will free up space for beans and such.

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

Dug another 7# 3 oz. of spuds today. Also, I think my watermellon might live after Hubby pulled it when he was weeding then thought it looked different Have been canning and giving away green beans. Picked and ate first cuke and first eggplant. Seeded more beets yesterday since the earwigs have taken a toll on the first round I planted.

 

[Bacpacker]

Picked half a bucket of cukes, and almost filled it the rest of the way with tomatos. Wife in canning maters this week.
Lady the wife works for stopped by to pick up her dog, been pouch sitting for 2 weeks. I loaded her up with some cukes, maters, bell and banana peppers, and an onion. She had a huge grin on her face

 

[Neb]

Picked half a bucket of cukes, and almost filled it the rest of the way with tomatos. Wife in canning maters this week.
Lady the wife works for stopped by to pick up her dog, been pouch sitting for 2 weeks. I loaded her up with some cukes, maters, bell and banana peppers, and an onion. She had a huge grin on her face

Don't you love this time of year?

Ben

 

[Bacpacker]

Yes I do

 

[Amish Heart]

Still picking squash, and had my first two cherry tomatoes. I got my garden in late. Lots of weeding needed, give up trying to get it all weeded. Was going after a viney type weed that creates havoc on the squash bed. Last night a large black rat snake got into my cabbage netting. Couldn't get it out, so son chopped off his head. Little granddaughter took the body, wanted to keep it to inspect its skeleton when it rots. Stuck it in the greenhouse in a big bucket, but the cats got into it.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Early this morning I harvested a grocery bag of lettuce. I've been getting a grocery bag about every 3 days and this is off the 1 3"X3" starter cup that I transplanted. Trouble is, it's all the same lettuce and its getting boring... So today after work I dug our 6 small 1"X1" starter cups and planted a variety of lettuces using tweezers to plant 15 seeds to a cup (using a dice 5 pattern). We are thinking that when the old lettuce is done it will be replaced with a wide variety of salad greens. Using the tweezers with the rubberized tips was the wife's idea, her thinking was it would give more control on the smaller seeds without crushing them (seemed to work okay).

The vertical indoor growing system is working fine, it is now half planted with a wide variety of things in it, it is connected to a light switch so I turn it on in the morning and off in the evening, I am planting 6 things every 10 days, so it will be fully planted in 3 weeks. The pump and reservoir is working out fine, the pump runs 3 hours on 3 hours off when ever the lights are on. I check the water in the reservoir in the morning before turning on the lights, I have been needing to add water about once every 3 days.

My outdoor squash have been doing well, but yesterday I saw a yellowed fruit so I sprayed around the base of the plant and a squash bug came out. I tried to treat the base of the plants without getting near the flowers, hope that helps. Every year it is a fight to get the fruit off before the squash bugs and vine borers get to the plants.... I usually loose....

 

[LadyLocust]

Early this morning I harvested a grocery bag of lettuce. I've been getting a grocery bag about every 3 days and this is off the 1 3"X3" starter cup that I transplanted. Trouble is, it's all the same lettuce and its getting boring... So today after work I dug our 6 small 1"X1" starter cups and planted a variety of lettuces using tweezers to plant 15 seeds to a cup (using a dice 5 pattern). We are thinking that when the old lettuce is done it will be replaced with a wide variety of salad greens. Using the tweezers with the rubberized tips was the wife's idea, her thinking was it would give more control on the smaller seeds without crushing them (seemed to work okay).

The vertical indoor growing system is working fine, it is now half planted with a wide variety of things in it, it is connected to a light switch so I turn it on in the morning and off in the evening, I am planting 6 things every 10 days, so it will be fully planted in 3 weeks. The pump and reservoir is working out fine, the pump runs 3 hours on 3 hours off when ever the lights are on. I check the water in the reservoir in the morning before turning on the lights, I have been needing to add water about once every 3 days.

My outdoor squash have been doing well, but yesterday I saw a yellowed fruit so I sprayed around the base of the plant and a squash bug came out. I tried to treat the base of the plants without getting near the flowers, hope that helps. Every year it is a fight to get the fruit off before the squash bugs and vine borers get to the plants.... I usually loose....

I don't know if it would work or not so am asking not telling. I've heard if you wrap the base of the plant with aluminum foil, it protects it. Though it sounds tedious, if it saved the plant. . . ?

 

[LadyLocust]

The beets I seeded this past weekend are already sprouting I am thrilled. The last patch I planted, only half dozen survived. We are overrun by earwigs this year. Hubby made a good point. We seldom saw them up the mountain which was a different zone etc., but he asked if chickens ate earwigs. You betchya! I'm thinking I need to work out a way to have a couple chickens to help keep the earwigs and bugs down. We don't have a place for them and I wouldn't get them without having a set up.
PS I miss my chickens.

 

[LadyLocust]

Oh yea, also picked a huge bowl of salad this morning. Have also now picked a couple eggplants, cukes, and peppers. Tomatoes are coming on but are still all green and growing.

 

[UrbanHunter]

The garden is doing well. We are having warm/hot days, but I have some shaded beds where the spinach will keep growing. I decided to order some seeds for over the winter and into next spring, all I wanted was just 1 packet of each, now that I am being more careful about how I plant my seeds they are lasting much longer. I was a little concerned that a number of the items I wanted were out of stock.

 

[Bacpacker]

We've got a counter full of tomatos finishing ripening. Canning will take place Saturday or Sunday. More peppers and cukes.
More garlic has died back so I'll dig that this weekend too. Some onions are starting to fall over so they'll be ready to start on soon.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

I don't want to brag, but I spotted one tomato forming, yesterday. I have 32 plants.

 

[Bacpacker]

Picked a 5 gallon buckets cukes, peppers, and maters.
1 of my 3 types of onions are falling over and ready to pick. So is the garlic in that bed. Butternut squash is doing real well for 2 plants. Watermelons are making too. Here are some pics

 

[Amish Heart]

My butternut is looking about like your photo. Picked a bucket this morning...zucchini, 7 cucumbers, yellow squash, and a few tomatoes.

 

[Wingnut]

Quick question: when those tassels appear on corn, does that mean the corn has already been pollinated? Or does it still have to be pollinated? Okay, that's two questions, lol...

 

[Bacpacker]

Not yet pollinated

 

[Bacpacker]

Hey just give it time. Itll make it yet

 

[Neb]

I pulled my experimental wild garlic today. Seems the theory of good conditions and starting with larger cloves is playing.

If I didn't know it is wild garlic I would not have guessed. To show the difference of the wild garlic grown wild see the image below.

Bulbs are about the size of a dime. The image below shows the flower.

And for comparison below shows the wild garlic with a typical bulb of the non-wild garlic.

So given another year the wild stuff may be as large as the non.

I like experiments!

Ben

 

[Neb]

I pulled my experimental wild garlic today. Seems the theory of good conditions and starting with larger cloves is playing.

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If I didn't know it is wild garlic I would not have guessed. To show the difference of the wild garlic grown wild see the image below.

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Bulbs are about the size of a dime. The image below shows the flower.

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And for comparison below shows the wild garlic with a typical bulb of the non-wild garlic.

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So given another year the wild stuff may be as large as the non.

I like experiments!

Ben

Adding to above...

I have heard that domestic garlic has lost it ability to create viable seeds. I know for a fact the wild garlic does produce viable seed.

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

This is dedicated to the one I love . Is that how it goes @ClemKadiddlehopper ?

This is a Wisconsin. I’ve never had a tomato plant that bore so many tomatoes. Every branch is like this.

 

[Pearl]

This is dedicated to the one I love . Is that how it goes @ClemKadiddlehopper ?
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This is a Wisconsin. I’ve never had a tomato plant that bore so many tomatoes. Every branch is like this.

 

[LadyLocust]

Navy blue to hide the dirt

 

[Tommyice]

Came home from vacation and the garden looks great. The kids in our downstairs apartment were taking care of things for me. She said we got so much rain while away that she only had to water once.

 

[LadyLocust]

Picked 9 cukes Thursday and 5 more today- 1 plant! Also picked our first tomato

 

[Bacpacker]

Wife picked a half bucket of tomatos. I needed to pick cukes and peppers, but it came a down pour before i could get to it. Always tomorrow.

 

[Amish Heart]

Weeding around the red potatoes, and putting down straw and rabbit poop. Did find two massive zucchini that I missed when they were smaller, so the chickens will get them. Our tomatoes are doing pretty well, but you don't want to see my fingernails. Ever.