Garden 2024!

[Tommyice]

Last year while we were up at the cabin, the Amish farm we frequent had fresh peas. Dad bought all they had out—nearly a half bushel. Took the two us about three hours to shell them.

 

[Snowman]

^^^ Quality Family Time...!!!

 

[old tex]

This is probably the last post about my mini garden. The tomato plants seem to be on their way out. The heat is just too much for them. I did get a LOT of tomato's though, so many that I had to give some to my neighbor (about 8). The peppers are still going well & producing a lot. The mini peppers, there's a lot there but I don't know what I will do with them. They say small & hot on the tag but hot is a huge understatement. I normally have no problem eating hot peppers but these are something else. I tried just biting one of them & it was a huge mistake. I was on fire for a good 10 minutes. My wife just touched one with her tongue (I talked her into it), I got cussed out. Oh well.

 

[Tommyice]

Got my first picking green beans last night. They will be served with the smoked ribeye tonight. Peppers are finally starting to form on the buds. One plant has peppers dangling already. I planted bell peppers that I started from a new packet of seeds. This pepper is not a bell. It looks like a sweet banana or a Hungarian.

 

[Snowman]

Went out to collect any Blackberries that were still there, got a "Baker's Dozen" and saw about 20+ more red ones growing...!!!

Went back out to get photos and the rain decided to come on down again so only got these :

 

[Snowman]

Got some photos of what is left of Me Blackberries :

click on the 2nd one and see why not many berries left...?!?

 

[Snowman]

Some of the little Rain Lillie's that shot up after 2 days of Moisture :

 

[Snowman]

More of those Yellow Day Lillie's and a surprise still hanging on...

 

[Snowman]

Some of those plants gotten from wallyworld for 1-2 $'s :

 

[Snowman]

More still and some Giant Zinnias growing :

019 are/is the Zinnias...

 

[Snowman]

and one more :

and one more Hibby :

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Mother Nature is watering my garden gently at the moment.
At least for next several hours and days.

 

[elkhound]

corn i planted Wednesday night just before rain is starting to sprout.

 

[Peanut]

corn i planted Wednesday night just before rain is starting to sprout.

90 day corn? What variety?

 

[elkhound]

90 day corn? What variety?

its a cultivar i am breeding up..its sugar enhanced and can be in as early as 74 days.

i might plant another small patch of it just to test it more and get more seed.


but one of my favorite corns and its a hybrid is silver king...its 80 days....it does better than silver queen...and in my experience stands up to wind better too.

 

[elkhound]

more corn popping the ground open....first real test of larger planting of this corn...looking pretty good so far...taking notes on it.

 

[LadyLocust]

This is probably the last post about my mini garden. The tomato plants seem to be on their way out. The heat is just too much for them. I did get a LOT of tomato's though, so many that I had to give some to my neighbor (about 8). The peppers are still going well & producing a lot. The mini peppers, there's a lot there but I don't know what I will do with them. They say small & hot on the tag but hot is a huge understatement. I normally have no problem eating hot peppers but these are something else. I tried just biting one of them & it was a huge mistake. I was on fire for a good 10 minutes. My wife just touched one with her tongue (I talked her into it), I got cussed out. Oh well.

Do you have any shade cloth?

 

[Peanut]

This is probably the last post about my mini garden. The tomato plants seem to be on their way out. The heat is just too much for them. I did get a LOT of tomato's though, so many that I had to give some to my neighbor (about 8). The peppers are still going well & producing a lot. The mini peppers, there's a lot there but I don't know what I will do with them. They say small & hot on the tag but hot is a huge understatement. I normally have no problem eating hot peppers but these are something else. I tried just biting one of them & it was a huge mistake. I was on fire for a good 10 minutes. My wife just touched one with her tongue (I talked her into it), I got cussed out. Oh well.

I use shade cloth for my south facing porch, depending on what i'm trying to grow there. It's rated/labeled by the amount of uv sun it blocks, 30%, 40% etc. I use a 50% blocker, keeps my porch a lot cooler too.

 

[LadyLocust]

@Snowman thought you would like this one- my volunteer sweet peas. They sure smell good- already beginning to pod.

 

[elkhound]

thought yall might find this interesting...i have a 4.5 foot tall dunstan chestnut i planted last year...it bloomed last week with about 6 blooms on it.

 

[Snowman]

Why no picture...?!?

 

[Neb]

I lamented elsewhere about restarting my garlic production.

I purchased a starter collection of bulbs but went on to find garlic seeds @ 3000 seeds/ $9. Assuming a 10% germination rate that is 300 varieties to see if any are viable on The Ridge.

Fun experiment. May take 2 years.

Ben

 

[elkhound]

Why no picture...?!?

beating me wont help....lol

 

[joel]

Do you have any shade cloth?

I bought shade cloth for a mesh tarp for my truck, from Harbor Freight & they had larger one cheaper than another spade cloth I have found.
https://www.harborfreight.com/collections/mesh-tarps.html

 

[joel]

I lamented elsewhere about restarting my garlic production.

I purchased a starter collection of bulbs but went on to find garlic seeds @ 3000 seeds/ $9. Assuming a 10% germination rate that is 300 varieties to see if any are viable on The Ridge.

Fun experiment. May take 2 years.

Ben

Got a link, that sounds like something I would try.

 

[old tex]

Do you have any shade cloth?

I've had sun protection the whole time. It's probably a combination of things. Bright sun every day, 100 degrees every day, poor water quality & so on. At least I did get a good crop of tomatos this year. I've got a huge crop of jalapeno's this year but the darned things are so hot that I can't eat them.

 

[Neb]

Got a link, that sounds like something I would try.

Garlic Seeds, Pack of 3000+ Garlic Seeds for Planting https://a.co/d/06hUGE1q

Ben

 

[elkhound]

Garlic Seeds, Pack of 3000+ Garlic Seeds for Planting https://a.co/d/06hUGE1q

Ben

never ever heard of garlic seed...its always been grown from garlic cloves or the bulbis it has on top from when it flowers....i be highly suspect of that....!

p.s. that picture is onion too.

 

[Neb]

never ever heard of garlic seed...its always been grown from garlic cloves or the bulbis it has on top from when it flowers....i be highly suspect of that....!

p.s. that picture is onion too.

Both cloves and bulbiles grow clones of the original. Seeds are unique cultivars.The germination rate is only about 10%. Worth $10 to try out.

Ben

 

[Tommyice]

never ever heard of garlic seed...its always been grown from garlic cloves or the bulbis it has on top from when it flowers....i be highly suspect of that....!

p.s. that picture is onion too.

That looks like a leek to me.