How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[Dave's Not Here]

I think I did the kale, spinach and Swiss chard inside for a couple three weeks. But then if I didn't post pictures on my threads, I can never remember just what I did.

I let a few of my broccoli go to seed. I'll be cutting them any day now. But seeds are so cheap, not sure if it's worth the risk of wasted growing time.

I save seeds on a few things like lettuce, arugula, cilantro etc. I usually just let a few plants go to seed, but I try to avoid stuff that's going to get cross pollinated which is what I think happened with that pak choi maybe.

Your beans are looking awesome, do you do anything to keep the bugs off of them? Those cucumbers look great too, you're rocking and rolling.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

My tomato nursery. I try to keep them in an inch of water from the time they come out of cups until they go into the bigger pots or bags. There is no transplant shock to speak of.



The Yellow Pear tomato just keeps on keeping on. It's full of small tomatoes. This is a new one for me, so I'll be learning how yellow is yellow enough.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I save seeds on a few things like lettuce, arugula, cilantro etc. I usually just let a few plants go to seed, but I try to avoid stuff that's going to get cross pollinated which is what I think happened with that pak choi maybe.

Your beans are looking awesome, do you do anything to keep the bugs off of them? Those cucumbers look great too, you're rocking and rolling.

I use regular old garden spray. So far I haven't had to use it this year, but I saw a few bugs on the peas, so after I water tomorrow, I will give everything a good spraying. I hate that it kills the good stuff too, but it's hard to keep your peas from getting buggy without it.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Squash. The row on the left was transplants. You can see how much better they are doing. Next year I will try to get everything going in trays, at least for the early plantings. But they also had a touch of the good soil mix when I set them out. That had to help. Note the Prickly Pear Cactus in the crookneck picture. If I just sat down and quit, I would have 40 acres of them in no time.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Today {and the rest of the week} is a good planting day, so I got out early and planted field corn, Crimson Sweet melons and peas in a food plot {for the deer} near my camp.

Then planted a 2nd planting of green beans, sweet corn and peas in my garden. Planted 12 pepper plants into the ground, and potted up a few Yellow Pear tomatoes and 3 six packs of pepper sprouts. Got 12-15 six packs to go.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

The silks on the grow bag sweet corn is starting to turn. The soil mix gave out a couple three weeks ago. I didn't start feeding until last week, so it isn't looking all that great. If I ever do this again, I will use a little time release plant food a couple of months in {on top of the soil}. And I will put fewer plants to the bag. But I am making corn and it isn't June yet.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I had a few extra sprouts in the peach trees I potted up a while back. I went in and re-potted the ones with two trees. Then put them back with their siblings. And check out the size of the weed growing in the fence. It's over 6 feet and growing by the day.

 

[thumper60]

I had a few extra sprouts in the peach trees I potted up a while back. I went in and re-potted the ones with two trees. Then put them back with their siblings. And check out the size of the weed growing in the fence. It's over 6 feet and growing by the day.

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looks like a mutant kale,or some kind of cold crop

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Lots going on in the garden this week. I planted more peppers in the ground, and put about 75 sprouts in pots.



Saw the first little melon on the Crimson Sweet vines.



Peas are a few days from being ready.





The silks on the sweet corn planted in the ground are starting to turn also.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I had two first in the tomato patch today. One of them was more welcome then the other.





I killed the two tomato worms I found, and gave the whole garden a good spraying. It took three gallons to cover it.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I've culled my young peppers down to 60 from 75. Well, it was self culling really. I just dumped the soil out of the ones that had cashed. I also potted 5 more peppers that were older, but still in cups.

Here is some of what I picked today. {green beans and soybeans not pictured}



The filed corn is starting to tassel.



I'm just a few days from being over run with peppers.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I have a ton more pictures, but no time to post them. So let me tell you about it.

Blooms on the cantaloupes.

Melon vines have grown like crazy. Lots of little melons on the Crimson Sweets. Blooms, but so far, no melons on the Charleston Grays.

Sweet pumpkins blooming and vining.

Tendersweet {orange meated} melons getting ready to vine. They need to be laid by before they take off.

Peas a day or two away from picking.

2nd plantings of peas, sweet corn and green beans are sprouting, as is the skips I planted in the okra. Didn't see any sprouts in the replanted viney stuff, but I didn't think to look for them either.

Got to run. See you guys on the weekend. Have a good one,

Larry

 

[JG Wentworth]

Been a while since I stopped in, your plants are looking great Larry! Especially those big fat peppers! Are those the hungarian wax in the last picture in post #91?

So envious of your outdoor growing space...

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Yep, those are the HYW. They have been my biggest producer so far. But I'm getting a few Jalapeno, Anaheim Chili, Bells and an unknown pepper. My name tags got faded to the point some of them can't be read, so I'm waiting on ripe peppers to compare to the pictures on the seed packs.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I've had several days off work, and got a lot done in the garden. I buried soaker hoses beside the 2nd plantings of corn, peas and green beans. I also laid them by. I mixed 30 gallons of mushroom compost, 5 gallons of peat moss, 5 gallons of Jungle Growth potting soil, 4 cups 6-6-6, 2 cups, 13-13-13, 1 cup 15-0-15, 4 cups lime and 1 cup Epson salts. I used a bucket per row on the corn, and a bucket to a row and a half on the peas and green beans. My first plantings of everything was a little early, and didn't grow as well as I would have liked. This go round has food and water from the start, so it should be better.



I have spent a lot of money on soaker hoses over the years. And they don't last forever.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I picked the first cucumbers off the plants from seed. I've been getting them off the transplants for a couple of weeks now. Also picked first mess of peas, first corn and first tomatoes this week. It's starting to feel like summertime around here.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Little pumpkins,

Acorn squash,

Crimson Sweet

and Charleston Gray melons.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I transplanted a few more cucumbers into the garden yesterday.

Also planted a row each of Bannanna cantaloupe, Crimson Sweet melons, Tendersweet {orange meated} melons and Armenian cucumbers. I used a hoe to dig a trench for the soaker hoses. I planted about 6" over from the hose. Also set up some more sprinklers for the spots that were missing out. Some of the cucumbers are about dead because they are in the corner and the curve of the sprinkler doesn't reach them.

 

[Smileyfriend]

Hi, that you do have cucumber and cantaloupe. How I wish, I can easily planted them here in my garden. By the way, I do have calamansi here and a tamarind tree at my backyard.

 

[racerboy71]

looking great larry..
i pretty much just got mine in last week or so as it was cold and rainy for the two weeks before that..

i've got a bunch of peppers, green and red bells, sweet banana, cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes.. want to plant something else as i have an extra row not being used..