How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[too larry]

Kiddie pool corn is belly button high. That in the ground is a little shorter.

 

[too larry]

Pruden's Purple tomatoes. The two leeks I had inside were always drying out, so I stuck them in there with the tomato plants. They looked pretty peaked, so not sure if they will pull through.

 

[too larry]

Melons will need to be side dressed and mulched in the next week or so. Need to be hoed now.

 

[too larry]

Mammoth Jalapeno.

 

[too larry]

You can't really tell it from this angle, but the Arm cukes are starting to vine. I'll have to train them to climb the fence.

 

[too larry]

Okra,



Green beans,



And pink eyed purple hull peas. {still forgot to get a picture of Larry's Granddaddy's Speckled peas, but I have a good stand}

 

[too larry]

I got everything plowed yesterday. Even used the old bike plow to lay off the rows for the squash.

 

[too larry]

I transplanted 3 each of 4 kinds of squash.

 

[too larry]

Also transplanted Acorn squash, but held off on the spaghetti squash. There were several just sprouting.

 

[too larry]

I cut a path through the blow down tree for the fence. After almost 7 months, I got the lid to my steel trashcan back.

 

[NirvanaMesa]

Did a bit of transplanting today. Cucumbers and melons were quickly outgrowing the little six-pack flats.

The roots on these melons...

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Into their news homes.

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And all together with a doggo.

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What kind of melons you growin?

 

[socaljoe]

What kind of melons you growin?

I just have one variety, it's a honeydew variety...I think it's called golden honeymoon.

 

[too larry]

I got the fence up around three sides of the garden. But there is still some chainsaw work to be done before I can get the last side done.

I had to go around the blowdown. I wanted to go over, but the bent places in the wire didn't line up where I needed them.

 

[xtsho]

So I picked up some peppers. I only started green and red myself. Grabbed a Habanero, Scotch Bonnet, Thai, Cayenne, a couple Jalapeno's, a Pimento and a yellow. Also grabbed a Black Plum tomato that caught my eye. I think next year I might just buy all of my starts. They only cost $1.99 and I don't have to deal with starting from seed and taking up inside space for weeks. I end up giving most away anyway.

I got all of the peppers planted and got my tomatoes in the ground as well. The weather has been great and night time temps are above 50 degrees so it's time.

I built a superstructure for the gourds this year. They almost fell over last year and I had to reinforce the structure.

Everything seems to be doing just fine except for the spinach. I don't know what happened there. Only two seeds came up and then the seedlings died. I have some lettuce starts I'll be putting where the spinach was supposed to be.

For my Okra experiment I'm starting in small grow bags so when I transplant I won't disturb the roots. Plus I'll bring them inside at nigh since they like warm temps and it is probably too cold at night here for Okra.

The strawberries are doing great this year.

I used some of the gourds I grew last year to make a couple maracas for a friend that's a drummer.

 

[thewanderer718]

My coffee can experiment.

 

[too larry]

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I'm a big fan of Cafe' Bustelo. I use the instant for hiking.

 

[xtsho]

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Cool

I've grown corn in containers but quite a bit bigger than coffee cans. Now that potato. That should be interesting

 

[socaljoe]

I did a little quick and dirty drip system with my niece and nephew yesterday. This turned out to be a good test setup for my full garden plans as I found the pumps to be underpowered for what I need them to do.

 

[too larry]

I didn't get a picture the other day, but a storm laid all the corn over to the west. Yesterday another storm laid it all over to the east. Scrog?

 

[too larry]

Blooms on the arm cukes.