How Does Your Garden Grow??????

I did some fingerling potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket. French and banana. Had over 48” of veg growth. I had two seed potatoes in ea bucket

myke said:

I did some sweet corn in a 5 gallon. Peat mixed with compost. Started feeding flower nutes about a month ago. I’m in zone 3 so burrrrr! Not many have been able to get a harvest. Looks like I may get 3 cobs.

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Sorry to laugh but I live in the Deep South and sweet corn is a finicky crop. I rarely get what I want out of it but this year I able to get 100 ears . Next I’m growing field corn, have you tried it. If you have the space you could try starting it inside and move outside after frost.
Good luck.

Bareback said:

Sorry to laugh but I live in the Deep South and sweet corn is a finicky crop. I rarely get what I want out of it but this year I able to get 100 ears . Next I’m growing field corn, have you tried it. If you have the space you could try starting it inside and move outside after frost.
Good luck.

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ya my night temps are always 50-60f.Containers,get moved into the garage at night for May and June.Will try starting indoors next year.

myke said:

ya my night temps are always 50-60f.Containers,get moved into the garage at night for May and June.Will try starting indoors next year.

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We had a forecast low of 69F last week, but it didn't happen. It's supposed to get down to 74 tonight. That is about normal for this time of year. The next three weeks will be the hottest of the year. In the 90's everyday with high humidity.

Sorry for the lack of posing. Saved seed Cherub.



Of the 6 or 7 plants, one of them has fat round fruit.

The young tomatoes are coming along. I have a few more that is getting too tall for the screen room, but . . . . . .

Dual bean machines this year.



I'm growing lettuce in 3" nursery pots of coco. Keeps the slugs away.

I found three kinds of worms today. BT tonight for sure.



This guy looks like he is eating the pepper plant, but it's really a bean vine.

I think this is one of the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I'm out of cages. It's too easy to plant seeds.

It's really hard to get a good picture of the tomatoes by the river. Too much green. But they are doing pretty good.

I picked a few ears of sweet corn today. Not real big, but then it is the end of August.

I wait all year to start harvesting fresh produce from the garden and then after a couple weeks of eating we just can't keep up with it.

Me also, I think Im going to try a marina sauce.

Peak harvest going on right now. I didn't even get to picking the cherry tomatoes. I also have some corn that's ready to pick. I replanted beets and they're golf ball size and will be ready soon. Including the overwintered beets this will be the third harvest and I just planted more for a late fall harvest. I'm really getting a lot of produce by doing succession planting. It just takes a little planning and it's easy to get 2 or more harvests from the same space. Early crops like radishes, turnips, lettuce, etc... are harvested and tomato's, peppers, and eggplant take their place. When my tomato's are done I'm going to plant beets, carrots, onions, and Fava beans in that spot and I'll plant next years tomatoes in a different location next year as it's good to rotate crops. So my goal of having a year round garden is working out.

I'm definitely growing fewer summer squash next year. I'm already tired of eating it so I'm going to be freezing a bunch. I'm also going to likely just freeze tomato sauce this year. The only thing I'm going to can is green beans. I might can some whole tomatoes but only because a volunteer San Marzano came up in the back area that I call my "anything grows" section and it's got a decent amount of tomatoes on it.




The San Marzano volunteer. It's spread out on the ground since I didn't stake it or anything. You can't see all the tomatoes but they're in that mess.




Here's some more volunteers. It was a sunflower, patty pan summer squash, and a cherry tomato. I let the cherry tomato climb up the sunflower for support. Seems to be working out.




Another volunteer sunflower.

Nice gardens!! we have a frost warning for Saturday morning

myke said:

Nice gardens!! we have a frost warning for Saturday morning

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Frost warning? Not here in the Pacific Northwest. In fact it's supposed to be in the upper 90's a week from now 97° F next Thursday with lows at night in the mid 60's F. It's stupid hot and not a drop of rain in sight. Perfect weather for forest fires. I'm hoping for some significant rain in the next ten days.

8:30 PM current conditions in Portland.

83° F and 37% humidity.

xtsho said:

Frost warning? Not here in the Pacific Northwest. In fact it's supposed to be in the upper 90's a week from now 97° F next Thursday with lows at night in the mid 60's F. It's stupid hot and not a drop of rain in sight. Perfect weather for forest fires. I'm hoping for some significant rain in the next ten days.

8:30 PM current conditions in Portland.

83° F and 37% humidity.

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Mondays forecast here in S Alberta H8 L1c with 10-15mm rain.Hope it changes.

harvested some tomatillos. these are super easy to grow,

waterproof808 said:

harvested some tomatillos. these are super easy to grow,

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How do you prepare/use them? I grew 1 plant years ago. The thing got pretty big and I ended up with tons of tomatillos. I just couldn't find a use for them. I made some salsa but I didn't really like it that much. I might give them another try next year with some different recipes.

raratt said:

Does anyone have a clue as to why white corn would be tough? We watered the hell out of it, every other day with a drip line, so I don't think it was a water issue. Possibly waited too long to harvest?

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Not sure. But ours was tender when we took an early sample. Then leathery at the end of season.