injinji
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I haven't actually seen one yet, but there are about a week of lows in the mid to upper 60's on my 10 day forecast.
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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xtsho
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It's supposed to get down to 50 here tonight. Temps that low start to slow things down in the garden.
MICHI-CAN
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Good morning people. Hit 57 last night. Perfect morning here. Still highs around 80. No high humidity though. I can properly water and feed now?!
I've been defoliating sunflowers,cukes and cants trying to knock the PM back. BAD year for it here. And @xtsho I did cut my peonies to 2' stems. I'll let you know how it turns out next year. Love my peonies. Worst PM I have seen.
Maters are seriously yielding everyday and a half. Can't hand out fast enough. Romas are still in demand. What do with it all. I just started harvesting and full bloom.
I have my cuke seed donor again. These heirloom gifted pickles are crazy huge and good growers.
I've been defoliating sunflowers,cukes and cants trying to knock the PM back. BAD year for it here. And @xtsho I did cut my peonies to 2' stems. I'll let you know how it turns out next year. Love my peonies. Worst PM I have seen.
Maters are seriously yielding everyday and a half. Can't hand out fast enough. Romas are still in demand. What do with it all. I just started harvesting and full bloom.
I have my cuke seed donor again. These heirloom gifted pickles are crazy huge and good growers.
injinji
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This was the first year in a while that I didn't plant the yellow pear tomato. I got to the point that I hated picking them there were so many. Most years I only kept one plant, and it always produced way more than we could use.
xtsho
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Bummer about the PM. I haven't found a single spot on any plant in my yard yet. I've been spraying potassium silicate and sesame oil regularly which is very effective.
Tomatoes are coming in fast here as well. I'll be making sauce shortly. I picked the first of the Beefsteaks yesterday. Nice big meaty tomato. Very tasty. You just can't get a better tomato than what you grow yourself. Unfortunately these will be over soon and all that will be available are the crunchy things at the grocery store I refuse to eat. I'm going to fill up on fresh tomatoes just sprinkled with a little sea salt until my gut explodes. Gotta get my fix before the supply runs out and I have to wait another year.
MICHI-CAN
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I fortunately have a few squirrels hauling them away. Put a table on the sidewalk in my yard. Brown paper lunch bags and my excess. FREE.
I can't kill maters??
xtsho
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I'm surprised you didn't get some volunteers from any that fell to the ground. Maybe it's the climate. Here they seem to naturalize. I have volunteers that came up all over my yard. In fact the yellow pear I have came up on it's own as did the San Marzano's, and a bunch of cherry tomatoes. I have a couple growing out of the compost pile but I don't know what they are. They're just starting to form flowers. They just might have time to make some fruit. Fingers crossed.
MICHI-CAN
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I have wild cherries for 6 years now. And neighbors are being seeded now. Maters are persistent.
injinji
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I had one huge plant in a kiddie pool. This year I planted flint corn in it so the soil was tilled. I do get lots of volunteers in the compost pile.
xtsho
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Here come the pole beans. They should hit their peak here soon and I'll be buried in beans.
I have to use a ladder to pick. Lots of blossoms so there will be lots of beans.
A squirrel or something dug around and killed a couple plants in the tower on the left. There's no way I can get them out so there's a few dead plants in there. When I first strung the twine for the beans to grow up the damn squirrels kept chewing through it and stealing pieces. I had to restring numerous times. I was starting to get pissed off.
The corn wasn't able to handle the weight of the beans I had growing in it. Now I have this jumbled mess. It's going to be difficult pickings.
I have to use a ladder to pick. Lots of blossoms so there will be lots of beans.
A squirrel or something dug around and killed a couple plants in the tower on the left. There's no way I can get them out so there's a few dead plants in there. When I first strung the twine for the beans to grow up the damn squirrels kept chewing through it and stealing pieces. I had to restring numerous times. I was starting to get pissed off.
The corn wasn't able to handle the weight of the beans I had growing in it. Now I have this jumbled mess. It's going to be difficult pickings.
injinji
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I've found that the corn needs about a month head start when using it for vine support. The beans just grow much faster.Here come the pole beans. They should hit their peak here soon and I'll be buried in beans.
I have to use a ladder to pick. Lots of blossoms so there will be lots of beans.
A squirrel or something dug around and killed a couple plants in the tower on the left. There's no way I can get them out so there's a few dead plants in there. When I first strung the twine for the beans to grow up the damn squirrels kept chewing through it and stealing pieces. I had to restring numerous times. I was starting to get pissed off.
The corn wasn't able to handle the weight of the beans I had growing in it. Now I have this jumbled mess. It's going to be difficult pickings.
MICHI-CAN
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TY. I forgot about my herb box hiding behind the lemon tree for shade.These are on the East side of my house where it gets about 6 - 7 hours of sun.
Greek Oregano
Beefsteak
There's are 7 more tomato's on the South side as well. Monsters.
Tonight's romas. Some good weather here now.
GreenestBasterd
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Tomato’s looked a little hungry and have been fed. All ticking along and staying indoors for now.
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xtsho
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My corn should have done much better. I was an idiot and ran one soaker line through it and thought that would be enough. It didn't keep the soil moist enough for the corn. I'm not giving up on the soaker hoses but I'm going to do 3 runs down that spot along the side of the house next year.
I just had to laugh. I'm sitting here on 1/5th of an acre and I'm talking about watering issues when you have acres. I should be able to keep my stuff watered on my small plot.
Anyway, the corn didn't get enough water. We had record temps for days. It dried out. Bad yield. We ate about a dozen small ears but had I just hand watered l would have had 3-4 dozen big ears of corn.
I was just dumbfounded by the heat and wasn't going outside preferring the air-conditioned accommodations available inside. At least I covered the blueberries and tomatoes with sheets. They made it through just fine.
HGCC
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Sigh, hailstorm whipped through yesterday and fucked my shit up. Will see how it goes with saving stuff, my covers all got shredded and lost a good amount of leaves and lots of hail damage to existing tomatoes/peppers/etc. fruits. Worst part was the hail punched holes in the hard plastic roofing sheets on my greenhouse.
Have yet to eat a nectarine off my giant ass nectarine tree in 3 years, two hailstorms and one really late frost.
One large branch broke on a weed plant, overall they look alright, but need to get new covers on my raised beds before I can move them back in.
Have yet to eat a nectarine off my giant ass nectarine tree in 3 years, two hailstorms and one really late frost.
One large branch broke on a weed plant, overall they look alright, but need to get new covers on my raised beds before I can move them back in.
xtsho
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Well that sucks. I'm watching this weather across the country and it's been crazy. All we want out here is some rain. All we get are sunny days. Some are predicting a brutal winter for much of the country and continued drought here out west. We need some damn rain out here so I hope they're wrong and we get record rainfall and snowpack. Crossing my fingers. Not for a brutal winter across the country but for some rain out west.