Saltwater60
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Roots were busting out the bigger tomato plants today so I upgraded their pots.
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ManualF150
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Interesting video...
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My Rhubarb and garlic are doing well as are the blueberries. My strawberries are growing like crazy this year.
We were able to get some veggies in the ground last Sunday.
Peppers— Hungarian hots, Jalapeños, Serrano & sweet Italian
Tomatoes— sweet 100’s & Mountain Reserve ( San Marzano) this weekend
Sugar Snap peas , bush beans , Zucchini, butternut squash
Herbs — Rosemary, Italian Oregano, Dill, Sage , Basil.
we’ll be planting the remainder this weekend.
Beets
Acorn squash
Cucumbers
More tomatoes
Three varieties of Lettuce
More herbs— Flat leaf parsley & cilantro
Sweet potatoes & Red potatoes
We were able to get some veggies in the ground last Sunday.
Peppers— Hungarian hots, Jalapeños, Serrano & sweet Italian
Tomatoes— sweet 100’s & Mountain Reserve ( San Marzano) this weekend
Sugar Snap peas , bush beans , Zucchini, butternut squash
Herbs — Rosemary, Italian Oregano, Dill, Sage , Basil.
we’ll be planting the remainder this weekend.
Beets
Acorn squash
Cucumbers
More tomatoes
Three varieties of Lettuce
More herbs— Flat leaf parsley & cilantro
Sweet potatoes & Red potatoes
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Saltwater60
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I planted everything g this weekend as well. I was sick of babying it and when the rain came and I went to empty the totes I had them in I noticed the roots were coming out of almost every pot. So rather than report 50-60 plants I planted what I wanted, told a few family members come get what you wanted and then took the rest to a friend party last night. I’m glad to be done with it but I was super happy with how everything came out.
I did three types of sweet peppers, northern bell, jimmy nardello, and mini sweets
Totamtoes san marzano and Jersey breeze
Squash
Cukes
Dill
Okra
Carrots
Bunching onions
Watermelon
Potatoes look amazing
Basil
Cilantro
Parsley
Lettuce
Endive
Spinach
Garlic
Broccoli
everything is doing well except some of the spinach and a one head of lettuce is getting eaten by slugs.
I did three types of sweet peppers, northern bell, jimmy nardello, and mini sweets
Totamtoes san marzano and Jersey breeze
Squash
Cukes
Dill
Okra
Carrots
Bunching onions
Watermelon
Potatoes look amazing
Basil
Cilantro
Parsley
Lettuce
Endive
Spinach
Garlic
Broccoli
everything is doing well except some of the spinach and a one head of lettuce is getting eaten by slugs.
S&W Fan
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Nice variety of veggies. Watch everything carefully, for some reason slugs and snails are everywhere already this Year.
Saltwater60
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Thanks. I just slugs baited today for the first time I can remember. They are eating my lettuce like crazy. Also my Japanese rose is getting hit hard as well.
Saltwater60
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I will have to hill my potatoes in a week or two since they are growing so fast. It’s crazy. They look amazing.
Correction I hilled them last night. With all this warm weather stuff is going crazy. I woke up today after looking last night and I was like oh my basil grew an inch or two overnight.
Correction I hilled them last night. With all this warm weather stuff is going crazy. I woke up today after looking last night and I was like oh my basil grew an inch or two overnight.
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Saltwater60
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Too hot so my spinach is bolting and noticed flowers last night. I’ll get a handful and that’s it. Yes I bought a bolt resistant variety. I have seeds left so I’ll try again in the fall.
Saltwater60
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I have flowers starting to open on my large tomato plant, some flowers on my squash with a little baby squash, and flowers on my pepper plants. My peppers are too small yet so I’m pulling the flowers on those to let them grow. Overall I’m very pleased this year and it’s probably one of my best years yet. The weather has been great. Blueberries are loaded with berries, strawberries look good, and blackberries/raspberries look great as well. All very early so raspberries I’ll probably get the full fall crop. I have to fertilize today.
Saltwater60
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Saltwater60
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Freaking raccoons are tearing up my lotus tubers and I’m sick of it. I trapped one out a week ago and just caught another one last night. There’s one more around with a hurt leg. My wife wants to call the SPCA if I catch it but I told her no because I’m worried they will blame me hurting it legs and I don’t have a permit to trap and move wildlife. I should get one because I do it all the time and I’m real good at it.
Taters are flowering today too. That’s crazy early. I planted them the week after Easter.
Taters are flowering today too. That’s crazy early. I planted them the week after Easter.
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Saltwater60
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Been harvesting like crazy. I’ve got lettuce, endive, strawberries, raspberries. My potatoes are 4’ tall and never seen them that tall ever and They are flowering. I have squash on my squash plants and cukes too. Blackberries are loaded like crazy. I’m keeping track of what I harvest to get an idea of what it costs me vs what I get out of it. My peppers and tomatoes have lots of flowers and I have baby tomatoes on my one plant now so by about the Fourth of July I should be harvesting my first tomatoes. Garlic is almost ready for harvest too.
Saltwater60
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Saltwater60
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Been busting my butt keeping up with raspberries and strawberries. Glad the strawberries are done. I put coloches around my apples to keep the squirrels away and it seems to be working. Squash have been rotting at the end but they were inside my grow bags and now the new squash are outside the grow bags so hoping to get some. Everything is coming along nicely and my peppers are popping like crazy. Getting beans and peas too. Garlic is small but that’s life. I didn’t get any scapes to cut?? I ordered larger tomato stakes because mine are getting so big. I also ordered some blossom end rot spray to stop the rotting since I noticed it on one tomato as well. Wet, hot, and growing quickly is probably the cause for this. My tomatoes are probably 4’ tall and my squash/cucumbers have grown immensely in the last few weeks.
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pjzwtl
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Going to have a ton of pickles this is what has been coming off the vines daily for over a week. We had planted the cucumbers and others in stages to spread it out. Good thing I like pickles 
S&W Fan
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We’ve been eating a ton of fresh from the garden fruits and veggies for a few weeks now. Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, swiss chard, romaine and red leaf lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini , beans and sugar snap peas. In addition to drying for future use several types of herbs.
phatfarmerbob
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I’ve been a busy boy. Here’s a couple pics.. be back in the fall .. Godspeed brothers
Saltwater60
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That
thats some nice garlic. Mine was small again. Didn’t really put out any scapes.
Saltwater60
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Been harvesting tomatoes, cukes, and squash like crazy. Some green beans and peas still too. Got some descent broccoli but never get big heads. Banana peppers are coming along nicely.
I went on vacation and my mom didn’t water well for me so I have some major issue with some of my peppers and tomatoes now. My tomatoes on irrigation grew 18” in the 10 days I was gone the o es in lots grew zero inches, have yellow spots(probably blight), peppers are dropping buds like crazy and tomatoes are small now. Some buds on my tomatoes are dropping too. I’m not happy she didn’t wanted deep because she’s always in a hurry to get my sisters kids. She just sprayed them quick with the hose and left. They were dropping like crazy when I got home. Worst is I had my son doing it and he did a great job but she felt bad and likes to be the hero.
I went on vacation and my mom didn’t water well for me so I have some major issue with some of my peppers and tomatoes now. My tomatoes on irrigation grew 18” in the 10 days I was gone the o es in lots grew zero inches, have yellow spots(probably blight), peppers are dropping buds like crazy and tomatoes are small now. Some buds on my tomatoes are dropping too. I’m not happy she didn’t wanted deep because she’s always in a hurry to get my sisters kids. She just sprayed them quick with the hose and left. They were dropping like crazy when I got home. Worst is I had my son doing it and he did a great job but she felt bad and likes to be the hero.
Wife put in a few bulbs last fall and we harvested about 15 plants; not a lot of scapes either..
Zucchini went nuts! I try to keep ahead of them getting "big" but with the rains we've had it goes from not seeing anything to HOLY SHIT in just a few days...we had "Yard Sale Days" Friday & Saturday: I literally had so many and were so large I put them in the Loader bucket and gave them away to anyone that would take them, and worse had to chop up a dozen big ones from last week that no one took. (I leave a Table by the Street with free stuff)
We planted Pickling Cucumbers, and those too with all the rain go from too small to the size of water bottles in a week.
Tomatoes are getting close, maybe next week we can pick a few.
Broccoli looks good for the most part, but there are some (dead?) yellow leafs and a little yellowish spots and not the dark, solid green you see in the store bought stuff.
Behind our house is ~35 acres of Corn for to feed Dairy Cows: it's easily over 7 foot, eight if you count the Tassel's. while the "Indian Corn" I put out looks more like overgrown lawn grass....long as it produces for Halloween for the neighborhood children (Deer eat it over the winter as well)
Saltwater60
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I’ve had a lot of yellow and dying leaves on my broccoli as well so that’s interesting. I can’t figure it out either but I have a lot of cabbage worked this year. Plants seem fine but lose a couple leaves every week. My pickle cukes aren’t producing as many as I’d like but that’s life.
Robin
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My wife grew potatoes in her raised bed, both white and sweet's. We have been eating the white ones for about a week. Never had spuds so early.
Robin
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Saltwater60
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I planted mine really early because it was warm early and my grow bags are black so the soil warmed quickly. Third week in April was when I planted mine
Saltwater60
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Been a good year overall most things have been successful and if finally got apples. I had to tape plastic cones around each individual apple. I got 25 apples and they aren’t quite ripe even but the squirrels got wise and started to bite the branches so the apples drop. I harvested them today and will use them for something. Tomatoes look good and potatoes were fantastic.
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Yeah , overall it has been an excellent year. We canned several quarts of tomato sauce from our san Marzano tomatoes and canned and froze a myriad of veggies. Our blackberry bushes grew huge this year. I think we froze enough to make pies all winter.
However, We had one major issue . While vacationing down in North Carolina hurricane Debbie uprooted my mature peach and apple trees.
Neither of them were salvageable.
However, We had one major issue . While vacationing down in North Carolina hurricane Debbie uprooted my mature peach and apple trees.
Neither of them were salvageable.
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My zucchini’s died before producing anything
My potatoes produced a few small not so great tasting suds
But my 4 tomato plants have been giving me 20 tomatoes a day for almost a week. Tomato sandwiches most days, canned a bunch and will be canning more tomorrow, and oven roasted then froze a bunch also
My potatoes produced a few small not so great tasting suds
But my 4 tomato plants have been giving me 20 tomatoes a day for almost a week. Tomato sandwiches most days, canned a bunch and will be canning more tomorrow, and oven roasted then froze a bunch also
I’ve eaten all the squirrels running around our orchards… problem solved
Saltwater60
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I’m truly sorry to hear about your fruit trees. That sucks.Yeah , overall it has been an excellent year. We canned several quarts of tomato sauce from our san Marzano tomatoes and canned and froze a myriad of veggies. Our blackberry bushes grew huge this year. I think we froze enough to make pies all winter.
However, We had one major issue . While vacationing down in North Carolina hurricane Debbie uprooted my mature peach and apple trees.
Neither of them were salvageable.
Saltwater60
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Neighbors too close. I may set up a connibear 125 for them.
anybody else start their fall garden
wife planted broccoli and beans mid august
all plants are growing like crazy
her zucchinis had some sort of slug inside the stems that killed the plants, her tomatoes went wild, she got about a bushel from 4 plants, she made and froze a gallon of tomato sause already, and she gave away about a bushel of tomatoes to the women at church
?????? what are the best yellow onion for storage, we planted some no name sets and got a ton of onions, but they arnt keeping very well
wife planted broccoli and beans mid august
all plants are growing like crazy
her zucchinis had some sort of slug inside the stems that killed the plants, her tomatoes went wild, she got about a bushel from 4 plants, she made and froze a gallon of tomato sause already, and she gave away about a bushel of tomatoes to the women at church
?????? what are the best yellow onion for storage, we planted some no name sets and got a ton of onions, but they arnt keeping very well