Garden Thread 2023

[eruby]

 

[F-Stop]

Tomatoes are coming on strong. This is every other day now.

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My tomato plants. For context the raised beds are 2 ft tall

I have 2’ also with overhead supports 6’ above bed. I have to get ladder now to pic. Lol


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Is that’s cuc?


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[eruby]

Is that’s cuc?

Yes sir

 

[Muleskinner]

I have 2’ also with overhead supports 6’ above bed. I have to get ladder now to pic. Lol


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I installed 4 foot supports and it's not enough. I'm going to have to add height to it next year. I used 3/4 inch galvanized conduit with female to female connectors so adding shouldn't be hard. I also had 7 or 8 plants sprout in my beds from seeds that fell out of rotting fruits from last year so I have 7 more plants in 5 gallon buckets. I dug them up and replanted them because I didn't know what variety they were. I buy most of my heirloom plants from Calvert's Gift farm in Sparks, Baltimore County. Best tasting varieties I have found.

 

[gamer_jim]

Yes sir

My wife planted some 8 cucumber plants this year. I better learn how to pickle.

 

[foodpoison]

 

[foodpoison]

My largest single day harvest of the season, just terminated 3 cuke plants cause I F up on watering. Will replant 3 more tomorrow

 

[HRDWRK]

Today's small harvest. Sungold tomatoes and a couple of peppers..

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

I grow some mean weeds and trees the past 2 years.

Wife had the idea of the raised beds, a truck load of soil and a decent 1st year of veggies. BUT it was lots of watering, weeding, and her tending after plant eating bugs.

She hates bugs, skeeters, and pretty much the outdoors. So, gardening is really not a joint venture.
I usually wind up doing most of it.

With the past few years being filled up with the care and death of my mom, now the care of my dad, Things like gardens have taken a back seat. Dad went in the hospital the last week of May and here we are Almost August and he is still not home.

I'd have loved my some Maters and Squash n Beans n stuff

 

[89P13]

Tomatoes are coming on strong. This is every other day now.

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NOW THOSE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL MATERS!!

 

[Archeryrob]

My tomatoes are slow producing and ripening very small. Spring was wet and cold out here and now fairly dry.
My corn seems to be growing okay but it about 4' tall and stunted from the previous drought.

 

[govwontletmebuycoolguns]

Today:

 

[rsideout]

Some zucchini and squash from my garden. Made some zucchini bread out of one of them. Yum!

 

[rsideout]

Sweet banana peppers turned into an appetizer. Sausage & cream cheese stuffed baked banana peppers.

 

[steves1911]

Today's haul..tomatoes are finally starting to ripen. Zucchini is starting to turn brown I'm thinking it's probably the heat not worried about it too much we've gotten so many idk what we're going to do with all of it. Plan to start canning some things tomorrow.

 

[F-Stop]

Could be vine borer. If base of vine is getting brown and soft in spot or some leaves wilting could be that. They block water from getting to plant.

You can actually bury the vine further up plant and it will reroot.


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[Archeryrob]

I can't grow zucchini and it is because of squash bugs. My neighbor has apple, peach and other fruit trees and I get covered in these bugs if I grow it. My buddy 10 minutes away doesn't have them. They have never not shown up if I try and grow it. First you see the copper eggs under the leaf, then little grey spider looking young and and bigger bugs. I planted 18 plants one year and they all died before I got one fruit.

I am assuming the fruit trees hold them here because other people locally can grow them, but I have no chance in growing them.

These Lantern bugs like the cucumbers and about to insecticide them.

 

[eruby]

Today:

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Beauty!!!

How difficult is it to grow green beans?