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Post by bucksathome on May 28, 2008 19:51:08 GMT -5
Let me see , i,ve got eggplant ,tomatoes( better boy,big boy, celebrity, grape) yellow squash, cucumbers, strawberries and brocolli. Good ole country food. Nothing beats a slice of fresh tomatoe on a sandwich. mmmmm,mmmmm!!
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Post by busco on May 29, 2008 6:46:36 GMT -5
Ill get in on a big pumpkin contest... i planted 6 different kinds so we will see how they do.. Just worry about growing a bigger one than me  with all the rain i never got out to put tomato cages on my tomatoes and jalepenoes.. i had a heck of a time getting them in the cages.. tomato plants already 50 inches high and alot of flowers hopefully it will be a goood year |
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on May 29, 2008 8:34:29 GMT -5
I'm in busco. My plants are probably behind yours but guess we don't have to compare at the same time. I could give you a couple of the seeds I have & we could both start from scratch.
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Post by osprey on Jun 9, 2008 13:40:30 GMT -5
With all the rain my pumpkin plants are really looking good. One variety is already putting out over 2' of runner vines! I"ve got Big Max for the contest at work, sugar pumpkins for pies and a hill of ?? for halloween.
The unknown hill is an experiment. One of the books said to plant leftover pumpkins halfway in the ground and cover with manure. Let it sit all winter and it'll start growing new plants from the seeds as soon as the soil temps are correct. Worked VERY well, except I think every dang seed in the pumpkin came up, I was forever thinning out plants. Only problem is you don't know what sort of shapes you'll get due to crosspollination the previous season.
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Post by busco on Jun 13, 2008 6:56:17 GMT -5
Ill have to get pics.. but tomatoe plants as tall as me producing tomatoes.. huge squash already.. pumpkins cucumbers cantelope and watermelon not far off. already eating snow peas and cayanne peppers are al most ready to pick.. grapes are doing good but the bugs are enjoying this..
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jun 13, 2008 7:52:08 GMT -5
Yea, I had a pumpkin sit in the garden last winter as well. About 2 weeks ago I had 60 pumpkins come up in an area about 2' x 2'. WAY more than it should have been. Had 4 different kinds of pumpkins planted in the garden last year so it will be interesting to see what I get from these.
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Post by busco on Jul 3, 2008 12:40:54 GMT -5
Just spent an hour and a half weeding and mowing between my pumpkins and watermelons.. looking pretty good, they could use some much needed rain. got baby pumpkins and some baby watermelons starting to grow so hopefully the deer will let at least some of them grow.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jul 3, 2008 13:32:17 GMT -5
Yea, that's about where I am at. Got some small pumpkins & melons but waiting on some rain.
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Post by bucksathome on Jul 4, 2008 9:53:38 GMT -5
I,ve been picking squash and cucmbers for a week now. Tomatoes and eggplant will be ready reel soon. Thank god i,m a country boy!! Good ole boy that is!! GET-R- DUN!!!!!!!!
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Post by osprey on Jul 4, 2008 10:03:19 GMT -5
I've been picking the first round of early tomatoes this week, waiting on round 2 of zuchinni, little hot peppers on the plants, and pumpkins up to 8" across. Need some rain here, too, hope to get an inch or two out of the predicted storms this weekend.
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Post by davep on Jul 5, 2008 4:04:59 GMT -5
Already about sick of cukes, getting a few peppers (hots and greens), had more lettuce and spinach then we could eat. Snaps and snows producing, poles still a ways off. Watermelons from 1" to 6" in diameter, so won't be too long a wait.
Grapes looking GREAT-should be a banner year.
Had 4 bucks in the fruit trees yesterday right after the rain ended/edge of dark. Already getting frisky-running each other around. Standing on hind legs to eat peaches and apples. I've been spraying the fruit every two weeks, but most apple trees have rust real bad. I have another plan for the deer, a little later up in the year. ;D
NO tomatos yet, but shouldn't be long ( Only good tomato is a DEAD tomato, smeared over a pizza)
ALL our squash died off- a first for us!
Groundhogs HAD been putting a hurting on us! ;D
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Post by osprey on Jul 5, 2008 8:30:23 GMT -5
Dave, I almost forgot about lettuce! I put in a small patch of leaf lettuce and it's been great this year, I'll definitely do that again.
I saw cedar apple rust for the first time this spring on some cedars at my place, nasty looking snotty stuff at that stage!
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Post by bucksathome on Jul 5, 2008 9:07:48 GMT -5
Dave, I almost forgot about lettuce! I put in a small patch of leaf lettuce and it's been great this year, I'll definitely do that again. I saw cedar apple rust for the first time this spring on some cedars at my place, nasty looking snotty stuff at that stage! What is a cedar apple?? |
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Post by osprey on Jul 5, 2008 16:24:31 GMT -5
Cedar-apple rust is a fungus that uses both cedars and apple trees as alternate hosts in its life cycle. For the life phase on cedars it looks like an orange, slimy, snotty tendriled ball. Doesn't do much to the cedars, but very hard on apples.
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Post by osprey on Jul 14, 2008 15:09:33 GMT -5
I can't claim them as a garden crop, but been picking the heck out of blackberries the past 2 weeks! Filled 2 gallon tubs today just along the woods edges, the rains came at just the right times this summer.  |
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with all the rain i never got out to put tomato cages on my tomatoes and jalepenoes.. i had a heck of a time getting them in the cages.. tomato plants already 50 inches high and alot of flowers hopefully it will be a goood year
