June 25, 2018 | #76 |
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Great gardens!
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June 26, 2018 | #77 |
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I admit I am confused. Snow peas a waste? What went wrong? Weren't they mammoth melting sugar? Those did fine here in raised rows w/o watering. Let us know what went wrong and maybe find a better fit for your yard.
The last few days I pulled about 2/3 of my peas as they are spent now and the heat is coming, but I picked a whole bunch before that. For snow peas I grew Oregon Sugar Pod II, Dwarf White Sugar, Dwarf Grey, Royal Snow, and Mammoth Melting Sugar. The last was the tallest and rather late but I still have that up to save seed. For snap peas I grew Sugar Sprint, Cascadia, Sugar Ann, and Sugar Heart. Also grew Desiree Dwarf Blauwschokkers (for the 2nd and last time). Everything came in strong here, except the Sugar Sprints in my raised boxes that were frozen and drowned in March/early April, then parched since late May. Even they put out a lot under the circumstances. Your Jalapenos look great; they are way ahead of mine. I don't think I have any set yet, though I admittedly haven't looked them over closely. Do you remember what variety they are? Last edited by JRinPA; June 26, 2018 at 01:07 AM. |
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Hoping to stuff some this weekend, I'm a little tired of eating them wrapped in bacon, going to try the Popper Recipe from Epicurious. With a few tweaks of course! |
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June 26, 2018 | #80 |
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I do have Early Jalapeno that took off faster than my Jalafuego. I'll try to look over them tonight and see if they have any peppers yet.
I see now, on page two you said the snap peas were half the size of the svenson snow peas; at the time I read that, the same was true of my mammoth, so I must have transposed that in my head. I know how it is when you get a lot of fresh food at once, something gets missed. For me it is generally the lettuce or spinach though, NEVER THE PEAS! Great garden, SQWIBB! |
June 28, 2018 | #81 |
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Grow dammit! I'm hungry!!!
Since I am running out of space in my smallish yard, I started looking at my garden in cubic feet not square feet, So I have been utilizing areas above things that are already planted. My Corno di Toro Rosso was near death yesterday, I watered it last night and this morning. This morning it looks like it bounced back slightly. I'm not sure what happened but it looked as if it wasn't getting any water. The only thing I can figure is that the water is channeling through the soil as the soil settles in the hugelkultur beds due to decomposition of the material below. The area is probably drying out too quickly due to air pockets and the water channeling. The roots are not extensive so it may not be reaching water. I tweaked my irrigation lines and put the timer on for every day instead of every other day until I can get some rain water collected. What I have been doing recently is when a hole opens up due to settling, I try to stuff it with kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, pieces of wood, grass trimmings, whatever organic matter I can get my hands on. Yesterday after work I soaked down all the raised beds and yard, I really soaked down the Hugelkultur beds to dissipate larger air pockets, as I was doing this my son said, "dad its supposed to rain", I said, "yeah but there is only a 10% chance of rain and my luck it wont rain". Guess what it rained so hard my back yard flooded and my rain barrels are completely full. |
June 28, 2018 | #82 |
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We finally got rain too, 6/10th of an inch in the gauge this morning. It was pretty violent and woke me up about 4 am. I have two 55 gal that hold about 50 with overflow. The backyard one fills with 1/4" of rain and the driveway one fills with 2/10th. Doesn't take much, but they have not been filled since that 24 hour, 1.6" soak a few weeks back.
If you need to fill vertical space, get some okra in there! |
June 29, 2018 | #83 |
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Been wanting to grow okra forever.
Just tossed a few seeds in some spots to see what happens. Where did you think I should put them? |
June 29, 2018 | #84 |
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Okra has a strong deep tap root. Needs space to develop well, but will load you up in no time if you keep trimming off the finger sized fruit. Cut and come again growth habit.
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Thank you. I just tossed them anywhere I could find a spot, I dont expect much but we will see! |
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July 6, 2018 | #86 |
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June 25th -28th
July 7th
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Your neighbors are very lucky!
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July 9, 2018 | #88 |
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July 9, 2018 | #89 |
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The July 7th posted above is wrong, should be July 3rd. (post#86)
July 7th
I battled some Aphids on my Table Dainty plants but it appears I am loosing, Tried neem oil with a few drops of dish detergent, I guess I'm gonna have to go out and spray the leaves every other day. I also have been keeping up on my Zucchini plants with Bt spraying the stem and soil surface real good, maybe 2 or 3 times a week.
Food break.... we got to enjoy a few of our tomatoes and I had asked Laura to make me some "jalapeno poppers", but there was a mis-communication... my fault. I sent her a list of ingredients and included Jalapenos in the list, so the poppers are not from the garden (sad face).
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July 9, 2018 | #90 |
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I wrote reply about "okra, where" a long while back but I don't see the post.
Seeing that giant marconi on your pics makes me wonder if that is what I've been growing. Twice I kept seeds from roadside stand peppers, basically sweet, but shaped like that. I didn't buy them, and knowing as little as I do about peppers, I figured pablano from the shape and lack of heat. Okra is great eating but some people don't like the spines, so that could be an issue for locating them. I grow clemson spineless and never really have any problems. They do form a deep taproot and basically turn woody like a tree by late summer, so a deep bed. I have some that are starting to put pods on now even though they are still short. Last year mine ended up about 8-9 ft and it almost seemed a waste not having a crop under them for fall. The earliest okra in this year I interspersed as 3-4 week seedlings where ever there was space, so I have some next to cauliflower where two of the original seven survived and are now forming heads. More are interspersed with broccoli, and a few days ago I trimmed the broccoli back a little extra to let the okra up through. Over at my aunt's I put some in the corners of a new raised bed that is squash on one side and lettuce/spinach rows on the other. I would have liked to get it in earlier but it just hadn't been that hot anyway. Also I just threw my last transplants into the 5x9 garlic bed I cleaned out last week, and they look okay. My main row for okra this year went in the 33' snow pea row. First I put seed in and watered in late May but none ever germinated, so I started another round of transplants in June. They were a couple weeks old when the peas were done. So, I cut the peas, pulled out the trellis, topped off with a little more compost, wet down, tamped down, and laid bio mulch. The next day I transplanted a double row of okra about 18" spacing, hooped and recovered. That is more space than I have given them before. I had to hose through the cover a few times but still have not uncovered them. I hope they're doing well. They should have loved this heat and we finally got rain. Last edited by JRinPA; July 9, 2018 at 11:33 AM. |
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