First new topic in lawn and garden

[deadeye]

I have several gardens.  First on the list was the rhubarb.  I took in all the radishes and just started getting cucumbers, peas, beans and lettuce.  Tomatoes, corn and potatoes are looking good.  Been working on onions for a while now.  Peppers and ground cherries are coming along nicely.  Pumpkins, gourds and watermelons are setting now.  Carrots will be a while yet.  Flowers are looking very good.  Not too much on the grape vines.  The last two winters were really hard on them.  Lots of nice apples forming now.  They are now bigger than golf balls.  Now we just need hot, wet weather to pull it all together. 

[glenn57]

  I knew we had gardeners here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glenn57]

for all you coffee drinkers, instead of throwing all  those used coffee grounds in the garbage, put them in your garden or compost pile. I had a biologists tell me coffee grounds are a great sourse of nitrogen.

[glenn57]

finally my maters are starting to turn ripe. some cherry maters also. green beans going good. already had several meals plus have 9 qts of spicey green beans put up. pickes some carrots and a few kalarabi. this cool weather should really get them to move along.

[Bobby Bass]

3rd planting of radish went in the ground this morning, 2nd planting was a waste. All that 90 degree heat gave me a batch of huge tops but just a bunch of skinny roots. Cooler weather should help the radish crop and carrots..

[deadeye]

Cukes, potatoes and tomatoes are rolling in.

[glenn57]

I seen a few cukes about ready to pluck last nite.  couple days yet.

they where harvesting spuds between Monticello and hwy 10 this morning. it looked like the "killed" the plant before harvesting????????? anyone know why.

[Bobby Bass]

I seen a few cukes about ready to pluck last nite.  couple days yet.

they where harvesting spuds between Monticello and hwy 10 this morning. it looked like the "killed" the plant before harvesting????????? anyone know why.

Kill the plant? I know you can harvest young spuds soon after the plant flowers. Perhaps they are harvesting young potatoes for sale and do not want the plants to continue to grow    or maybe they are even harvesting seed potatoes for next season?

[glenn57]

that could be!!!!!! the seed tater for next year. kinda like detasslin corn.

yea theres no doubt they sprayed or did something to kill it. the absolute, no not the vodka, whole field turned brown at the same time???? field next to it was as green aas the general behind the ears!!!!!!

[deadeye]

They kill the plants to ease harvesting.  Once the plant is dead and dried up, they don't clog the potato diggers.

[Bobby Bass]

They kill the plants to ease harvesting.  Once the plant is dead and dried up, they don't clog the potato diggers.

Could have just had my wife take care of them, she would have killed them, no spray needed! 

[glenn57]

They kill the plants to ease harvesting.  Once the plant is dead and dried up, they don't clog the potato diggers.

makes sense to me. they where a busy harvesting spuds again this morning.

[glenn57]

ANYONE GETTING ANY TOMATOES?????? all mine that are ripening are the sixe of golf balls!!!! cut off and pulled my cabbage. they split. green beans are slow, hoping to get more.

[HD]

Maters are do'in good (Miracle Grow) Green beens are great, radishes suck, peppers ok and the kolorobies (sp) are done.........

[glenn57]

my kolarabi are just startin to bulb!!

[HD]

I started those in pots, and now they are done... 
Except a few that we planted late from seed in the garden, but fer the most part, they are done.

[glenn57]

tonite gotta do up tomatoes.........juice and stewed maters are on the agenda. so far did up 4 2 gal jars of garlic-dill frig cukes and 10 qts of "spicy" green beans!!!!!!

[glenn57]

did 7 qts of stewed tomatoes and 4 pints of mater juice last nite.

[glenn57]

my peppers where a crop failure this year. picked what I could last nite and yanked the plants. my cukes seem to be about toast also. maters are still ok. getting kind oftired having to water all the time.

got a big ole canning party at the campground this weekend. along with some    . looks like salsa, stewed tomatoes and spaqetti sauce is on the list.

[glenn57]

tomatoes stickin out of our ears Saturday. add some rain and  what a mess. finally tally is 45 pts salsa, 16 qts stewed tomatoes and 8 qts of spaghetti sauce.

now its on to horseradish.

[glenn57]

so is everyone done with there gardens???????? I have flowers carrots and kalarabi left.

I pretty much leave the garden alone now till spring other then throwing coffee grounds and potato peelings and the like in it for fertilizer. anyone do anything special to the garden in preparation for next year??????

[The General]

I till mine every fall and then add some Turkey Manure on it in the spring and call it a done deal.

[glenn57]

you don't till again in spring????

[HD]

I still got peppers to pick, but the rest is done.

[Bobby Bass]

I have taters to dig and carrots to pull but will cover them in straw and let them keep growing, Radishes are also still growing  Sunflowers are about ready to harvest and containers with peppers and cherry tomatoes are ready to get moved into the green house. A lot of tomatoes ripening on the vine still. When everything is pulled I will till and then till again come Spring. I try and get leaves turned in with the fall tilling but we are still pretty green still here. Pumpkins and acorn squash are also ready.

[The General]

you don't till again in spring????

Yep i till it up again in the spring.

[beeker]

my pumpkins look a little strange out there now that the vines have all but shriveled off. took some gords and smaller pumpkins up to the land yesterday. love watching em explode

[HD]

I just checked.....I still have green beans growing....