2014 gardening

[Bobby Bass]

  my gardens are wet from the 130 inches of snow melt and as I write this it is raining out with flakes of snow mixed in. You guys may be harvesting before I even get anything to grow..

[The General]

I got the garden tilled and planted a few things last night.  Now just ready for some warm weather.

[glenn57]

thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!

[dew2]

We finished planting everything cept maters just yesterday,Started with taters onions 4-5 days ago.Lots of long term plantings this year.Then last nights rain came just at the perfect time for us.We hurried to get the planting done before this rain.

[glenn57]

little wet tonite to continue. dumped out an inch of rain.

[glenn57]

just poured here......need a boat to work in garden.

[The General]

thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!

Glad to help and you were most generous with the coors light.  Thank you.

[corny13]

Finally warming up enough..


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[glenn57]

thanks general!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks to the general now my garden is tilled also. got my dill in the ground before I got rained out for the evening. will tackle the rest or at least start tonite and sunday!

Glad to help and you were most generous with the coors light.  Thank you.

no problem!!!!!!!! the least I could do. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!

[glenn57]

best cover da crops...frost and freeze warnings about!!!!!!!!

[glenn57]

finally got the garden all planted!!!! picked a good supply of asparagus as well as a bumper crop of winter onions!!!!!

[Bobby Bass]

Garden is not looking to good, only thing green in it is stuff that was transplanted from the greenhouse. Soaking wet and cold here with not much change in the future. 

[HD]

Pickle plants are doing great, tomatoes and peppers...are a little behind...

[dew2]

HD a sprinkler?? We been enjoying lots of strawberrirs,salads of 5-6 different letuce,tatters are flowering.New tatters soon. corn is bout 3 ft high.Onions seen stunted from rain!! the lake may be close to all time high!! We have some carp and nords in the yard!!!

[HD]

Mama just weeded that garden, and watered in some fertilizer. Not, much...we live on sand, so it soaks in fast. Not like the dark clay you guys have.

[deadeye]

Looking good there HD.  I wonder when you could weed the garden with all the rain. 

The pumpkins, cukes, gords, and watermellons are slow to get going.


Tomatoes, onions, potatoes, and various other vegetables are doing fine.
 

Of Course you can't go without flowers.


Last year was a bumper apple corp.  Looks like it will be less this year

[The General]

How's everyone's garden been doing?  The wife canned 38 jars of Dilly beans the other day.  The pickles are starting to come and we have eaten all of the sweet corn.  The tomatoes are all still green, but there is a lot of them.  I haven't dug any of the potatoes yet but the tops of the plant look just like last years hopefully under the ground is as good.  I think the wife planted enough spaghetti squash to feed the nation.  Anyone wanting some let me know it would be free you just have to come get it when they are ripe.

[HD]

Lots of peppers, tomatoes are doing good. Cuks are great, but my pickles look like tennis balls.

[deadeye]

Brocclli was good, cabbage is fine, peppers are good, some small red tomatoes, been eating potatoes and onions for a while, brussels sprouts are coming along fine, lots of cuks, some strawberrys.  Will be a while before any watermellon and pumpkins.  Gourds look fine for now.  Small apple crop this year and very few grapes.  Ground cherries should start soon also.   

[The General]

Yeah the onions here have been good.  My wife saves all of them for making salsa.

[glenn57]

man I have been so busy haven't had time other then to take quick peeks here. garden is coming along. starting to get cukes, maters and kalarabi. going to pick my last of the green beans tonite and yank them. plants are about toast. I'd say its an average garden.

musta been the tiller!!!!!! sorry general just hadda throw that in there.!

it actually did help!!!!!!

[Bobby Bass]

Always interesting reading here on how everyone's gardens are growing, you can really tell the difference a few hundred miles can make. Berries are just getting ripe up here and I got my first ripe tomatoe. Have tons of spinach and a good onion crop growing. Corn is way behind but we still have two months of growing. Apple trees are doing nothing, 2nd year in a row.

[glenn57]

I have come to the conclusion my garden stinks this year. already pulled my green beans and cukes because they sucked. more maters then normal have that stem rot. the tomatoes on the vine are less abundant then normal and my kalorabi are coming slower then they should. my carrots are good however! peppers stink too!

[Lee Borgersen]

I have come to the conclusion my garden stinks this year. already pulled my green beans and cukes because they sucked. more maters then normal have that stem rot. the tomatoes on the vine are less abundant then normal and my kalorabi are coming slower then they should. my carrots are good however! peppers stink too!

You may want to ditch the union gardener theory and hire a migrant farm worker.

Just sayin

[glenn57]

boy.............you sure know how to hurt a guys feelings.  cant do the migrant worker thing, run into to many paperwork and legal details.

I'm blaming the weather.

[Lee Borgersen]

boy.............you sure know how to hurt a guys feelings.  cant do the migrant worker thing, run into to many paperwork and legal details.

I'm blaming the weather.

Skip da paper work!  Just marry one

[glenn57]

no can do, already married to a white city girl!!!!!!!!

[HD]

I was hoping for a bumper crop of pickles this year, but....no...
So, I have been canning some cucumber spears and zucchini a few jars at a time...

[glenn57]

I'm begging for cukes, pulled mine. might need to start begging for maters. there not doing so hot and I had planned on a whole lotta canning.

I have done 3 2 gal jugs of cukes. HD are those hot bathed and sealed?

try this method. slice the cukes the long way like you did in your post. add dill, onion garlic. stuff in a jar and if ya got 2 gal jars they work good. the brine is 2 qts water 2 cups vinegar and 1/2 cup pickling salt. mix pour into jar and set in frig.

[HD]

I give the cukes a ice bath over night, boil the brine, slice the cukes and dump my stuff in the jar. Pour over the boiling brine to the top (or real close) then seal and put in hot water bath and let come to room temp. Then put um in the fridge. They seal just about every time.