gardening 2016

[corny13]

I'm going to the FSA office tomorrow to see I qualify for anything... while in MN for a long weekend baseball size hail hit my garden..ugh!

[corny13]

Tilled garden 4 days later...

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[corny13]

Best looking Tomato plant..

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[Fawkinnae]

So sorry Bill. Hope you had crop insurance.

[glenn57]

Wow that bites. Sorry to hear. Maybe my green beans failure isn't so bad after all.

[The General]

Dang corny sorry that happened to you.  Can you replant?

[deadeye]

Sucks for sure.  I haven't had time to tend the gardens since planting them.  I was kind of hoping for hail to trash the weeds.  I have time today so I plan to have a look see and tackle the weeds.  Wish me luck, i'm going in......

[The General]

Luck is wished

[deadeye]

There are some plants in there after all.  I was too embarrassed to take a before picture.  I had to decide if would let the weeds or deer have there way with this garden.  I can't do much about the deer but I could pull the weeds.  It took a while but maybe I salvaged some plants from the weeds.

[glenn57]

Looks good deadeye!

[Bobby Bass]

We finally got our big garden all in yesterday, a couple of weeks later then usual but we did miss out on the big storm we had here so it may have worked out for the best. Still have the gutter garden to put in, this weekend, but stuff grown in there will be harvested before the stuff planted in the ground. You guys down south are always so much farther ahead of us Northern guys!

[deadeye]

With all these weeds, there just has to be some garden plants in there.

This is a before picture of my pumpkin, gourds, and squash patch.  I know they are in there because
I put them there.


Several long hot hours later my arms are like rubber but the plants emerged.  Victory was mine.

[The General]

Garden is looking great especially the taters.

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[corny13]

Those look great, naw no replanting if anything grows back it will have to do.  My potatoes had looked like the generals I'm hoping the hail helped them!

[glenn57]

Garden looks good general! Must be the tiller guy!!

[The General]

Those look great, naw no replanting if anything grows back it will have to do.  My potatoes had looked like the generals I'm hoping the hail helped them!

I am starting to do the Corny.  I've been picking all the flowers before they bloom and smack up the leaves a bit with a rake.  I did smash my first potatoe bugs yesterday on one plant.  I didn't see any others. 

[HD]

Tilled between the taters again, and tilled the pepper garden.  Also, the pickle box is full!

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[glenn57]

my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!

[KEN W]

my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
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My fillet green beans are flowering right now.....should be eating them soon.

[Dotch]

my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!

Well, if as an "onion thug" (pun intended) you travel through the area this summer later, we've got two rows about 30' long that should bear in August. Bring a cooler and you'd be welcome to some. 

[glenn57]

GAWD................this humidity bites!!!!!!!!! 0 looks good right now!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!

Excellent!! Take all you want!!! Never found a use for those things, anyway!!!

[glenn57]

my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!

Excellent!! Take all you want!!! Never found a use for those things, anyway!!!

there really good in my pickle brine!!!

[glenn57]

The garden sure liked that 1 1/2 inches of rain but I was out of power for 4 hours tonight  seen a funky looking wall cloud on the way home. With hail included.

[The General]

 My garden took a but of a beating but should be ok.  The garden shed tipped over and is in need of some repairs.  I just turned the generator on and plugged in the beer fridge.  No power here since 4pm and it's still not back on. 

[Dotch]

Got your green beans planted Monday before the rain glenn. Won't reb be proud? Anyway, if the weather stays warm and we continue getting timely rains, it may finally be worth taking a photo or two. Such a weedy mess and some holes in the vine crop area where old seed and cucumber beetles took their toll. Bastages!

[KEN W]

Inch of rain here 2 nights ago. Pulled the first red beets tonight. Peas are almost done for the year. Wind blew over the corn. Starting to stand back up again. Lost almost all my apples off one of my trees. 

[HD]

Got cukes coming out my ears. Almost got enough regular pickles for a couple batches of dill pickles. Peppers are coming along nicely, many already picked. Zucchini....not so much....plants are huge, but not producing. Lost one tomato plant to some blight or something....plants next to it are producing well.

[Dotch]

That's pretty impressive to have cukes already. Ours are flowering right along now but it will be a few weeks probably. Muskmelons look pretty decent but it'll be September probably. Jalapenos setting well as are the green zucchini. Yellow one not so much. Garden overall is liking this heat and rain thing. Gets to be mid-month and hopefully I can start planting some fall radishes, salad greens and snap peas. Got some nooks and crannies that should work well for that. Not much a guy can do right now other than gawk at it though. One giant mass of sticky black poo!

[HD]

Dotch, a really good friend of the family has a huge green house, so I  have a little jump start on the cukes, tomatoes, peppers and zucchini. And they live less than a mile from the ranch. Pretty convenient.
I do a lot of pickles, so it helps a great deal on production.