Author Topic: 2021 gardens (Read 124574 times)

glenn57

holy crap.....never seen a sunflower plant get that huge!!!!!!!!!!!

markn

Quick question. With the large holes in the leafs and these little green worms mean my broccoli is pretty much toast for the year?

Dotch

Doesn't have to be. Get thee to a garden center or big box store & look for a product like Dipel (Bacillus thurengensis) or Sevin or any number of synthetic pyrethroids such as permethrin or bifenthrin. Cabbage worms are a PITA but aren't necessarily a deal breaker.

KEN W · « *Last Edit: July 07/14/21, 06:56:25 AM by KEN W* »

White butterflies laying eggs on and Cole Crop. Plant is still OK. Dust first to kill the ones there. No heads there yet. Since I don't want to be eating pesticides.....I cover my Broc, Caul, etc with a fine mesh netting. Keeps them from laying eggs. I have been eating Broc and Caul over the past week.

glenn57

i pulled my onions yesterday. wasnt impressed. wasnt the best i ever had, not the worst either......that was last year!!!!!!its sure been a frustrating year for the garden.

makes me kinda want to throw int he towel some.......but i wont!!!!!! i do expect it to be an early year to be done though. that tomato wilt sure has me cranked up!!!!!!!!!

Dotch

Did the dollar tour on the yard & garden(s) last nite. Morning glories are starting to bloom. Need to make sure I collect some of the seed from the variegated variety so it can have its own trellis someplace next year. It's not as aggressive as the varieties that come from seed each year. Staked all the tomato cages with electric fence posts. With potential wind coming would be preferable if they are standing. Two of the recently planted string bean varieties are completely emerged. The Tenderette has some gaps. Was a difference in the procedure used for establishment & it shows. Likely got them a hair to deep given the ample rainfall that followed. Cannas have put it in overdrive with the heat and rain. Nowhere near what deadeye's are but mine were planted 2-3 weeks later. 1st potted four o'clock was blooming while I was grilling. Love the way they smell.

snow1 · « *Last Edit: July 07/14/21, 12:46:20 PM by snow1* »

D.E. no offense but your pic reminds me of "jack and the bean stock" good grief,and no flower head yet. so you didn't plant that bad boy?

Some of you guyz have impressive gardens....I'm lucky to get wild flowers to come up every spring,however my morning glories come back every year without seeding,however my moon glories didn't appear this summer morning glories are very sparse compared to my neighbor,his glories engulf his entire privacy fence just a wall of green vines/flowers,hummingbirds are enjoying the trumpeter vine flowers that popped this week after the last rain storm here,good to see.

glenn57

took a gander around the garden this morning.......things are slowly moving along. by mid next week my dill should be done and yanked......sad to say but less to water!!!!!

appears to me i will have a bumper crop of jalepino peppers again!!!!!

also if anyone wants any starter bulbs of winter onions to start a patch or add to........i'll have plenty/ dont be afraid to ask!!!!!!!!

speaking of garden stuff, went down to the local coop/country store to get something to nurse my maters back to health.....hopefully

they had the weekly farmers market set up. the local guy, Willenbrings, holy crap did he have HUGE onions!!!!!! made me jealous!!

ten they had a Novaks from foley......there kalarbi was the size of a softball!!!!!!!!

how dey do dat??????????

other then that some had cukes, dill berries.......

mike89

the folks down the road have had 12 inch kohlrabi's!! Jim had several 8 inch one's last year when he grew them!!

Dotch

You guys always have the biggest kohlrabis...

roony · « *Last Edit: July 07/15/21, 12:34:24 PM by roony* »

they don't need no stinking rain.

Quote from: Dotch on July 07/15/21, 11:44:02 AM

You guys always have the biggest kohlrabis...

Dotch

Dotch

We got trouble, right here in River City...

When I was mowing by the garden last night I gazed to the west against the sun and all I could see was a carpet of red where the cucurbit vines aren't covering the ground. The whole Russian army's worth of waterhemp. I see lots of tilling & hoeing in my future once it dries up.

Squash & punkins are starting to flower.

deadeye

First time I planted pumpkins and gourds in my fenced in garden. They have grown over the cucumbers, past and up the sunflowers, engulfed the peppers and are now headed to the potatoes. If they make it past the onions and start up the tomatoes, I gonna yank them.

Dotch

Yer maters look nice & yer cannas are blooming!

Dotch

Back in from doing battle with the weeds in the main garden. Probably the last time I'll be able to use the tiller on the vine crops for the year. July 5th planted beans in the foreground, Jack be Little pumpkins, then jack o'lantern pumpkins, then buttercup squash, cucumbers after that and my ratty first planting of string beans. They've led a miserable existence thus far. Next two pics are the small garden. The yellow pear tomatoes are now 6' tall. Zucchini plants got huge too this year for some reason. This garden is likely to be relegated to just floral stuff as time goes on. It produces but it's getting too shaded especially earlier in the season when the sun is high overhead. The main garden gets full sun, one of the reasons we chose that spot. We'll probably about double its size eventually.

deadeye

Looks great there Dotch. No deer?

Dotch · « *Last Edit: July 07/19/21, 09:34:24 AM by Dotch* »

Thanks! There's so much corn, soybeans, alfalfa and other assorted stuff around here they probably just haven't got to it yet. Did see some fawn-sized tracks in the garden earlier on. Mama might've had the little tyke stashed in the brush for a while. Been more concerned about the bunnies eating my beans. Wait till I plant snap peas in late July-early August.