2022 gardens

[Bobberineyes]

Ya I gotta find up some dill myself,  the little cuke picklers are starting to pop. Grabbed 3rd , 4th and 5th zucchini , the first 2 got grilled these will probably be for bread. Along with some fresh picked poppers to go with chicken tonight.   

[glenn57]

Seed tape is spendy, never did them either. There nice in the fact the seed is evenly spaced.

Boober, I could send ya some dill seed to plant??? Even HD can grow it with the proper guidance (ahem)! 

[Bobberineyes]

Appreciate it Glenn,  probably gonna hafta stock up at a market soon, I'll be canning some soon.

[glenn57]

Appreciate it Glenn,  probably gonna hafta stock up at a market soon, I'll be canning some soon.

I can send ya seed for next year or you could stop by!!

[HD]

Actually...... the dill seed I got from Glenn, is not doing so well, last time I checked it was only 4 inches tall.

I bought some plants from the farmers market, and they are all at 2ft plus already.

Pickles are a little behind schedule for pickling, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

[glenn57]

Here is my dill crop.

[glenn57]

Same seeds I gave HD??

[LPS]

That's one heck of a dill stand. 

[glenn57]

That's one heck of a dill stand.

next to it are 22 tomato plants.  hope I got enough!!👍

[LPS]

Good for you Glenn.  Nice garden there!  We have 6 maters and 2 grape maters and 4 green peppers and they all have little ones on them today.   

[roony]

Are those tomatoes starting to look sick?

[glenn57]

Are those tomatoes starting to look sick?

nope. The first bunch you see in front are lucky tiger tomatoes and campori tomatoes. They really got different leaves compared to the best boy, early girl type tomatoes.

[KEN W]

My carrots are crappy this year. Maybe a dozen germinated out of a packet. A bust this year.

[glenn57]

My kalarabi are a big bust again this year. 

I'm trying something other then the burpee kalarabi seeds next year!!

[KEN W]

Pulled my first kohlrabi yesterday.

Purple Vienna

[glenn57]

Pulled my first kohlrabi yesterday.

Purple Vienna

what seed company are yours Ken!

[HD]

Same seeds I gave HD??

Yup

[KEN W]

Pulled my first kohlrabi yesterday.

Purple Vienna

what seed company are yours Ken!

I am eating them now. Not great. Tough and woody. Won't plant them again. I always start them in my little greenhouse on April 1 along with Cabbage, Broccoli, and Cauliflower and transplant for early crop. Then plant seeds a month or so later.

Next year I will go back to what I have always planted.....Early White Vienna

I get them from Victory Seeds.

[glenn57]

Thanks Ken. usually what I plant, the early white Vienna!

[HD]

I planted a row (just for craps and giggles) a row of seed tape that had the multi color carrots. It was a bust, small carrots and real "rooty" and what I mean by that, is you pull one up and it's full of fuzzy roots.

[HD]

I was watering the rhubarb and found a little friend.....

[fishwidow]

Get those little guys a lot this time of year. Fun to watch them at their bug buffet on the post light we have. Had one show up in the spring ferns we were bringing up from the north metro area. Kept him in a big jar feeding him bugs for a couple weeks until we could send him back to his family and friends.

[LPS]

The garden was looking real thirsty when we got home yesterday.  My romaine had a hard on it looked like.  LOL  Had a long shoot coming out of the middle that must have been a foot long.  Must have gone to seed huh? 

[Dotch]

Finally got everything weeded to my satisfaction yesterday. Noticed the squash were wilting by midafternoon & so was I. Took a lot of water for me to stay hydrated. Watered the squash, pumpkins & gourds last nite. They were lovin' life this a.m. Lots of blooms and bees.

This year's garden is the good, the bad and the ugly. It's been really tough to gauge the watering needed. The 1st planting sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, squash, pumpkins, gourds and 1st planting string beans all look great. The 2nd planting sweet corn and string beans came up erratically. I replanted a few spots in the string beans yesterday to see if they'll still make it. If it stays hot, they might. The green dragon cukes are starting to set some small one's so we'll have some anyway. The Straight 8's are moving but haven't starting crawling yet. The Munchers are just a tad behind them but at least they're healthy. Cucumber growing kind of weather. The beets, well what can I say? Between the two 15' rows planted, all 15 of the surviving beets are alive and starting to look like they might amount to something. They all go to Auntie Mar Mar's 90 year old mom anyway. At least I don't have to worry about thinning them! End of the month will be time to start getting the fall stuff seeded. Left an area for that. Was hoping the 1st planting string beans would be farther along so may have to delay some of the radish planting. Of course I can always plant into the gaps in the beet area. 

[Dotch]

The garden was looking real thirsty when we got home yesterday.  My romaine had a hard on it looked like.  LOL  Had a long shoot coming out of the middle that must have been a foot long.  Must have gone to seed huh?

Must've bolted in the heat. Some of the stuff I planted late summer did that last fall during a warm stretch before freeze up. Meant to throw it over the fence to the sheep but didn't get it done. This spring when I tilled up the garden, there was volunteer lettuce coming up all over in that area. It was tempting to leave it but I needed that space for the cukes. 

[glenn57]

i've picked 6 cukes from the garden so far............got plenty of flowers. i must of got a different green bean cause i got vines all over....there starting to flower. that sun and heat sure do a number on the leaves during the day though!!!!!!

picking dill lately, i expect to pull that next week. picked green peppers to, enough for a batch of salsa. there in the freezer. my onions are getting pulled out next week also when i get back from the cabin.

my kalarabi just plain sucks again!!!!!!!!  tomatoes are looking good!!!!!!

[Bobberineyes]

Your spot on Glenn with the cuke leaves looking like crap in the heat, but they be doing pretty good, the bee's were all over while I was picking yesterday.  Managed another qt of bread n butter pickles.  Lots of green Tomatoes,  kinda glad to see the zookini must be on union break, but with all the little ones popping up it'll be go time again. Peppers are doing well, momma wanted watermelon so I have 2 plants that I keep wrapping the runs in circles just so they don't decide to take off to the next county, never did those before so we'll find out I guess..

[deadeye]

Cukes are starting to pop. Everyday I find 4-5 that weren't there the day before. Onions look fine even if most of the tops were flattened in the wind. Been pulling potatoes for while now. Tomatoes are tall and lots of green ones so it will be a while yet. Pumpkins and gourds are forming well. Only have a few sunflowers as the deer ate all that were not fenced in. Not sure what's going on with the peppers as they never did grow tall, and I see very few peppers. 

[LPS]

Good to hear you guys info.  When we got home after 4 hot days the cherry peppers on the deck in pails looked like toast.  I expected the leaves to crunch when I touched them.  Have watered them good for the second day and they look great!  Tough plants.  I have Early Girl tomatoes about half dollar size now.  They dill keeps on coming up everywhere so I am just freezing it.  Cukes are flowers at this time. 

[Bobberineyes]

At one time I had 18 pails on the patio, great idea but they needed some serious babysitting at times.