2020 gardens

[mountainguyed67]

What’s everyone doing about hornworms? They are really tearing my tomatoes up.

Haven’t seen one in probably five years.

 

[Poopyface]

What’s everyone doing about hornworms? They are really tearing my tomatoes up.

You can distract them with a whole lotta Dill plants but that does nothing to eliminate them.

Try Neem oil. It has worked for every bug issue I have had so far. Mix pure neem oil with soap and water and spray foliage top and bottom.

I had little green worms attack my broccoli viciously until I sprayed the leaves with Neem and they left after a week. The plants barely had any leaves left so I trimmed those off and it grew new branches.

 

[Thefishguy77]

Been picking tomatoes for a while. 2-3 every few days. About 8 plants are loaded with green tomatoes and the rest are just starting to set fruit. Cucumbers didn't do shit this year, no pickles this year :( . Onions and garlic are just starting to be done. Bell pepper are weak but finally coming on. Cabbage didnt really produce this year. We let 2 different types of kale winter over from last year along with one cabbage plant and they all produced a ton of seeds so that was cool. Probably have 1000 plus of each. Might clear some space to plant a big cabbage bed next year for the chickens. Pumpkins (Jack o lantern and sugar) and squashes (Butternut, yellow neck, spaghetti) are finally growing fruit, should yield well. Berries wild and planted did great this year. About to have a piece of blackberry cobbler and then go to bed.

 

[Poopyface]

Cool story time. We planted watermelons on a hillside in the front yard but didn't expect it to be as shady as it was since the trees had a growth spurt. Last year it baked in the sun.

Five weeks go by and the watermelon plants remained the same, small and weak. I decided to dig em up and move them to the back yard which recieved 11 hours of sun. Two weeks go by and not much happened and then the past two weeks the plant blew up. Now we have four watermelons pop up and I am sure many to come.

I was about to give up on this one.

 

[Mr Stubs]

does the fuzziness of the bean any indication of them being ready? i notice the onces at the store and they ones we ate that tasted good didnt have any fuzz on them./QUOTE]To me beans being ready is more up to the consumer. I was brought up eating them and have learned to hate store bought or any others that come from restaurants.

Its because my parents always picked them prematurely, anything that was large enough to be full of seeds wasnt used.

So I grew up liking young tender beans. Large rubbery beans bring the yuck.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Tonight is beans and More pickles!

 

[bigun]

Something has destroyed most of our three okra plants. I thought it was rabbits so I qrapped som chicken wire around the planter and that didn't stop the distruction, noiitced that one section in the back was open at the bottom so I used a piece of timber to push it up against the planter and today it seems to have kept whatever it was out. It's kind of strange I have a camera pointed right to that area and nothing tripped it.
Colored bell peppers continue to add fruit on, green chili just is, summer squash is adding on, cucmber is green,the same with the green bell pepper, the three tomatoes are starting to turn red, corn is tassling and I can see at least one ear starting to form, not sure what the watermelon is doing it was showing some flowers, but no fruit has formed, the cantalope is interesting I may need to repot since it is in a 4 inch pot, but it is sitting in a tub, and when we had a couple of rain showers the tub was flooded, I finally dipped all the water out and all the sudden the plant has taken off.

Decided we are going to a local truck farm and pick up fresh stuff to can. Anybody else have trouble finding wide mout quart canning jars on line that don't cost a fortune, the best I have found is 2 bucks a jar plus shipping.
Tried canning hambuger meat the other day, I didn't have enough water in the pressure cooker and it sucked all the broth out of the canner which is what alerted me that there was a problm when I smelled meat cooking, tops did seal, but I am not sure I trust them.

 

[BUCKLAND]

Wicked short on lids.
cukes are growing like crazy, lots of green tomatoes.
anyone in the northeast notice the abundance of wild berries this year? And whatever beatle is eating all the leafs off of the bushes Our blueberries are doing outstanding as well.

 

[MO Printer]

Something has destroyed most of our three okra plants. I thought it was rabbits so I qrapped som chicken wire around the planter and that didn't stop the distruction, noiitced that one section in the back was open at the bottom so I used a piece of timber to push it up against the planter and today it seems to have kept whatever it was out. It's kind of strange I have a camera pointed right to that area and nothing tripped it.
Colored bell peppers continue to add fruit on, green chili just is, summer squash is adding on, cucmber is green,the same with the green bell pepper, the three tomatoes are starting to turn red, corn is tassling and I can see at least one ear starting to form, not sure what the watermelon is doing it was showing some flowers, but no fruit has formed, the cantalope is interesting I may need to repot since it is in a 4 inch pot, but it is sitting in a tub, and when we had a couple of rain showers the tub was flooded, I finally dipped all the water out and all the sudden the plant has taken off.

Decided we are going to a local truck farm and pick up fresh stuff to can. Anybody else have trouble finding wide mout quart canning jars on line that don't cost a fortune, the best I have found is 2 bucks a jar plus shipping.
Tried canning hambuger meat the other day, I didn't have enough water in the pressure cooker and it sucked all the broth out of the canner which is what alerted me that there was a problm when I smelled meat cooking, tops did seal, but I am not sure I trust them.

For the first time ever, this year I have squirrels eating our cherry tomatoes right off the f'ing vines! Until last night. He suffered a terminal head wound while standing in the yard (I swear he was grinning while eating a tomato!). Yes, large-mouth quart jars suddenly became extinct in our area about 10 days ago.

 

[bigun]

We have had a squirrel show up on my cameras, not sure how he got here the forest where you would expect them is miles away. But the wire doesn't show any signs of being climbed on, I suspect a rat!
Found some from a case of regular jars locally and was able to get a case of wide mouth ones from a Walmart supplier on line, for $25. and that was the cheapest I had found. For years I have thought we should stock up, but mom had not shown any interest in canning again till this year.

 

[Poopyface]

Got 4 watermelons gaining in size....

 

[Poopyface]

Planted this stuff on the 28th. They are growing well...

 

[bigun]

Picked mom her first tomato for this year, plant is an Early Bird but it sure is producing slowly

 

[bigun]

Planted this stuff on the 28th. They are growing well...

What is it

 

[MO Printer]

Anyone here grow garlic? I never thought about it, love the stuff, just buy it. Now, I think I may have to give it a go. It doesn't sound too difficult. Looked into Keeneorganics.com. They have lots of varieties, and good details. What say...

 

[Thefishguy77]

I plant it in the fall and spring for rotating harvest times. Stupid easy to grow and helps keep pests away, the original reason we started planting it.

 

[Poopyface]

What is it

Lettuce, romaine mixed salad, spicey greens, green beans, snap peas, and snow peas. Got lots of spinach and a cucumber plant blowing up but not pictured.


So what's the best way to grow garlic?

 

[Mr Stubs]

Uhhhh, I think six pole bean plants was three too many...

 

[Poopyface]

This is sort of a rant.

Last year I was able to grow cucumbers problem-free. This year not a single plant survived long enough to produce anything. Cucumber beetles are overwhelming. It is weird how I didn't see any beetles last year and suddenly hundreds are around.

I tried one last time to grow a cucumber plant in the healthiest soil I could pack in a 5 gallon bucket. Sowed it indoor and took it out when it was looking good. I placed it on my deck far away from the garden. It was the healthiest cuke plant....till a damn beetle was seen on the leaf. It took a nose dive from there.

Fucking beetles.

 

[MO Printer]

I'm not sure where you are located (weather wise), but this is my first year growing 'cukes' and it was insane how well they grew. (84 qts. before I quit putting them up for pickles!).
My container cukes didn't do as well (they do demand lots of water and are nutrient greedy little dudes). Do you rotate your crops &/or companion grow? Also, for what it's worth, I put LOTS of Marigolds in all of my raised beds and I don't have any bug prblems ('knocks on wood').

 

[bigun]

Well my lone surviving Cuke had one cucumber growing on it, next morning I went out it was 3/4 gone. Oddly enough the bell peppers are starting to show fruit, as is one of the chilli plants. Corn was a bust out of 20 plants I got one ear that is not fully formed. I have one watermelon about the sized of my fist, the cantolope is covered in flowers but so far no fruit. Tomato plant has several small green ones on it
New Mexico State University ag deparment posted a video yesterday about planting in containers, I commented "Don't you think your a little late with this growing season is almost over"

 

[Ugly pumpkin]

Well my lone surviving Cuke had one cucumber growing on it, next morning I went out it was 3/4 gone. Oddly enough the bell peppers are starting to show fruit, as is one of the chilli plants. Corn was a bust out of 20 plants I got one ear that is not fully formed. I have one watermelon about the sized of my fist, the cantolope is covered in flowers but so far no fruit. Tomato plant has several small green ones on it
New Mexico State University ag deparment posted a video yesterday about planting in containers, I commented "Don't you think your a little late with this growing season is almost over"

Rabbits ate the beans. Bugs ate the brussel sprouts. Peppers, cukes and raspberries doing good. Blueberries produced nothing but are alive. Tomatoes are good. Carrots are all small and mutants. Strawberries came early and did ok.

You win some. You lose some.

 

[bigun]

I figure it was a rat or maybe the squirel that moved in recently got the cuke, everything is in containers and either on the porch where i can shut the gate at night or wrapped in chicken wire.

 

[Poopyface]

I'm not sure where you are located (weather wise), but this is my first year growing 'cukes' and it was insane how well they grew. (84 qts. before I quit putting them up for pickles!).
My container cukes didn't do as well (they do demand lots of water and are nutrient greedy little dudes). Do you rotate your crops &/or companion grow? Also, for what it's worth, I put LOTS of Marigolds in all of my raised beds and I don't have any bug prblems ('knocks on wood').

SW Pa. We had a great summer, weather wise. I had a approx 15 cucumber plants with marigolds here and there (gf's idea). They grew up the trellis but fruited cukes that looked like dumps outta my ass then the beetles destroyed them. I tried a few more in another bed and they got eaten and wilted. Last try was the container away from everything. I am spraying it with neem every few days but not looking good.

 

[mobil1syn]

any idea why are my carrots arent getting long? the tops pop like they should, we pull and they are 2-3" long.

 

[Wheelin66bronco]

First frost two nights in a row...ugg. Everything in the greenhouse is fine. We're getting tons of cucumbers, peppers, carrots, beets, lettuce, peas/beans, broccoli, and potatoes. Still waiting on tomatoes, they take so long.

 

[Ugly pumpkin]

Vac sealed some peppers. Think they'll hold up in the freezer?
On the carrots maybe soil to compact or carrots spaced to close. Mine did the same thing.

 

[Ransil]

Tons of tomatoes here. Cukes are done for the season

 

[Poopyface]

any idea why are my carrots arent getting long? the tops pop like they should, we pull and they are 2-3" long.

Yeah soil too compact. They need very loose soil.

 

[Poopyface]

Kale, snap peas, carrots, spinach all coming along. Still a little too hot but it should ocol down next week and they will be on Viagra mode.

The snap peas in the beds have been in direct sun most of the day while the potted peas were shaded for most of the evening. Goes to show peas do not like too much sun.