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Post by Dramaphile on Jun 21, 2017 18:19:25 GMT -6
How are your gardens doing? Any challenges, victories, delicious produce yet?
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Post by Dramaphile on Jun 21, 2017 18:25:36 GMT -6
Our raised beds are growing like gangbusters! I am bringing my first load of Kale to work tomorrow, we have tons and what I harvested didn't even make a dent in the garden.  We also got our first ripe cucumber, which Nugget promptly claimed for herself.  Our tomatoes are finally getting some fruit and we have tiny zucchinis growing, and dozens of tiny pickling cucumbers, and the poblano pepper plant I thought looked sad is starting to fruit as well! Carrots and onions are doing well, too. I think I was too slow on my spinach, it's flowering already. We'll see what happened with the potatoes once the plants flower, but they look good above ground.   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by ovenrack on Jun 21, 2017 18:26:53 GMT -6
Lots of rhubarb and asparagus.
Just getting sugar snap peas the last few days.
Blueberries and blackberries look like they'll be ready at the end of the month. Raspberries a little later.
Tomatoes, bush beans, and zucchini plants are finally starting to really take off, still small though.
Cucumbers and butternut squash and peppers and ground cherries are looking like they did when I planted them as seedlings over a month ago. Who knows!
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Post by brandiewine11 on Jun 21, 2017 18:43:19 GMT -6
Strawberries are coming in daily. We had a lot of asparagus but it's mostly done now.
The little seedlings we planted for R are doing well but still small. We transplanted some volunteers (corn and zucchini) from last years spot to his garden today. Hopefully they will survive.
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Post by jnu76 on Jun 21, 2017 19:06:23 GMT -6
My raised beds are neglected, but the snap peas have flowers, the lettuce and chard look great, the herbs are happy (they don't mind being neglected) and my kids ate a ton of radishes today. It's amazing what they'll eat if they can yank it out of the dirt themselves.
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Post by critter015 on Jun 21, 2017 21:08:58 GMT -6
Mine is really struggling. One of my two tomato plants died and the goats just ate the green beans for the 4th time. The worked soil isn't deep enough for my carrots, so they are pushing themselves out of the ground. My squash plant seems happy, my pumpkins are flowering, and potatoes and onions are about ready to harvest. I need to figure out what to plant after those are done.
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Post by piccyami on Jun 22, 2017 8:52:34 GMT -6
Nothing much is doing well. One of the tomato plants in the garden is happy and growing a few tomatoes, and our cucumber plant that survived dogs is happy. The pepper plants survived, as did the eggplant. There are a handful of carrots that sprouted. The peas never really did anything. Our cherry tomato plants on the patio are doing well, and we should have some ripe ones soon. We've had raspberries for ages and the muscadines are ridiculous. Basically, the garden is a disaster this year.
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Post by linewifekat on Jun 22, 2017 11:59:25 GMT -6
We have harvested cucumbers and tomatoes so far. All of my zucchini plants mysteriously died. We have a pumpkin growing in our compost pile from last year's Jack o lantern.
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Post by rugger on Jun 22, 2017 12:35:03 GMT -6
Our tomatoes are coming in, just waiting for them to ripen up. I don't think the peppers are happening. Maybe the tomato plant over-powered it? And the sunflowers are really climbing high. Can't wait for them to bloom    |
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Post by ovenrack on Jun 22, 2017 13:55:31 GMT -6
Oh yeah. Why did none of my effing sunflowers come up? Ugh. I bet some damn animal ate my seeds. I even had a half-asded fence!
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Post by critter015 on Jun 23, 2017 21:09:22 GMT -6
Annnd DH let the goats into the backyard again and they ate my one remaining strawberry plant that had just started to come back and flower after the last time they tried to eat it.
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Post by brandiewine11 on Jun 24, 2017 4:52:44 GMT -6
Annnd DH let the goats into the backyard again and they ate my one remaining strawberry plant that had just started to come back and flower after the last time they tried to eat it. At least they're cute? My grandmother used to tell me about the time they came home from church and her father left his truck door open while carrying sleeping kids into the house. The goat ate his bible. Not so bad, except he was the minister and it also had his sermons in it. Plus it was the 1920's in very rural Texas. You can't just go get a new bible that day. Oops. |
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Post by rockies on Jun 24, 2017 7:30:56 GMT -6
Our raspberry bush has exploded, just waiting for them to turn red. DH had to make a cover for the strawberries because we weren't getting any due to birds eating them.
Side note: we had so many bees and bumble bees while the raspberry plant was at its peak bloom. It was really cool to see.
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Post by rockies on Jun 24, 2017 7:33:29 GMT -6
Dramaphile What are you growing in the bottom right of your top photo next to the Kale?
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Post by Dramaphile on Jun 24, 2017 12:41:00 GMT -6
Dramaphile What are you growing in the bottom right of your top photo next to the Kale? A sad little basil plant I got at the grocery store that I transplanted and a cherry tomato plant that I put in later than the other ones so it's still pretty small. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by sassyq on Jun 25, 2017 4:28:16 GMT -6
We just finished planting cucumber plants and a zucchini. Dh wants to grow cucumbers and some pickles.
The rest of my garden is growing great. So many tomato plants, lots of snow peas, my green beans are growing well. The only thing struggling are my peppers. They were looking really nice, then a of the sudden started looking a bit yellow and droopy.
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Post by rugger on Jun 26, 2017 12:09:33 GMT -6
What's wrong with my lilac bush? The are all coated in a white film. The other one, just a few feet away, isn't nearly as bad. Help!  |
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Post by Dramaphile on Jun 26, 2017 12:35:33 GMT -6
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Post by ovenrack on Jun 26, 2017 12:53:32 GMT -6
Powdery mildew.
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Post by rugger on Jun 26, 2017 13:08:29 GMT -6
Just Google searched that, and that's definitely what it looks like. Stupid humid VA weather. Can I fix it? The plant doesn't seem super dense, preventing air flow, and it's not in a full-sun area. |
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Post by rugger on Jun 26, 2017 13:33:00 GMT -6
Also, what are these growing in my side yard?  |
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Post by Dramaphile on Jun 26, 2017 14:53:02 GMT -6
Also, what are these growing in my side yard? Looks like mock strawberries. (not very delicious, unfortunately). You can tell they're mock strawberries if you squash one and it smells like nothing. wild strawberries will smell like strawberries, in which case you can eat them.The other plant looks like Black Nightshade, which we had grow in our yard last year. The berries turn black and have tiny tomato-like seeds inside. It's dubiously edible, as in I looked at a bunch of forager websites and some say it's fine to eat and other say it'll make you sick. I plan on ripping it out in case it comes back this year, don't want Nugget trying to eat it (since she has a habit of eating things straight from my vegetable garden). |
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Post by Dramaphile on Jul 3, 2017 19:21:25 GMT -6
So I ripped out my spinach, which was going to seed, so I have an empty spot in the bed. Any suggestions of what to plant?
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Post by ovenrack on Jul 4, 2017 11:11:08 GMT -6
I dunno, drama. Carrots? I'm bad with rotating stuff in.
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Post by ovenrack on Jul 4, 2017 11:13:06 GMT -6
I was weeding and tying up my snap peas and realized my beans had... beans! Hooray! I need to plant like 6x as many of each next year so some actually make it inside before H and M eat them. Everything else is looking good. Blackberries are sooooo close. I can't wait.   |
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Post by Dramaphile on Jul 4, 2017 17:14:28 GMT -6
I dunno, drama. Carrots? I'm bad with rotating stuff in. We already have carrots...  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by Dramaphile on Jul 4, 2017 20:12:24 GMT -6
A friend suggested we plant snap peas in the empty spot, so I think we're going to try that. We also finally moved the leftover dirt from the raised beds and compost so we can make some pumpkin mounds on the other side of the yard. Hopefully we can get that finished tomorrow night and get the seeds in the ground.
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Post by brandiewine11 on Jul 4, 2017 22:35:27 GMT -6
Apparently raspberry season started while I've been in the hospital. Someone informed me today that he's already eaten then all but will pick more for me to have tomorrow.  |
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