Anyone Garden?

[johnpma]

Well I spoke to soon BLIGHT been doing so good up until these last two weeks. I have used an organic copper fungicide on the plants. My neighbor swears by a tsp of baking powder in 32 oz of warm water and a few drops of dish soap on the plants above the blight to slow the spread. He also said there is a way to kill the blight in the soil. I removed the damaged leaves trying to slow the progression of the disease


Rest of the garden is doing just fine. We are enjoying some delicious veggies

 

[begreen]

Begreen - Your garden looks great! I like how your squash/melons are staying relatively contained in your bed. Do you do anything special to keep them from sprawling out too much?

Thanks. It depends on the plant. Squash can be bush or vining variety. Not apparent are the vines of the cantaloupe wending their way between the row of eggplant and peppers. In another bed I tried a butternut squash which is spilling out into the pathways. The zucchini that we grow is a bush variety and generally better behaved.

PS: Picked 11 tomatoes yesterday, some were over a pound each.

 

[begreen]

Well I spoke to soon BLIGHT been doing so good up until these last two weeks.

Bummer. Besides not growing tomatoes where potatoes or tomatoes have grown the previous year try to get as much air as possible around the plants. Strip out all lower leaves and thin between plants for maximum light and air.

 

[Chimney Smoke]

I'm starting to get a steady supply now. Picked 5 zucchini and 4 summer squash in the past few days. Waiting on the cukes to make pickles. Canned 5 pints of dilly beans with red pepper and garlic and 6 pints of bread and butter squash pickles this morning.

 

[begreen]

Eggplants are starting to come on. This is today's harvest, and this is just the beginning. The round one is Black King which is new for us this year. The long skinny variety is Ichiban which is always a good performer and always very tasty with no bitterness. The pepper is a Carmen and is 9.5" long!

 

[johnpma]

eggplant look great I stripped the blight leaves on the tomato plants, and gave my plants a hair cut to create some air space between them. We have had thunder storm after thunder storm for weeks now with limited hot dry sunny days

My son is working this summer on a local farm which is fairly large. They have been harvesting corn now for weeks. What was cool to see is all the potatoes growing in compost in trash containers very cool

 

[Chimney Smoke]

My garden took a pounding yesterday. Golf ball size hail did not play nice with my squash and pepper. Knocked most of the peppers off the plants and shredded the leaves. Luckily the tomatoes came through without much damage.

 

[johnpma]

The weather has been less than desirable to say the least. Heavy rain, hail, high winds happened again yesterday afternoon. We have had no power for the third time in two weeks. Make me wonder what farmers did before all the sophisticated weather prediction equipment.

Vacation next week which means I should return to all my corn being wiped out by coons............anyone tan pelts I know where you will be able to get a few

 

[Z33]

The weather has been less than desirable to say the least. Heavy rain, hail, high winds happened again yesterday afternoon. We have had no power for the third time in two weeks. Make me wonder what farmers did before all the sophisticated weather prediction equipment.

Vacation next week which means I should return to all my corn being wiped out by coons............anyone tan pelts I know where you will be able to get a few

Sounds like me fighting the squirrels. I am up to 11 kills this year so far but I bet I have lost 50 or so ears of corn.

 

[johnpma]

Sounds like me fighting the squirrels. I am up to 11 kills this year so far but I bet I have lost 50 or so ears of co

Great aim All the "anti do gooders" in town frown upon those that use firearms to terminate the nuance creatures sometimes I feel like live trapping them and doing a mass relocate to their yard

 

[begreen]

My garden took a pounding yesterday. Golf ball size hail did not play nice with my squash and pepper. Knocked most of the peppers off the plants and shredded the leaves. Luckily the tomatoes came through without much damage.

That's a bummer.

 

[begreen]

Tomatoes are now getting serious. This is the second large picking in the past couple weeks. Lots more coming now.

 

[Chimney Smoke]

Those look great, what variety? I picked my first Jetstar today a little early but wanted to make sure I got it before the squirrels. I'm waiting on some of my heirlooms to start blushing, I've never grown any of them before. I have Brandywine, Cherokee Green, Ruby Gold, Moskovich and Mortgage Lifter. All have a good amount of fruit except the brandywine and ruby gold. Brandywine has 3 fruits so far on 2 plants and ruby gold has none yet.

 

[begreen]

Brandy Boy and Early Girl with some sungold and sweet million cherry tomatoes in the basket at the end. Brandywine is a good tomato but not a big producer and it needs heat. Brandy Boy is a brandywine hybrid which fruits with less heat and a lot more tomatoes while keeping good size and flavor.

 

[johnpma]

been picking for weeks....was able to save the tomatoes with a solution we read about online (32oz warm water, 1tsp baking soda, 3 drops of dish soap shake and spray above blight fungus to reduce the spread) Really reduced the spread of blight. We have gotten some gorgeous tomatoes off the plants. Very full red ripe looking with no rot spots. Been picking corn, and our garlic is huge. Squashes are done so i tilled and put in a fall crop of beans, lettuce, and spinach All the herb are going nuts now and we are drying them for winter use. Been vacuum sealing and freezing our peas, and beans for winter use as well.

Couple pics of what the little lady harvested yesterday.

 

[begreen]

They are talking heavy rain for the weekend. This will be a welcome relief for the firefighters. It should put out most of the fires. We went into harvest mode to get crops picked that might not like a couple inches of rain. There are still lots of tomatoes on the plants but I wanted to pick anything that was near ripe. The roma tomatoes will go into sauce batch#3. Corn gets eaten or frozen. And we are eating an eggplant dish every other day.

 

[johnpma]

very nice stuff begreen..........this weekend I'll be picking quite a bit too. Gorgeous cherry tomato's popped up from my compost some how Sunday is venison golumbki day.......gotta use up the cabbage I picked

 

[Warm_in_NH]

Nice harvest BG. This year is a borderline bust for me on tomatoes. Switched from my true and tried varieties that I know work in my less than ideal yard to some new to me heirlooms. First time ever I've had blight, all still very green, running out of time..

Cukes live their new mound and have done great and the peppers I thought were gonna be a bust (really late to take off) look like they're making up for the slow start and are finishing strong....

Now that I say this well have a hard freeze next week.....

 

[begreen]

Thanks. Hope it stays warm, the forecast say above normal temps for the next 6-10 days in the east. Peppers can produce late in the season as long as no freeze.

 

[johnpma]

Anyone grow potatoes?

 

[begreen]

Yes, we do every year.

 

[johnpma]

Any tricks? Info? want to give it a try in buckets i think

 

[begreen]

Potatoes will grow in containers if they are large enough. The plants can get big. Maybe look into potato bag gardening? Besides growing in beds I have also grown them inside a pair of used tires stacked up on each other. Start with decent soil + compost mix, a bit of fertilizer and top mulch heavily as they grow.

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[johnpma]

Awesome!!

 

[billb3]

Picked the last of my peppers before the big freeze a couple nights ago.
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Moved 2 tomatillo plants like this one into an unheated greenhouse.