Omg seeing that pic just reminded me I that I forgot to plant my pole and bush beans.
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There's plenty of time for bush beans. Pole beans are a little slower.
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So here's the first couple female flowers of what I hope is the f1 of a pumpkin-zucchini cross. The mother was zucchini. I think they don't look like zucchini and that the cross was successful. What do you think?
A Little of This; a Little of That.
My single garden bed behind the house is home this year to McCormack's Blue Giant corn, two North Georgia Candy Roasters, which are massive winter squash, two varieties of Pattypan summer squash, and as an afterthought, 10 purple bush beans. I'm allowing the aggressive vines of the Candy Roaster to pass beneath the corn, and out the left end of the bed. Once the pattypan squash begin to produce, they will be prolific. Since pattypan has such a mild flavor, I find I don't grow as weary of it, compared to yellow squash or zucchini.
I read recently that planting radish among cucumbers will fend off cucumber beetles. So I rummaged through some old seed, and found some partially used packets of red globe radish and French breakfast radish. Expecting them to show reduced germination, I sprinkled a band of them around and through the cukes. As of about a week ago, I have been consuming radishes like a major food group. I'll allow several of them to go to seed, otherwise they'll all be consumed before the first cucumber beetle thinks about feasting on my cukes.
Now that my fence surrounding the snap peas finally keeps out the deer, they are growing. But they're about 2 months behind. I don't know if the heat will kill them before they produce.
Czech Broadleaf garlic is a softneck variety, which is easy to braid. It does not normally produce a scape (flowering stem). Once more of the top growth has died, I'll dig them--probably a week or two from now.
Anka garlic is a hardneck variety, and produces these curlicue scapes, which I will cut off some time this week, and probably pickle them.
Most years, my two dwarf pear trees don't produce many fruit. It's a combination of early blossoming, followed by a late frost, plus they are just stubborn trees. But every 3 to 4 years, they go crazy. I should really thin the fruit this year, but I just can't resist such a promising harvest of pears--maybe a bushel per tree.
Bob
My single garden bed behind the house is home this year to McCormack's Blue Giant corn, two North Georgia Candy Roasters, which are massive winter squash, two varieties of Pattypan summer squash, and as an afterthought, 10 purple bush beans. I'm allowing the aggressive vines of the Candy Roaster to pass beneath the corn, and out the left end of the bed. Once the pattypan squash begin to produce, they will be prolific. Since pattypan has such a mild flavor, I find I don't grow as weary of it, compared to yellow squash or zucchini.
I read recently that planting radish among cucumbers will fend off cucumber beetles. So I rummaged through some old seed, and found some partially used packets of red globe radish and French breakfast radish. Expecting them to show reduced germination, I sprinkled a band of them around and through the cukes. As of about a week ago, I have been consuming radishes like a major food group. I'll allow several of them to go to seed, otherwise they'll all be consumed before the first cucumber beetle thinks about feasting on my cukes.
Now that my fence surrounding the snap peas finally keeps out the deer, they are growing. But they're about 2 months behind. I don't know if the heat will kill them before they produce.
Czech Broadleaf garlic is a softneck variety, which is easy to braid. It does not normally produce a scape (flowering stem). Once more of the top growth has died, I'll dig them--probably a week or two from now.
Anka garlic is a hardneck variety, and produces these curlicue scapes, which I will cut off some time this week, and probably pickle them.
Most years, my two dwarf pear trees don't produce many fruit. It's a combination of early blossoming, followed by a late frost, plus they are just stubborn trees. But every 3 to 4 years, they go crazy. I should really thin the fruit this year, but I just can't resist such a promising harvest of pears--maybe a bushel per tree.
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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Those top two gardens are going to be jungles. I hope we don't lose you in there.
In polite company, we don't call them jungles. Intensely productive and space-efficient. Besides, if I get lost in either one, I won't starve to death.
Bob
Brown Thumb
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My Wife Would Cut my Butternut Squash off I forgot.
This bed is home to my tomatoes (3 varieties) and my peppers (4 varieties). The tomatoes are doing much better than the peppers, but all of them are growing. So far, there are only a handful of tiny, green tomatoes, and no peppers.
Before the tomato plants reach the tops of the tomato cages, I'll tie the cages all together using nylon zip ties, for mutual support against the winds.
Bob
greenmonster714
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Nice garden Bob.
BarG
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You can't fight the deer. they are gonna take what we take from them. As a hunter I owe them plenty. as a farmer I pay them plenty. They keep winning on the food scale, but I keep trying to feed them natural on my land and less in my garden. I did not lose 1 ear of corn to them this year..
BarG
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Everytime I open an area I plant peas for the deer.
my trail cam keeps track. when I see hogs I bring my trap and my sour corn.
my trail cam keeps track. when I see hogs I bring my trap and my sour corn.
ChinaVoodoo
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Deer are my favorite veggies.
Next favorite might be potatoes. Look how awesome they're growing. I've already hilled them. I got no more dirt. Gotta see if I can find some for free.
And an update on the pumpkin/zucchini cross. Pollination successful. It is indeed neither a pumpkin or a zucchini.
Are you expecting a fat zucchinoid? Are you growing any other Cucurbita pepo?
Bob
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ChinaVoodoo
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Based on the present shape, I think that's what I might get. The fruit that the seeds came from was, naturally, shaped exactly like the zucchini mother, but had mild pumpkin flavored, orange flesh. I suspect it will taste like a mild pumpkin.
I'm growing three of these plants. They look slightly different. #1, the one photographed, has fewer, but larger leaves than the other two. #2 seems to have slightly less round fruit. #3 has smaller flowers.
My neighbor has a few different squashes - I haven't asked what they are - he planted them in a really lousy spot and doesn't stand a chance to get any fruit of substantial size.
I dug my Czech Broadleaf Garlic today. The leaf stalks of about half of them had spontaneously laid to the ground. Unlike onions, which can usually be pulled from the ground, garlic needs to be dug out, to prevent tearing them apart. Using a hand cultivator, I dig a 5" deep trench alongside a garlic head, then press the flat blade of the cultivator beneath the head. In soft soil, the head can then be lifted out. In hard, dry soil, it's sometimes necessary to dig completely around the head (like a buried statue of a pharaoh), then gently lift it out.
The Slovenian Anka garlic is not quite ready yet.
With this soft-neck variety, I clean away the major hunks of dirt, then tie them by their leaves, in small batches.
Four small heads bolted, and formed a short stem, with tiny garlic buds at the top.
They will hang in the shed, until the leaves have dried to a straw color (a few weeks). Then, before braiding them, I peel away a couple of layers, carrying the remaining dirt away. Washing them tends to increase the likelihood of molding or rotting or bolting. So, dirty they will stay, until I can peel away the dirt.
The square knot can't really be tightened, but if the center of the knot straddles the line, then the knots never come apart.
If you grow your own garlic, always save the largest heads (I save two or three) for planting in the fall. The little ones will give you garlic, but then they will get smaller each year.
Bob
BarG
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I grew zucchini one year. when they are a foot long pick them, split them in half and fill with cream cheese and throw in the oven.
The two photos below are of my pears at about 6 weeks prior to harvest.
Bob
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BarG
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I never knew meat to be considered that ( a veggie ) .An essential food group , yes..
ChinaVoodoo
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Deer kinda counts as a veggie in my house because I put shredded pumpkin in my sausage.
Update from wife:
And here's some canola for your viewing pleasure:
Pincher Creek AB
Update from wife:
And here's some canola for your viewing pleasure:
Pincher Creek AB
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