harvest time how is your garden?

Mike Repp

Mike Repp

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I thought i would ask how everyones gardens are doing. Mine is doing great! My patch of ground that I call a garden is only 4' deep by 25'. In it i have bean, peppers, cucumbers, summer squash, onions, carrots and 1 potatoe plant. With all this rain we have been having it has created a bumper crop.

This was yesterdays harvest I am getting this about every other day. Time to start making pickles! Have to make some salsa too.
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If you have a lot of sumer squash try making some pickles out of them. My garden here in alabama sucks. We have had little to no rain for the past 6 weeks or so. We are in the middle of a record(41 days and counting) strecth of 90+ temps. My squash did othing and my okra hasnt even bloomed but Im getting plenty of tomatoes.
 
have put up 100 plus quarts of canned green beans picking my garden and my parents have about 12 quarts of them in the freezer also. Did 14 pints of salsa last week, hope to put up that many maters this week. Peppers are about ready to go nuts they are right above 90 days in ground. With 70 some sweet peppers I should be able to freeze enough to cook with them all year until next pepper season. Fall raspberries are looking good and the zukes and squash keep producing just enough to keep eating. Let them go last week so I could get some big ones to make some sweet relish this week.
 
I only had 4 cherry tomato plants this year, they are done already. Pulled them up yesterday.
Planted Okra late, dont think it will make.
I will be planting my winter garden around September 15th: Daikon radish & baby bok choy. Maybe some snow peas if I have the room.
 
I had two different pickings of beans untill the deer got to them, they also ate all the tops from my beats so they never grew. I've a bunch of hot and bell pepers but my tomato's are thru the roof this year. I just keep picking and picking cherry, plum and big boy's.
 
No higher maintenance vegetables as I travel a bit in summer, but old variety of "Indian" corn is doing well - it's a 90 day variety, unlike the bread and butter corn already in markets...now, just trying to keep 'coons and squirrels from tipping the stalks. It grinds well for flour = cornbread made with buttermilk!
 
with a great growing season this year my modest garden of 25 by 50 feet we have purple beans, 50 tomato plants of various flavors,half a row of rainbow swiss chard,half row gourmet italian beets[there striped inside go figure white and red] 15 or so turnips,7 punkin and 7 zukini plants about a dozen potatoes,they sprouted from last years leave ins ,,and with our second try at cucumbers we have about 12 plants picked the first 10 incher yesterday,and i have a few blackberry plants in the middle as well..

we had a wicked time with slugs ate everything we put in the first time so we went and got seaweed and by god that kept them at bay long enough to get the cukes up and punkins and zukinis...
we even put up a plastic barrier fence to keep rabbits out and slugs..

heres makayla with our first zukinis
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My garden did great this year I have a ton of tomatos ,Jalepenos and cyann peppers The zuchinne did good but they are done now . I stopped by a local farm stand To get some fresh Jersey sweet corn and some mellons And man they were the best I have had in years! The watermellons and cantolope were awesome,The farmer said this has been his best growing conditions in ten years.
 
Man, Shermie you are going to be in trouble in about 10 years!!!! Trip
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what do you mean in 10 years!!! lol thanks for reminding me.....thank the minister of dnr i geuss, he allowed buckshot this year to hunt down the boyfriends..... mite mean alot of new shrubs in the yard lol
 
From my experience, if you bring out the big guns and the boyfriend says "ooo, a Blackeagle!", you might have a winner. If he helps you till the garden to get on your good side, you have won the lottery! Trip
 
I'm almost getting tired of cucumbers, summer squash, potatoes, corn..... I guess my garden is doing good. :-) Had trouble with some of my greens early on and the tomatoes started out a little rough because of all the moisture lately. Still it is nice to have fresh vegies when every you want all summer. The pumpkins and winter squash look good and should start to mature soon.

Tim
 
My patch of ground that I call a garden is only 4' deep by 25'.
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About 15 years ago I met a guy named Dick Raymond that had a similar approach to his garden. Dick had published a few gardening books and was some of the genius behind the DR trimmer/brush cutter that you can find in the back of many gardening magazines add section. Dick made his garden in rows abot 3 feet across (same width as his tiller) and about 25 feet long. Then made another similar garden about 2 lawn mower widths away, then another, etc.... His reasoning was that he could keep weeds down by limiting the amount of dirt showing, could work either side of each row without walking through the plants, and could keep a clean appearance to all of it throughout the year by mowing inbetween gardens, he also mentioned that kneeling or sitting in the grass while picking or weeding was much more pleasant then in the dirt, kinda made him want to be out in the middle of the garden. He also had a strip in his gravel driveway. His reasoning here was to show you can have a garden anywhere if you keep it fetilized it will grow.....even in the driveway.
 
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