Garden thread.

[Daddymem]

We had to pick a bunch of our stuff, the vines were getting stressed and the worms were starting to get into our crop.
Our bounty:

Eightball zukes, lemon cukes, Pattypans, Sweet Meat Winter Squash, Tromboncino squash

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes

Pattypans, scallop squash, Tromboncino squash, Acorn squash

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Looks really good Daddymem.  Really miss having a "real" garden.  If the vines are any indication, though, we should at least have a fair amount of sweet potatoes... everything else but the basil has seen its better days.

[considerations]

Peg's right, our summer started in July and quit in August.   

[glenn kangiser]

Cool veggies, Daddymem.  Our dogs decided to sleep and dig in the corn and vegetables --- I was so p-ssed.  They are banned.

[muldoon]

daddymem, those look fantastic. 

I have lots of new sprouts from last weekends fall start. 

The radishes came up in full force.  I have them in a 20 gallon bucket, roughly 2 foot tall by 2 foot across.  Within some areas 5-6 sproutings per square inch.  They are all nearly 2 inches tall with just a few stragglers just now coming in.  I know thats too dense, but I am not sure how much I should thin it.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I am thinking 1 per 1 square inch, does that sound reasonable for now?

The artichokes are coming in as well, just saw them this morning for the first time, but this evening I have 5 new pods breaking ground and just shedding their seeds.  I'm hoping I didn't overseed them too. 

A few onions, just 2 or 3 so far, barely anything.  Nothing on the carrots or squash yet either.  Thats ok, I got time.   

I dont want to post on politics or economy or bailouts or repubicans or democrats or russia or isreal or china today.  All that has me fairly upset this weekend.  I just want to spend some time in the dirt.  I did eat a serrano off the vine.  omg. 

[glenn kangiser]

Gardening will ease your mind a bit, muldoon.  If I had a mind I could get upset too.

Instead of upset, I just like to be well informed.

We were looking at the area destroyed by the dogs and since we let lots of our stuff go to seed and we shake the seeds into the different areas, the entire thing is filled with new plants.  Nearly all of them will do well in the winter garden - carrots, parsnips, celery, onions, swiss chard - Hops -   some in the other planter I finally put timed drip water on after I put in the bigger water line a few weeks ago.

[Daddymem]

I'm with you muldoon.  Sometimes I wish topics on gardening, homesteading, and the like were in a different area than the politics and rants.

[apaknad]

great gardening muldoon. as for spacing of radishes and such in a small area, google "square foot gardening" and it has a bunch of ideas. in one square foot you can put 16 radishes. if you can't get any info from said site just ask me as i have the book. bought it many years ago and it is quite handy.

dan

[glenn kangiser]

I'm with you muldoon.  Sometimes I wish topics on gardening, homesteading, and the like were in a different area than the politics and rants.

About the best I can do at this time is to keep the light stuff up in the stickies at the top of the page.  This is the only place John has set up for the stuff besides building. 

Heavier stuff you may not want to see will be below the blue shaded area.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Holy moley... I went out this morning to feed the dogs and there were 16 tomatoes (this is all on one plant) and about 10 bell peppers.  Where did they come from?  They weren't there just a few days ago... in fact, I was thinking about ripping all that stuff out of the planters and starting over with stuff for fall.  The cukes are toast, but the peppers, basil, and tomatoes have come back full force after a few cool damp days.  I've got some carrots in the planter out front that are about ready to pull, too... I really didn't expect much from a little container like that, but we've gotten quite a few tomatoes, tons of basil, and a few carrots out of the deal.  Not bad considering it's not a "real" garden.  Oh, and the sweet potato vine has taken over the entire  front flower bed.  I only hope all those nice green leaves are producing a lot of starch underground.

[glenn kangiser]

Sassy picked the vegetables from the garden the other day.

We also noticed the cooler weather eems to be giving things a boost.

[Daddymem]

Not a pepper fan in the least bit but nice looking tomatoes.  What kind?  Picked my seed Tromboncino squash last night as the vine had wilted.  I'll have to get the picture off the camera, it is several feet long.  Hope there are plenty of seeds in there for next year's crop.

[glenn kangiser]

I'm not sure what type the tomatoes are -- just that they are a larger cherry type tomato - average about 1 1/4 inches across.

Looked for a tag but couldn't find one.  They are really putting out , and good that they are as the big ones got too hot - and are just starting to do something.

[Daddymem]

Here's that big Tromboncino.  I sliced it up and froze it.  It smelled of butternut squash.  A weird veggie for sure, it was zuke-like when young and winter squash like when mature.  I saved the seeds, a definite veggie for next year too.

[glenn kangiser]

Cool squash and your daughter just keeps getting cuter.

[PEG688]

  Picked the potatoes tonight not very many but they'll be good eatin.

 


She sure is cute  , the kid that is. 

[glenn kangiser]

Those little potatoes are great --I like them with lots of butter and salt.

[Daddymem]

Perfect size for a nice chowdah. 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

our greens out back are ready to start being picked.  The tomatoes are still puttin on like crazy.  I am really wanting to dig sweet potatoes, but usually wait until the first frost, which is still a ways off.  There are a few eating-size carrots in the containers now, too.

[glenn kangiser]

Ours are still doing pretty good - actually some is better than summer and second crop of strawberries is coming on well.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I picked a couple of tomatoes and what will probably amount to the last of the peppers this morning.  The basil is starting to look a little shaggy. The girls and I shook seeds out of all the different varieties to save for next year.   I like the spicy thai basil the best.  DH likes the lemon basil.    Those sweet taters are getting really tempting... I looked at some at the store last night and for that price I think I'll wait until ours come out of the flower bed!  With lettuce at nearly $2 for red or green leaf lettuce, we'll have to just depend on what we can grow here for the time being.

[glenn kangiser]

Our garden is still doing pretty well, and as yours is, our Basil is about done.  I haven't trimmed it back for the whole season so its big and rough.  This should be the year of the carrot - if they get big enough - there are tons of them from reseeding themselves.

[southernsis]

My garden was about as bad as bad can get. 3 small tomatoes & 1 pepper. Don't think we can live on our bountiful harvest. Did get to pick up about 50 pounds of hickory nuts and walnuts today. At least I can bake brownies and cookies.  :)May just survive the winter.

[glenn kangiser]

Do you have Acorns there, Sis.  Our local indigenous Indians survived on Acorn pretty well.  No one said it tasted great but I have tried it.

[southernsis]

We have tons of acorns. Wouldn't know what to do with them. I wish there was something useful to use them for, I don't need anymore oak trees. They were falling yesterday and it was painful to get too close to the trees. How do you use them Glenn?