Posted on 07/03/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by greeneyes
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But dang, they are prolific! And thanks on the grilling tip. I have found some of them rather "chewy".
Your tomatoes will come, was just out watering and worked up a sweat, mine will be done for in 3 weeks. Pretty much impossible to grow much in our scorching July and August.
Cherry tomatoes starting to pop on dwarf/container plants (Red Robin, 100’s and 1000’s, Whippersnapper) here in soviet Red Hampshire...my indeterminates (Elgin Pink, Daniel Burson, Joe’s Pink Oxheart, many more) were put in their Earth Boxes about a month ago, and they have main stems as thick as magic markers, loads of blossoms. Even ‘movie maters’ (Darth Mater, Dino Eggs) kicking it. Glass Gem Corn and pole beans (Flagg, Annie Jackson, Bosnian) are running wild...even ‘volunteer’ tomatoes are blossoming and are looking as sturdy as the rest. Planting by the signs and feeding them bat guano must have unlocked the key to success...never seen anything like it.
I also like to pick and peel the seed head cloves. Some of them can get good sized. I use the bigger ones like shallots. I’ve also put them in with my pickles and pickled them. The seed heads I don’t want I give away.
PLEASE HELP.. Year after year we have been having trouble getting seeds to sprout. Green beans have to be re-planted 2 and 3 times each year. This year, I couldn’t even get yellow squash to germinate. What am I doing wrong?
Soil temperature is one major factor. Too cold and they just don’t germinate.
Where do you live? What kind of soil do you have? We can start there.
Southern Missouri, waited for the soil to warm, planted 1st time in mid May, then late May, then mid June, last planting was last week.
Is your soil nice and loose or does it have a lot of clay? Could you be planting too deep? Seeds fresh? Too much or too little watering? Mice, rodents,birds getting the seeds? Beans are some of the easiest seeds to sprout.
And here’s a really stupid question. Are you using roundup or any lawn chemicals near your garden?
I’m planning on a fall garden with carrots, peas, beets, the cabbage family, things like that. I keep my tomato
plant in it’s pot, when cool weather sets in, into the garage it comes, I’ll do the same with my pepper plants, sweet and jalapeno. I live in central TX, so our winters are usually pretty mild. My garage is like a green house in the winter. I do my seeding near the back wall and the plants behind and on the sides of the golf cart.
I ordered a mini fig tree. When it came last summer, it had a fig one it. It overwintered in the garage and it now resides on the patio, but NO figs. Do figs need other figs to pollinate? My fig tree in the community garden is tiny and FULL of figs, there are no figs trees anywhere near it.
Check your green bean seeds closely and see if they are being eaten by little worms. We had this happen to our second planting of pole beans. They are larva from flies who like to feed off of bean seeds especially if the days are wet and cool (which makes the soil the same) which is exactly what happened to us this year.
Mrs. Augie has been experimenting with fermented pickles. She got a recipe from a friend who is originally from Russia. The ones she made last summer were terrible. Turns out the recipe wasn't *exactly* the recipe.
She has another batch brewing now. Hopefully these will turn out a little better than the first batch.
I’m not really sure what’s causing this. In fact, I have no idea. Does anyone know?
Some recovered, others are still on the ground.
Refrigerator pickles made without hot water are the crunchiest. I picked up some Clausen’s at the store, and looked at the label, and it states that they’ve never been heated. Yet they are sealed, so I wonder what sort of processing they do.
Anyway, the fresh cukes and onions in the frig are one of my favorite side dishes in the summer, or to add to the top of a salad.
Might be a good idea. Give that space several years for the disease to die off maybe.
Best low cost organic produce around is the ones you grow yourself. And there’s no question what was used to grow it!
Sounds delish! You are off to a great start with the harvest already.
Strange weather this summer all around us it seems. I have no memory of any July this cool and wet.
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