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How is everyone’s garden doing this year?

 
Serepta Ann

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I started fighting squash bugs early, thought they were gone, came back a few weeks later with a vengeance, the tomatoes got blight, cabbage worms ate all the cabbage, someone ate the beans, the raccoons ate the corn and peaches and I just said F it, so now I have a giant weed patch
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
The garden is doing fine, though it's not very big.

I only have pineapples and yams growing, plus an avocado tree. They don't really require much maintenance, just watering sometimes.

The pineapple plants take about a year to produce, but it's worth it. You haven't had a pineapple until you've had one that's freshly picked. I harvested some 6 months ago that were so sweet and am waiting for the next batch.

The yams grow like weeds. The avocado tree is still young and hasn't fruited yet. We have wild parrots here, and they like to perch in it.
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. LOL! I actually miss being able to grow cool-weather veggies.

It's easier to grow warm-weather produce in a cooler climate than it is to grow cool-weather produce in a warmer climate.

Technically, you could get pineapples to grow in a hothouse in New York, but try getting lettuce not to bolt in Panama. LOL!
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Tomatoes numerous and delicious, huge zucchini, green chili, Serrano peppers, have all grown quickly this year.

I have a patio garden.
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07/24/2018 08:06 AM
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Garden is doing AMAZING. We literally have HUGE zucchins and cucumbers rolling off our table! Tomatoes are just now turning red. Okra, beans, peppers all doing good. Beets, snow peas and carrots are done already but planting more in a few days for fall crop. This is the best year I've ever had gardening. Everything is green, healthy and producing large fruit/veggies. Only thing I did different was I dug in a bunch of earthworm castings (work manure) before I planted. HOLY COW! Got them on Amazon.
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picking tomatoes (in Michigan!!)...

bunnies have wiped mostly everything else out...

I have an apricot to pick tomorrow. Kiwis are sizing up. Apples were wiped out by squirrels. Pears look very good (asian and european). Jujubes bloomed well, but fruit has not yet started sizing up. Currants and gooseberries were great, but long done. Blackberries are loaded..
 Quoting: Asymptote

Michigan also here,,,,,Same for me, bunnies tearing up peppers and sprouts,,,squirrels took out my sunflowers. Tomatoes are kicking butt, but Peppers are growing SLOOOOOW.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
picking tomatoes (in Michigan!!)...

bunnies have wiped mostly everything else out...

I have an apricot to pick tomorrow. Kiwis are sizing up. Apples were wiped out by squirrels. Pears look very good (asian and european). Jujubes bloomed well, but fruit has not yet started sizing up. Currants and gooseberries were great, but long done. Blackberries are loaded..
 Quoting: Asymptote

Michigan also here,,,,,Same for me, bunnies tearing up peppers and sprouts,,,squirrels took out my sunflowers. Tomatoes are kicking butt, but Peppers are growing SLOOOOOW.
 Quoting: Chief Big Wampum Nincompoop


Also in Michigan. Rabbits hammered a purple bean plant of mine too! It was outside the fenced area and they certainly helped themselves.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
6' x 10' red raspberry patch yielded over 4 gallons. Had to be picked every other day for weeks. What wasn't eaten or given away to family was frozen, then vacuum sealed in 1 GT amounts. Best year ever. Grapes are insane amounts but not ripe enough yet. Yellow beans and peas are done and past and were average yield. Fruit trees look good but a bit less than last year because of my aggressive pruning that had to be done. Far East, central CT. More bees this year than ever (30 years actually)
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Tomatoes numerous and delicious, huge zucchini, green chili, Serrano peppers, have all grown quickly this year.

I have a patio garden.
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Pick the Zucchini before they get large enough to produce seeds and the plant will keep generating more Zuch until it does. Pick young and often so you can pick many.
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The garden is doing Great here in Southern Middle Tennessee...all Organic too... heirloom Tomatoes , Cucumber , Beets , and Watermelon ... I just thought of Hee-Haw and the what's for Dinner Grandpa skit ...lot's of rain and very timely ... I've only had to water the Garden a few times...planted a dozen Marigold flowers to keep the bugs away ...
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Ours is doing OK, it's been very hot and dry here, so watering every other day. We have 4 Heirloom tomatoes planted an two were getting eaten by something. Turned out to be be a couple of huge tomato hornworms,fed those to the chickens. My wife's Kale is looking great, and our Horse Radish is getting thicker by the day.
 Quoting: Sodbuster


Neem oil and Diatomaceous Earth works wonders and your garden is still organic.
 Quoting: SilverPatriot


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hf
 Quoting: Sodbuster


Just be aware that diatomaceous earth will also kill many beneficial. Only use as a last resort. Neem is great.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Mine is doing very well.

My lettuce patch didn't do so well. Only yielded about 1/4th of what was sown. But otherwise one if the better seasons we've had.
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i can't bring myself to take my tomato plants out of the house, so not good.
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Our tomato plants went wild this year. Peppers are doing good and the cucumbers have exploded.
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i can't bring myself to take my tomato plants out of the house, so not good.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
It's all right. It's mainly a flower garden.

The morning glories don't have any blooms yet though, but we have a little poppy patch. I hope the spider lilies grow in the fall.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Tore out my stressed tomato plants this weekend, did get a nice harvest from them from April-June though, also more peppers than we can possibly eat. Canned a ton of diced tomatoes and fresh salsa. Plenty of green beans, squash, cucumbers, canteloupes, and herbs. Gotta get the plot ready for fall planting in late September.

Typical for us in SE Texas

Also, highly recommend ZOOM organic fertilizer and liquid fish emulsion. I had 5' tomatoes within 3 weeks of transplanting them from their 8" pots
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My wife is the gardener and hers is doing great, funny thing about SW Idaho it gets hot here in July and August really hot but sun loving plants flourish here with the proper irrigation. Her tomatoes are to die for.

It's kind of easy to do here also because we virtually get no rain in these two months and she has it all on automatic watering, we can leave for a week and have no worries.
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Had some super delicious watermelon, lots of garlic and onion,
okra, squash. This Texas heat/drought is doing a number on everything now.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
My wife is the gardener and hers is doing great, funny thing about SW Idaho it gets hot here in July and August really hot but sun loving plants flourish here with the proper irrigation. Her tomatoes are to die for.

It's kind of easy to do here also because we virtually get no rain in these two months and she has it all on automatic watering, we can leave for a week and have no worries.
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Sounds great.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Ours is doing OK, it's been very hot and dry here, so watering every other day. We have 4 Heirloom tomatoes planted an two were getting eaten by something. Turned out to be be a couple of huge tomato hornworms,fed those to the chickens. My wife's Kale is looking great, and our Horse Radish is getting thicker by the day.
 Quoting: Sodbuster


Neem oil and Diatomaceous Earth works wonders and your garden is still organic.
 Quoting: SilverPatriot


Thanks

hf
 Quoting: Sodbuster


Just be aware that diatomaceous earth will also kill many beneficial. Only use as a last resort. Neem is great.
 Quoting: krixbuggy


My first treatment for bugs consists of alternating neem oil then garlic oil but whatever attacks the eggplant, cabbage and broccoli laugh at the neem and garlic oils these are dusted with diatomaceous earth.

Our garden is fenced, to further help we have planted mint around the exterior to help repel rabbits, rodents and deer.
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We have had either too much rain or not enough. The torrential rains we had a month ago, flooded out what was left of my black raspberries after a long period of no rain.I lost 3/4 of my raspberries this year. It was the worst I have had. I got 13 jars of jam, with my usual number being around 60 jars. The best year for my raspberries was 3 years ago, when I got 144 jars.
I will get a few green beans, and my onions and garlic are doing good. The tomato plants all withered, and then got flooded.
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Strawberries failed but lots of tomatoes if I can keep the rabbits out.
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Picture taken during the garden build process the fence is up, the exterior boxes have mint plants growing, and they return every year. Mint repels rabbits, rodents and ground hogs hate mint the exterior boxes require little care some water and seaweed and kelp fertilizer.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Broccoli, garlic, silver beet going well. Picking and eating some sugarsnap peas.
Cauliflowers got annihilated by aphids when away for few days.
Various herbs doing ok.
Lots of things are in small hothouse (its winter here)such as dragonfruit, baby moringa trees, few other cuttings, and unusual random plants and rare herbs

Something that you guys can probably advise me on, I brought some sugar beets, never seen them before, but think they're common there ? When they've grown, do you cook and eat them the same as beetroot?

Ive noticed a lot of you grow okra, I've never tried it, is not common here. What/how do you eat/cook it?
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Lots of tomatoes in my garden, made some marinara with it, and plenty of tomato sandwiches of course. Thai peppers, jalapenos, some bells. Basil, oregano, thyme are some of the herbs we have too.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Mine is toast. My squash, zucchini & cucumber never produced and died. My tomatoes are growing some. My Yellow & Bell pepper plants are growing but not producing.

I'm very disappointed to say the least.
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Everything will be good for a few more weeks, then getting roof re-tiled will kill it all. But, before that veggie-pocalypse happens, the garden will have produced some tasty tomatoes, jalapenos, squash, zucchini, collards, and mint.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Bumper blueberry crop. Been harvesting them for 2 months. No end in sight.
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07/24/2018 10:42 AM
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
In ca, I've grown a bunch of guavas!
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Nicely even though high 90's aren't doing me any good, I'm harvesting & canning something every day now.

Ground squirrels were thieving my tomatoes but half a dozen rat traps are doing their job and the ones that are still alive seem to have got the idea that eating my veggies will get you dead since so many of their family and friends never came home after visiting here.

Looking for things to kick into high gear when the heat breaks.
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Re: How is everyone’s garden doing this year?
Wonderful. We planted tons of ever bearing organic strawberries and will be putting up 3 greenhouses next year. Blueberries and even ordered true blue huckleberries and will be growing those, cloning them and even selling the plants in a few years.

Squash, tomatoes, butternut squash, dills, cukes, herbs, onions, lots of potatoes. Our neighbor swears they are growing twice as fast as normal and we're giving them steroids.

We're going to turn this into a small business for one of my son's.

We even got flowers in this year and foxgloves. And want to put in dyers flowers as well. Indigo , madder, and various medicinal plants, wormwood for example. And we planted 2 cherry trees, will be finding morepart apricot for next year.

We're doing it all on 1/3 acre plus. Will probably look to lease land in a couple years as well.

Deers seem to love blueberry chutes so we have been trying different methods of dissuading the deer from nibbling.

Last Edited by Sungaze_At_Dawn on 07/24/2018 11:04 AM
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