re: 2019 Garden Thread

Every now and then I’d see a few small beans start to form. But they’d just fall off. Everything I’ve read makes me more confused. “Too much fertilizer, not enough fertilizer, too much water, not enough water, etc...”

I’ll try again next season.

Just got my first picking off my beans. I have what amounts to about 16 feet of beans, and got almost a pound picked.

Also had my first zucc (will probably have a few more and squash before long) and romas. Eggplants keep flowering, but nothing yet. Cucumbers and okra are slowly but surely coming along.

Some okra I picked this morning.....




Tiny green beans....... These are the Kentucky Wonder variety.











Next green beans I plant will be the Roma II(Romano Bush) beans.

My yard long green beans already have two foot beans on them! My tomatoes are wilting and look like crap. But they have tomatoes on them. Whatever.

I should have vine ripened heirlooms over the next couple days. I’ve been picking off my celebrity plant and cherries this past week. I have some ripe peppers as well but I’m gonna wait til tomorrow or the next day to start picking. I planted 4 okra yesterday too.

My beans, peppers, and tomatoes are doing fine. However my cucumbers are taking their sweet arse time. Never gone this long without picking one.

My cucumbers finally got going. I picked one this morning and have 20 or so more on the plants.

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My yard long green beans already have two foot beans on them

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I read that these should be picked around 12-18" long for best flavor and texture. I have one row that has grown like crazy but another row that seems to be struggling. They were planted about a week apart. I am wondering if the newer beans are struggling with all this rain.

Picking a few tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers every day now. Things seem to be rolling along, but I think the tomatoes are about done setting new fruit with these highs in the mid 90s. Still have a lot of green ones growing but I can see them really starting to feel the heat. Cumcumbers like others said really turned it on in last week and a half, lots of vine and flowering but just really started making. Maybe the bees finally got their shite together.

I also think my tomatoes are done setting. Heirlooms are starting to show a few sick looking leaves so I guess it’s about that time. I have a ton of green tomatoes on the vine though so it’s all good.

Cherries are still setting new fruit daily though.

Picked 10 cucumbers, 5 jimmy nardello, 5 Hungarian hot wax, a handful of cherry tomatoes, 2 celebrities, and 5 Cherokee purples today. I’m letting my peppers all turn. I haven’t picked anything green except for jalapeños.