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re: 2023 Spring Garden Thread
Posted on 5/7/23 at 12:47 pm to Devious
Posted on 5/7/23 at 12:47 pm to Devious
We went from beautiful cool April to hot as balls real quick. Harvested 6lb of beans Friday afternoon, but that heat was brutal.
Also I'm not sure why I even attempt to train the cucumber vines onto the netting. They're just gonna whatever TF they want to do. In just one week they went from nicely growing vines to a completely uncontrolled mass of vegetation. I yelled at them that they better get their shite together and give me some cucumbers before they get all diseased, because I'm not helping them out anymore.
Also tallows are fat, bees pulling in lots of nectar. Added a super on each box yesterday. Rain in the forecast every day this week, but hopefully there will be a few days of good flying weather.
Also I'm not sure why I even attempt to train the cucumber vines onto the netting. They're just gonna whatever TF they want to do. In just one week they went from nicely growing vines to a completely uncontrolled mass of vegetation. I yelled at them that they better get their shite together and give me some cucumbers before they get all diseased, because I'm not helping them out anymore.
Also tallows are fat, bees pulling in lots of nectar. Added a super on each box yesterday. Rain in the forecast every day this week, but hopefully there will be a few days of good flying weather.
This post was edited on 5/7/23 at 12:51 pm
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Posted on 5/7/23 at 6:59 pm to LSUJuice
Yet we continue to torture ourselves with this crap year after year.
Posted on 5/7/23 at 8:03 pm to ChenierauTigre
quote:
Yet we continue to torture ourselves with this crap year after year.
Because it’s worth it!
I don’t know if any of you watched Clarkson’s Farm. If you have you’ll get the reference. But today I harvest a bunch of onions. I’ve been trying to successfully grow onions for years and for some reason I’d never get them to form bulbs. Well this year I finally have a successful crop! And like a dog chasing a car, once I caught it I didn’t know what to do with it. Which is why I asked for help in an earlier post.
Anyway, so today I pulled all of these and then ran into the house and told my wife “Look, I did a thing!” 
So the curing process has begun!
Also, another thing I did today was harvest my first yellow squash! Picked 2 of them about 6-7 inches long. We cut them up and roasted them with salt, pepper, and Parmesan cheese. Not bad. Not bad at all
And I finally have some blackberries starting to turn. They have rebounded fairly well since the late freeze in March.
Fighting the disease and insects can be a pain in the arse sometimes. But watching my daughter picking fresh strawberries everyday, my son asking to help put down pine straw, and my family enjoying eating our fresh pickings….. worth it!
Posted on 5/7/23 at 9:47 pm to PillageUrVillage
Well stated!
Posted on 5/7/23 at 10:05 pm to PillageUrVillage
quote:
harvest my first yellow squash
That was fast wasn’t it?
I just put a few new plants (yellow squash, zucchini, cucumber and cantaloupe) in the ground after over fertilizing my seedlings. Hopefully it’s not too late for them. Live and learn I suppose.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 7:03 am to meeple
I have a Fi-shock SS-525SS fence energizer. I was thinking of putting a temp fence around my garden with this to keep my dogs out. The fence doesn't pulse and I know from experience that it's a pretty good jolt.
Am I being too much of a softy by being hesitant to light the dogs up with it? One of them has enough problems as it is without getting electrocuted. The pups are 50 and 80 lbs.
https://www.amazon.com/Fi-Shock-SS-525CS-Powered-Light-Duty-Electric/dp/B0006V8L18/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Am I being too much of a softy by being hesitant to light the dogs up with it? One of them has enough problems as it is without getting electrocuted. The pups are 50 and 80 lbs.
https://www.amazon.com/Fi-Shock-SS-525CS-Powered-Light-Duty-Electric/dp/B0006V8L18/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Posted on 5/8/23 at 8:52 am to LSUJuice
quote:Thanks for this. Mine are just getting tall enough to start helping up the hog wire. I will try yelling if they don't take my manual instructions.
I yelled at them that they better get their shite together and give me some cucumbers before they get all diseased, because I'm not helping them out anymore.
I left for the weekend Friday and get back Sunday to a bajillion new flowers. Fingers crossed.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 11:30 am to AlxTgr
my volunteer compost vine appears to be a butternut squash LOL
Posted on 5/8/23 at 12:00 pm to cgrand
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my volunteer compost vine appears to be a butternut squash
My biggest tomato plant is one that popped out of my compost pile. It seems to be a roma...and I've started roma's for the first time this spring
Posted on 5/8/23 at 7:25 pm to BallsEleven
Roasted some Romas from the garden tonight. Also used some parsley, oregano and basil from the herb garden.
Posted on 5/9/23 at 10:26 am to meeple
I haven't posted too many photos, largely because I haven't had much to post photos of, but here are a couple. I noticed what looked like some bacterial spot on my Cherokee Purple plants, so with the rain and heat I decided to do a peroxide/liquid copper spray for the first time yesterday.
Tomato bags. The closest are the cherries. Everything is really healthy and all the plants are loading up. Just behind. I've gone overboard with the electric toothbrush pollination method so pretty much every flower on every plant has made a fruit ha. I think this spot is going to work fine from a sun standpoint for my permanent garden. I will probably stick with the bags for the fall to see how the fall sun angle shakes out, but the tomatoes are doing fine.
Big beefs:
Little Fred's Tie Dye maters:
Midnight snacks:
Pepper box, also loading up:
Tomato bags. The closest are the cherries. Everything is really healthy and all the plants are loading up. Just behind. I've gone overboard with the electric toothbrush pollination method so pretty much every flower on every plant has made a fruit ha. I think this spot is going to work fine from a sun standpoint for my permanent garden. I will probably stick with the bags for the fall to see how the fall sun angle shakes out, but the tomatoes are doing fine.
Big beefs:
Little Fred's Tie Dye maters:
Midnight snacks:
Pepper box, also loading up:
This post was edited on 5/9/23 at 10:29 am
Posted on 5/9/23 at 11:02 am to LSUJuice
quote:We left town after work Friday, got back late Sunday. Monday AM I spent about 15 minutes getting the cucumbers off of my tomatoes and eggplant. I used to plant with a lot of space. This year I put cucs on the edge with a plan to have them trellis to the outside. Massive fail. I now just hope the ridiculous amount of japanese eggplants can tolerate being under attack all day.
In just one week they went from nicely growing vines to a completely uncontrolled mass of vegetation.
Speaking of, I better really really like japanese eggplant. I may be the best grower of them in the history of eggplant.
Posted on 5/9/23 at 3:39 pm to tigerfoot
Does anyone know what’s going on with these tomato plants? I feel like they’ve stalled in growth.
Posted on 5/9/23 at 7:43 pm to meeple
Our tomatoes look like crap this year also. Already fighting blight on some. Picked our first 4 squash yesterday after 3 gallon ziplocks of green beans on Sunday. I should have picked beans again today. The onions are steadily falling and starting the curing process. Extremely impressed with the onion crop bulb size. I ordered these onion sets from Dixondale Farms: Texas Early White, 1015Y Texas Supersweet, Yellow Granex, and Red Creole. With it being rainy all week, I’m drying the onions on the back porch table under the fan for a day or two. Then I hang them upsize down on this rack. I’m moving the rack into the garage after a week or so.
Posted on 5/9/23 at 8:37 pm to Mr Sausage
Had beautiful 7' tall sweet corn plants with nice ears, and the stupid storms blew them over today. Will they stand back up on their own?
Sweet potato slips came in this week. Went ahead and planted them in between the rows of beans. My idea is that the beans can shade the sweets while they get established. Then when it gets too hot for the beans, I'll cut them out, and it'll be time for the sweets to start spreading. Also picked another 4.5 lbs of beans today, so they're showing no signs of showing down yet.
Sweet potato slips came in this week. Went ahead and planted them in between the rows of beans. My idea is that the beans can shade the sweets while they get established. Then when it gets too hot for the beans, I'll cut them out, and it'll be time for the sweets to start spreading. Also picked another 4.5 lbs of beans today, so they're showing no signs of showing down yet.
Posted on 5/9/23 at 9:59 pm to LSUJuice
quote:How far? Most of the time, yes. Mine was at a 35 degree angle earlier this week. Couldn't tell it now. Depends on how wet the ground is and how heavy the ears are. Give it a few days.
Had beautiful 7' tall sweet corn plants with nice ears, and the stupid storms blew them over today. Will they stand back up on their own?
Posted on 5/10/23 at 7:57 am to BallsEleven
Wouldn't you know it, just as my tomatoes are starting to ripen we get daily torrential rains that totally saturate the ground. This often leads to my tomatoes splitting from taking up too much water.
Same thing happened last year when my fig tree was in full picking season. Damn figs would split open overnight and bugs would be up in all the fruit.
Same thing happened last year when my fig tree was in full picking season. Damn figs would split open overnight and bugs would be up in all the fruit.
Posted on 5/10/23 at 8:05 am to gumbo2176
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This post was edited on 5/10/23 at 8:07 am
Posted on 5/10/23 at 8:05 am to gumbo2176
You aren't kidding. My garden is a sopping marsh with 3 more days with a 60-70% chance of more rain.
I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my tomatoes ( shameless bump)... but I may not need to worry about it if my fruit all splits. I'm about to do this...
I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my tomatoes ( shameless bump)... but I may not need to worry about it if my fruit all splits. I'm about to do this...
Posted on 5/10/23 at 8:12 am to meeple
Putting umbrellas over the plants won't help since it is the soil that is getting saturated.
The only real recourse is to REALLY hill up the rows in hopes that the additional elevation will help with drainage.
For me to do that, I'd have to add substantial amounts of soil to my garden. I do have one nice sized raised bed I use mainly for root crops like beets, onions, garlic, etc. and it drains well.
The only real recourse is to REALLY hill up the rows in hopes that the additional elevation will help with drainage.
For me to do that, I'd have to add substantial amounts of soil to my garden. I do have one nice sized raised bed I use mainly for root crops like beets, onions, garlic, etc. and it drains well.
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