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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted on 6/17/24 at 4:42 pm to Columbia
Posted on 6/17/24 at 4:42 pm to Columbia
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My garden isn’t nothing to brag about, but about killed myself harvesting over 1000lbs honey Saturday. Will be spinning all week.
I cannot fathom the mess that you make
I started spinning frames last night and decided I really need to get something to put down underneath so I don't cover the garage in honey. Maybe one of those extra large grilling mats you put under a bbq pit.
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Posted on 6/17/24 at 5:31 pm to Columbia
Anyone have any idea what this is?
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It’s coming up all over where I dumped a bag of LA native prairie seed (the rest of which is beautiful). It doesn’t flower and it’s pretty freely reseeding everywhere
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It’s coming up all over where I dumped a bag of LA native prairie seed (the rest of which is beautiful). It doesn’t flower and it’s pretty freely reseeding everywhere
Posted on 6/17/24 at 8:27 pm to cgrand
I have a gazillion cantaloupe flowers - no cantaloupes. Would like to pollinate by hand. Problem is I can't find a male flower anywhere. All females?
Posted on 6/17/24 at 8:33 pm to Bayou
I have a serious cantaloupe situation…planted 4 seeds and it’s taken over a 8x24 bed and is spilling over the sides and climbing up the trellis LOL. I counted 4 melons that I can see, I’m sure there’s more. There’s hundreds of flowers so maybe that’s just how it goes, this is my first attempt
Posted on 6/17/24 at 9:27 pm to ApisMellifera
quote:
I cannot fathom the mess that you make
I started spinning frames last night and decided I really need to get something to put down underneath so I don't cover the garage in honey. Maybe one of those extra large grilling mats you put under a bbq pit.
It’s always a damn mess, but I really did it today. Left the honey gate open after turning my extractor off. Had a 5 gal bucket there but it overflowed a good 50 lbs or so. Learning the hard way sucks
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:58 am to cgrand
Cgrand this is my initial year with cantaloupes, too
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:36 am to cgrand
My cantaloupes are doing great. My watermelons stalled at softball size and I don't think they're going to get any bigger. The plants appear to have some leaf spot or bacterial issue.
Peppers are still coming on by the dozens. Blistered shishitos for the 10th time last night.
Peppers are still coming on by the dozens. Blistered shishitos for the 10th time last night.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:49 am to bluemoons
Are the red ones in the lower middle Jimmy Nardello's?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:03 am to Bayou
Yep. The ones right to their left are shishitos.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:17 am to cgrand
I believe it's common ragweed
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:43 am to 24nights
quote:that looks to be it, thanks!
I believe it's common ragweed
I know what I’m doing this weekend I guess LOL
Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:49 pm to cgrand
cgrand, tell me about the Jimmy Nardello's.
I'm growing them for the first time this year. They have been my key interest this season. I have a ton of green ones - waiting for them to turn.
I'm growing them for the first time this year. They have been my key interest this season. I have a ton of green ones - waiting for them to turn.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:19 am to Bayou
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Jimmy Nardello's.
They're my favorite sweet pepper. Unfortunately all of mine died mysteriously earlier this year. They're super sweet when you let them get red. Last year I'd eat a few raw every time I walked past the garden.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 9:41 am to Bayou
They’re my favorite pepper. I grow 2-3 plants every year. They respond really well to topping when they’re seedlings. I’ve never tasted a pepper that was as sweet as Jimmy Nardellos are.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:17 pm to bluemoons
Can't wait for my JN's to turn red then! 
Posted on 6/19/24 at 8:11 pm to Bayou
watermelon hammock LOL
Posted on 6/23/24 at 12:11 pm to cgrand
Nice visit to the garden this morning. Temp down in the low 70s: I feel like by this time last year we weren't falling below 80.
Butternuts really close, but not quite ready.
Tomatoes hanging on. About half are getting eaten by bugs before I can pick them, but still getting some nice ones. These romas are prolific producers, but kind of bland tasting.
Sunflowers look nice.
Cut out all the corn, and prepped the bed for sweet potatoes. Crabgrass is waging war, so I pulled all that up, covered with a roll of cardboard paper, and then chopped leaves as a mulch. Sweet potato cuttings go in next week.
Butternuts really close, but not quite ready.
Tomatoes hanging on. About half are getting eaten by bugs before I can pick them, but still getting some nice ones. These romas are prolific producers, but kind of bland tasting.
Sunflowers look nice.
Cut out all the corn, and prepped the bed for sweet potatoes. Crabgrass is waging war, so I pulled all that up, covered with a roll of cardboard paper, and then chopped leaves as a mulch. Sweet potato cuttings go in next week.
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 6/24/24 at 8:22 am to LSUJuice
quote:
Sweet potato cuttings go in next week.
where did you get them from?
Grew them yourself, order them online, find them local?
I would like to do some sweet potatoes but i'm not sure where to find them at. I've got some room left to plant something right now.
just planted a bunch of peanuts and my halloween pumpkins yesterday evening. Never grew peanuts before, but i'm anxious to see how that works out.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:26 am to TeddyPadillac
quote:
where did you get them from?
Last year's sweet potatoes starting coming up this spring, guess they never got cold enough to die completely. So I made some cuttings from those vines. Pic is from 2 weeks ago, I did some bare stem and some with leaves still attached. They're all doing great. I'll take a current pic and edit later.
Edit: here's the current pic. Bare stem cuttings really coming along with new growth, didn't expect that. I'm hardening them off by giving them more sun each day this week.
I originally ordered slips from southern exposure seed exchange last April.
This post was edited on 6/24/24 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 6/24/24 at 7:04 pm to LSUJuice
Word of warning to everyone: I was pulling green bean vines off the trellis and there were a bunch of round, shiny, 1/4" bugs on them. I was disturbing them, and they started spraying stink. I have never seen stink bugs that small or shiny.
One of them sprayed into my eye and it burned like hellfire and battery acid combined. I immediately flushed it with the hose, but it was still burning 24 hours later. My eye is swollen and discolored around the inside corner of my eye where he nailed me. I looked it up online, and there was a guy in Taiwan that got sprayed in the eye and his entire eye clouded over like a twenty year old dog with cataracts.
Just a word of caution for my fellow gardeners. You don't want that experience.
One of them sprayed into my eye and it burned like hellfire and battery acid combined. I immediately flushed it with the hose, but it was still burning 24 hours later. My eye is swollen and discolored around the inside corner of my eye where he nailed me. I looked it up online, and there was a guy in Taiwan that got sprayed in the eye and his entire eye clouded over like a twenty year old dog with cataracts.
Just a word of caution for my fellow gardeners. You don't want that experience.
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