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re: Garden Updates
Posted on 6/14/18 at 8:15 pm to PillageUrVillage
Posted on 6/14/18 at 8:15 pm to PillageUrVillage
I have "8" 1 gallon bags of frozen Roma's. I'll be saucing soon.
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Posted on 6/14/18 at 8:59 pm to LSUlefty
I just hope I can get a lot more in the next week. The day of the move I’ll pluck the plants bare and see what will ripen.
8 gallon bags is a good bit. If I had to guess, that’s probably close to what I’ll end up with.
8 gallon bags is a good bit. If I had to guess, that’s probably close to what I’ll end up with.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 2:15 am to PillageUrVillage
I threw away a lot from splitting and blossom Rot.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 8:46 am to LSUlefty
Yeah me too. It’s depressing. The recent rains is splitting quite a few. I’m not seeing any more with BER though.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:15 pm to PillageUrVillage
my garden is absolute shite this year. I think I have received just over 1" of rain since I planted it back in March
Posted on 6/15/18 at 1:25 pm to LSUlefty
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blossom Rot.
I just cut that part off. The rest is still good.
Posted on 6/15/18 at 5:52 pm to Zappas Stache
I threw them all away. I still had plenty of tomatoes, but my quality is down this year .
Posted on 6/15/18 at 5:52 pm to PillageUrVillage
Make sure you show us pics of your new non-flooding garden after you move. 
Posted on 6/15/18 at 6:09 pm to ChenierauTigre
Hilarious.
You’ll have to wait a while.
You’ll have to wait a while.
Posted on 6/22/18 at 7:51 pm to PillageUrVillage
Just harvested my carrots. I need to not bunch them up as much so they have room to grow. 
Posted on 6/23/18 at 8:49 am to lsuson
Final garden update for me:
Moved out of the old house and into a new one on Thursday. Plucked every last tomato and cucumber that were on my plants and pulled everything. I ended up with 4 - 5 gallon buckets full of tomatoes. Most of them are already turning red. Hopefully most of them do, but some were very green and probably won’t ripen. We’ll see.
I’ll have a brand new garden next year. I’m sure that’ll come with new challenges.
Moved out of the old house and into a new one on Thursday. Plucked every last tomato and cucumber that were on my plants and pulled everything. I ended up with 4 - 5 gallon buckets full of tomatoes. Most of them are already turning red. Hopefully most of them do, but some were very green and probably won’t ripen. We’ll see.
I’ll have a brand new garden next year. I’m sure that’ll come with new challenges.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 9:23 am to LoneStarTiger
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my garden is absolute shite this year. I think I have received just over 1" of rain since I planted it back in March
After the disaster last years abnormal rain caused I much prefer to manage my water myself with as little rain as possible.
This post was edited on 6/23/18 at 9:32 am
Posted on 6/23/18 at 10:24 am to LSUlefty
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I have "8" 1 gallon bags of frozen Roma's. I'll be saucing soon.
I gave up on tomatoes because of all the problems with fungal and bacterial issues, plus the pests this time of year.
I do, however, have a lot of okra plants starting to produce and have an 8 qt. pot of it smothering down on the stove right now to be used in soups and gumbos as I need it.
By the time I pull the plants, I'll have probably put up about 10 gallons worth of smothered okra, a dozen or so quarts of pickled okra and eaten my fill of fried and grilled okra.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 10:45 am to gumbo2176
We trans-planted 44 big beef tomatoes into 11 eighteen inch pots beside our house near a water faucet in late Feb. They're about done now.
So far, we've picked 305 tomatoes weighing 152 lbs and some were 14 - 16 oz. We blanch, peel, and puree most tomatoes and freeze the puree in quart bags. From 230 tomatoes we pureed, we have frozen 42 quart bags.
The stink bugs, horn worms, fungus, etc. become bad this time of year so we plant early so the tomatoes are finished by the 3rd week in June.
We'll pull the tomato plants and plant collards in the same pots in mid August.
So far, we've picked 305 tomatoes weighing 152 lbs and some were 14 - 16 oz. We blanch, peel, and puree most tomatoes and freeze the puree in quart bags. From 230 tomatoes we pureed, we have frozen 42 quart bags.
The stink bugs, horn worms, fungus, etc. become bad this time of year so we plant early so the tomatoes are finished by the 3rd week in June.
We'll pull the tomato plants and plant collards in the same pots in mid August.
This post was edited on 6/23/18 at 10:47 am
Posted on 6/23/18 at 11:03 am to Nawlens Gator
Nice harvest.
I plant a good size fall/winter garden and collards is on my list of things to plant. I usually don't put them in the ground until late Sept. or early October and prefer them to have a bit of cool to cold weather to make them really bring out their flavor.
I plant a good size fall/winter garden and collards is on my list of things to plant. I usually don't put them in the ground until late Sept. or early October and prefer them to have a bit of cool to cold weather to make them really bring out their flavor.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 12:59 pm to gumbo2176
I'm taking out about 2/3 of my garden this weekend. I'm going to start prepping for a fall garden.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 1:08 pm to LSUlefty
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I'm taking out about 2/3 of my garden this weekend. I'm going to start prepping for a fall garden.
I know what you mean. I've got about 2/3 of my garden just sitting idle right now and only have cucumbers on a big trellis, Japanese yard long beans also on a trellis, okra and a dozen or so pepper plants between a few bells and the rest habanero.
I'll be bringing in a lot of grass clippings I get from a commercial cutter to spread and let dry out before tilling it under and also some well composted stable waste if I can manage to get my truck close enough to get it without killing myself.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 1:27 pm to gumbo2176
Make sure when you add the grass clippings that you add dry hay to balance out all the nitrogen from the grass.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 1:57 pm to Nawlens Gator
Nawlins, you plant 4 plants per pot? That base must be wide because that’s a lot of weight once it grows verticals.
Posted on 6/23/18 at 2:36 pm to lsuson
The composted stable waste is a mix of hay, wood shavings and horse manure, plus I add a lot of leaves that I collect to add more organics to the garden.
I live in an area of the city that has many of the streets lined with huge oak trees, so leaves are easily gotten----more so in the fall months than now, but still very available.
I live in an area of the city that has many of the streets lined with huge oak trees, so leaves are easily gotten----more so in the fall months than now, but still very available.
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