junk Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I didnt plant anything this year , Just didnt feel up to it. But Im wondering how everyone else has been doing with Tomatos, cukes and such in your gardens? With all the rain and lack of sunshine seems like it was a bad year. What have you planted that is doing well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMJ77 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 sketti squash,zukes and small cukes are doing ok.....toms are picking up, gr beans ....eh....lettuce is ok if the bunnies dont eat it....broc is bad, egg plant too Pappy and junk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I've been reading a lot about hoop house growing this past year. The next garden will be under cloth or screening, especially broccoli. Keeps the varmints out too. The Master Gardeners are also going to attempt a winter garden with carrots, different greens and beets. There will be a trial garden at the DuBois Community Garden courtesy of the BUDS Gardeners also. junk and Pappy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Tomatoes, zucchini, and onions doing very well. We used to have a huge garden but have downsized greatly. Getting too old but still enjoy "dabbling". junk and Pappy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Things are picking up a bit. Broccoli has developed soft rot which means few side shoots. (Keeping a jar of bleach in the garden.) Cauliflower is OK but the heads are small. What cabbage that didn't get root rot from all the rain is doing fine. All summer squashes and cuckes are just starting to develop. Plants are a bit retarded. Kale was great and a new crop of lettuce is just starting. Got beets for the first time in 5 years. I switched types and used a different fertilizer which may have helped. Corn looks great but tomato plants are small for this time of year. Green beans are just OK but yellow beans are stunted. Eggplant and peppers are doing great which is unusual. Onions and peas are doing well. Tomantillos and winter squash are super. Parts of the garden just were flooded with all the rain and crops that don't like a lot of moisture weren't happy. Parts of the garden that drained better fared better. Weeds are happiest of all. junk, pstan and Pappy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosha Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Plants in raised beds are OK at best, lagging behind normal growth. Peppers and tomatoes in open garden did not appreciate growing in a pond and are stunted....now adding some humus and fertilizer and spraying to deter blight. If this continues, will plant rice next year. orphanne, Pappy, Jay and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I didn't get to plant this year I have to do a raised bed because of the way our yard is and I was too slow getting it together. On the plus side, I will have a nice area ready for next year lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Things are picking up a bit. Broccoli has developed soft rot which means few side shoots. (Keeping a jar of bleach in the garden.) Cauliflower is OK but the heads are small. What cabbage that didn't get root rot from all the rain is doing fine. All summer squashes and cuckes are just starting to develop. Plants are a bit retarded. Kale was great and a new crop of lettuce is just starting. Got beets for the first time in 5 years. I switched types and used a different fertilizer which may have helped. Corn looks great but tomato plants are small for this time of year. Green beans are just OK but yellow beans are stunted. Eggplant and peppers are doing great which is unusual. Onions and peas are doing well. Tomantillos and winter squash are super. Parts of the garden just were flooded with all the rain and crops that don't like a lot of moisture weren't happy. Parts of the garden that drained better fared better. Weeds are happiest of all. lavender,,what is the purpose of that? And why has no one crossed a weed with a tomato plant? What a crop we could have! Jay and Pappy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Anytime I cut anything I dip the knife in the bleach so as not to carry bacteria from one plant to another. If no one is looking I toss a bit of the diluted bleach on the cut stem. No reference for the latter but what the heck. You do know that if you crossed a weed with a tomato plant you would get the worst of both plants and it would grow all over the yard and be impossible to get rid of. They have crossed a tomato and a potato though. I looked up how to do it once but never tried it. One day when I get some time. http://downtoearthgardenclub.org/2013/12/tom-tato/ Pappy and junk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fadedgenes Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Our garden is doing great since the rain slacked off. We removed all the yellowed leaves from the tomatoes and also sprayed with fungicide (just in case.) Lots of nice big green tomatoes now. Yesterday I canned my first 15 pints of yellow wax beans. Corn will be ready for freezing soon and peppers for stuffin'. Been eating cabbage, new red potatoes and cukes. Cantaloupe are doing real well. Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 4 x 8 bed doing well. Almost looks like a jungle. planted taters in a bin about 2 ft high and the plants must be almost 2 ft above that. cukes just starting but vines are nice, pumpkins about the same. tomatoes well every year I say it is the last but every year I put some in and they are looking rather good right now. zukes have blossoms but haven't seen a fruit yet Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollycan Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 My cukes have overtaken my garden...picked 20 yesterday..carrots are ok..everything else is terrible Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmiline Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My cukes are doing really well so far. Tomato plants are getting huge and have big green tomatoes on them, none ripening yet though. My candy onions and spring onions are doing really well. My peas and beans weren't planted thick enough by my helpful grandfather and so aren't producing much. Zucchini and yellow squash are coming on strong. My pepper plants, both jalapeno and green, look sad..... Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 My whole family loves fried green tomatoes. If you care to sell any I'm buying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I have red tomato's already. The plants are not as bushy as they have been in the past but I have lots of fruit on them and that is all that counts. I never have had tomato's this early before and I planted about the second week of June. My potato bin is working great as far as bushy and tall potato plants. They are up to the middle of my belly and should grow to between four and five foot tall but not sure if there are any potato's on the plants though. Maybe I will take a pic of the bin I made and in a few weeks pull the bottom board off and see if that layer has any potatoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What did you use in the bin? I tried it once because our soil is clay but didn't have much luck with it. Don't have much luck with potatoes in the ground either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I built my bin with 2 x 2 and pallet slats. just used potting soils and creek sand mixed. like Gator my plants are tall but not sure of taters at teh bottom Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I built my bin with 2 x 2 and pallet slats. just used potting soils and creek sand mixed. like Gator my plants are tall but not sure of taters at teh bottom I think i used something weird. Straw? Ashes? It was an experiment. Not a successful one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I did the same thing we had some heavy duty pallets that were being thrown away so I tore them apart and used them. I did post about this last fall or in the winter I believe about making these bins it may still be on GoDuBois I will have to look. I just filled up with mushroom compost I had left over from last year and also some soil just laying around form old flower pots etc. The plants are around 40" tall right now as big as the corn my wife has planted. I do have to add another board on today as you can see and finish filling it up to the board you see now. I am out of soil so may have to stop here in a bit and get some more compost I think. I could just buy bags of soil but I would need a lot as this bin is 42"x42" square. If you look you can see potato's outside the bin that sprung up long before we planted these and they are only about 24"tall as you can tell I hate weeds also and weeding so the upper garden with the potatoes has newspaper layers with mushroom compost on it and the lower garden the one with the tomato's has weed cloth and mushrrom compost- horse manure on it. It may be the manure or the rain is all I can figure as to why my plants are small. Althoug since I put my pipe in the ground to support them and it has been sunny they sure have perked up quite a bit. sapphire and junk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I couldn't find the thread but I did see where a member Bub likes to grow potatos from back in 2009. Maybe he/she I am guessing he can give us some pointers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Those are RIPE tomatoes! Who had the first one? Definitely not me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I have never had tomatoes ripe this early. Heck usually it isn't till late August /September before we do. The peppers usually are out way before the tomato's are. I am hoping my tomato's don't all ripen up before I get my peppers. I love my wife's spaghetti sauce especially when she uses the hot peppers in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pappy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 well found the post where I said about the potato bin but the pic was gone. I do believe I let mine grow to tall before adding more dirt and this stunts the root growth and they become stems instead so Hopefully I can get 25 pounds of potatos out of it and not the hundred or so I was hoping or maybe there will not be any or only a couple handfuls. Either way it was fun doing it. I did find the instructions again on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapphire Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 At this rate, I MAY have tomatoes for Festivus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk Posted July 25, 2015 Author Share Posted July 25, 2015 I did the same thing we had some heavy duty pallets that were being thrown away so I tore them apart and used them. I did post about this last fall or in the winter I believe about making these bins it may still be on GoDuBois I will have to look. I just filled up with mushroom compost I had left over from last year and also some soil just laying around form old flower pots etc. The plants are around 40" tall right now as big as the corn my wife has planted. I do have to add another board on today as you can see and finish filling it up to the board you see now. I am out of soil so may have to stop here in a bit and get some more compost I think. I could just buy bags of soil but I would need a lot as this bin is 42"x42" square. If you look you can see potato's outside the bin that sprung up long before we planted these and they are only about 24"tall as you can tell I hate weeds also and weeding so the upper garden with the potatoes has newspaper layers with mushroom compost on it and the lower garden the one with the tomato's has weed cloth and mushrrom compost- horse manure on it. It may be the manure or the rain is all I can figure as to why my plants are small. Althoug since I put my pipe in the ground to support them and it has been sunny they sure have perked up quite a bit. Ripe Tomatos????Whats your address,,I will bring zappia bread and mayo. Pappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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