Spring Gardens

[B. White]

It is about to get busy around here. Picked the first small picking of beans. There will be a lot ready about Friday. Some pumpkin already turning and winter squash is doing ok. Watermelons and cantaloupes have jumped this week and peas are blooming.

I should get the first basket of tomatoes today or tomorrow. I've got a few turning. I'm not normally a cherry tomato fan, but these were big enough to be easy to slice and add to cucumbers and onions.

 

[sportsman94]

It is about to get busy around here. Picked the first small picking of beans. There will be a lot ready about Friday. Some pumpkin already turning and winter squash is doing ok. Watermelons and cantaloupes have jumped this week and peas are blooming.

I should get the first basket of tomatoes today or tomorrow. I've got a few turning. I'm not normally a cherry tomato fan, but these were big enough to be easy to slice and add to cucumbers and onions.

Looks great! What variety of watermelon are you growing?

 

[B. White]

Georgia Rattlesnake

 

[ngamtns]

Have picked a few cabbage and picked my first squash and zucchini tonight. Cucumbers are close. The tomato wilt has been terrible this year. It’s claimed several plants.

 

[sportsman94]

Anyone struggling with army worms on your tomatoes? I’m spraying BT on mine this afternoon to fix the problem, but they’ve been eating the fire out of my plants. Black worms with yellow stripe. Had a few horned worms too, but more of the army worms

 

[fishfryer]

Have picked a few cabbage and picked my first squash and zucchini tonight. Cucumbers are close. The tomato wilt has been terrible this year. It’s claimed several plants.
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Masterpiece,artwork!

 

[blood on the ground]

Have picked a few cabbage and picked my first squash and zucchini tonight. Cucumbers are close. The tomato wilt has been terrible this year. It’s claimed several plants.
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Absolutely beautiful garden! I miss my garden!

 

[trad bow]

That’s the prettiest and well laid out garden I’ve seen in a good long while. You should be proud of that garden.

 

[trad bow]

Tomato wilt is bad here in middle Georgia also. Leaf hoppers are hitting my corn hard. Having to spray for them heavy.

 

[fishfryer]

It is about to get busy around here. Picked the first small picking of beans. There will be a lot ready about Friday. Some pumpkin already turning and winter squash is doing ok. Watermelons and cantaloupes have jumped this week and peas are blooming.

I should get the first basket of tomatoes today or tomorrow. I've got a few turning. I'm not normally a cherry tomato fan, but these were big enough to be easy to slice and add to cucumbers and onions.

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Real nice

 

[B. White]

Way too hot to be doing it, but dug the last couple of baskets of taters and pulled another batch of onions to dry.

 

[trad bow]

I’ve go t some onions and garlic ready to pull.

 

[ngamtns]

A lot of good looking gardens in this post. ?? ????
I dug a row of potatoes yesterday afternoon and have started getting overwhelmed with squash. Shared some with neighbors and friends.

 

[B. White]

A lot of good looking gardens in this post. ?? ????
I dug a row of potatoes yesterday afternoon and have started getting overwhelmed with squash. Shared some with neighbors and friends.

Tried a new method freezing squash this year. Slices big enough to fry good go in 3/4 cup conrnmeal and 1/4 cup flour and get shook to coat in a bag. I put them in a big pan (no fancy layering, just dump a handful at a time that is kind of piled in that has just enough oil in it to keep them from sticking. Put in the oven at 350 and I stir/flip them at 15 mins. Go another 15 mins then let them cool and freeze. They are not cooked, just heated through. It is easy and the first batch we froze and thawed and tried was about as good as fresh. We just added a little oil to the skillet.

I've done the above method with about half and blanching and freezing the rest for casseroles. We have 35 packs so far, so aiming for a few more before bugs get them.

 

[sportsman94]

Great harvest ngamtns! We’re getting about 5 gallons of cucumbers/squash/zucchini/cherry tomatoes every other day or so. The squash and zucchini are getting hit pretty hard with mildew so their days are getting very numbered. Anybody planting mildew resistant varieties? I did with my cucumbers and they look great. Guess it’ll be time to pony up on better squash seed next time around

 

[fireman32]

Great looking harvests in here. We've reached our limit of sqush for the freezer, and just in time. Vine borers have shown up. Cucumbers are starting to produce and we have a few softball sized cantoloupes on the vine. Tomatoes are very slow, but steady coming on.

 

[livinoutdoors]

Great harvest ngamtns! We’re getting about 5 gallons of cucumbers/squash/zucchini/cherry tomatoes every other day or so. The squash and zucchini are getting hit pretty hard with mildew so their days are getting very numbered. Anybody planting mildew resistant varieties? I did with my cucumbers and they look great. Guess it’ll be time to pony up on better squash seed next time around

Ive had good luck with "tender gray" squash. Seems to hang on a produce better than some. Still has a time when the bugs get it and it goes.

 

[ucfireman]

Got the email that my sweet potato slips shipped today so came and made two furrows and filled them with compost. Have enough slips for three rows, but I’m out of room. If anyone needs 30-40 slips around Houston county let me know.

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Anyone else have a web of strings tying up their tomatoes? Have a few one off plants and that seemed like the best way to do it.

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Interesting way of tying up the tomatoes with the rebar and strings, I use wire cages but I like your idea.

 

[ucfireman]

Picked my first green beans, I guess my 1 bumble bee did its job. About 1/2 a gallon.
Yall spend way more time in yalls garden than I do, Mine doesn't look or put out near what yalls are, but its been dry too and I'm tired of watering.

 

[sportsman94]

Interesting way of tying up the tomatoes with the rebar and strings, I use wire cages but I like your idea.

This is my first year doing it like that. One plant that I did it on is just at the end of a row of determinate tomatoes. I knew the cherry would grow way more than the others, so didn’t want to include it in the weave trellis. The other had two tomatoes on the end of a pepper row and the reasoning was the same. It seems that I be working pretty good though. I make a loop in the end of the string, wrap it around the limb I want to hold up, then run the string back through the loop before tying. I figured it would prevent the string from girdling then plant