2018 Garden Thread

[2thDoc]

so, are the eggs from a squash bug?

[Highstrung]

Our sweet corn is ready. I'm pretty stoked about that. Tomato pies and sweet corn all weekend, Yeaaaaaaaaaaya

[Spur hunter]

Our sweet corn is ready. I'm pretty stoked about that. Tomato pies and sweet corn all weekend, Yeaaaaaaaaaaya

Still behind you a good bit but I got a few zuch and straight neck squash coming in already this week. Corn looks like it's gonna make, good stand of beans and lots of tomatoes showing though none close to ripe yet. Okra, well I will have enough to feed most here probably.

[SaltMuck]

Boll weevil eggs. You're screwed, best pick everything before "the hatch".

[papagood]

caught my black lab sneaking out of the garden with a tennis ball sized bell pepper in her mouth. no telling how many she's already eaten.

[Southernduck]

Johnny reb is correct

[Highstrung]

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[Johnny Reb]

Ate some sweet corn from Bowman last night!


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[Spur hunter]

Getting some squash, zuchs and a few tomatoes. Corn starting to tassle, beans (lost some the last two weeks in spite of watering) are starting to bloom. Okra knee high. Cantaloupe about the size of softballs. Behind this year but still appears we will make a bit of stuff, Good LORD willing.

[Spur hunter]

July 4th

[Spur hunter]

Corn made about 2/3 crop. Still a bit on the upper half that may make yet. Squash, zuch, okra gone wild. 4 cantaloupe plants in high gear, counted 30+ on them yesterday eve. Tomatoes doing ok. Heat worked on the beans, blooming but not making much at all and lots of skips. Planning to replant a late crop when I cut the corn.

[Spur hunter]

Some

[Spur hunter]

Normal stuff

Last picking of corn and beans which only made two laps.

Cut the corn Saturday and plowed it and beans under. Replanted with 8 rows of beans and 3 rows of crowder peas. If they make there should be plenty to go around.

[Catdaddy]

My tomatoes have done well this year with all the rain.

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[Spur hunter]

And me and knucklehead have built 2300' of 5 strand barb wire and about 80' of split rail fences this summer so far. Still got about 80' of split rail to go this week and another 300' of barb wire fence yet. Hope to finish those up in the next week or two.

[Spur hunter]

Dang Bunn, sorry to bore you with my garden posts. Just reporting in where I'm still gardening. Beans are coming up and I ended up with one double row about 12" apart. At first I thought some of the seeds had migrated due to the heavy rain last week. Finally decided it was where I tilled in the last crop and a bunch were coming up voluntary.

[murraywader]

I have more tomatoes and tomatillos than I know what to do with right now.

[Spur hunter]

Fair crop for us but they haven't been the prettiest. Lots with cracked tops around the stem, some were thick skinned earlier. Got enough okra for all of us here, 2 gallon bucket full a day is the norm. Cantaloupes did real well this year and still 25 or so on the vines. I carry a stick to beat the women off me here at work when I bring one of them in to give away.

[papagood]

This is my first year doing a big garden. My soil (red clay) will probably hurt my yields but I'm learning a lot. I tilled in 2 scoops of mushroom compost but it didn't make a visible difference in the dirt. Next year I hope to plant a cover crop, till it under in February and get the Clemson extension to test my soil.

Between the frost last week and the heavy rains this week I've still got all of these growing in garage windows. I've been putting them out in the sun to "harden off" when the weather is nice. I plan to transplant this weekend.
10 bell peppers (green, red and yellow)
6 banana peppers
6 Park's Whopper Improved tomatoes
6 Better Boy tomatoes
2 Supersweet 100 cherry tomatoes

I'm planting these from seed:
20 ft of blue lakes
30 ft of sugar buns hybrid corn
15 ft of Clemson spineless okra
2 squash
2 zucchini
2 watermelon