Gardening Talk

[UB 40]

My wife and I joined a community garden this year and have our own 4x20 plot. We are growing green beans, purple potatoes, and sunflowers. My wife and a new garden friend are also in charge of two smaller community plots where they are growing a mix of perennial and annual herbs. The sunflowers are just starting to bloom. The potatoes have been the most fun as we've mounded up as much as our plot allows and they have been going crazy. A few years ago we grew sugar snap peas and they grew much quicker than our green beans. The green beans also seem to like to climb on the vertical posts more the the string we stretched horizontally, so we have to rectify that this week. I'm not a green thumb by any means, but this has certainly been a fun experience. Here are a few pics from earlier today.
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Beautiful!

 

[Egg Shen]

 

[fireground_piper]

What are those orange berries?

 

[scloyd]

I planted pumpkins for the first time. I thinned them out to five plants. If I get two pumpkins for my grandsons, I'll consider that a success.

Here's my pumpkin plants this morning.

I'm not much of a gardener. I pretty much just stuck some seeds in the ground and water them. I'm hoping for at least two pumpkins, one for each grandson.

 

[FLDRD]

Here's my pumpkin plants this morning.
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I'm not much of a gardener. I pretty much just stuck some seeds in the ground and water them. I'm hoping for at least two pumpkins, one for each grandson.

You have enough blooms to expect more unless the bugs get'em.

 

[Egg Shen]

What are those orange berries?

Just an orange raspberry. I like them the most out of the several colors I’m growing I think.

 

[mbmoehl]

One of our sunflowers blossomed yesterday, love these half crimson ones.

 

[troutface]

Happy to report that most of the garden is rebounding from that lengthy hail storm, aside from the lettuce, which was starting to bolt anyway. Still amazed at how hardy some plants are ! May get a half decent harvest after all.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

LOL, mine got in late so I’ve harvested, as of yesterday, one piddly jalapeño. It looks like one of those things they have on the see your urologist for “x” new medicine ads. Unsettling.

 

[troutface]

In Colorado you don't want to get in the ground too early because of the dreaded late freeze/snow. Between that and the hail, gardening is an adventure here !

 

[FLDRD]

 

[UB 40]

First bunch of tomatoes:

 

[FLDRD]

I've been eating grape tomatoes for a couple of weeks...

I may have to learn about amending my soil, I have tomatoes and potatoes that are "splitting" and I don't recall that problem in the past.

Perhaps something in my watering cycle or methods...?

 

[scloyd]

My first pumpkin. That's a good sign. Hopefully, I'll get a few more.

 

[Old_Newby]

Tomatoes and Cantelope or Honeydew melons are always my main focus. I then change up annually between Okra, Squash, Zuccuni, Green Beans, Peppers. For winter I grow garlic and onions, and spinach.

 

[FLDRD]

My first pumpkin. That's a good sign. Hopefully, I'll get a few more.
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Soon you'll have to watch out for the dreaded little "squash" bugs. Look like miniature left-overs from the days of the dinosaurs and stink when you squash them. I never found a good solution to eliminate them. I had a season without any, and at least one where they "got it all".

 

[scloyd]

Soon you'll have to watch out for the dreaded little "squash" bugs. Look like miniature left-overs from the days of the dinosaurs and stink when you squash them. I never found a good solution to eliminate them. I had a season without any, and at least one where they "got it all".

Thanks for the heads up. I check on the plants everyday.

 

[fireground_piper]

Soon you'll have to watch out for the dreaded little "squash" bugs. Look like miniature left-overs from the days of the dinosaurs and stink when you squash them. I never found a good solution to eliminate them. I had a season without any, and at least one where they "got it all".

Iv been fighting that battle on the cucumbers this year. Unfortunately I went away for 6 days and it looks like they took that opportunity to do some damage.

On the bright side, I came back and the tobacco plants are almost all flowering and large.

 

[Streeper541]

It's opening day of zucchini season round my parts!

 

[UB 40]

I've been eating grape tomatoes for a couple of weeks...

I may have to learn about amending my soil, I have tomatoes and potatoes that are "splitting" and I don't recall that problem in the past.

Perhaps something in my watering cycle or methods...?

Grape tomatoes are early, this year we have them, they are early. I don’t count them as real tomato because I stuff them in my mouth every time I pass by and see some red ones. They don’t make their way into the kitchen.