lesa
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Looking good, Jared! Pumpkins are so fun to watch grow... it is about as close as you can get to instant gratification in gardening!!
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SuperChemicalGirl
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Very green and nice. Much nicer looking than mine. I've got small leaves this year. I'll have to post some pictures.
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SuperChemicalGirl
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Here's some pictures...
Pumpkin plant working hard at making a lot of (little) leaves:
Area of the pumpkin patch that has really started taking off the past few (sunny) days:
Area of the pumpkin patch that's not doing too terrible:
Area of the pumpkin patch doing abysmally:
Now, just so you guys can get a good laugh... here's some more pictures for you of my gardening prowess...
Tomatoes in buckets... pretty much the same treatment, one's a big tomato one's a cherry plant. Exhibit A (right) looks great... Exhibit B - almost dead:
But here's my favorite example of my great skills. Note nice cultivated (new) raised bed system. Note corn in raised bed is anemic and sad. Note corn planted IN MY LAWN looks nice lush and green:
Pumpkin plant working hard at making a lot of (little) leaves:
Area of the pumpkin patch that has really started taking off the past few (sunny) days:
Area of the pumpkin patch that's not doing too terrible:
Area of the pumpkin patch doing abysmally:
Now, just so you guys can get a good laugh... here's some more pictures for you of my gardening prowess...
Tomatoes in buckets... pretty much the same treatment, one's a big tomato one's a cherry plant. Exhibit A (right) looks great... Exhibit B - almost dead:
But here's my favorite example of my great skills. Note nice cultivated (new) raised bed system. Note corn in raised bed is anemic and sad. Note corn planted IN MY LAWN looks nice lush and green:
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Aww Super, nobodies going to laugh at you! I think your pumpkins in picture one look great, are they growing on a slight slope?
I noticed the smallest ones are growing near a building, are they in a bit more shade than the others? They also may be getting more moisture from the sloping ground.
What kind of soil did you fill the bed with? Corn is such a heavy feeder maybe it needs a dose of fertilizer to catch up with the "lawn corn". I think with a bit of warmer dryer weather your plants are going to catch up.
I would definitely fertilize your corn soon tho'.
I like your new raised bed, and that's a creative stand for the topsy-turvy planters! Did you make it?
I noticed the smallest ones are growing near a building, are they in a bit more shade than the others? They also may be getting more moisture from the sloping ground.
What kind of soil did you fill the bed with? Corn is such a heavy feeder maybe it needs a dose of fertilizer to catch up with the "lawn corn". I think with a bit of warmer dryer weather your plants are going to catch up.
I would definitely fertilize your corn soon tho'.
I like your new raised bed, and that's a creative stand for the topsy-turvy planters! Did you make it?
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You guys are welcome to laugh... I certainly do.thistlebloom said:
The pumpkin patch is the garden next to my house. It faces west so it doesn't get the most sun in the world. The far corner that's doing the best gets the best sun. However, that area is doing better than the front yard which faces east. Unfortunately my south side is mostly trees.
I filled the raised beds with Miracle Gro Organic Garden Soil. Once I saw that everything was dying in both of those raised beds I did a bit of looking and apparently (although it's labeled garden soil) it's not meant to be used as sole soil. It's really bad soil, most of it is sticks and pieces of bark. I'm going to dig it out in the fall and put real soil and compost in. I've been fertilizing the plants in both those raised beds with the chicken poop tea I've had brewing for a few months now. The corn perked up a little bit and some of it turned green again. I did one of those cheap home soil tests on it and got "low" for nitrogen content for the soil in there, so I'll keep using my poop tea. I'm using 10 ml per gallon, not sure if that's enough.
My boyfriend is the builder, he made the raised beds and the Topsy Turvey holder (and the chicken coop, and the brooder, my potato bins and my firewood holders...). We don't have an awful lot of gardening space here (and way too many rocks/granite to start tilling things up), so the Topsy Turveys do their work for us. Here's a slightly better picture for you:
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My first Pumpkin on this years vines! It's one of the volunteer's:
lesa
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Supergirl- your gardens look great! You have an awfully short season, up there in Vactionland! So much of gardening is an experiment... My guess is that you will not use that space for corn again. I think you could get a much bigger and more usable crop- from beans, etc. I tried a patch of corn, twice.... and now I don't grow it at all. If the crows weren't eating the seeds, the raccoon were eating the cobs!!
The hanger for the topsy turvy is a great idea. I tried mine next to a building - and the plant broke right off in the wind!! The only way to succeed with those is to have them out in the open, like that.
Since you have chickens- I would do an experiment and side dress some of those smaller pumpkins with a little poop, and bedding...
Happy Gardening!
The hanger for the topsy turvy is a great idea. I tried mine next to a building - and the plant broke right off in the wind!! The only way to succeed with those is to have them out in the open, like that.
Since you have chickens- I would do an experiment and side dress some of those smaller pumpkins with a little poop, and bedding...
Happy Gardening!
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SCG there's nothing to laugh at. The pumpkins look good. Heck you should see my 1 cherry tomato plant. For the longest time it was quite pathetic. Now its just starting to come back around. The other one looks fantastic. My pole beans are just now starting to climb and its after the 4th of July. I put them in Memorial Day weeked. For the longest time they look stunted and just recently they've decided to climb. We've all gone through setbacks. I've had some setbacks with things I thought would do just fine, and a few that absolutely SHOULD do fine but didn't do squat for me. The biggest thing you can do is learn from your experiences. If something doesn't work, take note of it and change it. If something works, remember it and try expanding on it. Don't let the big impressive and beautiful gardens you see on here bother you, and don't compare them with yours. Weather conditions, and soil conditions alone are why I don't compare my efforts to anybody elses. In the mean time Id try what Lesa suggested.
Something to think about next year, did you look at the Siberian tomatoes? Given your shorter season these might be right up your alley. I'm going to grow some myself next year to see if I can't get some early tomatoes myself since we've had some cool starts to spring especially at night. Don't be afraid to get creative and do a succession planting with a variety like this too. Ive done that with Early Girls before too so Id rather have 2 batches of 50+ day tomatoes 2x vs waiting on 1 batch of 85-90 day tomatoes that we might not get if the weather changes. Sometimes you have to plan like that.
Please keep in mind too that I pamper that big pumpkin A LOT. I'm not kidding. I make it a point to hand feed/water that pumpkin almost daily. Its fed easily 3x a week if not more often. Sometimes I forget if I've fed it and it gets fed more frequently, but its watered almost daily. If I thought that music would help that pumpkin grow, Id be playing everything from Led Zepplin to the Mozart to gauge its musical tastes. My wife is reading over my shoulder and is nodding her head as I typed that. The other pumpkins I haven't done anything speical with yet. They've flowered and I will start feeding them once I start to see pumpkins develop. The big pumpkin is in the SW corner of the bed too, so it gets the most sun of anything in the garden.
Lesa your right I think anybody who has issues with patience and gardens needs a pumpkin plant or too they absolutely fit that gratifitying nitch.
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SCG there's nothing to laugh at. The pumpkins look good. Heck you should see my 1 cherry tomato plant. For the longest time it was quite pathetic. Now its just starting to come back around. The other one looks fantastic. My pole beans are just now starting to climb and its after the 4th of July. I put them in Memorial Day weeked. For the longest time they look stunted and just recently they've decided to climb. We've all gone through setbacks. I've had some setbacks with things I thought would do just fine, and a few that absolutely SHOULD do fine but didn't do squat for me. The biggest thing you can do is learn from your experiences. If something doesn't work, take note of it and change it. If something works, remember it and try expanding on it. Don't let the big impressive and beautiful gardens you see on here bother you, and don't compare them with yours. Weather conditions, and soil conditions alone are why I don't compare my efforts to anybody elses. In the mean time Id try what Lesa suggested.
Something to think about next year, did you look at the Siberian tomatoes? Given your shorter season these might be right up your alley. I'm going to grow some myself next year to see if I can't get some early tomatoes myself since we've had some cool starts to spring especially at night. Don't be afraid to get creative and do a succession planting with a variety like this too. Ive done that with Early Girls before too so Id rather have 2 batches of 50+ day tomatoes 2x vs waiting on 1 batch of 85-90 day tomatoes that we might not get if the weather changes. Sometimes you have to plan like that.
Please keep in mind too that I pamper that big pumpkin A LOT. I'm not kidding. I make it a point to hand feed/water that pumpkin almost daily. Its fed easily 3x a week if not more often. Sometimes I forget if I've fed it and it gets fed more frequently, but its watered almost daily. If I thought that music would help that pumpkin grow, Id be playing everything from Led Zepplin to the Mozart to gauge its musical tastes. My wife is reading over my shoulder and is nodding her head as I typed that. The other pumpkins I haven't done anything speical with yet. They've flowered and I will start feeding them once I start to see pumpkins develop. The big pumpkin is in the SW corner of the bed too, so it gets the most sun of anything in the garden.
Lesa your right I think anybody who has issues with patience and gardens needs a pumpkin plant or too they absolutely fit that gratifitying nitch.
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good its been thundering and lighting here for 2 days only rained the night of the 4th tho although humidity is in the 55-85 all day they still look healthy tho and BLOOMED HUGE this morning so hopefully this will be beneficial 
my pumpkins were about that size SCG maybe 3 weeks ago? then they just SHOT out of the ground vining all over the place lol
my pumpkins were about that size SCG maybe 3 weeks ago? then they just SHOT out of the ground vining all over the place lol
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We'll I'm pretty much out of the "big" race - The big pumpkin in the front bed had some catastrophes with the baby pumpkins and now there's nothing on the plant except cucumber beetles. Hopefully in the next few days some more babies will come out.
The one in the front yard that was starting to pick up got the vining portion of it eaten off last night by a critter.
but....!!
My rouge vif d'etampes has a viable baby pumpkin that is (get this) actually growing... this was just a few minutes ago:
The one in the front yard that was starting to pick up got the vining portion of it eaten off last night by a critter.
but....!!
My rouge vif d'etampes has a viable baby pumpkin that is (get this) actually growing... this was just a few minutes ago:
