How is your garden doing so far?

[jlmann]

Thank you! I thought they were pretty neat.

 

[karanleaf]

OOOoooo that is wonderful.

I bet it would taste great with abit of salt and between two pieces of buttered home baked bread yummy

I will have to get some of those seeds. :watering That is a nice radish

:happy_flower Karan

 

[vfem]

Welcome back!!! you were missed, and your garden too!!!

That Radish is amazing!!! I am sooooooooooooo going to have to pick through seeds at kmart now. I have the white long carrot looking radishes, which I like the 'hot' to them... I love spicey in my veggies.

The garden does look fabulous, and it looks like your cabbage is ready to turn into saurkraut... you should looking in the canning/recipe section for the 'how to' that is going on there. Big Brown Horse has got some AMAZING Saurkraut going on... mine however didn't make it. I will be trying again. :tools

Anyways, my garden has gotten huge... however my tomatoes contracted Early Blight fungus and we're going through fungal treatments as of right now. So far most of them have bounced back and are producing well. I've already eaten some Brandywine tomatoes that were ready. Had to burn 3 plants total so far though that just could not recover.

I'll have to come back and post some pictures of everything. I harvested some cucumbers today that were a great size. I've got MAD corn developing (that means ALOT not that its pissed off or anything), as well as flowers all over my watermelon plants, and spinach and radishes growing under the shade of tomato plants and cucumber leaves

Its a JUNGLE out there!!!!

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi!

This article gives the other names for the Watermelon Radish if you have to trace it next year. I just came across it while looking for something else. You really can't miss it because it looks so beautiful. When I was in Hong Kong I notice that they carve it to use it as a garnish on their large serving dishes.

http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/?p=894


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[jlmann]

Thanks Hattie! It did say on the seed pack they originated in China. It's just so much easier to get them at the local Kmart, so I'm hoping I can find them next year. I bet they were nice garnishes in the hands of an experienced carver. I would recommend them to anyone as they are very vigorous growers and have a good flavor too! Have a good day guys, I'm off to cut the lawn.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

I've got flowers on my zucchini -- at long last.........

I'm like a child -- I'm so thrilled !! All my many tomatoes are doing well & coming into flower one by one.
The cucumber vines are getting larger, but no flowers yet.

Hey! LIFE IS GOOD...!! :rainbow-sun


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[jlmann]

Good for you! I ended up planting my tomatoes very late this year, so I probably won't see blooms until next month Oh well. Everything is doing really well out there though. I got most everything mulched with some nice , fresh grass clippings yesterday , so I'm in good shape for a while now. This is my favorite time of year in the garden - everything is in the ground and mulched and I can just sit back and watch things grow. Might have to water a little , but my "to do" list is fairly short for now! HAPPY GARDENING!

 

[Ridgerunner]

It's hard to believe a short to do list this time of year. Where do you live?

I started 8-1/2 pounds of shredded cabbage becoming sauerkraut, put up 7 pints of freezer kole slaw, froze almost 4 pounds of kale, and put netting around my blackberries to keep the deer away within the last week and a half. Yesterday I canned 8 pints of beet greens and have over 4 gallons of beets to can today.

I have trellised my tomatoes (some tomatoes are setting on) and some pole beans but have cucumbers and some more pole beans to trellis. I need to mulch my beans soon and add to mulch in various places. There is always more weeding to do. The first flowers have shown on my zucchini and crooked necked squash, so that won't be long. My eggplant and some peppers are blooming but that will take longer. And I really need to finish that chicken run within the next month.

I'm not complaining. I've had my failures. Onions and spinach all bolted. My first planting of beans, corn, squash/gourd type plants, and okra failed to germnate when a three or four day period or predicted rain became three weeks of rain every day and cool weather so I replanted. I think my garden is now doing great.

 

[jlmann]

I'm in southwest Virginia. The reason my to do list is short right now is I'm kind of between seasons right now. The peas, radishes and lettuces are all about finished and the cabbages and brussel sprouts have around a month to go. My tomatoes , squash, cukes and beans have only been in the ground for maybe 3 1/2 weeks, so I'm enjoying a little break while I can! I'm pretty caught up on weeding and most things are big enough to choke out any weeds and the mulch helps too. So , yeah , a short to do list for now. Probably won't last too long though.

 

[Reinbeau]

It's been so cool, the eggplants and peppers are sulking, and now we've had cloudy, rainy days on end, with a few breaks, this is a very cool June, which I normally wouldn't mind, cool is good, but wet and damp isn't! No damage out there yet, but if this keeps up, things will definitely not go well.