How Does Your Garden Grow??????

The wife and I have decided to have a wood and glass greenhouse built. We are just waiting for the right time to do it. I have enough glass for about half of it now, and haven't really tried rounding up old windows yet. I thought I had a deal with a cool contractor. He would have taken partial payment in smoke. But his business has blown up since then. He is jacking his price up to discourage folks from hiring him. Too busy for a small project like that.

sandhill larry said:

Saw the first squash blooms yesterday. Shouldn't be too long now.

View attachment 3937507

View attachment 3937514

Click to expand...

I love

sandhill larry said:

Saw the first squash blooms yesterday. Shouldn't be too long now.

View attachment 3937507

View attachment 3937514

Click to expand...

When i was a youngster my dad would pick squash blooms in the morning and cut them up and mix them in our scrambled eggs. ( man i miss dad and those eggs). Looking great man and thank you for reminding me about those days

thewanderer718 said:

I love

When i was a youngster my dad would pick squash blooms in the morning and cut them up and mix them in our scrambled eggs. ( man i miss dad and those eggs). Looking great man and thank you for reminding me about those days

Click to expand...

Sister cooks with them, but I can't remember exactly how she does it. I'm with you on missing my dad. He's been gone for 15 years, which doesn't even sound right saying it.

sandhill larry said:

Sister cooks with them, but I can't remember exactly how she does it. I'm with you on missing my dad. He's been gone for 15 years, which doesn't even sound right saying it.

Click to expand...

Yea mine has been gone going on two years now. I still have some ruff days

thewanderer718 said:

Yea mine has been gone going on two years now. I still have some ruff days

Click to expand...

Time does round off the rough edges.

sandhill larry said:

They are looking good. That short growing season must be a bitch. Last year I started some sweet corn inside under lights, and all my southern e-gardening friends thought I was crazy. But there were a couple of folks from up your way, and they said they had to start corn inside or it wouldn't make it in time to market.

Click to expand...

that's what a lot of farmers do up here,they put the black plastic on the rows so they can get plant a week or two early

thumper60 said:

that's what a lot of farmers do up here,they put the black plastic on the rows so they can get plant a week or two early

Click to expand...

Lots of tomatoes and peppers grown around here. They mound up the dirt and cover it with black plastic to get an early start too. They run drip lines under the plastic. You never want to get tomato plants wet if you can help it.

I've been doing a lot of work in the garden, but haven't had time to post much on here. Here is some Jalapeno in the pepper pit.

I got a scoop of mushroom compost this week. Fifteen bucks, or three per swimming pool.

I side dressed and mounded up dirt around the bigger melon plants, while trying to avoid stepping on the replants. These guys are pretty lucky. {see my foot prints on both sides of them}

I side dressed and worked the okra. Came back and hand watered everything. Early on I ran the sprinklers, and the weeds tried to take over.

Picked the first squash of the year today. I was hiking most of the week, and damn it if they didn't keep growing while I was walking. Might be a hair too big.

Last week I dug 13 holes and added 2 gallons of mushroom compost to each. I let it sit in the sun for a week to cool off.


Got out this morning and mixed that in with my sandy soil.



I had about 20 of the 2014 saved seed Crimson Sweet sprouts that needed planting.



Gave each a gallon of weak coffee ground compost tea.



You can see how my sand sucks up the water. Should have rain the next couple three days, so hope they do alright.

I like your techniques of growing garden

Susan Harris said:

I like your techniques of growing garden

Click to expand...

Thank you. I really need to spend more time in the garden. But time seems to be in short supply.

Roche Mars said:

Click to expand...

Had one of these lights given to me...... yeah, I also gave it away.LOL

This morning I got the tomatoes in the new Redneck Rain Gutter Grow System. I need to scoop out an inch or so of sod on the high end, then it will be pretty level.

6 Pruden's Purple, 1 Yellow Pear and 4 Brandywine. There is a good sized tomato on one of the Brandywines.

Spaghetti squash.



Not sure what kind this is, but the wife cooked some in stir-fry for lunch, and it was good. {this is a pretty small one}



We did find the name of this one with Google, but I don't remember what it is. Have not tried one of these yet.

Saw the first little Crimson Sweet melons this morning.



And the re-plants are coming along nicely.