2025 Garden!

[brymoore]

Lunch time garden pick. Fava beans were a half failure. I planted twice as many as I should. Instead of a double the amount of beans, I got about half as many as normal, maybe less.

Tomatoes and cucumbers keep giving a few every few days. Corn is in silk and growing. My failed green bean crop shows promise. We’ll have beans soon. Peppers have fruit. Wife experimented with eggplants. I’ll have to take a pic. I’m not sure when to pick. They’re purple but medium size.

 

[IDFireLass]

My folks use to grow eggplants. I never have can't stand the things. So good luck there. Just thinking about the eggplants. I don't think you want them very big about the size you are talking about to eat.
My green beans are doing great this year. Some years it isn't worth trying to grow them. But finding out with raised beds. Don't grow the same thing in the same bed every year. I change everything up and having a little better luck.
Started buying tomatoes from the Amish store south of Salmon and they have 2 kinds I really like Amish paste a Roma type and Mountain Fresh that puts out a huge tomato. I've had very little luck with Early girl and big boy up here.
My corn isn't tall but it's making ears and has silk. I fed the garden yesterday. This time of year it seems like it takes more food for everything to keep going.
Have beans to can and dill pickles to make this weekend. Then I should be done with those. Actually I should be about done canning. Unless I want to make salsa.
We have a guy come in from Kuna with a huge enclosed trailer full of veggies and fruit. He almost sells out every trip. I'll buy my peppers from him if I don't miss him.
I've figured out I have to buy seeds that grow and mature in under 60 days to get anything up here. Haven't had any luck growing acorn squash they just take too long. I can do watermelon if I get the personal sized ones. Also pumpkins on the small size.
Always a learning curve here.

 

[CRJR45]

My wife picked her first Avacado off a tree we planted.
The pit was Huge ! But it tasted great .

 

[np307]

Calling it tomorrow for the tomatoes. Just gonna go ahead and take them down. Weather has been rough for growing them the last month or so and my mind is already turned to fall planting. On the other hand, my peppers are really popping off now. Okra looks great and I'm about to start cutting pods. No idea what the beans' problem is, but they were just planted for nitrogen in that bed so not super worried about it.

 

[Sask hunter]

I’m the worst at taking pictures. Picking 1/3-1/2 a bucket every 2-3 days out of our half a row of yellow beans. Our 1.5 rows of green beans haven’t started yet. Will be busy when they start producing. Few more onions ready today. Lots of green tomatoes starting to pop up now. The wife also made four jars of pickles yesterday

 

[buckbull]

Ive thrown away most of my cantelope because of splitting but manage to get 2 in good shape. Picked earlier than i wanted but didnt want to leave them to just split.

 

[Gellar]

We are leaving in a few hours for the rest of the week. Is it better to pick the veggies that will be ready in the next couple of days and ripen them on the kitchen counter or leave them on the vine and pick them when I get back? I’ll have tomatoes both big and cherry, green and jalapeño peppers and cucumbers ready to pick while gone.

 

[buckbull]

We are leaving in a few hours for the rest of the week. Is it better to pick the veggies that will be ready in the next couple of days and ripen them on the kitchen counter or leave them on the vine and pick them when I get back? I’ll have tomatoes both big and cherry, green and jalapeño peppers and cucumbers ready to pick while gone.

If it were me, id pick now. Interested in seeing the responses as my advice is a guess. I dont think things turning ripe now will last a week.

 

[IDFireLass]

I'd pick and put on the counter.
Buckbull, I think you over watered your cantaloupe. New of a guy who grew them and he didn't water them very much. They were solid and very sweet.

All the canning is done or at least with the pressure canner.
Pulled the Armenian cucumbers. They weren't producing and what little they did they didn't have a good taste this season.
The garden is growing smaller.

 

[buckbull]

I'd pick and put on the counter.
Buckbull, I think you over watered your cantaloupe. New of a guy who grew them and he didn't water them very much. They were solid and very sweet.

All the canning is done or at least with the pressure canner.
Pulled the Armenian cucumbers. They weren't producing and what little they did they didn't have a good taste this season.
The garden is growing smaller.

Over watering makes sense. I had 7+ inches of rain in just a couple of hours a couple weeks ago. Lots of split tomatos as well.

 

[IDFireLass]

buckbull, you can send any all rain our direction. Extremely dry here. Almost to the point of sneezing and you can start a fire.

 

[brymoore]

Tonight’s pick.

Corn is getting close.
Wife’s eggplants. I have no idea when to pick them. I’m not interested in eating them either.

Green beans. Wife’s purple French beans failed. My blue lake’s are doing well. No beans yet. I planted them late.

Cauliflower start. We’ll see if I get a fall crop.

I have a country yard. Elk are eating the clover to the ground outside my garden leaving clumps of grass.

 

[IDFireLass]

brymore, SHOW OFF!
The egg plants look a little big. But what do I know about them.
Got the water all wrong with my corn and it's short. We'll see if we can eat anything or it's horse food.

 

[buckbull]

Cantelope arriving in spades.

 

[IDFireLass]

Who do you guys buy your garden items from?

 

[Islander]

Wifey started a "pool garden" this year. About 12 grow bags on the patio with sweet potatoes, orange trees, tomatoes, and even a mango. Her first "garden" in the 41 years we've been married. She also started studying Feinman and other physics writers. Call me surprised...or shocked. She's an English major, nurse, retired bank marketing Mary Kay Lady.

Momma possum loved those tomatoes, so I made her a little cage.

 

[np307]

The weather that killed my tomatoes has produced some magnificent okra plants. Fried some up last night.

 

[np307]

Who do you guys buy your garden items from?

Local garden store. They're a pretty awesome operation, mulch and stone yard, trees and shrubs, flowers, vegetable plants, seeds, chemicals, literally anything you could need and knowledgeable staff to help.

If I want a particular variety and need to order seeds that they dont have, I usually use Johnny's or another online retailer.

 

[WildWill]

Who do you guys buy your garden items from?

Burpee for seed and Ace for the rest dirt, tools, pesticide, etc.





My wife has a vision of taking photos of our new baby in a pumpkin patch in our backyard and has tasked me with making it so . Never grown pumpkins but have done lots of squash, watermelon, and cantaloupe so will see. Surrendered a raised bed and a couple barrels for the project hope they don’t get out of hand. It's not all for the gram as the kids say these days though they are sugar pie pumpkin plants. Should make some good pie come Thanksgiving! Heat finally got to the tomatoes so I pulled them from the raised bed and will replace with some sugar snap pea and broccoli seedlings that are about ready to go into the ground. Crazy I'm still getting asparagus in August proof of just how wet it's been this year.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Been distracted with other things, but garden is thriving now. Expect the beef steaks to be ready next week or so. Peppers will take longer so I think