2025 Garden!

[IDFireLass]

SDPG, I'm jealous of your peppers. Those look good.

I use Johnny's seeds and other products. Bought their conduit bender and made hoops, bought the plastic from them too. Only problem is the shipping.
I use A.M. Leonard some fantastic digging products. Hoes, stirrup hoes, rakes and so on and so forth. They will last me the rest of my life and who ever gets them after I pass on.
Found some great bagged soil for raised beds or in the ground from Sam's Club of all places and the bags are big enough and price is good.
I buy local once in a while if in a jam.

 

[buckbull]

 

[IDFireLass]

Well bb I'm getting tomatoes but nothing like you are. How many plants do you have?
I thought my 13 was bad enough. Only have 5 Roma style plants and the rest a real good eating mater.

 

[Keep on]

Got some space cleared out in the garden yesterday and planted some lettuce, spinach, beans and peas. Looks like the dog days of Summer are over, but should still be able to beat the frost for some late season fresh veggies. If not, I'm only out a couple dollars worth of seed, seeds were 50% off at the garden center.

 

[WesternWyoming]

So jealous of everyone’s tomatoes! Not possible to grow them outside here and no greenhouse. But peas did great! Raspberries producing like crazy.

 

[brymoore]

I keep forgetting to take pictures.

We picked about a bushel of white onions a few days ago. We’re going to make salsa out of some of them and store the rest. We have about a bushel of red onions ready too. Wife’s going to pickle a portion and store the rest.

Wife’s canning pickle relish this weekend.

Corn is almost ready. We’ll eat a bunch fresh and can the rest. We used to freeze our corn but experimented with canning last year. Half canned, half frozen. Canned corn was better by a lot.

Garden is weedy again.

 

[buckbull]

Well bb I'm getting tomatoes but nothing like you are. How many plants do you have?
I thought my 13 was bad enough. Only have 5 Roma style plants and the rest a real good eating mater.

45. Mostly San marzanos and romas. I make alot of tomato juice and those 2 varieties are great for that. Also have some cherry and tiger romas.

 

[IDFireLass]

BB, you win! Making my last salsa batch this weekend then done with canning totally.

brymoore, started pulling some of my onions that are ready. I have potatoes to dig but it seems early and really don't have a good place to store them in this heat. I knew better than to plant potatoes.
I'm done with the green beans. Going to pull the plants. It's getting close to bird hunting time. To heck with the garden. LOL

 

[IDFireLass]

Beans are pulled, dug the one bed of red potatoes yesterday. Will brush them off then place in some 10 lb sacks I bought last summer. Even pulled one watermelon plant that produce two melons.
The other plant had one nice melon and one new one coming on. Since it's in the green house I'll let it go for a while longer. As soon as I'm done with the last batch of salsa I may even think of pulling the Amish paste plants (giant Romas).
I'm usually sad when the gardening season starts to come to an end. I guess the new shotgun has me to excited to worry about the garden. Can't wait to get out and try it.

 

[buckbull]

Watermelon out of the garden is so much better than store bought.

 

[buckbull]

 

[IDFireLass]

BB you win again! Where the heck do you live to produce product like that?
I've been buying the small personal sized watermelons. Have such a short growing season here. Can do 60 -65 days of good growing then it's over with more or less.
I buy seed that germinate in 60 or less days. Works pretty good for me. Just if we had some nice black soil!
This glacier slit or what ever it is is terrible.

 

[buckbull]

BB you win again! Where the heck do you live to produce product like that?
I've been buying the small personal sized watermelons. Have such a short growing season here. Can do 60 -65 days of good growing then it's over with more or less.
I buy seed that germinate in 60 or less days. Works pretty good for me. Just if we had some nice black soil!
This glacier slit or what ever it is is terrible.

Central illinois. We obviously have good soil here. Plenty of rain this year too. I've only watered 3 time and of those 2 were because I was going on business trips and was concerned about not getting rain. Plan on watering in the morning, it's dry.

 

[BAKPAKR]

My garden mainly has zinnias and sunflowers (and weeds). The bees, butterflies, and birds love it.

 

[IDFireLass]

Nice photos

 

[brymoore]

My garden is winding down but I’m stubborn. I don’t pull plants and fight frost as long as I can. I’ve lost my entire garden to a killer frost Labor Day weekend in the past. Thanks to global warming, I’ve reached October the past few years.

We ate our first batch of corn last night. Delicious. It’s just starting due to my late planting this year. green beans have just started too. Tomatoes are riping fast enough to can.

I need to go pick now.

 

[brymoore]

Today’s picking. I picked enough corn for lunch. We have more corn ready than I thought. We might have to do a canning batch.

Broccoli might need pulled. About 1/4 to 1/3rd has aphids. I should get another month plus but the box might be all aphids in a few weeks.

 

[IDFireLass]

brymoore, I use to be that way never wanted the garden to go down. I kept tomatoes going all through October last year. Heated greenhouse of a night. But less sunlight meant less tomatoes and ripening. I've worked so hard this summer getting things to grow and keeping them green that I'm done. Heat got the cucumbers so pulled them today.
My corn is coming on slowly but surely.
Guess I'm ready for a change!

 

[buckbull]

I ended up giving the green beans to my neighbor. Canned hot peppers and zucchini relish on sunday. Got 8 pints of each. About half the tomatoes were ripe enough to process and got about 2.5 gallons. I freeze my juice, too much to can.

 

[np307]

Cutting about a pound and a half of okra every 2-3 days right now. Gonna be plenty of gumbo this fall. Beans finally picking up too. Today is bed prep for the fall plants.