2026 Garden

[CowboyLeroy]

They're small this year but they're good

 

[brymoore]

They're small this year but they're good
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I’m jealous. My corn has just started to germinate.

 

[IDFireLass]

I had 2 corn seedlings pop the ground yesterday.

 

[buckbull]

Just get some 10 10 10 fertilizer for your garden and feed it. I feed every 20 days or so. But we have very poor soil and have to build the raised beds with mulch, steer manure or horse. I buy a lot of bagged mulch to top off the beds. Miraclegro isn't a good garden feed too much nitrogen. It does work but makes the top grow too much instead of root growing.
I use a local produced feed for tomatoes and peppers and 10-10-10 for the rest of the garden.
brymoore knows the local company it's Dr. Jim Z on the internet and in town it's ZamZows. Expensive products but safe for dogs/animals and kids. Love their lawn fertilizer.

I do ok with Jobe sticks.

 

[Sask hunter]

I had 2 corn seedlings pop the ground yesterday.

Ours just popped up too

 

[Pucky Freak]

Tomatoes and peppers fruiting. Cucumbers and squash are nearly set. Have wood chips for the okra once it gets a little taller. Potato plants growing quickly. Carrots look a bit pathetic, might try and transplant to spread them out.

 

[Keep on]

I consider the flower beds gardening. To quote George Jones, It's been a good year for the roses.
There's a lot to be said for each month, but I think June is the best month for flowers around here.

 

[IDFireLass]

Learned a couple new things the other night. I have to hand pollinate the Mexican Sour cucumbers since they are in a greenhouse. They are so tiny I finally gave in and put my glasses on to see everything. I think I got 4 or 6 done. They are just starting to put flowers on. Then pollinated the acorn squash a little behind on that. Thank goodness for YouTube or I'd never figured it out. Not seeing many bees around but things are just starting to bloom garden wise. They trees were full of bees when the apricots were blooming. Old dogs can still learn!

 

[beagle001]

For some reason I feel way behind on the garden, even though we are probably ahead of schedule. Started a bunch of stuff early in the greenhouse but it stayed cool here so long I don’t know I gained much from it.

Just put these raised beds in after a little tussle with my wife about fighting weeds, so here we are.

Not sure if we planted less overall, or are just better with appropriating space, but I’ve got a lot of extra space in the middle to do something with, maybe go hit the local greenhouses and fill in with more tomatoes since the ones we have are just kinda hanging in there and not taking off.

Definitely planted a pile more flowers this year, which I can say I enjoyed growing far more than I ever expected. The edge around the raised beds is all perennials and I’ve got a big stretch along the gate of annuals, and another wildflower mix in a 14x10 bed by the house, as well as a nice bed of crocuses and tulips and… some other stuff I can’t recall by the garage.

 

[Straight Arrow]

around here.

Around where?

 

[Keep on]

Around where?

South Central Pennsylvania, between Harrisburg and Gettysburg. We like our burgs in PA. LOL

 

[Pucky Freak]

7 Buttercup squash vines
10 sunflowers
10 potato plants
20 cucumber plants
63 okra stalks

Everything is mulched. Had fresh dill with my chicken salad. Hopeful that my potatoes don’t drown/fail.

 

[IDFireLass]

Send your rain to the west please. We can't buy a drop of rain in central Idaho. Looks like our usual June frost is coming or getting close to freezing by Wed. Not looking forward to covering everything again.

 

[brymoore]

Send your rain to the west please. We can't buy a drop of rain in central Idaho. Looks like our usual June frost is coming or getting close to freezing by Wed. Not looking forward to covering everything again.

Yep. I’m covering the sensitive plants with row cover today. I’ve had it snow on June 15th in the past.

I had an open weekend. Garden will be finally caught up today. Artichokes, bread and wine for dinner.

 

[Dave N]

It's raining!

Guess I'm not taking the bike to see my granddaughter today.

 

[JShane]

winding down most of the garden is succumbing to the heat, disease, and pest pressure. Tomatoes are ripening well on some plants and on others not as much. Okra, sweet potatoes, winter squash are still going strong.

 

[brymoore]

Artichokes for dinner tonight.

We’re roughly 90% caught up with the garden. We weeded the worst two boxes, planted 50 new asparagus plants in new boxes and navy beans. Row covered all the sensitive rows from frost. On my left to do list is green beans (ordered seeds), moved a box of broccoli so the box becomes the new strawberry box and weed eat the garden. Son busted my 15 year old weed eater this week. Replacement is to be delivered Monday.

This might be a rough year. We’re two months into gardening and 6 months behind. . Our crops are going to be late. Hopefully our irrigation water isn’t shut off due to the drought in August.

 

[IDFireLass]

If I tried to cover anything today I'd blow clear into Eastern Montana. The wind has been gale force all day. When it would die down I'd just about fall over. It's unreal!
My green beans are up, corn coming up and my Armenian cucu's are up. Covering a lot of things tomorrow probably.