Garden Thread 2022

[wilcam47]

Got brave and tried a Carolina reaper from our garden. I tried and end piece and nothing. Sliced a piece a touched it to my tongue and its hot!!! Made some finadene with a quarter piece. I can add more if i need to

 

[wilcam47]

Tried the finadene...its so good!

 

[bcr229]

Spinach broccoli kale lettuce collard Swiss chard cabbage bok Choi and one more run of tomatoes

I turn like 80 percent of my garden over each season. Costs a lot of organic fertilizer.

This was the first year I tried growing swiss chard. It never failed in the heat, just keeps right on producing green leafy goodness.

 

[F-Stop]

Got brave and tried a Carolina reaper from our garden. I tried and end piece and nothing. Sliced a piece a touched it to my tongue and its hot!!! Made some finadene with a quarter piece. I can add more if i need to

I grew them two years ago I think.. They grow well and I think I used max 15 for sauces. Lol.

Bad part was I let the plant dry out and when I raked in spring I kicked up some dry dust and pepper sprayed myself. Was pretty bad actually.


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[F-Stop]

Got brave and tried a Carolina reaper from our garden. I tried and end piece and nothing. Sliced a piece a touched it to my tongue and its hot!!! Made some finadene with a quarter piece. I can add more if i need to

I grew them two years ago I think.. They grow well and I think I used max 15 for sauces. Lol.

Bad part was I let the plant dry out and when I raked in spring I kicked up some dry dust and pepper sprayed myself. Was pretty bad actually.


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[F-Stop]

Got brave and tried a Carolina reaper from our garden. I tried and end piece and nothing. Sliced a piece a touched it to my tongue and its hot!!! Made some finadene with a quarter piece. I can add more if i need to

I grew them two years ago I think.. They grow well and I think I used max 15 for sauces. Lol.

Bad part was I let the plant dry out and when I raked in spring I kicked up some dry dust and pepper sprayed myself. Was pretty bad actually.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[F-Stop]

Got brave and tried a Carolina reaper from our garden. I tried and end piece and nothing. Sliced a piece a touched it to my tongue and its hot!!! Made some finadene with a quarter piece. I can add more if i need to

I grew them two years ago I think.. They grow well and I think I used max 15 for sauces. Lol.

Bad part was I let the plant dry out and when I raked in spring I kicked up some dry dust and pepper sprayed myself. Was pretty bad actually.


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[Kelson1066]

How early ya gonna do bok choy? I do direct sow and have had mixed results

I like to start my bok choy indoors now and then put them in the ground around mid September. I can usually get a harvest off of them until the first light frost.

 

[dblas]

Spinach broccoli kale lettuce collard Swiss chard cabbage bok Choi and one more run of tomatoes

I turn like 80 percent of my garden over each season. Costs a lot of organic fertilizer.

When would you suggest starting the fall planting? I'm looking at finally starting a small garden and might as well start with a fall batch instead waiting until next year.

 

[Kelson1066]

When would you suggest starting the fall planting? I'm looking at finally starting a small garden and might as well start with a fall batch instead waiting until next year.

For spinach Swiss chard pok Choi and lettuce I would start now. Collards cabbage and broccoli if you haven’t started already you may need to buy transplants from a greenhouse or Home Depot.

 

[wilcam47]

Pulled my reapers, late season corn is looking good, some is ready to pick

 

[kstone803]

I'm still picking okra and peppers every day. The very last of the cherry tomatoes I should probably pick tomorrow. I think I'll pickle everything from here out. Also took 1st at the county fair with my poblanos and 4th in habaneros and basil.

 

[rgramjet]

I have 2 gigantic cherry tomato plants. Tomatoes are still small and green. Planted them late.

What should I do?

 

[Archeryrob]

Not sure there is much you can do. Last year my cherry toms quit by now from the dryness. This year with the rain they over grew the top of my 8' trellis and coming back down like a bush. Even with the size of it, I am getting only a few right now with the colder days and nights. I chop them with olives, pepperoni over a pound of elbow macaroni and full bottle of wish Italian dressing. I eat that for a month or two every year.

I planted Poblano and Anaheim peppers to try them out this year. Anaheim's were planted for my daughter as she doesn't like much spice. So far I have gotten a few huge banana like green peppers. Noting for heat at all and taste like an unripe green pepper. Trying to let some sit and see if taste develops and maybe some heat. The Poblano pepper are 4' tall like a tree and just starting to grow peppers. I am starting to wonder if I will be able to try one before the first frost.

 

[wilcam47]

Not sure there is much you can do. Last year my cherry toms quit by now from the dryness. This year with the rain they over grew the top of my 8' trellis and coming back down like a bush. Even with the size of it, I am getting only a few right now with the colder days and nights. I chop them with olives, pepperoni over a pound of elbow macaroni and full bottle of wish Italian dressing. I eat that for a month or two every year.

I planted Poblano and Anaheim peppers to try them out this year. Anaheim's were planted for my daughter as she doesn't like much spice. So far I have gotten a few huge banana like green peppers. Noting for heat at all and taste like an unripe green pepper. Trying to let some sit and see if taste develops and maybe some heat. The Poblano pepper are 4' tall like a tree and just starting to grow peppers. I am starting to wonder if I will be able to try one before the first frost.

Marconi peppers are really good, try those next year. Ours were about 8-10" sweet flavor but not same flavor as bell.

 

[rossiski]

Do you guys have problems with blight? We had ok harvest of tomatos but im pretty sure blight got the plants. Any recommendations?

All of my tomatoes during the heat in July started showing yellow spotted leaves and started dying from the bottom up. I applied 3 applications of Daconil 2 weeks apart. This curbed the fungus and saved my tomatoes. I am still picking and my plants are loaded with green tomatoes.

 

[lawrencewendall]

Once again, I could not stop the vine borrowers from killing my zucchini and squash plants. I hit them with sevin several times in May and June but they still died in july/August. Only got a couple each. Only 1 eggplant.

 

[jr355]

Once again, I could not stop the vine borrowers from killing my zucchini and squash plants. I hit them with sevin several times in May and June but they still died in july/August. Only got a couple each. Only 1 eggplant.

With a spade shovel carefully dig around 1/3 to 1/2 the plants root area. Just place and shove and wiggle. The plant senses this and starts to ripen the fruit.

 

[Blacksmith101]

Protect your tomatoes from any early frosts and they will keep going slowly. When you are going to get a hard frost pick all the tomatoes, any almost ripe will finish on the kitchen counter. Take the green ones and turn them into Green Tomato Pickle plenty of recipes on the web.

 

[rgramjet]

Protect your tomatoes from any early frosts and they will keep going slowly. When you are going to get a hard frost pick all the tomatoes, any almost ripe will finish on the kitchen counter. Take the green ones and turn them into Green Tomato Pickle plenty of recipes on the web.

I looked around and saw a couple handfuls of red cherry tomatoes towards the base of one plant. They were delicious.

Hoping the rest come around. Will keep an eye on the frost warnings.