Yeah, my squash are almost gone but I have two more I planted about 3 weeks ago. My crimson sweet watermelons are now starting to get active and hope to have some fruit from them. My corn are starting to show some beginning tassels so I hope to see some ears soon. I plan on starting a fall garden maybe late July or early August depending on weather...
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Picked some more tomatoes and checked all my plants' health - shade structure is on hold as my husband has throat surgery tomorrow (he won't be able to yell at me LOL). The plants have shade so the structure can wait. I sprayed insecticide (4 bottles of it) on the whole yard as it looks like we may have chinch bugs.
The zucchini, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, and acorn squash I planted round #2 are all looking great. I still need to do the butternut squash round #2, and some more beans. After we get home tomorrow, that will be a nice quiet project I can do outside. My black soybeans are a bust - I'll try again in the spring. My Roma tomatoes in the container garden are overrunning the parsnips. Carrots are ready to pull and are also being overrun by the Rutgers tomatoes, and I'm going to freeze or can them - depends on what else I might find to put in the pressure canner; maybe parsnips and/or baby potatoes. I spied more Lima beans ready to pick in the container garden, and more cucumbers in the bag garden. Every day there's something new:)
I'll start my fall garden at the end of July, weather permitting. I have plenty of potting soil, peat pots, and room on the greenhouse racks.
Have you ever trimmed back watermelon vines? Mine are out of control!Last edited by surviort_wwdnet; 06-28-2022, 07:01 PM.
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never have trimmed back watermelons...not sure about that. I checked garden last night, I have to work til Thursday, as my wife has done the watering. Things looking stable. Some of the cayenne peppers are starting to turn red. I sprayed H2O2 mixture on plants again last night. I think it is working. We have had very, very little rain and the plants seem to be getting beat up. My new tomatoes that I planted from seed at 2"-6" tall and look healthy. I likely will transplant them soon and move to a less direct sun area.Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!
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Since I have no choice other than move all the other plants along that trellis row, pruning the vines it is! There are 2 large sugar babies still on the vine and, while the new vines have lots of flowers, there are no new baby melons. Every time I look at that plant, it reminds me of an octopus.
Husband was in surgery this morning, so I ran over to Lowes, grabbed some lawn insecticide, 2 bags of garden soil, and 3 full flats of flowers. I took all that to the house, watered the flowers, and headed back to the hospital. By the time we got home, it was a brutally hot 97o and no time to be outside planting. I did some laundry and baking and cooking instead - tomorrow is another day. I have a lot of limas to pick (husband said "What are those brown things?" When I told him they were limas, he asked "Is that all there is?" Yeah honey, except for the other half dozen plants 3 containers down...), and more tomatoes and cukes, Flowers first, since I'm planting those on the morning shade side of the house and maybe I can get it done before it's wicked hot again. Then I can do a little harvesting and maybe get some new plants started. I'm feeling like a slacker today but stuff happens...
My round #1 zucchini that I saved from the borers is ready to go to the trash can and be replaced by something else. I can use that contaminated soil in my tropical bed. If I work diligently and energetically tomorrow, I may get through half of what I need to get done. C'est la vie!
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well, the good point is, it sounds like hubby's surgery went well.
Hydrate, hydrate, and hydrate more is what we have to do in this heat...
I am off on retirement again, so I have some stuff to do in the garden...but some will have to wait for another day as 17 month old grandson is planning a visit today sometime...he always wants to be with "pops" so we wander in the yard and play in the water....Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!
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Have fun with your grandson! They grow up way too fast.
Husband's surgery went well and was much faster than estimated. He has a sore throat but that's it.
The roofing guy went up to the attic to take pictures of the hurricane clips, gave me the wind mitigation report, got paid, and then I went back outside to finish planting flowers. Got the flowers all planted, took 3 bags of potting soil (left 1 bag in the potting area for tomorrow), my tools, and a bag of garden dirt to the garden shed, spread the remainder of one bag of garden soil on the tropical bed, then picked tomatoes and black beans. Before I could get to the container garden to pick limas, carrots, and parsnips, the skies opened up so I (gratefully) headed to the house for a cleanup, take care of produce, make some egg salad and get dinner started. Tomorrow's another day, but at least we have flowers 😂. The best thing is that because I bought whole flats, I have pots and their carriers that are perfect for starting seeds, and they'll sit securely on my little greenhouse's shelves.
The tomatoes went into the freezer to wait for enough to can a few quarts. The black beans are in the dehydrator just to sit and make sure they're all dry.
Tomorrow is my husband's appt with his spinal surgeon, so it will be another short workday. If all goes well, I can finish up picking vegetables and get some more planted.
Update: Went out after dinner and picked a bunch of limas and a couple of tomatoes, plus a few weeds. There are a lot of new flowers on the lima plants. The soil was still too wet to pull carrots and parsnips, but if it doesn't rain before we get home tomorrow, I can do it then. If it does rain, I can shell limas and bake the 2 acorn squash and one spaghetti squash that I picked. My round round Forum yellow squash has a tiny squash starting!😎Last edited by surviort_wwdnet; 07-01-2022, 04:39 PM.
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Picked some carrots, parsnips, the big butternut squash, and trimmed dead leaves, cut back the watermelon runners, threw out the old zucchini plant, shuffled some bags around, and watered some tomatoes. Storm moved in but just a drizzle - all noise and little moisture. Short working time so I'm baking some acorn squash and a spaghetti squash (now that the power is back on).
Husband in medical loop - no one can diagnose what's causing his disability, so we go back to the beginning again...🙄Last edited by surviort_wwdnet; 07-01-2022, 04:37 PM.
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Picked more tomatoes and got some seeds planted. Based on the room 2 flats of 10 pots each took up on 1 greenhouse shelf, I should be able to get 4 flats of 10 pots/shelf x 4 shelves = 160 plants I could potentially start if I filled everything up. Alas! It's raining again so I put my toys away, took out the trash, and headed in to finish the laundry and start dinner. It was 97° before the clouds moved in, so I was ready for a break anyway😉
Acorn, spaghetti, zucchini, and butternut squash, black soybeans, Lima beans, peas, sugar baby pumpkin, beefsteak tomatoes, pinto beans:
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Aphids! Good grief, don't FL bugs ever take a vacation???
My yellow squash plant in the container garden was peppered with aphids, so I got out some "real" insecticide that kills aphids and sprayed the heck out of everything. I found more of them in the bag garden and sprayed everything there too. I ordered some "friendlier" insecticidal soap and sprays and will respray tomorrow. What I really need to do tomorrow is pick tomatoes:
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Originally posted by surviort_wwdnet View PostPicked more tomatoes and got some seeds planted. Based on the room 2 flats of 10 pots each took up on 1 greenhouse shelf, I should be able to get 4 flats of 10 pots/shelf x 4 shelves = 160 plants I could potentially start if I filled everything up. Alas! It's raining again so I put my toys away, took out the trash, and headed in to finish the laundry and start dinner. It was 97° before the clouds moved in, so I was ready for a break anyway😉
Acorn, spaghetti, zucchini, and butternut squash, black soybeans, Lima beans, peas, sugar baby pumpkin, beefsteak tomatoes, pinto beans:
I picked some carrots yesterday...
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Originally posted by Patriotic Sheepdog View Post
This is part 2 of my summer garden. In early August I'll start cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, radishes, and turnips from seed.
One of my new lima bean plants is already sprouting👍Since I pulled all the carrots and parsnips, I can use that space for lima beans.
It's about time to pull the slowly withering sugar snaps and the old butternut squash to make room for more plants as soon as they sprout. I corraled the wandering tomatoes in the container, pulled, washed, trimmed carrots and parsnips. Tomorrow I'll cut them up for the freezer or dehydrator. Shelled limas and black beans and put the ones in the dehydrator into jars with oxygen absorbers - still working on filling that Lima bean jar. Then I put the newly shelled beans into the dehydrator. Once it got up to 101°, I'd had enough outside work🥵 and was happy to shell and dehydrate beans!
When are you going to start your "winter" garden and what are you going to plant?Last edited by surviort_wwdnet; 07-05-2022, 04:58 PM.
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I think I will play it by ear on my winter garden...watch the temps and see when it starts cooling off in the evening. I will likely plant more carrots, radishes, pumpkin and lettuce for sure.
I need to start pulling stuff and plant second round for summer garden. Likely plant same stuff.
We have noticed that our stores here have frozen veggies, so we pick up 2-4 bags each week and dehydrate them. Then put them in canning jar and vacuum seal them. Back up to the garden as this is my first year truly gardening....(nothing like waiting til last minute to learn, huh?)Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!
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At midnight it was still 83°, and my hopes for a few cool days are waning. Now it's a balmy 101°, I just spent 2 hours pulling weeds and tearing out 2 spent squash plants and 6 sugar snap plants, plus spraying everything else with insecticidal soap. I also sprayed the weeds between the containers with Spectracide weed & grass killer. I look like 🥵
I'm hoping that an early summer will bring an early fall. In any case, I'll have room to keep transplants healthy for the fall garden until the weather & temps say it's time to start planting again. I have the pots they'll be planted in initially, plus half-gallon pots to use as needed.
Replanting summer crops is what I'm doing now. 3 limas, 1 beefsteak tomato, and 1 spaghetti squash are sprouting. Limas always come up fast!
I love the frozen vegetable to dehydrator method. I do the same thing and usually pick up a couple bags of frozen vegetables when I go shopping. Peas, carrots, cauliflower rice, corn, mushrooms and leftover celery and cabbage, do well in the dehydrator for me. While it's nice to blanch and freeze, I'm running out of room in both freezers and may have to dehydrate some of my frozen garden veggies. I have some frozen fruit that may get dehydrated also.
You have an advantage over people who still aren't planting. Some of them buy "survival" seeds and never open them. They don't know what will grow well in their zone, or even how to establish and maintain a garden. You're light years ahead of them. You have a whole season of gardening under your belt and found what works best for your area.
I've been gardening since I was a child, and I'm still learning - like how killing the squash vine borers (which I'd never heard of before) doesn't do a thing to keep aphids from destroying my squash. This is the first of my 20+ years in FL that I've needed shade cloth. Planting parsnips in paper towel or tp rolls provides a much straighter final product. It takes about a gallon bag of tomatoes to make 1 canned quart (lesson from my childhood forgotten). Next spring I'm going to plant 5x as many black and pinto beans as I did this year. It's just little things that I'm not likely to forget. I'm mentally laying out the fall and next spring's garden scheme.
I was going to can some vegetables but the AC is already running almost non-stop trying to keep up with this heat, and I'm wondering how much it would cost to put up a covered porch roof across the front patio, which is the hottest side of the house!🔥🔥Last edited by surviort_wwdnet; 07-06-2022, 02:51 PM.
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I have two aero gardens inside my house. One is the 9 pod and the other is the mac daddy...24 pod. Lettuce grows well in both and cherry tomatoes does as well. Right no I have two tomato plants that are huge and starting to produce but not as well as my last one. I think they have grown two bushy and they are blocking the air flow. My basil out performed my last plant and we and neighbor have dehydrated many, many leaves. We have had two sets of things growing in these gardens, and I am finding that the lettuce grows really well and the herbs grows as well...What I am finding is that we cannot plant every pod. So the next round we will plant one tomato and about 3-4 types of lettuce in the large one, and maybe one or two herbs in the small one and maybe this will help with growth and airflow. Some types of lettuce will grow so fast and large it would block the light of others and actually kill the plant. Lessons learned...
Our thoughts are to grow lettuce, and herbs inside year round and the other veggies outside with one cherry tomato plant indoors as well.Protecting the sheep from the wolves that want them, their family, their money and full control of our Country!
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It sounds like you have a good, well considered plan moving forward. Where are your aero garden pictures???
I picked the rest of the black and Lima beans, then pulled out the spent black bean, cucumber, and butternut squash plants. I had to stake and tie the eggplants due to how many are growing (7 and more on the way). I had carrots and parsnips to blanch and get into the dehydrator along with the shelled beans. Then I sprayed the living heck out of the gardens to kill off the aphids (I'm overrun with them!).
Limas, peas, beefsteak tomatoes, pintos, and pumpkin all sprouted so it will soon be time to transplant. Bell and jalapeno peppers and eggplant are currently the shining stars of the garden.
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