BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[DesertChic]

@DesertChic I've saw them in seed catalogs. How do they compare to regular pickling cukes? I usually only grow pickling ones and eat them fresh also. This yr I did pick up 12 straight eight slicing cuke plants, planted in three tubs just to try them. The others I direct sowed seeds, many of them because I usually lose most to slugs before they get leaves, didn't expect over a hundred to survive Lol!

I only pickle them sliced or in spears because they're so huge. Their skin color is very pale, but the flesh is nice an firm. We love them pickled! I made three large jars of them for a friend who gobbled them up in less than two weeks.

 

[DesertChic]

Yuck, lol. I'm curious, what else have you grown successfully? I tried to garden for the first time last year with several varieties of watermelons.. oh boy was that a surprise. As in total failure surprise...

Started mixed sweet corn a couple months ago but am finding them to require excessive watering*every day, even twice on the hotter days) so either I planted at the wrong time or a wrong variety for our climate.

Kind of feeling like I should just give up. Too dry, too cold, too hot for almost everything it seems.

I'm having great luck with heirloom tomatoes, kale, Swiss chard, spaghetti squash, romain lettuce, broccoli, and onions. Basil is probably the easiest thing to grow. It grows like a weed! I also had some success with eggplant, watermelon and zucchini before something dug up the plants. I grow everything in compost.

The most frustrating thing for me is I can't seem to grow bean or peas to save my life. They'll do fine for a few weeks and then just fizzle out, no matter what time of year or what temp. And I also can't seem to get peppers to survive. Then again, I was born with a horribly brown thumb. Gardening has been a huge challenge for me.

 

[bnjrob]

FLOODING again!@@

Crap. I feel your pain. We had a round of storms come through here last night - very unexpectedly. We're back to mush and standing water in the pasture again. Still can't get the chickens moved to fresh grass because their houses are so deep in mud. Just spent a couple of hours emptying feeders full of wet chicken feed before it got moldy. I'm happy that this summer has not been as hot as the last few summers but we sure could use a bit of a break between rain storms.

 

[1FlewOver]

Crap.  I feel your pain.  We had a round of storms come through here last night - very unexpectedly.  We're back to mush and standing water in the pasture again.  Still can't get the chickens moved to fresh grass because their houses are so deep in mud.  Just spent a couple of hours emptying feeders full of wet chicken feed before it got moldy.  I'm happy that this summer has not been as hot as the last few summers but we sure could use a bit of a break between rain storms.

What a difference a few miles makes in Texas....I have to water today....the ground is getting dry here now....but yeah....it's been a swamp around here until now....and I have the mosquito population to prove it....you must be up Denton way?

Yeah....instead of 3 trillion gallons of water in May....we could use that spread out over the hot dry days ahead.....

 

[JRNash]

Im between Beaumont and Orange. About 45 minutes from Lake Charles, La

 

[JRNash]

I haven't had more than one week running of dry weather around here.It's coming down by the bucket now.

 

[Beer can]

I haven't had more than one week running of dry weather around here.It's coming down by the bucket now.

Neither have we in upstate ny. Raining all day today and tomorrow. Rain for the month here not counting today is 8.5". Avg 4-5. I looked up Florida during rainy months avg 7.5. Luckily we haven't got any flash flood rain, it's just been daily...

 

[bnjrob]

What a difference a few miles makes in Texas....I have to water today....the ground is getting dry here now....but yeah....it's been a swamp around here until now....and I have the mosquito population to prove it....you must be up Denton way?

Yeah....instead of 3 trillion gallons of water in May....we could use that spread out over the hot dry days ahead.....

Over here on the E/SE side of DFW in Kaufman County. I keep wondering if August is going to wind up being horrid because we've been so wet for the rest of the year.

 

[bnjrob]

Neither have we in upstate ny. Raining all day today and tomorrow. Rain for the month here not counting today is 8.5". Avg 4-5. I looked up Florida during rainy months avg 7.5. Luckily we haven't got any flash flood rain, it's just been daily...

Lived in Orlando 20+ years ago. Rained every single day for at least 5 minutes. But back then I didn't live in the country so it did not affect me like it does now with outdoor chores and animals to tend to.

 

[1FlewOver]

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Over here on the E/SE side of DFW in Kaufman County.  I keep wondering if August is going to wind up being horrid because we've been so wet for the rest of the year.

Ohhhh....you can pretty much count on that....I don't even want to go outside in August....heck....it's already hot here...but we know what to expect....what really sucks is....when it rains so much in the spring, we don't get all the stuff taken care of in the cool...and BOOM! it's miserably hot.....