BYC gardening thread!!

[Angelicisi]

Lost a ton of stuff to a heat wave last week, now its a rainy week- stuff left is soooooo happy to have less than 90 degrees lol

 

[Tiller]

I'd be happy to trade some of this rain to someone in exchange for some dry days and steady sun. We're something like 12 inches of rain above normal. Hasnt been enough sun as of late for the garden to produce much everything is up and green and beautiful, budded out, but not growing much. Too wet too cloudy. I get a few odds and ends picked, enough to keep the canner going but not nearly as much as it should be producing right now.

 

[Angelicisi]

Muddy over here, always lol its Louisiana tho so I expected it to never dry up, not greener on this side of the fence lol hang in there the sun will show! My Tom's were wiped out by a late frost, then a mole...try number 3 was real late but they're growing, just so much slower and hardly fruiting size yet. Ug. Always next year! Lol here's a few of what's still hanging on...

Purple basil

Purple tomatillos

My immortal artichoke-refuses over the years to bloom! Am I missing something? Do I need like, a girl plant n boy plant? Lol learned the hard way with 4 years of a tomatillo plants in a corner that grew and grew and grew-never fruited...til I put more in- lol dang it now they fruit great!

Some *celosia (spicy, flowering plant yummy in salads and colored spike flowers that are incredibly vibrant - the bees love them too so I put some by the hive for them

Vietnamese cilantro - pretty low growing herb I use like mexican cilantro...we are redoing our pond...my husband's building me boxes around it and a place to step to feed fish or do maintenance, he added a lil waterfall and bathtub size pond to it...in the boxes around the pond I think I'm going to line them with herbs and berries to free up about 1/4 of the small garden for other veggies. These low growing Vietnamese cilantro herbs are pretty, edible ground cover too.

As is English thyme

Have some sweet corn growing behind the chickens.

Flowers still staying strong!

Young century plant surviving- it better!

I'm going to be pollinating my sago females this week and next! Yay!

 

[SunnySkies]

I'm irked that the entire row of what I thought was zucchini turned out to be yellow squash. I double checked the package. The one I reseeded, when one of the originals did not come up, are what they should be, but it was the same seed from a different company. But it means I have one zucchini plant. True, it's productive -- I got two very nice zucchini off it last night -- but I wanted more zucchini. Kids wanted to sell some at the farmer's market. Guess we will be selling yellow crookneck. Oops.

Otherwise, beans are slowly starting, still getting peas, cukes are starting, but it seems slow. Tomatoes have fruit, but they are all green.

 

[WickeeChickee]

This is my first time growing cukes, and I finally picked this monster this morning. Is this how it's supposed to look? I was waiting for it to turn bright dark green but it just kept getting whiter! Any chance this is a white variety and I didn't know it?

 

[SunnySkies]

My white ones are white with no green. I pick them relatively small myself, but taste it...that is the true test

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

My white ones are white with no green. I pick them relatively small myself, but taste it...that is the true test

x2

 

[WickeeChickee]

I think they're just weird lol! The larger, whiter end tastes fantastic, bit the smaller, greener end near the stem is super bitter. Hence I think I will let them become whiter in the future before picking. They are growing in a partially shaded spot so I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I guess it doesn't matter since they taste awesome! Thanks for the replies!

 

[EmSteele]

We picked out first cucumber last night! Husband, kids, and I ate it before ever leaving the garden

 

[SunnySkies]

I think they're just weird lol! The larger, whiter end tastes fantastic, bit the smaller, greener end near the stem is super bitter. Hence I think I will let them become whiter in the future before picking. They are growing in a partially shaded spot so I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I guess it doesn't matter since they taste awesome! Thanks for the replies!

Do you still have the seed packet? Maybe knowing the strain will help us figure out what it should look like.

But based on what you wrote, pick it when white, no green.

LOL, our cukes barely make it in thr house either.