BYC gardening thread!!

[Angelicisi]

She looks comfy! Too cute.

SUMMER IN TEMPE ARIZONA

 

[Smithyard Farm]

My (fairly new) garden cucumber Trellis... we made it from strapping and clothesline.. so far its working great!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

My (fairly new) garden cucumber Trellis... we made it from strapping and clothesline.. so far its working great!

Nice!

 

[SunnySkies]

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Ok, so I'm stumped and don't want to waste another season tryin lol
I have tomatoe plants that took a beating from a frost-dies I replanted a set- a mole ripped through it all and killed them again! Then we got smacked with a month of severe heat and the new ones grew and grew and flowered but didn't fruit. Still growing and flowering even. My question is do I let them go thru fall, will I get a harvest or am I just growing PIMA vines? Or do I scrap it all and start with some fast maturing Fall ones? I have time due to being deep down south but its the effort being wasted for nothing in return that chaps my hide. They are big bushy plants tho! Just haven't gotten fruit besides one here or there

has it been super hot? If so, that might be why they aren't setting fruit or turning. I had lots of set fruit, but it wasn't until this week where a few turned, and it's cooler now. I'm hoping next week more come on.

Peppers, which I thought were going to be a bust, finally are going great guns. Potatoes didn't produce as much as I thought, but the seedstock did come from Walmart on a whim. About to pull out half the beans as the bean beetles did in that row, but the other rows still are making beans. Melons are just starting; they got a late start after an accident in the greenhouse killed most of them. Corn is terrific, and the coons were so focused on thr coops they have ignored the corn.

I am kind of giving up on weeds though. Considering running pigs in it over the fall and winter, instead of doing a fall and winter garden, and letting them eat the rhizomes and stuff in there and plowing it.

I have also learned I must plant these heirloom tomatoes farther apart than suggested. It's a jungle.

 

[vlselz]

My (fairly new) garden cucumber Trellis... we made it from strapping and clothesline.. so far its working great!

Tried to train my Cuc's up a hog panel arch and they are finally catching on. I just thought it would be a lot easier to have them catch on with the tendrils .

 

[Angelicisi]

Thanks, it has been brutally hot with a 105 heat index again all this next week :/ I like it. The veggies and chickens not so much. Full Sun seems to mean somethin different deep down south here lol
As it cools off for fall do you think the vines will fruit and still produce or did the heat kill the window of time to do so? I hate to waste garden space on something that failed (like my 4 year old artichoke that's living it up and refuses to bloom). You are sooooo right about heirlooms needing more space lol

Has
has it been super hot? If so, that might be why they aren't setting fruit or turning. I had lots of set fruit, but it wasn't until this week where a few turned, and it's cooler now. I'm hoping next week more come on.

Peppers, which I thought were going to be a bust, finally are going great guns. Potatoes didn't produce as much as I thought, but the seedstock did come from Walmart on a whim. About to pull out half the beans as the bean beetles did in that row, but the other rows still are making beans. Melons are just starting; they got a late start after an accident in the greenhouse killed most of them. Corn is terrific, and the coons were so focused on thr coops they have ignored the corn.

I am kind of giving up on weeds though. Considering running pigs in it over the fall and winter, instead of doing a fall and winter garden, and letting them eat the rhizomes and stuff in there and plowing it.

I have also learned I must plant these heirloom tomatoes farther apart than suggested. It's a jungle.

 

[SunnySkies]

I actually don't know...I'm waiting it out myself to see if the things will fruit when it gets cooler this fall. I'm mostly hoping it happens before frost....but I'm concerned the scenario will go like this:

September arrives, it is lovely,
Everything starts fruiting and looking good
We have a sudden frost and kills it all, 95% ready.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Just dug up a few pounds of potatoes, mostly Russian blues and Yukon golds!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

My (fairly new) garden cucumber Trellis... we made it from strapping and clothesline.. so far its working great!

Awesome!

 

[Angelicisi]

Bahahahhaha so true. I shall wait with you least for the full size tom's, taking the cherry toms out. They're vines are engulfing the garden lol

I actually don't know...I'm waiting it out myself to see if the things will fruit when it gets cooler this fall. I'm mostly hoping it happens before frost....but I'm concerned the scenario will go like this:

September arrives, it is lovely,
Everything starts fruiting and looking good
We have a sudden frost and kills it all, 95% ready.