Garden failed this year?

[Two Creeks Farm]

45 days is what you need, give or take a week to 10 days before a good frost. If you use a compact bush variety you should be able to sneak some in. Usually here we dont see a frost until mid November. I usually dont need to plant for fall but got so little I have to. We got a decent rain yesterday and we arent expecting much from this hurricane here so we should be good to go. I planted Maters late so i could extend my harvest and the 1st batch was horrible due to teh weather...second planting is growing maters now so a few more weeks of moderate weather and we can put a few bushells up I believe

 

[darkmatter]

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I tried bush beans------they come on in a batch which is good for canning all at once, but I prefer the favor of pole beans. Pole beans taste better to me and they just keep on setting beans till frost if you keep them picked. If you have a enough of them planted you can get enough per picking to make it worth canning. I got a whole 5 gallon bucketful this morning.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

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I tried bush beans------they come on in a batch which is good for canning all at once, but I prefer the favor of pole beans. Pole beans taste better to me and they just keep on setting beans till frost if you keep them picked. If you have a enough of them planted you can get enough per picking to make it worth canning. I got a whole 5 gallon bucketful this morning.

I agree, but pole wont work when you have less then 50 days before 1st frost....unless they have a pole bean now that matures faster then the bush variety. I too prefer a pole bean

 

[woodmort]

OK, since we're braggin'--here's what I dug today.

Each pail holds a little over 25 pounds of unwashed potatoes.

The thing that makes this photo significant is that these 3 weigh the same amount the seed potatoes I planted--2 lbs.

These are the smaller part of my crop--the russets are still green and growing so I won't dig them for a few more weeks. There are about as many "hills" of russets as of the other two kinds total and I planted 3.5 lbs of seed for them. We don't eat a lot of potatoes except when the family comes so I expect these to last most of the winter--we finished last year's about a month ago and have been robbing hills for about 2 weeks. I just plant them through black plastic--no hoeing or hilling--so all I did to "dig" them was lift up the plastic and scrape a little dirt off.

 

[EweSheep]

October 14th is the first frost for here in Illinois (mid central)....not sure if I have enough time.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

If you arent doing a big batch, you can cover them if a frost is coming. If we get caught with an early frost, we will put straw over the plants for the night. The gardens I have here now are just to big for that.

 

[EweSheep]

wrong post LOL! Found out who has been eating my garden....a HUGE groundhog! That thing is bigger than a beaver but too bad we can not shoot it.

 

[Illia]

Those were green beans? I thought they were peas. . .


I guess I just like mine really fine and thin?

 

[seedcorn]

Moved my garden into ant haven, mistake. So I've been killing ants all year long. Tomatos have done excellent even tho we can't buy a rain over here. Peppers between dry weather, ants, and heat did terrible. I over compensated with fertilizer and when we did catch a rain and I mulched them w/straw, they took off with dark green plants--& no blooms or peppers.

Squash seems to be doing ok, but the sweet potatos, okra, green beans and anything I've tried to direct sow in the garden has been a disaster. Oh well, there is next year.

 

[chicmom]

This year, we planted pole beans instead of bush beans (both being a type of green bean). My husband built these really cool "tee-pee" setups for them, so they could climb and it looked amazing. EXCEPT, we didn't get one green bean! I don't have a clue as to what went wrong. There were some japanese beetles, and I dusted the vines with Seven dust, but I didn't see any little white blossoms at all. Come to find two of our friends also had no luck with green beans this year. Next year, we'll switch back to the bush style green beans.

We had great success with peas, our tomatoes did OK. Every year my husband insists on trying various peppers, but our soil just isn't good for green peppers, so that was no surprise. The pickling cucumbers did great! Our corn looked beautiful, but the ears were small and kind of bug eaten.

Tried an egg plant this year which was a flop, I grew some celery for the first time which had really skinny stalks that were bitter. Zucchini did OK. Planted carrots for the first time, but I didn't thin them out enough, but that's how ya learn! LOL

I think my garden is like a mad scientist garden.....I learn something every year. One thing I learned is NEVER go on vacation and let your kids water the garden while you're gone......because they forget. My garden was half dead when I came home, and boy was I disappointed.

Oh well, I still love it! My chickens are loving it too this year, because I've been feeding them alot of fresh corn and tomatoes!