What did you do in the garden today?

[HonkABC]

Well, a few days ago I tried to plant even more corn in a certain area where I have never grown anything before. Well, I shoveled some fertile soil there and planted the corn, but I think my chicks messed it up. When I left, they started dust bathing in that area every afternoon. Fast forward to today, there are only 2 corn, but so many annoying morning glory. So disappointing. My other corn did start to bloom, so I do have something to look forward to. I harvested about 6 tiny one inch cherry tomatoes. Finally, I checked on my little grafting project, (pink lady apple grafted to cherimoya).

 

[NewBoots]

Fertilized or pollinated?
I Fertilized fmevery few weeks with worm castings or fish emulsion not to mention the 1 time espoma garden tone

You are right, I did mean pollinated.

About time to pull the summer squash here. Most of them have mildew something fierce, but I've got lots of grated squash in the freezer. The wax beans have tons of beans on them but since I've never grown beans of any kind before I'm hoping I can tell when they are ready to pick. The cucumbers are burying me and I love them, the tomatoes are coming along, and I'm praying the season holds out long enough for them to get ripe. But the giant beefsteak we did get so far was so dang good!

 

[chickengr]

This year has been so frustrating! I'm not getting fruit on anything. Even my reliable peppers have let me down. Not a blossom in sight. View attachment 3234599
The peppers and tomatoes I started inside and recently took out have blossoms...but everything that spent the summer outside is blossom free. Look healthy...just no flowers or fruit. I've never had this happen before and not sure what to make of it.
Maybe I need to clean my water tanks out? Could something have gotten on our roofs and into our water tanks from there?
Anyone know what could cause this?

heat? I have the same problem with the veggies that are more exposed to sunshine. peppers in partial shade are doing well. stopped growing during extreme heat last week but they seem to be better now as it cooled down a bit.

definitely not to much nitrogen in my case.

 

[chickengr]

fruit leather making:

 

[ChicksnMore]

Heats always a problem here for sure. These are chiltepins and tabascos and usually handle the heat fairly well...but we were hotter then average. Think most of us were this year.

Won't hurt to give them more shade so I'll try that too.

 

[Ascholten]

I have found that my peppers, ESPECIALLY if you have them in pots. when it is THAT hot out, you need to water them twice a day.
Once early in the morning then once at about noon / 1 pm when the sun is blazing

or one about 11 am, and 1 towards end of day, night coming. This way they have some wet still to suck up during the hottest /bakingest part of the day.

observe your plants, about the time they start getting all wilty and poopy looking, about an hour or so before then, is when you want to get the water on them.

Remember plants in pots dry out twice as fast, because the heat is hitting their entire root ball too, it's in the pot, and can get HOT, VERY HOT, as it does not have the entire earth to take the heat away from it.

aaron

 

[Sueby]

Yes, the plants in pots are all dead this year, I couldn't keep up with watering enough with no rain & too hot I lost them.

Picked a million squash & shredded them, they're draining now & I'll freeze them later. I gotta say growing the bush squash on a trellis is something I will ALWAYS do now. I have no mildew yet, no SVB & no virtually no squash bugs (the first round were under netting till the end of June, so thats a big part of no bugs). If y'all haven't done it this way, you should try it!

 

[WthrLady]

People don't realize that in a hot dry drought year 1" of water a week isn't enough. We loose almost .50" a DAY during the growing season. Even IF we get those normal thunderstorms every few days in the summer, we still have to water. The few thunderstorms are fine for prairie grass, but not vegetables.

40 pounds of tomatoes are sorted into three ripening groups and are are towels on the deck loungers in the heat. The kitchen temperatures are too cool.

I need to rake the hoophouse and get the lettuce and carrots in soon. I'll grab fresh seed in town today.

 

[Sally PB]

Supposedly we have rain moving in. I stopped digging potatoes so I could get everything up to the house and stuff put away before it rained. Well, I could have dug for another hour. But now I'm all rinsed off and clean, so I'll just deal with what I did get dug.

I bought a bag of winter rye to plant where the potatoes and squash are. I want to cover it with something that won't be a pain to deal with come spring. Alfalfa can be rather... tenacious.

 

[WthrLady]

Tenacious....good word for it.