Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

All we got this morning is drizzles. I'll have to water tomorrow. Need to prune the tomatoes too.

Worked in the garden a while this morning. While doing a bug check I found some blooms in the green beans and buds on the butterbeans. Didn't see any bugs this time!View attachment 3853725
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Butterbeans
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@fuzzi Building looks good.

What variety of green beans are you growing this year? Mine got to the top of the trellis and did bear a few beans and then started dying. I think the heat got to them. I pulled some plants that had gotten all the way to the top and a couple of feet falling back toward the ground and they were dead from the root. The root ball was dead. The stems at the base of the plants on several of them turned brown as well.

 

[NanaK]

What variety of green beans are you growing this year? Mine got to the top of the trellis and did bear a few beans and then started dying. I think the heat got to them. I pulled some plants that had gotten all the way to the top and a couple of feet falling back toward the ground and they were dead from the root. The root ball was dead. The stems at the base of the plants on several of them turned brown as well.

Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
It's the only one I've grown for the last several years. About a 15-20 ft row produces all we need for the year. Just 2 of us to feed but I do share lots with family. You can save seed too. They do like regular water.

I grew Blue Lake a few times. Got lots of vine but not a lot of beans. I'll not grow those again.

I don't know what could have cause the death of yours? Odd. Still time to plant more.

I watered everything yesterday. Still no rain. It was very hot and muggy.

 

[tripletfeb]

We got much needed rain yesterday. Now today I get to weed and check on everything

 

[fuzzi]

Still no rain here, well, maybe a trace while I was at work.

I worked on tying up the squash plants last night before the mosquitoes drove me inside, they're really bad this year!

The zucchini plants keep dropping their fruits, but the lemon squash is going gangbusters.

Ooh! The new variety has fruit!

 

[Nomadicus]

Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
It's the only one I've grown for the last several years. About a 15-20 ft row produces all we need for the year. Just 2 of us to feed but I do share lots with family. You can save seed too. They do like regular water.

I grew Blue Lake a few times. Got lots of vine but not a lot of beans. I'll not grow those again.

I don't know what could have cause the death of yours? Odd. Still time to plant more.

I watered everything yesterday. Still no rain. It was very hot and muggy.

Mine are Blue Lake and the first time I ever planted them. I'm going back to KY Wonder next planting. Didn't get squat with a 100'+ of rows. I may try a few feet (10) of Kentucky Blue to see what they are like. I can still salvage a crop of Kentucky Wonders if I can get them planted by the first of August. I can plant them were the early corn is about to be finished within 3 weeks.

 

[Nomadicus]

We got a good rain this morning and it will keep raining according to the weather radar until about 1:30pm. Expecting 4 days in a row now to plant some more okra. Anxious for the tomato and pepper seed to germinate so we can plant them in individual pots to grow off until time to put them in the garden by mid July. I don't like the looks of most of what we are growing from the spring planting. I planted what I could find plants for and none seem to be well adapted to this hot humid climate. Looks like a lot of disease problems with them here. They all grew well high up on the Cumberland Plateau in TN.

 

[fuzzi]

I came home from work, and decided to see if I could find a hasp in the big shed, stored with assorted hardware. But then I looked at our old, decrepit shed...and the perfectly good hasp on its door. I removed the hasp and attached it to the new shed.

AND found a perfectly fine Master Lock, with a key!

Tomorrow I'll go get some blocks to use as steps.

 

[fuzzi]

We got a good rain this morning and it will keep raining according to the weather radar until about 1:30pm. Expecting 4 days in a row now to plant some more okra. Anxious for the tomato and pepper seed to germinate so we can plant them in individual pots to grow off until time to put them in the garden by mid July. I don't like the looks of most of what we are growing from the spring planting. I planted what I could find plants for and none seem to be well adapted to this hot humid climate. Looks like a lot of disease problems with them here. They all grew well high up on the Cumberland Plateau in TN.

We're supposed to get storms shortly. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Nomadicus]

When I was living in S Central FL as a teenager it was quite common to have a thunderstorm many afternoons during the summer months. Winters were usually the driest time of year. Around were we lived shallow wells were easy to put down and I helped my dad drive many a foot of 2" well casing as that was his sideline job. People used them to water their lawns and gardens all over the county. Some rural folks even used them for their house water.

 

[Nomadicus]

I did a walk thru on the maters just before dark. No sign of horn worms for more horn worm damage. I think our pole beans are done. Maybe one more small picking tomorrow. I can see tiny buds in the summer squash that will open up as the make flowers now. I'm guessing 2 weeks till we get to eat fresh summer squash. The fall crop of summer squash should get planted early August.