Your 2024 Garden

[fuzzi]

We need a thunderstorm to visit us at night. I need the sleep they bring and all the new seed in the ground need a drink.

I'll send Debby your way.

 

[Nomadicus]

I've watered the entire fall garden over now. I do hope we start getting some rain. I really don't like staying up so I can turn off the pump that is watering crops that are in bad need of rain.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have the largest garden plot mowed as close to the ground as I can and will keep mowing it until it is cool enough to start tilling it again. There is a lot of organic stubble to get turned under to start its return to soil. The latest peas that were recently planted are up and growing loving the hot weather and bright sunshine a lot more than I am. I need to till them middles early one morning before any weeds can take over.

 

[tripletfeb]

My green beans have been so weird lately. At first, the crop was nice, good sized beans and they produced a lot. I got two good pickings from them. Then the beans got weird. They were a good size but hollow in the middle, no substance to them. Just the bean seed. Some of the plants are turning yellow and pulling out of the ground. You know what bean plants look like in the fall, yellow and the beans are useless? That's what mine are doing. It's way too early for this, I should be able to get beans until the begining of October but I'm not. And we've been getting rain so they aren't dry. And I see no bugs or evidence of bugs. I'm stumped

 

[Nomadicus]

My green beans have been so weird lately. At first, the crop was nice, good sized beans and they produced a lot. I got two good pickings from them. Then the beans got weird. They were a good size but hollow in the middle, no substance to them. Just the bean seed. Some of the plants are turning yellow and pulling out of the ground. You know what bean plants look like in the fall, yellow and the beans are useless? That's what mine are doing. It's way too early for this, I should be able to get beans until the begining of October but I'm not. And we've been getting rain so they aren't dry. And I see no bugs or evidence of bugs. I'm stumped

Ants and aphids took or Roma II green beans over after a few pickings. I planted Kentucky Wonder beans to have more to can that are just now coming up. I'll be fighting the ants and aphids tooth and nail most likely as they only 50' or so from the early beans. The early beans were turning yellow as you described after a few pickings. That is a first for us with them as normally my wife got tired of picking and the last picking she pulled them up to make sure that was the last picking. I wish I knew what the answer is here. It was a first time for us to grow them here in AL.

 

[tripletfeb]

Ants and aphids took or Roma II green beans over after a few pickings. I planted Kentucky Wonder beans to have more to can that are just now coming up. I'll be fighting the ants and aphids tooth and nail most likely as they only 50' or so from the early beans. The early beans were turning yellow as you described after a few pickings. That is a first for us with them as normally my wife got tired of picking and the last picking she pulled them up to make sure that was the last picking. I wish I knew what the answer is here. It was a first time for us to grow them here in AL.

Mine are just standard Blue Lake Bush Beans. Seeds I'd been buying for years. I wanted to save some of these seeds so I wouldn't have to buy more in the spring but I won't be saving these, they are pretty useless now

 

[Nomadicus]

Mine are just standard Blue Lake Bush Beans. Seeds I'd been buying for years. I wanted to save some of these seeds so I wouldn't have to buy more in the spring but I won't be saving these, they are pretty useless now

I planted some blue lake runner beans and they bore very few beans on 7' long runners. Turned yellow and died long before the summer days got really hot. I also tried some Kentucky Blue with is a cross between Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake. They fizzled two years ago. Maybe it is my timing or the climate but something doesn't like the way I'm trying to grow green beans. Roma II has been our go to variety for a few years with out fail. They can so well too.

 

[Nomadicus]

Thinking back to the 70's we grew a lot of Tender Crop green beans that were so good and canned well. I don't remember seeing seed for them lately. Then again I've not been looking but I will be now.

 

[NanaK]

Yesterday I picked 1 butternut squash, 1 watermelon and some cucumbers. Some of the cucumbers were huge and over ripe. Gave those to the chickens. They love them.

DH put some barrels of leaves we had stored under a shelter to keep them dry. We had a lot of rain from Debby. The chickens had a blast! They were busy all day. They will turn this into some nice compost for the garden.

 

[Nomadicus]

Picked enough okra today for some cooked down with tomatoes and onions for a treat. We still have some old okra in the freezer and didn't plant as much as we might have. We will eat fresh from now to frost and should have enough in the freezer to last until we start picking next spring.