when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Irving]

I grabbed a bunch and smashed it up and it think it Might have tasted like dill, but I realized I've never eaten dried dill either. We're sure it's not a weed because it's planted strategically. Oh well, at least it's growing well. My wife got jealous that I bought all the plants and set everything up, so she went and bought a bunch of seeds from the dollar store and planted them all, in August. She knew it was late, but she didn't care. This was one of this seeds. Surprisingly. Perry much everything she planted is growing very well. Most of it won't have time to do anything, but the herbs and lettuce have worked out well.

[Irving]

Update. The above pictured plant turned out to be whatever this is pictured below.

[rbeau30]

Blossom End Rot on all my tomatoes!

SHIT!

Make a slurry of a handful of garden lime and a 5 gallons of water and water your tomatoes with it. Fix 'er right up! Won't reverse the ones that are already rotted, cut the ends off with a knife.



Update on my garden this year. My rain barrels were dry most of the year... I can count on one hand the days I got measurable rain. S
- Sunchokes did not so great this year... I got enough for a meal, but the rest were small. replanted them.
- Tomatoes did not as well this year as last.
- My Rocky Mountain Painted corn did okay. I mixed corn from last year with corn that I bought... hopefully I will make a local hybrid.
- Got two peaches from new trees...
- 100+ jelly jars of jelly from the grapes this year and still have about 5 dozen to make.
- Raspberries and Blackberries did well, 60 or so jam jars this year.
- Chopped down my pear and plum tree... bummer.
- Scarlet runner beans did better this year than last I think it was the placement of the beans ... less sun this year for them. 1 pint of dried beans from 12 beans.
- Cukes did great... didn't ferment any pickles this year had no time :-(
- Got about 8 - 5 gallon buckets of apples...

Got the salad mixes/kale and chard in the ground and built some cold frames... gonna see how long I can have salad.


Probably last year of gardening for me... not enough time and I can't do it all by myself.

[Irving]

Looked up Blossom End Rot, and our Golden Girl tomatoes definitely had that. It was a bummer. All the other tomatoes (juliets and a few romas) did very well. Corn completely failed after starting off strong.

[TheGrey]

Make a slurry of a handful of garden lime and a 5 gallons of water and water your tomatoes with it. Fix 'er right up! Won't reverse the ones that are already rotted, cut the ends off with a knife.



Update on my garden this year. My rain barrels were dry most of the year... I can count on one hand the days I got measurable rain. S
- Sunchokes did not so great this year... I got enough for a meal, but the rest were small. replanted them.
- Tomatoes did not as well this year as last.
- My Rocky Mountain Painted corn did okay. I mixed corn from last year with corn that I bought... hopefully I will make a local hybrid.
- Got two peaches from new trees...
- 100+ jelly jars of jelly from the grapes this year and still have about 5 dozen to make.
- Raspberries and Blackberries did well, 60 or so jam jars this year.
- Chopped down my pear and plum tree... bummer.
- Scarlet runner beans did better this year than last I think it was the placement of the beans ... less sun this year for them. 1 pint of dried beans from 12 beans.
- Cukes did great... didn't ferment any pickles this year had no time :-(
- Got about 8 - 5 gallon buckets of apples...

Got the salad mixes/kale and chard in the ground and built some cold frames... gonna see how long I can have salad.


Probably last year of gardening for me... not enough time and I can't do it all by myself.

Thanks for the info!

[hollohas]

Warm fall has been good. Picked this yesterday...

[TFOGGER]

This weather has been ridiculous. Still harvesting raspberries this afternoon...

[Irving]

Still harvesting tomatoes, even though I turned the water off a few weeks ago.

[encorehunter]

Now that we are moved to the country and work on the house has slowed, I have begun work on a terraced hillside garden. The slope is SSW in direction, and should have good sunlight for 8-10 hours a day during summer. I have cut about 30 trees out and am working on clearing the oak brush. I still have another dozen trees to take out from the top of the hills where I am planning on putting the dwarf orchard. Im planning on using the trees I cut as the walls for the terraces. A friend has a lot of aged cow manure I can have for free, and he will load it with the tractor. When I said I wanted 40-50 truck loads, he asked when I wanted to pick it up.

I have been amending our lower field to grow grass for a pasture. The soil tests are all showing ph at about an 8.0. The nutrients are there, but lacking. I have put 4 yards of dry pine needles, 2 yards of goat manure and straw, and a yard of chicken manure onto the field and disced it in. We have quite a bit of clay, so Im trying to break it up with the organic material. In the garden, I'm going to bring in some topsoil, but mostly I will be mixing our clay with the manure, then mulching the plants with pine needles. My biggest hope is to get the orchard established for the years to come. I have plenty of flat area above where the garden will be, but it will get more and more difficult to get water the further I go from the house.

[Irving]

Perfect bump timing. Is there anything we should be doing to our gardens this time of year?

Encore, post up some before pictures.