when are you sowing your garden this year?

[rbeau30]

the Costco on Parker Rd has lots of Pints. 6 something a case. Quarts are more hard to find. Nowhere near me.

[rbeau30]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

[HoneyBadger]

I've got lots of sprouts! I'll post a picture in a week or so. Also, all of my squash plants went batsh!t crazy when I gave them a little fertilizer! Doubled in size in just 4 days!

[hollohas]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

Awesome!!!!

[hollohas]

Garden has been productive. I've weighted and recorded my harvest each day. Some of the weights are:

10.5 lbs strawberries
13.5lbs zucchini
10 lbs yellow squash
10.5lbs green beans
12lbs cucumbers
8lbs corn
Plus carrots, peppers, tomatoes, okra, peas.

Grand total as of 8/10/15 is 71 pounds of food. When the tomatoes start ripping in mass this will go way up.

Canning some of those green beans tonight. There are 7 pints in there...

[rbeau30]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

3 Ounces total. (Cascade) Second year plants from rhizomes, two plants produced. One (Wilammette) died in the first year ( I'll get some rhizomes off the other to re-plant them. ) the other two didn't produce cones, but they didn't die, so that is good I guess.

Since the trees nearby where the hops are planted died this year the hops will get more sun, so that should be better for next year. I also need to put some mulch down for overwintering so the crowns underground don't get too cold.

They got hit hard this year by moisture and a late frost both of which hops do not like.

I guess I better get to brewing! Maybe this weekend!


Seems like everyone is doing well! My garden isn't all that great. Suffering from lack of water perhaps.

Rocky Mountain Painted corn is doing well I may expand the footprint next year for better pollination. Also I'll have to deal with preventing them from blowing over. I have 1 ear for 30% of my corn stalks and 2 ears for the rest. I harvested three ears so far. The rest is drying.



Drooling over your All-American Pressure Canner BTW

[GilpinGuy]

Grand total as of 8/10/15 is 71 pounds of food. When the tomatoes start ripping in mass this will go way up.

Excellent! I'm friggin jealous. Nice job.

I'm confused about my cucumbers. They sprouted nicely, got to 5 inches tall or so, then just stalled and never got any bigger the last month or so. Weird. I planted a bunch so I could dive into pickling for the first time. Next year I guess.

[rbeau30]

The same thing happened to me last year with my cukes. Although I had a lot of powdery mildew. This year I have less because I capped some sprinkler heads. Getting a lot less water to the garden though.

I also changed to an heirloom variety this year. They did better when I direct sowed them. They seemed as though they grew faster and had less shock than the ones that I started indoors.

[hollohas]

My cucumbers have been slow this year too. I tried to start them indoors and transplant them but they all died when moved outside. Even after hardening them off.

I had a huge problem with powdery mildew last year. This year I discovered a spray that helps keep it under control.

Mix water, jojoba oil, oregano oil, baking soda in spray bottle. I spray the leaves that are starting to show signs of mildew once or twice a week. So far, it's kept the mildew from getting bad. It doesn't make it go away, but it keeps it under control enough that the plants don't even notice it.

[hollohas]

Today's haul.