2021 garden season

[sonny580]

Lookin good guys! Keep up the good work!
We are still diggin spuds and makin peach jam!.
Also have squash, cucumbers, greenbeans, onions and cabbage ready for harvest. tomatoes are slow this year
Been runnin the freeze-dryer round the clock for a week now doing the onions.

 

[Del_]

quite a home garden there! country setting perfect, imo! lots of corn... what do you do with all that produce? can it? sell it? give it away? or? sometimes i am overwhelmed a bit when several things come in all at once. we have a pantry full of tomatoes and cucumbers... and my 4 beam plot and kentucky poles are all flowering now...

The photos show ten rows of Obsession corn that are 50 ft. long. We cut off of the cob and froze 600 ears and gave the rest to friends. What we do when we have more than we can use is to give away the excess and the next year grow less. Great looking produce photos you've been posting!

I'm going to be picking our Rattlesnake pole beans for the first time today(We've been away f. Also the first time growing Rattlesnake pole beans.

Rattlesnake row 40 ft. long and 10 ft. tall. Jimmy Nardello peppers too.

Jimmy Nardello peppers.

Onions:

 

[farmer steve]

Looks good @Del_ . Some peppers, cukes and squash I picked yesterday. Most destined for the produce auction but I do give a bunch away to friends.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

The photos show ten rows of Obsession corn that are 50 ft. long. We cut off of the cob and froze 600 ears and gave the rest to friends. What we do when we have more than we can use is to give away the excess and the next year grow less. Great looking produce photos you've been posting!

I'm going to be picking our Rattlesnake pole beans for the first time today(We've been away f. Also the first time growing Rattlesnake pole beans.

Rattlesnake row 40 ft. long and 10 ft. tall. Jimmy Nardello peppers too.

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Jimmy Nardello peppers.

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Onions:

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Thanks ~

x 10! lol your 40' = my 4'... but i am scaling down/back my home garden. big gardens are a thing of the past for me. your pix look to be right out of Joy of Gardening... maybe better!

look fwd to see more. btw - thats a lot of ears of corn to put up...

 

[Del_]

Thanks ~

x 10! lol your 40' = my 4'... but i am scaling down/back my home garden. big gardens are a thing of the past for me. your pix look to be right out of Joy of Gardening... maybe better!

look fwd to see more. btw - thats a lot of ears of corn to put up...

Thanks!

Things I'm doing that are not in 'The Joy of Gardening'.

I'm using a Meadow Creature broad fork to dig 14 inches deep in the row.

Drip irrigation.

My rows are marked with steel posts and are always in the same place.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Thanks!

Things I'm doing that are not in 'The Joy of Gardening'.

I'm using a Meadow Creature broad fork to dig 14 inches deep in the row.

Drip irrigation.

My rows are marked with steel posts and are always in the same place.

me, too! i can relate... things i am doing not in Joy of Gardening....

lol

 

[farmer steve]

Been lax getting pics here. 50 Roma tomatoes and 100 mountain varieties.

 

[farmer steve]

Peppers,cukes and some squash ready to go thru the washer.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Peppers,cukes and some squash ready to go thru the washer.
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nice! someone hasn't been lax out in the fields... lol. had to show the QB your cukes!
still got some of ours... home garden variety

 

[Goinwheelin]

Haven’t posted in a while but the garden is doing good. My first time growing a hibiscus is turning out ok. And the peppers are doing good. Got some cross pollination though with the hot and sweet so it will be interesting to see.

 

[Del_]

Haven’t posted in a while but the garden is doing good. My first time growing a hibiscus is turning out ok. And the peppers are doing good. Got some cross pollination though with the hot and sweet so it will be interesting to see. View attachment 922872View attachment 922873View attachment 922874View attachment 922875View attachment 922876

Looking good!

I believe that cross pollination will only effect the seeds and will not result in any taste or hotness differences.

If you plant those seeds next year then you will see the effects of the crossings.

Okra is in the same family as hibiscus and has the same flower.

 

[Stonesforbrains]

First Jay’s peach ghost scorpion pepper to ripen. I don’t eat any super hot chili’s but I got a buddy at work who does. This one is all his!

 

[farmer steve]

Was driving by my Indian corn patch and spied this ear a bit higher than most. My reach is almost 8 feet.

 

[farmer steve]

A little picking yesterday. First time I ever saw a critter like the last pic.

 

[Del_]

That's a 'white lined sphinx moth larva' I belive.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

View attachment 922939First Jay’s peach ghost scorpion pepper to ripen. I don’t eat any super hot chili’s but I got a buddy at work who does. This one is all his!

me, neither! mild salsa and a jalpeno is about as hot as i take it. but... your hot chili's look... look... um, hot!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

farm to table:

dinner night before... last nite, too ~

 

[jollygreengiant]

That's a 'white lined sphinx moth larva' I belive.

It kinda looks like what we call a tobacco hornworm here. Though normally those are the same size as the lighter in the pic.

 

[sonny580]

Farmer Steve,----- can I borrow that rock bucket for a few days???? LOL! The would be a VERY handy attachment to have for a skidloader!
Great veggies too!

 

[PA. Woodsman]

It kinda looks like what we call a tobacco hornworm here. Though normally those are the same size as the lighter in the pic.

Yes and they will wipe your plants out FAST, weird little destructive things!!!