Your spaghetti squash does OK hanging from baskets? I'm thinking of trellises for other vine squash.
2024 garden season
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I planted the seeds in mounds on the ground and put tomato cage over each mound (three plants each/two mounds) - they're climbing up everything - the fence, and the tomato cages, even over the cages with tomatoes!
I'm leading one vine to the hog wire arch over the fish pond to see what it does.
I use an angled piece of hog panel for my cucumbers to grow on in a raised bed, otherwise the vines go everywhere.
Yup, they sure do. Next year, in the new garden spot, I'm going to plant the spaghetti squash next to another hog wire arch
Picked a mess of yellow beans just now. 
Some "expert" on facebook said picking beans too soon will diminish the yield - is this true?
I always thought just the opposite - picking stimulated more production.
Some "expert" on facebook said picking beans too soon will diminish the yield - is this true?
I always thought just the opposite - picking stimulated more production.
Not sure about the yield thing. I do like to pick wax beans when they are a nice gold color.Picked a mess of yellow beans just now.
Some "expert" on facebook said picking beans too soon will diminish the yield - is this true?
I always thought just the opposite - picking stimulated more production.
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Early harvest is sometimes referred to as "cropping" allows the plant to focus on the remaining fruit.Picked a mess of yellow beans just now.
Some "expert" on facebook said picking beans too soon will diminish the yield - is this true?
I always thought just the opposite - picking stimulated more production.
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It may reduce your harvest amount, but the quality is generally improved.
Beans love to be picked! We pick 4 full sized crops from a planting before the plants give up the ghost! Best quality is at the peak of size and numbers. Pick the size you want,-- let the smaller ones wait a few days. Gotta work the plants and watch every day. You can get tons of good quality beans doing this. Works for us here.
Picked a mix of Cherokee Purple and Granny Cantrell tonight, need to sit in the window for a day or two.
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Seeds are from female plants like Mary Washington. Thick stems/spear sound male, but maybe your father garden is full of sh!t, I mean Compost.
So the rich soil makes bigger spears. Great photos of seedlings & you can not beat the price.Just my two cent worth.
Three more snow white habaneros.
Tomatoes are really coming on, gonna have to start canning soon.
Why aren't my tomatoes turning red?
The plants look very good, nice color and size, no insect damage, plenty of green tomatoes in various sizes.
I picked one this morning that was pinkish in color, but one side was split and there was what looked like a worm hole.
I put it in the tad tank to see if they would eat it.
The plants look very good, nice color and size, no insect damage, plenty of green tomatoes in various sizes.
I picked one this morning that was pinkish in color, but one side was split and there was what looked like a worm hole.
I put it in the tad tank to see if they would eat it.
Planted market more cucumbers and the chickens got in the garden and tore the mounds up. Put up more fencing and started Boston pickling cucumbers. Looks like the chickens didn’t get all the seeds from the first try. Got both varieties coming on now. Wife’s poor green beans aren’t doing so good, too hot now.
First red savina peppers and the Arriba and black magic jalapeños are both producing a lot. Time to make pepper sauce!
I figured it out - they weren't getting enough sun.
This morning I trimmed off a lot of the leaves that were shading the tomato clusters... and already I am seeing shades of pink on a tomato.
