2024 garden season

[TNTreeHugger]

I got a few of those making a mess as well. I have been considering taking them out too.

Ever since Moose got killed, I've been wanting to get a Great Pyrenees puppy so bad... even found some near me online.

But, my common sense canceled that out.
Between food and vet bills, I just can't justify adding that expense to my budget.

It is still on my mind though... if I knew someone who had one to give away, I could easily be persuaded to take it.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Things still doing well in the garden...

The garlic is poking up through the straw already!
Is that good, or bad??

My first tomato plants (from April) are still producing... but I'm not crazy about this variety, so I've been letting the critters have most of them.

The sickle pod is resurrecting itself and blooming again.

The potatoes are looking Fabulous!
Although, I'm not seeing any signs of vining or blooming ... hopefully, that means there's lots of action going on below the surface.

A volunteer tomato - with huge leaves. I'm hoping this is the purple Cherokee.

Another clump of volunteer maters... looks to be the same as the others from April that are still producing. Someone gave them to me and I don't know what variety they are, but I don't really care for them.

 

[muddstopper]

Opinion time. Garlic will be fine, just throw some more straw on top of them. you can remove the straw in the spring. You did plant them deep didnt you? Taters will bite the dust with a good frost, but never fear, they will come back. You can cover them with extra straw, but you wont be able to save the vines. Maters and anything else you have growing will turn black and be done for next good frost you get. Nothing will save them unless you have them in pots and can bring them inside.
One thing to also consider. I planted my garlic in Sept and it came up beautiful, it really impressed the deer, so much so that the deer pulled it up and ate the tops. I replanted the bulbs and they have came back up. My potted taters have been eaten to the ground three times and I noticed one plant coming back up. I wont be doing anything to try and save it as I figure its just a matter of time that the deer gets it anyways.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Opinion time.

Garlic will be fine, just throw some more straw on top of them. you can remove the straw in the spring. You did plant them deep didnt you?

I planted them 2" deep, as recommended on the website info I read. About half of them already had begun to sprout when planted. I have more straw... should I wait until the weather turns cold (IF it ever does), or cover it now?

Taters will bite the dust with a good frost, but never fear, they will come back. You can cover them with extra straw, but you wont be able to save the vines.

We had two nights of frost already several weeks ago and I covered all the tater plants. The way the crazy weather is, if we get another frost warning I'll cover them again since it's likely to warm back up again and hopefully give them a little more growing time.
If they don't have time to make taters this season, and the tops die back, will they sprout back up again in the spring??

Maters and anything else you have growing will turn black and be done for next good frost you get. Nothing will save them unless you have them in pots and can bring them inside.

I've already dug up and potted one vol. mater plant and brought it inside. It has one flower on it. I'm also going to pot up the vol. with the big leaves before it gets too cold.

One thing to also consider. I planted my garlic in Sept and it came up beautiful, it really impressed the deer, so much so that the deer pulled it up and ate the tops. I replanted the bulbs and they have came back up. My potted taters have been eaten to the ground three times and I noticed one plant coming back up. I wont be doing anything to try and save it as I figure its just a matter of time that the deer gets it anyways.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[muddstopper]

We had two nights of frost already several weeks ago and I covered all the tater plants. The way the crazy weather is, if we get another frost warning I'll cover them again since it's likely to warm back up again and hopefully give them a little more growing time.
If they don't have time to make taters this season, and the tops die back, will they sprout back up again in the spring??

One year I left a whole row of taters in the ground. come spring, I had a whole row of taters come up. Top dressed with fert, ran the tiller thru the row, hilled them up and had lots of little taters. I suspect over crowding was the cause of the smaller size, butt the little ones ate well. Also had a lot of rotten taters and mouse tasted spuds. Nothing like digging into a row of taters and pulling up a squishy smelly tater.

 

[sonny580]

Ya them rotten taters are about the worst thing to run into! --- they cant be crowded or they wont make much. I pull off excess plants here to limit the hill to 1 plant and 16 to 18" between the plants and they still overlap when I dig them. Dug everything this year with the mini exc. Not able to hand dig anything anymore.
Harvest this year was a bear due to the hard dry ground.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Found a sprout in the garden Is this a yellow wax bean?

 

[sonny580]

its a greenbean of some sort. They come up on their own if seed was mature and got knocked off the plant.

 

[Blue Oaks]

My gardening consisted solely of fruit trees planted just shy of of 2 years ago, until I planted a blackberry and a raspberry in Jan of this year. The trees didn't give off much, and neither did the berries. But, I did get 6 or 7 tiny raspberries on the top of my little plant this year. Hoping my pear goes back to 150 pears instead of the dozen I got this year.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

its a greenbean of some sort. They come up on their own if seed was mature and got knocked off the plant.

Two more popped up today.
They're the yellow beans, I didn't plant any green beans this year.

 

[kenmbz]

No pears at all this year due to drought.
Picked last tomato yesterday.
It's november and they are still going, usually everything is frozen by now.

 

[sonny580]

Pear trees here died! had fruit set for a while then dry weather hit and fruit fell off then leaves turned black.
We only do strawberries here. Sis has some raspberries,--I dont care for them.
Have a mato plant growing between the box trailer and a flatbed under a pine tree and it never has froze yet! Has half ripe matoes on it now. Everything out in the open has froze cept for the celery,---it takes an out and out freeze to kill it!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

I've got a lovely bunch of radishes...

And just picked probably the last tomatoes from Aprils plants

 

[sonny580]

I grew radishes early this year in the greenhouse just for the heck of it and they were really good.

 

[cookies]

I tilled up our garden patches to replant winter snow peas,lettuce etc..... hundreds of cow peas (black eye, ozarks, zipper cream) and those crazy thai long beans that vine sprouted everywhere I tilled. I must have pulled up 200 just to keep the winter sprouts from competing for space!

 

[sonny580]

some of that exotic stuff is VERY invasive so I dont plant it!

 

[farmer steve]

Looks like the cold took its toll on most everything Tuesday night. Only things stihl going are turnips, brussel sprouts and some romenesco. Finally supposed to get some rain tonite which will help my cover crops and spinach.

 

[djg james]

Are you canning your pumpkins?

We grow Waltham Butternut saving seeds for the past ten years. It stores for a year or more for us.

This past year we grew South Anna Butternut after reading about it being an improved version but we are questioning that fact as it bore much less.

I like the look of yours and would be interested in some seed if you would like to share. I'm familiar with isolation distances for squash.

I'll trade you some Dr. Martin pole lima bean seeds for some of your squash seeds if your are interested.

What is isolation distance for squash? I found out that you aren't suppose to plant red raspberries next to any other berry. Looking for a spot in my yard to plant a few.

 

[djg james]

Picked my last quart of pole beans yesterday. Good year for them. Out of two 16' rows, I canned over 40 quarts, froze 3 gallons and gave away another two gallons.

 

[djg james]

They need separated by at least 30ft I believe and even then bumble bees may cross pollenate them. They don't cross with lima beans. We grow a yellow cultivar too and I've had them cross but rarely and that was grown right next to each other. The gold ones are even more beautiful. There are other Italian pole beans that may be as good but we haven't tried them. They can extremely well and remain crispy. Our Instant Pot steams them to perfection. I've grown Rattle Snake pole beans but they are really stringy. This greatly increases snapping time. If you want to try 'Hilda' I'll send you 100 seeds, just private message me your address. Hilda will not live until frost kill so several plantings are needed if you want to grow them until frost. I'd space planting times maybe three weeks apart. If you wait until your first planting is in decline to plant a succession planting you likely will not get a second crop before frost kill.

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