2024 garden season

[TNTreeHugger]

Helped unload 2 of these bad boys at our farmers fair last evening.
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Oh My Goodness!

 

[farmer steve]

Couple of things I put in the fair this weekend.

 

[farmer steve]

Look hard. My smallest cucumber.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Couple of things I put in the fair this weekend.
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I see a lot of nice pumpkin pies on that table!!

 

[Mad Professor]

I'll be honest with you. my strawberry plants have to do the best they can. we just leave them in the ground, no cover or mulch. they come back each year. Probably not the best method, but, we just try to grow enough for a pie or two

We got a patch here 12'x60' and never touch them! lol! ---- and we got voles here bad too. You could put the pots in the ground for the winter OR keep them in the basement for the winter, --- depending on how many you have.
I had some in an earthbox one year on the porch and I put them in the basement for the winter and they never did stop growing. Drug the box out in the spring and they went right on doing their thing.

found a row of bell peppers over by the celery row.

and a couple waterway pix.
found a few more flowers in the field that came in the pollenator mix. the white ball is buttonbush and the other is grey willow.
I keep finding different stuff out there.

The strawberries were going to be hanging baskets, but I hurt my arm so they ended up in big pots. Plan is to get some big baskets next spring

 

[TNTreeHugger]

The strawberries were going to be hanging baskets, but I hurt my arm so they ended up in big pots. Plan is to get some big baskets next spring

I like that idea. I have a few plants in the ground that did okay this year, but I think I'll try putting some in baskets when I see them come back in the spring.

 

[farmer steve]

Helped unload 2 of these bad boys at our farmers fair last evening.
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They big orange one got first prize for heaviest.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

525 lbs of pumpkin!!
What are you going to do with it now?

Were those magic seeds?

 

[farmer steve]

525 lbs of pumpkin!!
What are you going to do with it now?

Were those magic seeds?

Not mine. I believe they were Atlantic giant seeds.

 

[sonny580]

NOT food grade!! lol! just for show and a waste of time! World record was around 1,600 pounds the last I heard.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

NOT food grade!! lol! just for show and a waste of time! World record was around 1,600 pounds the last I heard.

Pfft. What a waste of pumpkin.
1600 pounds?!

 

[farmer steve]

NOT food grade!! lol! just for show and a waste of time! World record was around 1,600 pounds the last I heard.

Found this. 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67070839

 

[sonny580]

15 thousand dollars to grow something useless!!!! Not me!

 

[TNTreeHugger]

15 thousand dollars to grow something useless!!!! Not me!

I saw that! But he won $30K.

 

[Mad Professor]

NOT food grade!! lol! just for show and a waste of time! World record was around 1,600 pounds the last I heard.

If you were starving it would last a long time.

 

[sonny580]

No way to keep it if you were starving so it would all go to waste anyway! --- I will stick with my canners! They big enough for me and the best quality around. Libby company thinks so since this is what they plant and process.

 

[Del_]

No way to keep it if you were starving so it would all go to waste anyway! --- I will stick with my canners! They big enough for me and the best quality around. Libby company thinks so since this is what they plant and process.

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.

 

[Stonesforbrains]

Picked over a hundred of these baby white and baby orange pumpkin’s and have at least that many or more still ripening

 

[farmer steve]

View attachment 1213407Picked over a hundred of these baby white and baby orange pumpkin’s and have at least that many or more still ripening

Let me know how the pumpkin pie tastes.

 

[Del_]

Let me know how the pumpkin pie tastes.

Pumpkin pie from hell!