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Ouch man! That really sucks! Got any seed left to get some more started?
What's Growing in the Garden
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Yikes! Man - I feel your pain! Kinda like what mine looks like after the vine borer gets through with it.
Nope. Those were started from the little plants you buy at the big box stores
I won't have to worry about running out of liquid in the barrel now!
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Doesn't take those little cacti long to develop some defense mechanisms. This is 8 days after emergence, about 3/16" wide.
Hope y'all can make this out. I took the picture while trying to hold up the lid to my cucumber hydroponic barrel. Needed someone else to take the picture but.... There were two cups in the lid with 2 cuke plants on the left and three on the right. About a foot of liquid left
Not growing in the garden but next to the back porch.
How long to they flower? Ours will start flowering in 3 or 4 weeks and last about 2. Do you get fall colors on yours? With frost just 5 or 6 weeks away, never had fall color on ours.
They don't last long and nothing after these fall off. We had some off shoots that my wife transplanted in another spot and those flowers are white.
What are they?
Rose of Sharon
It is a soft wood with a large amount of shrinkage. I'd assume from that, it likely has a fair amount of movement as well. The soft yellowish white wood stains brown to black from injury and can go far into the wood. Don't see it used much other than occasional wood carving.
Member of the mallow family. As is Okra! So they share at least one trait - Eat a rose of sharon flower bud and they are slimey (mucilaginous) like okra - and yes, I have. FYI also related to cotton and cocoa! Good family of plants!
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Unless you are constantly battling common mallow and/or Venice mallow in flower beds, fencerows and the garden....
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Finally picked the first tomatoes (other than Sun Gold cherry tomatoes).
Going to be a good supper!
Going to be a good supper!
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Cotton, okra, and one all white "dinner plate" hibiscus are the only mallow I have in the yard - I don't grow Rose of Sharon, because of that one battle - have enough battles in the garden as it is - plus momma don't like the color - so that sealed it.
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Dug the last of the garlic. This is the hard neck variety "Carpathian". Large heads and cloves. There are only 8 to 10 cloves in each. These will hang in the shed for drying/curing until fall.
Also pulled the first of the onions. These were damaged by winds and hail, so not as large as normal. The largest here is about the size of a baseball.
Also pulled the first of the onions. These were damaged by winds and hail, so not as large as normal. The largest here is about the size of a baseball.
@trc65 - Tim, we just got back into town today after a trip to visit family. Got the seeds today. Thank you very much! And a thank you to @Nubsnstubs for his having shared them with Tim. I showed the seeds to my oldest after I opened the package and he's excited for them.
First thing we did tonight after getting home was to check the garden. We picked a few strawberries and a couple peppers. Our boys went and picked raspberries and our oldest made a neat discovery - some of our raspberries are golden raspberries.
And then we picked beans. And filled a 5 gallon pail. Mind you, our green bean patch is a 4' x 7' area of a raised bed planter and we probably have the plants too close, but they're growing and producing well. A few wax from some leftover seeds from last year, but nearly all green. There will be more ready to pick in a few days. And lots of flowers still on the plants - we'll be picking beans for a while. Some will get eaten fresh, some frozen, some made into dilly beans, and some I'll pressure can. (After I give the canner a test run to figure it out!)
In a few days, when we pick more beans, we'll also start harvesting green onions. In the past we've replanted the bottoms to grow again after cutting them off, but this year we're just going to try cutting it and leaving the bottom in the ground and saving some work. We'll cut up the green onions and freeze them - they're really nice to have in the freezer for tossing in dishes.
And then we picked beans. And filled a 5 gallon pail. Mind you, our green bean patch is a 4' x 7' area of a raised bed planter and we probably have the plants too close, but they're growing and producing well. A few wax from some leftover seeds from last year, but nearly all green. There will be more ready to pick in a few days. And lots of flowers still on the plants - we'll be picking beans for a while. Some will get eaten fresh, some frozen, some made into dilly beans, and some I'll pressure can. (After I give the canner a test run to figure it out!)
In a few days, when we pick more beans, we'll also start harvesting green onions. In the past we've replanted the bottoms to grow again after cutting them off, but this year we're just going to try cutting it and leaving the bottom in the ground and saving some work. We'll cut up the green onions and freeze them - they're really nice to have in the freezer for tossing in dishes.
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Good looking beans! Ours got planted way late because of the wet weather, won't be ready for another month or so. Other than eating a few fresh, we can all of them. When I was a kid, we would can about 100 quarts a year. Now only about 30 qts per year.
Didn't take any pictures, but froze the first bags of broccoli today, and red beets are just about ready to be picked and pickled.
BTW, green beans like a fairly high density. I plant mine about 8 seeds per foot of row in 30 inch rows.
Didn't take any pictures, but froze the first bags of broccoli today, and red beets are just about ready to be picked and pickled.
BTW, green beans like a fairly high density. I plant mine about 8 seeds per foot of row in 30 inch rows.