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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Jul 12, 2012 21:22:11 GMT -5
Mine is a bust. Definitly gotta do some soil work next year. My maters aint growing, my peppers aint growing. Brocolli, cauliflower, squash, zukes, okra, and pumpkins are all being eaten to death. Oh well, at least I have free run at the neighbors garden.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 16, 2012 15:35:22 GMT -5
The corn has reached it's peak and has tassled. The ears are looking a bit small, we'll see what happens. I have about 5 watermelons growing on the vines, they have a lot of growing to do if they will reach maturity before it gets too cold. The cantaloupe plant has really nice long vines, but not a lot of female flowers. This isn't the garden that I have done all of the work to the soil and it shows. I do have a couple of these on it though Something got ahold of one of the squash plants. It's a mystery, but it was almost all the way dead in just over a day. Dug it out in fear of it spreading disease to the others. The heat is slowing the production of the slicing cukes, but still getting a few a week. The potato plants recovered from the storm and are pointing towards the sky again. Seems like the dying off process is starting. If so, it will be harvest time soon. The Rutgers tomatoes for mostly canning, sauce, and salsa are loaded up with fruit. Looks like they will be ripening all at once. My onions never recovered from the storm. I'm not happy they were cut short in growth, but this is most of what I got. My pickling cukes are growing up that trellis and starting to produce. The beginning of the pickle canning summer 2012 has arrived! Remember those tomato plants that were near 4 feet high? How about 5 foot? They have to be pretty close, starting to fall over. I thought 54" cages would be big enough, next year I will make my own. They have blossoms all the way to the top. This is what is driving me crazy, I can't wait to eat it. The Bhut Jolokia aka Ghost Pepper, it FINALLY has a few small peppers on it. It dropped over 50 flowers before it decided it was time. My Habaneros are also adding peppers.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 19, 2012 15:27:58 GMT -5
Look at what I picked today. It's the first of many German Johnson tomatoes. It tastes GREAT! Photo courtesy of my "Troy camera" ;D
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 19, 2012 15:49:48 GMT -5
A bunch of these Ghost Peppers now growing on the plant. Once they are ripe I will be offering free samples to anyone who dares to eat them. Only catch is that the taste tests will be video recorded and will appear on this site. ;D
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Post by ScoutB on Jul 19, 2012 21:49:13 GMT -5
A bunch of these Ghost Peppers now growing on the plant. Once they are ripe I will be offering free samples to anyone who dares to eat them. Only catch is that the taste tests will be video recorded and will appear on this site. ;D I'm out. If they don't get you going in they'll get you coming out. Better keep a popsicle handy.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 21, 2012 10:18:58 GMT -5
Too bad CP isn't living close to me, I bet he'd do it. I can always mail him some and he can have his wife video him eating them.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 21, 2012 10:31:44 GMT -5
youtu.be/1tRq8ExAHzk I'm pretty sure Skully is the biggest badass on this site, want me to mail you one for you to try, Skully?
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Post by ScoutB on Jul 21, 2012 21:41:36 GMT -5
Wow, that really looked like fun.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 22, 2012 11:09:39 GMT -5
Nice avatar. ;D
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 28, 2012 7:54:52 GMT -5
Another German Johnson. I guess these were too heavy because they caused the branch to rip off the vine. I found them on the ground. Cantaloupes are coming along nicely. Ealier this week I decided to pick an ear of corn and it was ready. I took it straight to the pot and boiled it. No butter or salt and pepper and it was super sweet. I liked it more than last years' silver Queen. My Aunt came the next day and I picked her one, she called back and agreed it was great and better than the Silver Queen. This was an earlier variety, it grew to 5-6 feet tall (shorter than Silver Queen) but I'm not impressed with the production. A few stalks had no ears and only one had 2 ears. The ones that I did get ears from had nice size and kernel fill out. The taste is great, but production wasn't. If I grow corn next year, I will be trying another variety. I'm picking Celebrity, Brandywine, Early Girl, and German Johnson tomatoes with the first Mr. Stripey in a couple of days. So far the Brandywine has been chosen in taste tests, but they grew small compared to every other variety I'm growing. Beans are starting to flower, seems like it's taken forever since I had to replant. Cantaloupes are looking very good, but the bees have let me down again. I have had to hand pollinate the ones I have growing. The couple of watermelons I have on the vines are growing slower than they should. It may be due to lack of sun since they were in the middle of the corn patch, but I'm pulling the corn stalks as I pick the ears so maybe they will speed up. Peppers are doing great, both sweet and hot. I had a surprise on the jalapeno plant. There was a small round red pepper amongst the jaapenos. It was a cherry bomb hot pepper. The plant must've came from a seed from a jalapeno that was cross pollinated last year. Those little cherry bombs are no joke! Having a pretty good year so far in the gardens.
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Post by SPLASH on Jul 29, 2012 18:24:41 GMT -5
Been eating lots of corn, maters, and cukes. Even giving a bunch away. With all the rain we got and the temps climbing back up there, I expect to be canning lots of pickles this next week or so. Picked my first habanero today, it was fullsize and bright orange. The Mr. Stripey and German Johnson plants are by far taller than me now, not sure what I'm going to do if the maters on the top of them get as big as the rest have been? I'm worried they will snap the branches from the main vine.
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Post by SPLASH on Aug 4, 2012 14:58:29 GMT -5
Harvest from this morning. Tomatoes- Grape, Brandywine, Mr.Stripey, German Johnson, Celebrity, Early Girl, and Rutgers. The rest of my corn. Yellow straightneck summer squash. Slicing cukes, Pickling cukes (canned 3 more pints of pickles) A couple varieties of sweet peppers and a few jalapenos.
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Post by SPLASH on Aug 4, 2012 15:02:06 GMT -5
It's official, my watermelons are a bust this year. The 2 I had growing stopped growing and I ound they were rotten on the bottom. Could be a number of reasons why, but what I learned is to not try big southern melons in Michigan. I'll go with a smaller variety next year.
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Post by SPLASH on Aug 6, 2012 16:27:26 GMT -5
I now have 14 pints of pickles canned. Today I canned my first ever "Hot dills". My aunt mentioned she likes them, so I added some fresh habanero....... I'm done with the sweet corn and pulled all of the stalks. Ended up with 30 some decent ears, half of them were really nice. The pickling cukes on the trellis are pumping out the pickles. My cantaloupes are putting on their netting, shouldn't be long now. Have picked 7 of the 9 varieties of tomatoes so far. Beans are finally producing.
I will soon post a pic of the biggest tomato I have ever grown.
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Aug 9, 2012 16:39:23 GMT -5
Damn Splashy, your garden is on steroids. Mine is a let down again. Am starting to slowly get some stuff. Banana peeppers and bell peppers are coming a few every couple days. getting lot's of cukes(bout to make a batch of creamed cucumbers now). Okra is slow, can't do anything with one or two every few days so I have been just pitching them. All of my vine plants died (squash, zukes, and pumpkins) Think I got some diseased plants, had a few extra so my neighbor planted them and they died in his garden too. Tomatoe plants are loaded up now, but none are even starting to turn red. Hoping they will ripen before it turns cold. i guess if they all come on late, there will be alot of salsa to make.
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