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My potatoes which have been grown in containers, are dying off and I am thinking of emptying them and seeing what they produced. I did Red Norlands, Eva`s and Yukon Gold. My White Half Runners are coming in and I canned some a few days ago. My corn plants in the main patch, are about 4 ~ 6 feet tall. Fertilized them with 10-10-10 several days ago. My Chelsea watermelon plants ( Which I planted a little late in the season ) are doing OK but I wish that they were starting to run all over the place. Tried a new variety of tomato plants this year. My Grape and Cherokee Purple. The grape ones are much bigger than tommy toes. I am also growing some Elephant ears in a 5 gallon bucket. They have not done as well in the yard soil even fertilized. You folks ever tried to grow those? Any tips and tricks that might help me? What did you folks grow? |
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My wife harvested a couple of bags of potatoes last week. She did pretty well, especially compared to last year. Her green beans were doing well but production has tapered off a bit. Her catnip is keeping the neighborhood cats tipsy. Everything is getting better since the fires died down and the smoke cleared. The last 2 years the smoke has done a terrible number on produce. |
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Ours was basically over by the end of June because of heat. Except for okra, sweet potatoes, and peppers. Best sweetcorn we ever had. Probably several hundred ears. Also great tomato and potato crop. |
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Originally Posted By Oldgold: Ours was basically over by the end of June because of heat. Except for okra, sweet potatoes, and peppers. Best sweetcorn we ever had. Probably several hundred ears. Also great tomato and potato crop. What kind of corn did you grow? For my second year of growing this kind, I have had good luck with Yellow Truckers corn. Ears in length are around 10 to 12". The last time I grew anything in that size was Hickory King. I will say this. The HK produced bigger kernels on the ear though. |
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We had a small garden (mainly potted/boxes) this year, but we plan to plant more next year. My cherry tomatoes got out of hand and I can't keep up with picking them all. Making lots of sauce and salads, and freezing them. I'm closing on a landlocked acre attached me this fall and I might put in some corn next year. Pickled these this morning.  |
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: We had a small garden (mainly potted/boxes) this year, but we plan to plant more next year. My cherry tomatoes got out of hand and I can't keep up with picking them all. Making lots of sauce and salads, and freezing them. I'm closing on a landlocked acre attached me this fall and I might put in some corn next year. Pickled these this morning. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/368464/pickles-3815244.jpg NICE photo! In the past, when my tommy toes were planted, I would do 2 plants each. BIG mistake! LOL! One per growing season was fine. Great items to put on a Chef salad. Uh..........................the birds got the "leftovers". |
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Originally Posted By Xringlover: NICE photo! In the past, when my tommy toes were planted, I would do 2 plants each. BIG mistake! LOL! One per growing season was fine. Great items to put on a Chef salad. Uh..........................the birds got the "leftovers". Haha, thanks. I planted three cherry tomato plants (2 red, 1 orange) this year and they're way too much. They completely took over a 30 square foot area around their box. I have to cut them back weekly. |
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This year was our best tomato years in the last ten. Many years we have to bring tomatoes inside to ripen to prevent them from blistering. This year our GDD's were over 2200 between the 5th of May and early August, but had a lot of overcast days. We were able to use vine ripened tomatoes all season. |
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Originally Posted By Xringlover: What kind of corn did you grow? For my second year of growing this kind, I have had good luck with Yellow Truckers corn. Ears in length are around 10 to 12". The last time I grew anything in that size was Hickory King. I will say this. The HK produced bigger kernels on the ear though. Peaches and cream. It was very good. |
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: Haha, thanks. I planted three cherry tomato plants (2 red, 1 orange) this year and they're way too much. They completely took over a 30 square foot area around their box. I have to cut them back weekly. Those things when healthy, will run amuck. One plant is more than I can handle. |
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Originally Posted By Bulldog8: This year was our best tomato years in the last ten. Many years we have to bring tomatoes inside to ripen to prevent them from blistering. This year our GDD's were over 2200 between the 5th of May and early August, but had a lot of overcast days. We were able to use vine ripened tomatoes all season. I LOVE a mater sammich! In the past, when my plants took off, I was giving them away to neighbors. |
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We got flooded out by all the rain in the spring so bad I wasn’t able to plant. Threw some rye in the work the soil, tilled it a month ago and threw out a bunch of pumpkin varieties. The little ones are producing like crazy. The 40 plus pound variety is going well. Have a dozen pumpkins in the 20 lbs range and still have a long way to go. Have zero need for any of it. Wife has been having fun selling the small ones at the farmers market in town. Plus we have a box to our foster care licensing agent. Also told her a couple weeks before Halloween she’ll need to send a couple foster kids over to get a big pumpkin. Next year I’ll solve the drainage issue and try to grow some food |
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Originally Posted By Oldgold: Peaches and cream. It was very good. Originally Posted By Oldgold: Originally Posted By Xringlover: What kind of corn did you grow? For my second year of growing this kind, I have had good luck with Yellow Truckers corn. Ears in length are around 10 to 12". The last time I grew anything in that size was Hickory King. I will say this. The HK produced bigger kernels on the ear though. Peaches and cream. It was very good. I'm assuming that is the same type that is also called Silver and Gold or King and Queen? Could be slightly different cultivars but they all look the same with the pale yellow along with white kernels. |
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Originally Posted By TinSpinner: I'm assuming that is the same type that is also called Silver and Gold or King and Queen? Could be slightly different cultivars but they all look the same with the pale yellow along with white kernels. Peaches and Cream is an old, named variety of bicolor sweet corn and I don't think it's the same as another, although there are many, many, MANY varieties of supersweet corn now and some of them I have a hard time telling apart. I've had Silver Queen which is a really old variety but never Silver and Gold or King and Queen. I undestand Silver and Gold is an early season variety but I've never grown it. Now I'm interested in trying those. 
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Our berries, raspberries, blackberries, and boysenberries, did fantastic. We've been in a bad drought the last couple years, but we do irrigate as much as possible, however there's nothing better than what falls from the sky. Pineapple greenhouse is going crazy. In the last few weeks we've harvested 6, with another one coming ripe in the next couple days..... there are so many pineapple in that greenhouse that we'll be harvesting them up until new years. I haven't checked the plants too closely, but there are a couple new flowers, so that means they'll be ripe in about 10-12 months. Everything else started out slow because we had some abnormal heat, but now that the monsoons have finally kicked in up here in the mountains, temps have dropped and plants are starting to take off. Normally by now my wife would have about 50+ jars of her fermented pickles, but we only have a few, and she would have about 30+ jars of her fermented dilly beans. Our garlic that we over wintered went crazy. That was a great harvest. We ended up buying a fermenting pot so we were able to make a lot of black garlic. The various squash have produced a couple fruit, but they are kicking in to high gear. Hopefully we have a mild fall so we get some fruit and veggies to stockpile. At least the both greenhouses are heated, so we'll always be able to plant and harvest while it snows. |
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Originally Posted By Oldgold: Ours was basically over by the end of June because of heat. Except for okra, sweet potatoes, and peppers. Best sweetcorn we ever had. Probably several hundred ears. Also great tomato and potato crop. A little South of you- we had oodles of tomatoes till late July'ish. We put a big sunshade over a couple rows of tomatoes and that certainly helped. Peppers and eggplants now like crazy. Mowed most everything over, covered with old billboard vinyls- kills weeds and keeps it weed free till ready to plant again. Put in a couple wheelbarrows of chicken and rabbit manure. Tilled in and covered also. Started some brocolli in cups in the greenhouse for fall/winter but they died out- too soon probably. BTW, check your Walmarts, some of the starting mix, little starter cups, and seeds have been on clearance down our way. They started carrying the "Survival Seeds" brand, which i've had good luck with. They clearanced the packages of 30 of them for around $10. |
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Spring garden did pretty good.....lots of onions (burgandy, grannex and white), tomatoes were average (grew Celebrity's this year, 7-8 oz each), lots of pepper success (California Wonder varieties, snack sweet peppers and banana peppers), Egg Plants. I got a few small red cabbage's and a couple broccoli's. Brussel Sprouts failed again. The winter plants are very hard to grow here...just doesn't get cold enough for long enough....but I try every year. Just getting ready to put in the winter garden. I already had a couple volunteers from the previous Celebrity tomatoes...so I am going to let those fly. I will put in all of the same stuff from above, but add in some Peron tomatoes to see if I can get larger slicer tomatoes. Our heat down here has been unreal along with the pest pressure. Spruge has been a nightmare, infecting every container that I have. It is a constant battle to stay ahead of it. If you let up, it will take over in a week. |
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I made a lot of mistakes and the garden didn’t do well at all. Lots of unmanaged early blight on the tomatoes, squash bugs on the pumpkins, poor fertilization on the corn, a complete laissez faire attitude towards the cantaloupe and watermelons… but the sunflowers looked good! Oh well. The precious year’s mistakes just make the next year better. |