2017 Gardening Thread

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  1. Merwen

    Merwen Well-Known Member

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    Peas. I wonder if we have any pea seeds left? we didn't get hardly any this Spring.

    On the other hand, I have about 15 Cranberry Bean seeds that presprouted in their pods that I may try to plant.

    I need to cut my lemongrass pretty soon, and decide what to do with my basil and pineapple sage,
     
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    The proportions are usually about two cups flour to one cup liquid...and if you use just two eggs it should work.
     
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    I planted some green peas back in the heat and needless to say they didn't do too well. I have some seed left to plant though.
     
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    I grew "just a few" purple hulls this year for the first time just to see if I'd have any luck. Never again! It was fun shelling the first dozen, but I shelled enough purple hull peas to feed a battalion before summer was over.

    From now on its plain old green beans for me. Off the vine and right into the skillet. (We stir fry with garlic and oil for a a couple of minutes. Ça c'est bon!)
     
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    My chest freezer is full, and this is the first year we have run out room for our garden produce. I am going to pull my green bean vines and I have baby Lima beans just starting to bloom. We are even having "veggie nights" where we only eat vegetables for supper. We have also given away tons of stuff. But we are out of broccoli and we love to eat it often. We are still harvesting watermelon and cantaloupe... Christmas Limas and okra. The okra is gonna go and I am going to put most of the garden to bed till spring. I have been neglecting the garden lately and doing some much needed work on the house. My health could be better, so I am taking it slow.
     
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    I'm sorry I didn't see this thread when I first joined, my fault.
    First frost a couple nights ago here in Calgary. I have a small gardening business, growing plants that I sell in the spring. And my business grows a bit each year by word of mouth. My big sellers are Tomato, Geranium (zonals) and Petunia plants.
    Some pics of my yard this past summer.
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  7. ChrisL

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    Here is a picture of my pepper plant. You see that I only have one pepper on it so far, but there are some smaller ones coming up now. I want that pepper to get a little bigger before I pick it.

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    What are these plants in this picture? Tomatoes?

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    That's right. For twenty yrs I grew all my toms on the south side of my house but a few yrs ago a very tall duplex was built and it took all my sun away. I have the Purple Cherokee, Black Russian, Stripped German and a red beef growing in the GH now. I've been picking tomatoes and freezing them for a few weeks now.
    Your pepper looks good, is it a sweet or hot? I should have grown a few plants this year, we had the hottest summer on record.
     
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    I had a big problem with squirrels and maybe some other little critters when I tried to grow tomatoes. They would take all the tomatoes when they were still small and green, bite them, and leave them to rot on the ground. I just gave up on trying to grow tomatoes here.

    Thanks! It was slow to get going, but it really seems to be exploding now. :) They are mildly hot poblano peppers.
     
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    I have some petunias too. They were doing pretty bad for a while because of caterpillars, but I've been just going out every day on "caterpillar duty" and inspecting them, and pulling off any caterpillars I find. I've also been trimming off the little seeds and pods, and they seem to be doing really well now. I actually trimmed some whole little branches off that were nothing but seeds and seed pods.
     
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    Sad day yesterday, all the leaves in my 3 gardens are turning marking the end of 2017 garden in the Rocky Mountains, this coming weekend high temps are in the lower 50's. It was a good year with my vege and berries, did some serious canning for the pantry.
     
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    Interesting enough caster beans/plants used to be illegal in my state because they are so toxic, but I am not sure how many people were ever actually convicted of having them since they are fairly common in my area--often called mole beans because people would use the seeds to poison moles.
     
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    I have lots of leaves falling in the last few days but still not the big drop yet. That will be a month from now. Just planted greens, broccoli, B-sprouts, and cabbages, the latter 3 being live plants.
     
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    Did not get a chance for a 2nd or 3rd plant this year as I did years prior. Work had me on many weekends. I ended up canning in the late evenings to keep up. The bummer about my altitude is gardening is a sprint instead of a marathon.

    I tried shacking up with Smart Mouth Woman down in Texas but she already had a gardening boy. (Joke)(Rumors?)
     
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    It was way too wet here in the spring which goofed up my normal planting schedule. Got some things in early and then couldn't plant for like 6 weeks due to wet ground. That kept me from rotating things in mid to late summer as replacements as other things faded as the other things were late. I just gave up on the second of three plantings and am doing either end of growing season. I also got hit hard by deer this year which took the wind out of my sails. Went from all sail--no anchor to all anchor--no sail after that.
     
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    I used to sell plants here in Alabama. Our growing season is over 260 days. I never had much luck with annual plants. I did have a lot of good fortune with perennials.
     
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    Gorgeous plants. You do have a green thumb. The yellow rose bush is that a Lady Bank's rose? I havea Lady Banks but it isn't nearly as full and pretty as yours. Very impressive.
     
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    Seed catalogs are one of my favorite things. Getting lost in aseed catolog is easy, and spending money is even easier.
     
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    I have some Roma beans planted that are starting to bloom and the turnips and rutabeggas are coming up. I was worried about them because of Irma but they were harmed too much.
     
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    Not familiar with Roma beans. I have Christmas beans growing everywhere. They are basically red speckled butter beans that lose the red when they are cooked. Have never tried rutabaga in the garden but not a huge fan of them. Have been meaning to try parsnips.
     
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    One of my customers had a problem with squirrels stealing her Tomatoes as well. I suggested she keep some sunflower seeds out to distract them and the problem was solved. The squirrels use to attack my sunflower plants until I began feeding birds all year long. As long as I have some cheap Costco seed out, I'm fine.

    Aphids attack my Petunias every summer, so I am doing soap sprays often.
    Don't be afraid to trim back Petunias, they love it. Around the end of July I start cutting them back severely. And in a couple weeks, they look great again. If you have a longer season you could even get away with cutting them back twice. I think after the third showing they would just be a tired out and done plant. This big pot of petunias was cut down to maybe 6in and this pic is two weeks later.
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    Hello Deckel,
    Yes I was aware of how toxic they say the castor bean plant is. I don't think it's any more toxic than others people keep in their homes and yards. I mean I never have used gloves when chopping them up in the fall nor planting them in spring and I harvest the seeds as well.
    Now several yrs ago when I had a bath lady coming in to help my mom she met me at the steps one morning where I had one of my castor bean plants. She told me they grow wild back home in Jamaica. She told me that when she was a little girl, her and her friends would eat the seeds because they tasted so good. Then she asked me do I know what happened after they would eat them. I looked at her and said, "You died of course." She laughed, "no we didn't die, we would get tummy aches and spankings."
     
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    Hello daisydotell,
    That Rose is the Yellow Rose of Texas, others know it as the Harrison's Yellow. Beautiful display every year around late June but only for a couple of weeks.
     
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  25. daisydotell

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    It is beaurtiful. My Lady Banks just blooms once a year for a couple of weeks.
     

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