My corn, the third sad story this year. I planted one crop then another but, they tasseled too soon. On recommendation this thread I acquired some obsession seed and planted a third time along with my regular, usually successful seed. It grew to knee high and stopped. It got heartier but not taller. And now it is tasseling. It has been a most disappointing corn year. I understand it was not a good year for peaches either. I tried to order some fancy ones online but the sites from Idaho to Georgia said it was a bad year, try next year. The greatest year for my sweet shelling peas but, why is the corn failing. Why are some years good and other years not so good in the same space. This is Southern Coastal California. The weather is always the same, same. Could it be barametric pressure? Moi Why My Corn? r > g Gardening
Plant rescue day. Now have a full size pick up bed full of monkey grass, roses, and mums to plant.....gotta do something in August to pass time until I can plant my fall garden. Laying the groundwork for what will eventually be a rain garden so the monkey grass will come in handy for that. Plus, I can just throw it on top the ground and keep it watered every now and then and it won't die until I get to it.
ya i fertilized em with some more acidic stuff designed for blueberries, but it didnt help. i think they were rootbound for too long.
Me either. I have had the same problem with huckleberries. I have 3 blueberries now but they just aren't doing anything. Aren't growing and aren't producing.
Huckleberries are not native to my part of the state so I blamed that digging them up and transporting them for hours in the back of a pick up, but the reality is, they aren't native here for a reason.
My spouse plants corn every year and this year for the first time got a substantial amount--but the ears are tiny and it is over-mature! We finally decided to make chicken corn soup out of it, and the mature kernels cooked up well for that. I scored the kernels with a fork before cutting them off the cob to make it more like creamed corn--a lot easier to eat as soup. In years past the corn we have gotten was tasty, but deer and raccoons got most of it. I tried amaranth this year but am having trouble getting the seeds out of them. I think the seeds are ripe, but when I banged the amaranth heads in a pillowcase I mostly got bugs.
I just made a pureed soup out of summer squash--probably zuchinni would be just as good. I just cut it up a bit so it will cook faster and when it is soft enough I use an immersion blender right in the pot after taking it off the burner. Various flavorings, spices, and oils can be added later to an individual serving. Since it is all squash you can use up quite a few this way. I'm not sure how it would freeze up, but freezing some in ice cube trays and then bagging them would probably work.
I've done that before. This year I was quite lucky with lemon cucumbers the first time I have grown them and stocked up on enough jars of those to make it til next year. Right now I am being over run still with hot peppers and am done pickling all those I will pickle and dried all I will dry. I just give them away. Took a couple gallons to work a couple weeks ago. Will probably do the same some time this week..
I love my kale here in Oregon starting from November through the winter to spring. SWEET!! and then when it warms up it's bitter. That is standard and normal.
My green beans are usually producing from July 1 to mid September. This year with all the cold rain, they started growing late and produced from late July to yesterday, and then they died and turned brown. But at least I got enough to supply us for the winter until next year's crop comes.
This was the first year the peas went crazy. I use last year's crop for this year's seed and believe the epigenome got programmed for my garden. I bought some 5 foot tomato cages I am going to use for beans and peas now. Peas work best planted around T'giving. Just my experience. Although I wanted sweet shelling peas, these pea pod shells are sweet and tender. The peas are big and round like big peas. Not Asian
Autumn sets in in England my lawns are maintained with pride (as ever), burning leaves and grass and trees that had to be sawn down and dug out (I've no hatchet or axe and, am no lumber jack/I chop down a tree in South London, I'm liable to take out my house, my shed, the neighbour's house, the fence, myself.... So I saw them with a wood saw then dig and out them and burn them on the ever maintained dug out feature of the bonfire. - I'm on family land when I do this so all I have to do is comply with the local laws, the property owner is the one asking me to do things, so that's all good. Funny story about our bonfire pit, been key holders of the land since the late 1960's and been in the property since 1973 and it's an old rented accommodation that was rebuilt in the 1960's as upstairs and downstairs having their own hot water and electricity and gas, so, we have x 2 of everything and in 1973, in paper only at the local council it was put back to the 1 house, with 1 door number again... - in the 1960's the owner before of this house, this lady, her family... At some point in history, found an un-detonated WW2 bomb in the garden, and that's how that bonfire came about. It's pretty handy having a bonfire and it's quite cool.
I overseeded part of my yard with what I will forever call my Hurricane Mix. Just a bunch of mixed up seeds I planted under the remnants of Harvey that was up and got a got soaking under the remnants of Irene. Also got my greens in the ground just before Irene so they should be up in a week or two. Yea me.
I planted carrots and parsnips in my raised beds today. The rabbits and mice need something to snack on. Also put cushaw (green and white crooknecked pumpkin) seeds in the raised bed. It's a little late, but it doesn't get really cold in Texas till January. So we'll see. In Louisiana, we bake cushaw with the usual trio of nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice, plus vanilla, butter, brown sugar, eggs and bourbon. It's to DIE for.
I want to try and make a pancake using vanilla, brown sugar, egg and bourbon now... - could be a funky omelette though.
Gonna start working on the fall garden. The freezer is full so my fall garden will be small. Maybe just some broccoli and other greens. My seddling broccoli is ready to set out. May try some carrots... maybe. All my fall leaves will be mulched and spread on the garden.
My autumn/fall garden includes November 5th, so I get it ready for Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night. I don't really leave jackal lanterns out on Halloween, if I do I go to Poundland (UK econo' chain retail) get brand name sweets good to go for Halloween and fill a big bowl and leave it by the door.. If no one comes I just eat the sweets/give them to friends/family whatever.. No plans to go out on Halloween or nothing this year. Although, if I do find something interesting, I have a friend I could ask to check it out with me, but, no real urges to go out this Halloween.
Right. Proportion is everything. We are talking maybe a tablespoon of bourbon or 2, depending on how much pancake batter you make. You can look at recipes for bread pudding with bourbon sauce, another Louisiana favorite, for some sense of proportion for your pancakes. It sounds like basically the same thing: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/bread-pudding-with-warm-bourbon-sauce-102163
