Saw this on the 9 News last night.
How fun!
https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...d-502a70db30a5
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Saw this on the 9 News last night.
How fun!
https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...d-502a70db30a5
^^^ That's pretty cool.
So what does the hive mind say? Watermelon or pumpkin? I've convinced myself watermelon, but I brought the neighbor over to look in person and she is now convinced pumpkin. All of these pictures are off the same plant, maybe. It's hard to tell in that jungle. The difference in shade isn't me taking crappy photographs; it is accurate to how they actually look.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/km...=w1112-h625-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_o...=w1112-h625-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cb...=w1112-h625-no
I think this could be broccoli. It looks a lot like a plant we ate the leaves off of all last year thinking it was kale, then around the end of the season a bunch of broccoli showed up. Neighbors (different ones) seem to think it is cabbage, just not the round kind.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Fi...=w1112-h625-no
This thing with the purple vein down the middle seems like it might be kale.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wW...=w1112-h625-no
I'm gonna say that's definitely pumpkin. Maybe. I'm pretty sure. It's pumpkin. The leaves are a dead giveaway.
The plot thickens.
^^^ I see what you did there...Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
And are you sure your broccoli in post #83 isn't kohlrabi? is it more of a bulb than a stalk?
I've never even heard of that plant, so I have no idea.
My brother sent me this video. Turns out to be a few pretty cool projects in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkbn499wsWc
Have a few pepper plants in the garden that don't seem to be doing anything. Noticed these the other day. I ate this one, wasn't spicy. Don't know what it is.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Yk...=w1112-h625-no
Got a couple U-turn zucchini as well.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uW...=w1112-h625-no
had a great run of lettuce, till the heat made them go to seed early. Carrots are great, shallots, green & wax beans producing. Cuke's are so -so. Tomatoes are still green. Peppers, well they're there. Seems we had an issue with aphids, like lots of them. Some neem oil slowed them down but not out.
Peppers like hot weather and we had less than usual. The cool wet spring also pushed some crops back.
That looks like it could be an unripened cayenne pepper, Irving. Do your zucchini not have enough room?
They probably don't. The garden is pretty crowded. It's about to get worse for them, because the pumpkins (which are planted as far away as possible from the zucchini) are now sprouting fruit off an arm that has reached the zucchini plant. It'd estimate that the plants are about 30' from each other.
Pumpkin update. I've got at least 13 of these so far, that I can find, that are at least as big as a volley ball. Some are more orange than others.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ts...Q=w889-h500-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BE...g=w889-h500-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u9...=w1112-h625-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gK...Q=w889-h500-no
Probably at least 10-15 more of these.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BI...=w1112-h625-no
Pumpkins out past the second box in the yard. There was another long arm in the middle, but there were no sprouts on it so I ran it over with the lawnmower.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KT...=w1112-h625-no
This is the third box. Those are zucchini on the far right, and the pumpkins have an arm along the back of the fence all the way to the yellow fence. Pumpkins are fun, but I don't really have the room for these shenanigans.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Sp...=w1112-h625-no
Next year, throw in some watermelons.
You might not even have to mow your lawn. [Coffee]
In the last photo, the very left vertical column of the right most box is a little plant hanging down in front of the wood. Those are the watermelons. Not exactly doing their part.
Meanwhile, the only thing I can successfully grow is tumbleweeds.
Rabbits & spiders?Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
Ive a pumpkin growing in the middle of my rifle range. It repeatedly gets mowed & grows on... nothing else out there but tumbleweeds, rabbits & spiders.
I've pulled enough sumac and vines out of my garden to build a fort and roof it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
I'm no skilled gardener (obviously since I can't even identify what I'm growing) but I've found that the consistency of having the sprinklers water the garden every single day, and pulling weeds when I can, really makes it easy.
I have successfully grown about 200 tree cuttings to about a foot tall, at which point, they all died suddenly. The aspen I planted this spring looks like poo, mostly because it got shredded by hail several times this year. I do get to kill some grass since I have some settling issues from where they back filled around the house, so at least I get to kill that on purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Aspen prefer higher elevations.
It was doing fine until Colorado came through and dropped dime sized awesomeness on us about 3 times this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
It was $25 at Home Depot, so I'm not in it for much. Have definitely wasted cash on dumber stuff.
Sounds like you could use some Terra Preta.Quote:
Originally Posted by 00tec
https://i.imgur.com/u3JatHrm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/cYPAFJfm.jpg
Getting a decent amount of wax and green beans every 4-5 days. We'll see how well my blanching process works, over the winter
carrots
https://i.imgur.com/fD80N09m.jpg
onions & cukes
https://i.imgur.com/R7E4fJem.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/eMEQlf1m.jpg
Last of 3 potato bins
https://i.imgur.com/66lUyA8m.jpg
Looks great!
I've given away at least five before these. Pretty good crop for a first time I guess.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7u...=w1112-h625-no