when are you sowing your garden this year?

[HoneyBadger]

Without water ?

In the garden:
Pole beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas, Roma tomatoes, some other variety of good meaty red tomatoes, broccoli, Great Lakes lettuce, Kale, 2 types of spinach, carrots, radishes, onions, beets, Red and green bell peppers, and some variety of California sweet peppers.

In pots:
Summer squash, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, crookneck yellow squash, italian squash, butternut squash and cucumbers.

Since most things don't have specific growing seasons out here, I'm going to try to keep this going all calendar year long. I'll update as stuff grows (or doesn't).

[hollohas]

Update


Squash (Yellow sunburst, spaghetti, table queen acorn, Waltham butternut), pumpkins, peppers (jalapeño, California wonder bell, burpee big thai), okra (Chant), blue lake pole beans, Boston pickling cucumbers, strawberries, melon.



Tomatoes: Cherokee purple, big paste, Burpee black pearl, Rutgers and a small yellow cherry tomato I have been harvesting seeds from each year. Not even sure what to call it anymore expect for "awesome".



Fordhook zucchini, Italian ribbed zucchini, sugar snap peas, Roma tomatoes, strawberries, Danvers half long carrots, burpee tenderpod bush beans, English cucumber, oregano, lemon thyme, English thyme, cilantro, sweet basil, sweet heat pepper, hot lemon pepper, tangerine dream pepper, big Thai pepper, dill, Dorinny heirloom corn and blue lake pole beans (climbing up corn).

[HoneyBadger]

At this stage of the game, how much time (daily or weekly) are each of you spending on your gardens? I would really like to spend no more than 10-15 minutes every couple of days for a total of no more than an hour each week. Is that realistic?

[Dave]

I think with ours only being a couple of kiddie pools of herbs, a 10x10 patch of strawberries and 2 rhubarb plants we average half an hour every other day. Most of this is manual watering though, plus weed removal.

Plus side is we harvested some berries and rhubarb and made cobbler yesterday. Also grabbed some palisade peaches from the Westminster Rotary Club stand at 104th and Federal, we got an 18# box. So we also made a peach rhubarb cobbler, plus we vac sealed a few bags of sliced and sweetened peaches as well.

[rbeau30]

Zukes are going crazy. Made some Faux Apple Pie today!

Green beans and tomatoes are just starting to produce. Rocky Mountain Corn is getting blown over, but I think I may have about 20 ears at least for the 14 corn plants I planted in my 2 x 6 raised bed.

Scarlet runner beans are flowering plenty, but no beans are getting produced. :-(

Raspberries should be starting out soon.

Grapes are growing like crazy, just no grapes forming yet.

Fruit Trees... well, lets just say they are having a hard time this year. I think my plum tree is dying and the pear tree as well. I saved one cherry and the other cherry tree does not look so good. Lost 3 other trees on the South side of the house. The apple trees look a little sickly, I lost a lot of branches.

[newracer]

We have some overcrowding going on. Need to plan better next year. The pumpkin is going everywhere.

[rbeau30]

the Costco on Parker Rd has lots of Pints. 6 something a case. Quarts are more hard to find. Nowhere near me.

[rbeau30]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

[hollohas]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

Awesome!!!!

[rbeau30]

Harvested hops today. It is in the dehydrator for a few hours.

3 Ounces total. (Cascade) Second year plants from rhizomes, two plants produced. One (Wilammette) died in the first year ( I'll get some rhizomes off the other to re-plant them. ) the other two didn't produce cones, but they didn't die, so that is good I guess.

Since the trees nearby where the hops are planted died this year the hops will get more sun, so that should be better for next year. I also need to put some mulch down for overwintering so the crowns underground don't get too cold.

They got hit hard this year by moisture and a late frost both of which hops do not like.

I guess I better get to brewing! Maybe this weekend!


Seems like everyone is doing well! My garden isn't all that great. Suffering from lack of water perhaps.

Rocky Mountain Painted corn is doing well I may expand the footprint next year for better pollination. Also I'll have to deal with preventing them from blowing over. I have 1 ear for 30% of my corn stalks and 2 ears for the rest. I harvested three ears so far. The rest is drying.



Drooling over your All-American Pressure Canner BTW