when are you sowing your garden this year?

[HoneyBadger]

Looks like the grapes were doing a bit more than just trying to grow back. Found these tonight when I was cutting them down for a second time.

awesome! thats about enough to make 1/2 oz of wine!

[HoneyBadger]

Things are slowly coming back:


One of my beans took off and went straight up, but the others don't seem to want to climb...

Peas are looking sad... I think it's because of the heat.

Tomatoes are growing like crazy.

Cucumbers don't have any leaves left as something mysterious is still eating all the leaves.

[rbeau30]

I am having issues with my runner beans and green beans. Too much direct sunlight and heat is making the flowers not develop into anything else. Going to have to find another place for them next year

[Brian]

Tomato guys... I have a couple pots of late-planted tomatoes. Honestly I know nothing about growing tomatoes.

One of the pots seems like it's doing well, but the leaves are rolling up a bit, and on one side, it's developed some white spots. Do I need to do something about this? Something contagious - maybe move it at least to get it away from the other tomato plants?
These are on the back deck where I see them and remember to water them daily, but they don't get a full day's dose of sun at this point in the season. Most of the sun is gone by 2pm-ish.
Lots of healthy looking green tomatoes so far, I'm hoping they start turning before we get any really good nights. I could probably dig up the type of tomato if it was important.

[jhood001]

Probably a form of blight. Get some copper fungicide.

Also make sure your pots are draining well.

[Brian]

Probably a form of blight. Get some copper fungicide.

Also make sure your pots are draining well.

Thx picked up some today and I'll give it a try. I'm pretty sure my drainage is good. There's a bunch of broken pottery in the bottom, and when I water, it doesn't take long before some of the water comes streaming out into the saucer.
Appreciate the tip.

[hollohas]

Still going strong. This was all picked just now.

[hunterhawk]

Solid! Nice looking produce!

[Brian]

Picked the first small pile of 6-8 tomatoes from my late planted plants... going to have a BLT for lunch tomorrow...
The big tomato pot blew over a couple days ago and bent one of the branches, which was a bummer. That plastic trellis stuff it came with didn't hold up to any bit of wind, so I'm going to have to reinforce that plant well since it's still growing "up". I did "splint" the branch using a small wood BBQ skewer and some twist-ties, and surprisingly it looks like it's doing great now. I didn't expect it would "heal" that well so fast.

Anybody know if 12mo+ seed potatoes will be any good if planted next year? I still have some in the box they came in, chitted out but otherwise they seem ok. Maybe worth the experiment.

[Brian]

How well do tomatoes freeze?

I have too many to use day-to-day but would like to save what I have now to combine with the next few weeks or so - make a huge pot of tomato soup of some sort.

I don't want to mess with canning, and am thinking about simply chopping them up, partially freezing them, and then vac-sealing in the foodsaver. Packs would go into deep freeze then until I'm ready to make some soup.

Anything wrong with that approach? I've never frozen tomatoes before, so I wasn't sure...