2020 gardening thread

Burt Gummer said:
You food save them and freeze them? Or what’s your method? @Lil D is gonna pickle my little yellow peppers but we’re eventually gonna have a bunch of bell peppers
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Freeze in ziplocks or quart jars. Use them before the next season and they are fine. Any frost can be rinsed off. Freezer burn does start about the time you start getting fresh the next year.


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tanstaafl72555 said:
View attachment 223918 So, I went to Horror Freight and bought myself a 9 dollar blacklight flashlight. I heard they are good for spotting hornworms, and we have been spotting some sign (the little turd like clumps of eggs) and Carole found one the other day.
I just went out there, and WOW! They shine out like Christmas tree lights! Easy peasy to spot. Popped em off and stuck them in a jar of soapy water. That trick WORKS, guys!
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Thanks for posting this! A few weeks ago we found some hornworms during the day and fed them To our chickens. We ordered a black light then, but did not find any worms with it at night.
Then today we found five or six hornworms in the garden, So we decided to go out with the blacklight tonight... and we found five or six more! The chickens will have a good breakfast treat tomorrow. :cool:
Below is a picture of two that we found on one plant. We had looked for these today because we could see their poop and that they had eaten the plant, but we couldn’t find the worms. Went out with the black light and found them right away. Thanks again!
While in the garden with the light, there was a moth flying around that looked big enough to be a bird or a bat. I think it was a sphinx moth that these hornworms turn into. At one point it flew up next to me and I could feel the air coming off its wings. :eek:
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Just wondering if a PVS-14 would detect hornworms. Done tilled my garden in prep for collards
 
Midnight corn boilin at the smith plantation if anyone wants to join. We’ve been at it since 6 this evening and got another 10/15 gallons to boil.073B5200-BFD3-4AA1-81C6-DEB378A511C2.jpeg
 
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Okra is producing big time. 2nd planting of Cucumbers, pole beans, bush beans are starting to produce. The watermelon and cantaloupe are covering everything. The carrots, three varieties, didn’t do squat.
Next weekend we will be tilling and prepping for winter crops.
 
Okra gets almost impossible to cut when it gets bigger than 8 inches. Cucumber seeds turn into pieces of wood that you can’t eat when they get too big. Water melons will split with too much rain.
On the positive side the chickens are getting some variety in their diet. They really like watermelon.
 
I'm ripping everything out but the okra. Can't stand anymore looking at the rot and disease. Had a great year but just too much water and too little sun. I've lost count of what we canned but I don't have any quart jars left and down to a couple cases of pints. Plus probably 20 gallons of blueberries in the freezer with around 6 gallons of raspberries and blackberries. Grapes are starting to ripen and they'll go in the freezer til I have enough to juice. What a year.................:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
I've got small peppers on and the eggplant has blooms.
The Tomatos are going to get gone this weekend,
the sweet potatos are still green with only a few leaves turning yellow. Turned their water off. First year of those so we'll see.
Cucumbers had one plant left but the fruit has some burrowing worm n them. They are going in the trash
Started 5 more zucchini , but we're attacked immediately , and have mosaic. They won't make it.
I'll be trying to pull ,cut, trim and trash most everything this weekend. Hope it not to rainy. Then till when dry and try some sort of cover crop for the winter.
Going to cut back on some planting next year and want to build a few raised beds in the caged garden for next year.
 
@Mirac , pickle worms in the cucumbers. I have them as well. First time I ever remember having them.
 
I took the fence down around ours and mowed it over about two weeks ago. Went on vacation and came back to an infestation of bugs not worth fighting. I’m not sure I will do a garden next year.
 
I had the worms getting in the cucumbers as soon as they formed, so there was nothing to try to save. I pulled all of them off the vine.
 
Mirac I picked up 6 pallets and the lumber to make some raised beds with them for next year. Going to get some more pallets next week. I have a recycling company 100 yards from my shop. The guy said I could have anything I want so now I’m a scrounging and hoarding.
 
Leadchunker said:
That’s a nice batch of beets. What kind are they? Did you grow this in a raised bed?
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thanks man.

We just had a row in the garden but I’m not sure what kind they are exactly. We did hill them up pretty good though.
 
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Our garden did great and produced a lot of stuff for about a month. Spaghetti squash, cucumbers, peppers, squash, zucchini and tomatoes.
Beans didn’t do squat and I replanted them twice. Lost a lot of tomatoes to squirrels and blossom end rot. I turned the irrigation timer off permanently for the year, pulled up all the tomato stakes, gonna remove the soaker hose, mow it down, and spray it to kill the grass. Then I’ll cover it up for the winter probably
 
Burt Gummer said:
Our garden did great and produced a lot of stuff for about a month. Spaghetti squash, cucumbers, peppers, squash, zucchini and tomatoes.
Beans didn’t do squat and I replanted them twice. Lost a lot of tomatoes to squirrels and blossom end rot. I turned the irrigation timer off permanently for the year, pulled up all the tomato stakes, gonna remove the soaker hose, mow it down, and spray it to kill the grass. Then I’ll cover it up for the winter probably
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No winter crops?
 
Leadchunker said:
Mirac I picked up 6 pallets and the lumber to make some raised beds with them for next year. Going to get some more pallets next week. I have a recycling company 100 yards from my shop. The guy said I could have anything I want so now I’m a scrounging and hoarding.
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Nice!
My wife is glad we don't have recycling center ..
 
I picked up some windows out of a dumpster from a house that was being updated. They are greenhouse project waiting to be built.
 
I thought I had a lot of okra with rot on them. It turned out to be ants, fire ants and lots of them. I can’t even walk near the okra without getting ants all over me. I have ants in my yard just like everyone else but this is ridiculous. In the last two weeks they are everywhere. The garden, chicken coop, chicken feed, garbage can. Going to get some fire ant killer today.
 
My wife picked up a hybrid bush of a pea variety (no fruit) ~1.5 years ago. Cousin It was supposed to be 6’ dia max. It’s an impressive fall show at 7’ tall & 18’ wide. A lot of the flowers have already fallen off.
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Letting the last of the okra seed out for next year. Grapes were so so. Volunteer taters left in the ground this summer will be dug at the first frost.

Got my garlic ready for planting at the end of the month. Onions are ordered for March planting. Received most of my seeds for planting next year. Have lots of raised bed boxes to repair next year.

Folks, you better get your seeds for next year ordered. If things go down hill there will be a shortage. I'm not taking any chances.
 
Everything is pretty much done as far as summer crop. We only have string beans left and a few tomatoes still hanging in there. I’m getting about two hand fulls of Kentucky wonder string beans everyday.
 
Dug taters yesterday.
We got almost twenty bushels, enough for four families.
Was a good yield for no more effort than I put in to raising them.
 
Garlic in the dirt two weeks ago, 120 cloves. Onions are ordered for next year. Seeds purchased for the next two years except for maters.
 
Checked on our sweet potato curing operation.
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That's a box from a stove for reference.
First year planting them...we only put 4 plants it to see what they would do.
Pretty happy with the results.
 
@tanstaafl72555 how’d your habaneros do this year?
I had a couple of them survive. They produced no fruit, the jalapeños and poblanos in the same bed were prolific. I dug up the chocolate habaneros to over winter them before the frost, they had green peppers at that point.
They’re great on breakfast eggs & cut up they look just like bacon bits ;)
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