no ripe tomatoes yet,

but planted some fall corn today, daughter came down the hill and her and Miss Sharon rowed and planted some candy corn, I drank coffee and supervised the endevor, planted 15 short rows then turned on the sprinkler. soaked the kernals 36 hr. before planting, hope the stuff comes up Old Farmers Almanic said today was a good day, hope so, love that fall corn.

big ole green tomatoes but no ripe ones just yet, close any day now....

one more thing, went up on the south side and checked the corn patch there, 50 ac. on the neighbour, deer have really been working on the outer rows, eating the silks,and nibbling the tops of the ears, picked a couple ears for dinner ,, like a good mess of field corn once in the summer, small kernals, tough as heck, but great taste.

watermellons are getting big almost ready, and been picking hot peppers for awhile...

just a little garden update

what night can i check out your garden

i usually clean on of my guns on wed

Been getting ripe ones for about a week now. Yellow squash, zuchini, green beans are all producing. Still waiting on okra, green peppers, and cucumbers. Won't be long for those tho. Gotta love fresh, garden picked, home grown vegies!

I forgot the cucumbers/squash, we already made 14 quarts of sweet pickles, think I will try my hand a dill pickles next week, checked on the mellons got several of them sugar babies commin on,

first planting of corn going to be a bust maby 1 or two messes to eat, not enought to freeze. crap

Good update.Can't beat them sugar babies.

Nice garden report! We've not had any ripe big tomatoes yet, however have had quite a few cherry tomatoes. I couldn't wait the other day and pulled some green ones off for some fried green tomatoes and crappie! The in-laws were out so it was a good excuse! Been eating some zucchini and pulled some more off a bit ago. For some reason 2 big zucchini plants seem to be shriveling up over night while the rest are doing great. Cucumbers are all over the place and finally got some off of them. Cantaloupe are about the size of a baseball and the strawberries are starting to come around as well. This is the first large garden I've ever attempted and so far it looks.....ok! Did lose quite a few tomatoes to the worm(s). Good grief those things are awful! Went out and picked some cherry tomatoes one afternoon and everything was fine, came out the next day and they had striped 1 plant and gotten into a few tomatoes. Put some 7-dust out and that seemed to cure the issue with only a few more tomatoes being sacrificed. I guess maybe the worm was already in the tomatoe or something...who knows.

Dill pickles don't require a pressure cooker, correct? What is that stuff called when you mix the vinegar, sugar, cucumbers, and onions?

Got my first ripe one around the 25th and they're pumpin em out heavy now,green beans,zucchini,all types of peppers are being picked everyday,melons,cantelope and cucumbers are a bit behind.

my garden went from to wet to to dry in 4weeks time i may have a tomator by labor day :) good peppers and cup size catalopes

Picked first 3 maters yesterday and each one had a bad spot....being desperate...carved out around it. Matt, you can't beat onions and cukes in vinegar....good stuff!

Only a few ripe matters so far but lookin good but have had quite a few cherry tomatoes already. I can eat’em faster than I can pick’em. Beagle you sure it’s deer workin the outer rows?:confused:

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Picked first 3 maters yesterday and each one had a bad spot....being desperate...carved out around it. Matt, you can't beat onions and cukes in vinegar....good stuff!

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throw in a thinned sliced zuchni not bad

Matt some dill pickles you have to cold pack, some just the boiling water to the jars is all you need.. there are some good recipies on the net, try itsallgud.xom/dill1.html.

pickle this.com quick dill pickles

cucumbers/onions/bell peppers/ in vinegar I add a little sugar let set a day or two and lip smackin good.

everybody nice to see the garden reports, I use to garden all the time, then quit, now doing it again and man did I miss it... I have a lot of trouble pulling weeds, well I remember when I was a kid we had this stand up grass cutter, weed cutter. so I get on line and find on at ACE hardware.. long upright handle. with grip at top, dont have to bend over to cut the grass /weeds arround the plants. now it garden time,,,,,

Keeferfish most of the outside rows were deer.... if they move in to the corn this year I ought to have some good eating.

This was our first attempt at a garden this year. Can't complain. Lettuce and spinach are grown, harvested and done. Put tomatos in their place (late, so...no fruit yet :( ) Peas went in, got harvested (once) and were done producing. Seems I put those in too late, too. Carrots are taking their time but we got a few. Didn't do cucumbers or peppers cuz nobody eats them but me.

Onions are going bananas. Probably have too many of those! And I know it's not real popular this far south, but up north everybody grows them--kohl rabi. I got sh'loads of those. Seems I put too many of those in too! Well, it's my first stab at this, so...live and learn.

I already got changes to make next year!

Oh, yeah...beans went in just this past week, but I've been getting some from my wife's aunt and uncle who planted early.

use to eat them koribis a lot, my old fishing buddy used to grow them, fried,baked,raw, salt,pepper,,, hot sauce good stuff, go for it