2022 garden

ArvadaMan

The garden is going crazy.  The snow peas are a foot tall.  We are beginning to harvest our first greens (lettuce, mustard, and Swiss chard.). Using green onions out of the garden.  Our daughter started a huge number of tomatoes from seed this year so it will be a chore to find places to plant all of them!

saluki2007

Picked these today after picking a dozen on Saturday. Probably close to 3 dozen so far this year. 

Tomatoes are close and picked a few jalapeños. 

Gulfcoastguy

Other than hot peppers this years garden has just about played out. The blueberries and figs did excellent and the pomegranate bush has it's first fruit on it now. Debating a fall garden but this green caterpillars invade cabbage and related crops in the fall before it cools down. Wait until it cools down and they don't have enough sunlight to make.

fishlessman

slow year for tomatos this year, most of the spring was high 40's at night so not much fruit set so far. peppers been doing well though. new one for me, some type of hot cayenne in purple, not bad

fishlessman

tomatoes just turning color but tis the season for tomato hornworms.  this one gets to stay in the garden. these buggers eat fast

alaskanassasin

That one is fahked.

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

That one is fahked.

im not sure how its still able to hold onto the plant. didnt see any on the big plants but im sure they pop up by the weekend. ducks go crazy for them when i start tossing them in the water

Canugghead

Agree with fish, our tomato yield is really poor. Could be our fault though, planted them out whole month later than usual, life got in the way 

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

Agree with fish, our tomato yield is really poor. Could be our fault though, planted them out whole month later than usual, life got in the way 

nights here were too cold for about 6 weeks after planting so not much for flowering early on. by the time they flowered the beach roses were in full bloom which stole all the bees.  plants are half what they have been in the past

Canugghead

Squash not doing well either, first time trying them. Getting one lousy fruit per plant.

Legume

Watered too much with the summer rains and got way more vegetative growth (being away 3 weeks didn’t help either).  Tomatoes have a good case of powdery mildew.

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

Squash not doing well either, first time trying them. Getting one lousy fruit per plant.

did squash one year, just got flowers, strawberries and herbs grow there now

dbCooper

Add me to the camp with bad tomato output this year.  We had cold evenings, even some frost warnings, into late May.  So it was last week in May before they got in the ground, then too many days of too much heat (upper 90's and low 100's) coupled with sparse rainstorms.  San Marzano is putting up the good fight and have started picking some of them.  Beefsteaks are looking to be a big disappointment, but not giving up on them yet.

Jalapenos, Habanaros are looking great, none are ready to be picked.

One Serrano plant this year, it's tall (about 4') and spindly, that I thought was going good.  Last few days noticed several developing fruits have bore holes in them, couple have fallen off the plant.  No obvious insect/critter activity around them.  I've grown peppers for many years and have never experienced insect damage to them.  Anybody have thoughts on what is causing this damage?  The ones shown are about 3" @alaskanassasin

alaskanassasin

I am not sure, I have never had that problem before @dbCooper I usually spray with captain jacks deadbug organic pesticide if I have problems. luckily I have not seen any horn worms or had any issues yet, looking like a bumper crop of san marzano and larger tomatoes, been giving them away by the box.

Canugghead

@fishlessman we learned to cook squash flowers this year and love it.

EggNorth

Been very dry here the last few months.   Tomatoes are a write-off,   most of our flowers have not bloomed yet - maybe will have flowers in November

Been watering the raised beds, so they have been doing good.

From a few weeks ago, we are still harvesting lettuce daily:



The Peppers love the heat, and are coming along:




These are Sweeet Cherry peppers.  Trying for first time:


Some hot ones.



Good batch of yellow beans, made about 8 jars of mustard beans pickles with these:


Sunflowers are giving the bees plenty to eat, and soon the squirrels

 
Thanks

Canugghead

Someone wanted to buy my cracked XL base for $75, swmbo said no…


The guy few doors from our daughter is a competitive city pumpkin grower. Poor guy lost his solo crop last year to some sort of rot.  Here’s this year’s candidate to be hauled to the country fair for weigh in. Look at the leaves! apparently he sprays them with fungicide weekly!

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

@fishlessman we learned to cook squash flowers this year and love it.

I have to keep a low profile with conservation on a drinking water supply. So if it don't produce in my three four foot raised beds it's gone the next year. I have other areas in crates up off the ground but my raised beds are positioned on a spring. They seem not to care about all the blueberry plants or the cranberries and the horseradish just looks like a weed. Hoping the straw berries come back next year, they look strong. My lawn is a third mint near the water. Works for me, it grows in a foot of water and it's not the Lebanese stuff I planted

Canugghead

@fishlessman I hear you. Our garden soil is pretty much clay, somehow oregano, mint, thyme, green onion, chives and sage manage to survive perennially. Vegetables are all grown in a raised bed and containers. As you can see in the bge pot photo, grass is dry to the bone, stopped watering the lawn years ago. We pay for metered city water and the sewer discharge costs more than the supply! I ease the pain with four rain barrels 

fishlessman

Canugghead said:

@fishlessman I hear you. Our garden soil is pretty much clay, somehow oregano, mint, thyme, green onion, chives and sage manage to survive perennially. Vegetables are all grown in a raised bed and containers. As you can see in the bge pot photo, grass is dry to the bone, stopped watering the lawn years ago. We pay for metered city water and the sewer discharge costs more than the supply! I ease the pain with four rain barrels 

Anything this year that needs water is from the river with buckets. My driven point for the well is twelve feet down and the neighbors just went dry. No water for the grass this year but it's remarkedly green

littlerascal56

Bad year for tomatoes, but good year for hemp crops!

Gulfcoastguy

I will probably rototill up a couple of rows in Dad’s garden this weekend. I have three types of kale seed on order. Mom has been put on a renal diet due to high potassium levels. I have to convince her that she likes eggplant, okra, and kale and doesn’t miss tomatoes, squash, beans, whole wheat bread, and dairy products.

buzd504

I'm done with growing tomatoes forever.  But I'm about to have a bushel of scorpion peppers.

Gulfcoastguy

Yep I will probably pick a sack full of Anchos, Jalapeños, and Chocolate Habaneros this weekend.

buzd504

Gulfcoastguy said:

Yep I will probably pick a sack full of Anchos, Jalapeños, and Chocolate Habaneros this weekend.

Isn't an ancho a dried poblano?

Gulfcoastguy

buzd504 said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

Yep I will probably pick a sack full of Anchos, Jalapeños, and Chocolate Habaneros this weekend.

Isn't an ancho a dried poblano?

Hey just saying what the seed packet said.