let's see your veggie garden {pics} 2021-25

[deluxestogie]

Both of my tomato plants are thriving. I've planted another eight green beans.

Yellow scallop summer squash at the far end, and several North Georgia Candy Roaster winter squash just now coming up in the foreground. I'll probably select only two of the Candy Roaster plants.

So far, these two Boston Pickling Cucumber plants require about 1 pint of water daily.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Boston Pickling cucumber blossom:

No flash.

With flash.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Early prospects of my fruits and veggies. I forgot to get a shot of the bed with green beans and tomatoes.

Starking Delicious Pear

North Georgia Candy Roaster squash. Pick only two of the four seedlings.

Yellow Scallop squash.

Golden Delicious apple.

Winesap apple.

Yesterday evening, when the temperature fell down to 88°F, I dug my Persian Red garlic, and hung it in the shed to dry. I can now ignore it for another month or so. As you can see, the 3 heads to the right are tiny. All the others are "adequate", though not all that impressive in size.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

My "decaffeinated" Boston Pickling Cucumbers have been less than prolific, when it comes to producing actual cucumbers. So far, I have harvested one small cuke.

I've noticed that pollinators will not even land on the blossoms except for a brief period of the day. I suspect this is related to the unusual temps and humidity this summer. The cukes are in full sunlight for about 2/3 of each day. This summer has been the most persistently hot, as far back as I can recall.

Bob

 

[johnny108]

I’m still toying with the theoretical possibility that zucchini is some sort of alien plant bent on taking over the world.
I might have to conduct economic studies like my mom did with her garden: when zucchini overproduced (always did), she would have my step dad take several large paper grocery bags of them and leave them in his workplace break room- free to whoever needs them.
When the economy was good- they remained there all week, and we had to take them back and eat them. When the economy was bad, they were gone within an hour or so. This was consistent, no matter the economic news at the time.
The first 2:

 

[BarG]

Morning harvest.

Bob

I wish I had the patience and will power to grow asparagus, one of my favorites.

 

[deluxestogie]

Natural, Organic, Cage-free Tomato Pruning

Notice how the tomato plants have been neatly sheared away.

My local deer have apparently heard that the price of tomatoes is about to go up. Yesterday, I had about a dozen Big Beef tomatoes, all still quite green, hanging promisingly from the larger tomato plant. By deer logic, any tomato greenery or fruit that can be reached through the tomato cage must be free.

They left me 4 tomatoes on the vine. More will grow. Maybe the deer will have gotten a tummy ache from all the tomatine they ingested, and choose more wisely in the future. Maybe not. The scant green bean plants were also grazed.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

They left me 4 tomatoes on the vine. More will grow. Maybe the deer will have gotten a tummy ache from all the tomatine they ingested, and choose more wisely in the future. Maybe not.

I think it's an adolescent fawn that grew up around my property, and feels safer here than on neighboring properties. (Places to rest and graze peacefully have become increasingly scarce.) This morning the last 4 green tomatoes were gone. Small deer prints appeared in the soft dirt. Sigh.

This is a deer that may be grazing on the weeds at the back of the yard when I open the front door and sit out on my front porch, yet doesn't flinch or sprint away at clearly seeing me. I am comfortable with the price I pay for the daily enjoyment of watching wildlife. (Rumor has it that I can easily purchase tomatoes at the store.) I should have planted twice as many tomatoes.

Bob

 

[Alpine]

Can you take a pic of your nearly domesticated fawn? I have a couple roedeers grazing around my garden, but they run away well before i can pull my cell phone out of my pocket…

pier

 

[GreenDragon]

There is a small herd that regularly walks my fence line. Everything in the front yard has to be 100% deer proof to survive. "Deer Resistant" ha! - not falling for that joke again. Can't tell you how many times I've caught them on the doorbell camera mowing down the wife's potted flowers on our porch. Thankfully my two large dogs and high fence have, so far, protected my garden in the back yard.

 

[deluxestogie]

Can you take a pic of your nearly domesticated fawn?

If I had my camera handy, which I usually don't, I could snap a photo. (My telephone is just a telephone.) Rather than "nearly domesticated", I would suggest the term, "unthreatened". I believe its mother grew up nearby, and so never uttered a warning to the fawn when I was out on the porch.

mowing down the wife's potted flowers

It's nice of her to entice them and feed them her flowers.

I've observed deer browsing in the back yard. They eat common weeds, crabgrass, wild blackberries, and assorted other wild vegetation, as well as grass. They will eat low-hanging pears and low-hanging apples. They just browse. [Rabbits and groundhogs seem rather fond of plantain weeds.]

Bob

 

[jackpine]

Rabbits are my main trespassers here, I use a mixture of cayenne pepper, garlic powder and a couple drops of dish soap ( I dont know the amounts, just go by eye) mixed in warm water and strained into a spray bottle. I reapply after rain. Seems to keep them out of beans and cabbage.

 

[Anders A]

About 330 onions, ripe for harvest in a few weeks,.

 

[deluxestogie]

Today, I ate ¾ of a ripe pear! Delicious. The other quarter had already spoiled. I may or may not be able to harvest any other pears. Maybe next year.

And at dinner, I ate my very first red ripe Big Beef tomato of the season. It was only ~2" in diameter. I will likely get a few more over the coming weeks.

My two yellow scallop squash plants have been highly productive this summer. I currently have only a single North Georgia Candy Roaster winter squash on its vine, despite starting 4 plants, thinning to the best two, and waiting patiently for a squash to appear.

The pears, apples and veggies mostly have not handled the prolonged heat waves very well this summer.

Bob

 

[GreenDragon]

Yep, the garden has that high summer look about it. Tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers, squash, dill, and fennel are done for the year. Peppers are doing well - I've made several batches of house paprika and chili powder so far. Okra and pumpkin are now taking over all available spaces. Overall I've been very pleased with the garden this year. The biggest failure was our corn crop. Cobs were either infected with smut or underdeveloped. And, as always, lost half the squash to vine borers.

I was pleasantly surprised at the sheer volume and diversity of bees, wasps, and hoverfly's we had this year. I think all the interplanting of crops made our backyard more natural and appealing to the "good bugs" that visited this year. And if you want to attract pollinators and predators to your garden plant fennel! I counted a dozen different species of wasps and bees on the fennel at one time. Also had lizards and 5 line skinks everywhere chasing bugs all summer.

Rain has been very variable this summer. 1" total in July, and 10" so far this August! Due to the rain I haven't been able to keep up with my BT spraying, and the tobacco is starting to show worm damage. I've been manually removing the past week, but knew I was missing many of the buggers. I remembered that the caterpillars are supposed to glow in UV light, so I went out last night with a UV penlight and went hunting. Found a dozen between two plants in just a minute! They really do glow a blue/green. The very small ones just glow around their heads, but the bigger they get the more the entire body glows.

 

[Knucklehead]

What are you guys planting this fall?

 

[Faltown]

Second harvest time! There's a specific variety of plum named from where it was first identified here in Cornwall called kea plumb. Apparently, the stones were thrown overboard by Spanish sailors in the 1700, and it's adapted over the years to become a tart jam making plumb. And then a selection of cooking apples from my young orchard.

Think I've got about 5kg of each, so alot of jam and compot

 

[GreenDragon]

What are you guys planting this fall?

Onions, garlic, broccoli, cabbage, butternut squash, lettuce - all the usual suspects

 

[MadFarmer]

What are you guys planting this fall?

This season's summer garden was 8 out of 10 a bust. We lost most of our tomatoes to root knot nemetodes. 14 plants yielded about that many fruit (total) with several plants that never grew past 2' tall. The jury is still out on the eggplant, but the peppers came through.

So for the fall I've started two kinds of broccoli, two varieties of arugula, Japanese mustard, kale and beets.

 

[deluxestogie]

I harvested all of my pears today. After a winter heat wave followed by a late frost, then followed by two prolonged summer heat waves, the poor pear trees were nearly free of fruit this summer. Only 7 pears. I will allow them to fully ripen on the window shelf.

And I finally got around to cleaning and trimming the garlic that I hung in the shed in June. The two larger heads will go into the green, mesh bag, and hang inside the pantry until November, in case I decide to plant garlic again. (The larger the clove that is planted, the larger the new head will grow.)

Bob