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

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Planted in container n planning to hill with woodchips I have on hand. 1st attempt...last yr got squat. Planted in ground n someone backed over them with a trailer n they died n I found 1 tater about dime size n hard as a rock! Ha!

 

[deluxestogie]

My potted, supernumerary Big Beef tomato, happy in the corner of the front porch:

Bob

 

[MadFarmer]

Tomato bed started three weeks ago:

 

[deluxestogie]

Although I had some advance warning that I might have frost overnight last night, these ragged veggie transplants did not inspire enough enthusiasm on my part to attempt to protect them, which would have been a fair amount of work at the far corner of my garden.

Frost does not need to freeze a leaf in order to damage it. Needle-like ice crystals form on the exterior surfaces (upper and lower) of the leaf, and pierce the lamina. As soon as the sun comes out, the damaged leaf is promptly toasted.

I'll watch these for a few days, and if need be, purchase tomato starts, and directly seed more cukes and squash.

I did take some care with my potted Big Beef tomato, on the porch. I made sure the large pot was well watered, and placed two 1-gallon jugs of water beside it. When I retired for the night, I turned on an oscillating fan on the porch, to keep air-circulating. That tomato was nipped on a few leaf tips, but otherwise looks healthy.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

I've re-seeded the Blue Ballet Hubbard squash and the Boston Pickling Cucumbers. I'll wait another week or so to observe whether or not the tomato plants can put out a shoot.

This evening, I planted seed for green bush beans and yellow crookneck squash.

[photo: imagine in your mind's eye a picture of dirt.]

I'm still waiting for my nightly low temp to remain above 50°F, before I put out my Chilhuacle Negro Oaxacan peppers. And that's it for 2023.

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

Some duck, I presume, having never seen them, laid 3 eggs in a pile of hay in my garden. However they have not continued to sit on them.

 

[Plinsc]

My Muscovy ducks will pile up about 18-25 eggs then sit on them, that may be what’s happening there.
Duck eggs are great for baking with.

 

[deluxestogie]

I put my Chilhuacle Negro plants into the garden this afternoon. Below are 4 in their bed. The remaining two were transplanted into the front porch corner bed, so I can admire them.

My 4 tomatoes that were frost damaged are showing signs of recovery.

Bob

 

[smallwanderings]

My Muscovy ducks will pile up about 18-25 eggs then sit on them, that may be what’s happening there.
Duck eggs are great for baking with.

These were wild ducks. My garden is three rented plots in a community garden, part of Baltimore City's City Farm program. The 3 eggs had been there for four days with no sign of the ducks. There are several hawk nests nearby, and both ospreys and bald eagles fly over occasionally.

 

[GreenDragon]

Taters. maters, fennel, and peppers.

 

[MadFarmer]

Taters. maters, fennel, and peppers.

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Did you start the peppers from seed?

 

[GreenDragon]

@MadFarmer Half and half. Some I started from seed the same time I started my tobacco seeds and others I bought seedlings from the box store. I have about a dozen plants and 5 varieties this year.

 

[GreenDragon]

The funny thing is that we didn’t plant the fennel. It just appeared last fall. I can only assume it piggybacked into the garden with some of the store bought herbs I planted last spring.

 

[GrowleyMonster]

A few days ago and again today I found myself with more Boxcar Willie tomatoes than we could eat. I cook with RoTel tomatoes and chiles a lot so since I also had a bunch of Jalapenos from the garden, I figured I would can some tomatoes and chiles, DIY style. Three jars before, three more jars today. Starting to get the hang of scalding and chilling the maters for easy peeling. These tomatoes run a bit small so it is a lot of work peeling them. Next year it will be either FloriDade, or Better Boy.

 

[deluxestogie]

Big Beef is a large beefsteak tomato that has multiple resistance to many diseases.

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

A few days ago and again today I found myself with more Boxcar Willie tomatoes than we could eat. I cook with RoTel tomatoes and chiles a lot so since I also had a bunch of Jalapenos from the garden, I figured I would can some tomatoes and chiles, DIY style. Three jars before, three more jars today. Starting to get the hang of scalding and chilling the maters for easy peeling. These tomatoes run a bit small so it is a lot of work peeling them. Next year it will be either FloriDade, or Better Boy.

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Excellent sloppy joe recipe using Rotel or tomatoes/green chilis. I made some and it was great.

Cowboy Sloppy Joes - Kent Rollins

Sloppy Joe mix in a can, I ain’t never used that stuff before in my life. So, today we’re talking about creating a homemade sloppy joe that will make your…

kentrollins.com

 

[deluxestogie]

Porch tomato (the botanical equivalent of "couch potato")

Bob

 

[MadFarmer]

This is my first year growing Mexico Midget tomatoes. It's growth habit is unusual. The suckers seem to grow out at 90° from the main stem, and opposed to ~45° of any other varieties I've grown.
(It's on the right)


The one I planted first has branched as wide as it is tall, about 5'. If I grow these again they'll get a small bed of their own.

Mexico Midget Tomato - Victory Seeds®

60 days, indeterminate, prolific red pea-sized tomatoes with intense flavor, challenging seed germination.

victoryseeds.com

 

[deluxestogie]

I found this laying on the dirt of one of my veggie beds this morning:

One good chomp was all that was needed to remind some critter that you can't always believe what you read.

Bob

 

[GrowleyMonster]

My haul of Boxcar Willie tomatoes from the last couple of days. I can't leave them to ripen on the vine cause of the bugs. I did get the borer infestation under control though, with BT and Spinosad cocktail sprayed twice a week for two weeks. The big Boxcar Willie plant that grew so big kept throwing nothing but golfball size tomatoes and I decided it wasn't a BW tomato, at all, but probably a volunteer from a hybrid tomato dropped last year, especially since I didn't remember planting a tomato right in the middle of my onion patch. So it's gonna die and make room for something else. I am tired of peeling and canning tiny maters. The other dozen BW plants in the other bed are throwing nice sized tomatoes. Not big like a beefsteak, but about fist size, the biggest ones.