How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Fan4-45years:
Counted 28 tomatoes yesterday off one Better Boy plant. One is red. Another is yellow. The others still green. Not bad!
WOW! That's a lot.
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oobu24:
Fan4-45years:
Counted 28 tomatoes yesterday off one Better Boy plant. One is red. Another is yellow. The others still green. Not bad!
WOW! That's a lot.
Just ate my first tomato sandwich. Delish!!!!
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Once we planted in a row... big boy better boy super fantastic :
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oobu24:
Once we planted in a row... big boy better boy super fantastic :
How was your crop? I'm amazed at mine. It's my first time ever planting tomatoes.
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Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
Once we planted in a row... big boy better boy super fantastic :
How was your crop? I'm amazed at mine. It's my first time ever planting tomatoes.
Some years are better than others. There are so many variables. Sun, rain or water & temps. Hot & rainy are always great for veggies. I love to just have a plate of chunked tomatoes with hot dogs or sausage on the grill. I'm happy when I have enough to eat & then to freeze (to make chili or soup) by the end of the season. I remember one year I hardly had any. Must have been a dry year. This year seems to be good...it's been hot!
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The bush has gone ops:
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nowords:
The bush has gone ops:
gone where?
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Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
love2travel:
.... Anyone have a solution for a pesky groundhog? He/she comes and is biting off the sunflower faces, and then spits them on the ground...ate all of my tomato, lettuce and peppers too I'm tempted to feed it enough so i can see the sunflowers bloom! Not sure what to feed it
I hate groundhogs! They come around even though they should be able to smell my dog. Last year they had babies & the young ones came up & were laying against the house. Hubby tried to scoop them up with a homemade contraption (so they wouldn't injure the dog)...& the little sh!ts...they rolled over & snarled at him...showing their fangs! The mom had dug a hole under our shed & we put a hose down there hoping the shed would not float away. LOL! But the hole is still there & one has come again this year. I hear they don't like loud music! Maybe we should try that! They can see you coming...whenever I see one...I go out on the patio & stamp my feet & wave my arms like a crazy person & they look...& then run away. Don't know what the neighbors think.
That's gotta be irritating. We have chipmunks living under our house. Our dog thinks he's going to do away with them. Hasn't in 3 yrs. Chases them all the time.
Squirrels and chipmunks love to be chased by dogs, its a game where the jump out of reach at the last moment! My old lab used to play that game endlessly! As far as the groundhog, the live somewhere under the fence. They have pretty much ruined the sunflowers and all of the tomatoes and lettuce. I love the sunflowers, I'll have to buy taller ones next year, with flowers out of their reach! just bought an indoor growing container and will try growing them inside my patio window!
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love2travel:
Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
love2travel:
.... Anyone have a solution for a pesky groundhog? He/she comes and is biting off the sunflower faces, and then spits them on the ground...ate all of my tomato, lettuce and peppers too I'm tempted to feed it enough so i can see the sunflowers bloom! Not sure what to feed it
I hate groundhogs! They come around even though they should be able to smell my dog. Last year they had babies & the young ones came up & were laying against the house. Hubby tried to scoop them up with a homemade contraption (so they wouldn't injure the dog)...& the little sh!ts...they rolled over & snarled at him...showing their fangs! The mom had dug a hole under our shed & we put a hose down there hoping the shed would not float away. LOL! But the hole is still there & one has come again this year. I hear they don't like loud music! Maybe we should try that! They can see you coming...whenever I see one...I go out on the patio & stamp my feet & wave my arms like a crazy person & they look...& then run away. Don't know what the neighbors think.
That's gotta be irritating. We have chipmunks living under our house. Our dog thinks he's going to do away with them. Hasn't in 3 yrs. Chases them all the time.
Squirrels and chipmunks love to be chased by dogs, its a game where the jump out of reach at the last moment! My old lab used to play that game endlessly! As far as the groundhog, the live somewhere under the fence. They have pretty much ruined the sunflowers and all of the tomatoes and lettuce. I love the sunflowers, I'll have to buy taller ones next year, with flowers out of their reach! just bought an indoor growing container and will try growing them inside my patio window!
I have some sunflower seeds but have not planted them yet. How tall do they get? I discovered this weekend that I'd transplanted some tall weeds in June thinking they were blackeyed susans So now got to go dig those up
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love2travel:
Fan4-45years:
oobu24:
love2travel:
.... Anyone have a solution for a pesky groundhog? He/she comes and is biting off the sunflower faces, and then spits them on the ground...ate all of my tomato, lettuce and peppers too I'm tempted to feed it enough so i can see the sunflowers bloom! Not sure what to feed it
I hate groundhogs! They come around even though they should be able to smell my dog. Last year they had babies & the young ones came up & were laying against the house. Hubby tried to scoop them up with a homemade contraption (so they wouldn't injure the dog)...& the little sh!ts...they rolled over & snarled at him...showing their fangs! The mom had dug a hole under our shed & we put a hose down there hoping the shed would not float away. LOL! But the hole is still there & one has come again this year. I hear they don't like loud music! Maybe we should try that! They can see you coming...whenever I see one...I go out on the patio & stamp my feet & wave my arms like a crazy person & they look...& then run away. Don't know what the neighbors think.
That's gotta be irritating. We have chipmunks living under our house. Our dog thinks he's going to do away with them. Hasn't in 3 yrs. Chases them all the time.
Squirrels and chipmunks love to be chased by dogs, its a game where the jump out of reach at the last moment! My old lab used to play that game endlessly! As far as the groundhog, the live somewhere under the fence. They have pretty much ruined the sunflowers and all of the tomatoes and lettuce. I love the sunflowers, I'll have to buy taller ones next year, with flowers out of their reach! just bought an indoor growing container and will try growing them inside my patio window!
My dog was a hunting dog & will catch & kill whatever she finds. She's a coonhound & they kill racoons. So now that she is a house dog I don't want her doing that any more. She has a few scars on her body from previous rounds of "games".
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...back to our regularly scheduled program ... Just ate my first cooked squash from my garden. DELISH! Woot! Had home grown tomato too. So good! I'm going to do this garden thing up right next year. Can't wait.
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The sunflower our kid gave me has 2 tiny new flowers growing. I bought some basil but it didn't get enough sun & the leaves are falling off & drying up.
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All my fruit trees are bearing well this year. I've just cleared my "cooker" apple tree as the fruit was ripe and ready to drop. I've made apple sauce to preserve it and I have sufficient for several apple pies or crumbles plus more to add a touch to other dishes. The plum has born huge amounts of fruit, sadly every grow point has fertilised every fruit resulting in no fruit-lets dropping early - this has led to congestion and mould growing spoiling most of the fruit. I'll try to recover the rest by clearing out the congestion and mouldy fruit but I'm not hopeful. But I still have plum jam from 2011 in the larder! The eater apple tree and the fig tree are also laden down but nothing seems ripe yet. My compost bin has once more turned into a wormery with a squirming mass of worms awaiting every batch of peelings and fruit clippings from the kitchen. The compost liquor is clearly leeching into the soil on which the compost bin sits as the grass and plants around are particularly vigorous. Indeed I could have skipped mowing last Sunday but for the grass around the bin Martin
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martinput:
All my fruit trees are bearing well this year. I've just cleared my "cooker" apple tree as the fruit was ripe and ready to drop. I've made apple sauce to preserve it and I have sufficient for several apple pies or crumbles plus more to add a touch to other dishes. The plum has born huge amounts of fruit, sadly every grow point has fertilised every fruit resulting in no fruit-lets dropping early - this has led to congestion and mould growing spoiling most of the fruit. I'll try to recover the rest by clearing out the congestion and mouldy fruit but I'm not hopeful. But I still have plum jam from 2011 in the larder! The eater apple tree and the fig tree are also laden down but nothing seems ripe yet. My compost bin has once more turned into a wormery with a squirming mass of worms awaiting every batch of peelings and fruit clippings from the kitchen. The compost liquor is clearly leeching into the soil on which the compost bin sits as the grass and plants around are particularly vigorous. Indeed I could have skipped mowing last Sunday but for the grass around the bin Martin
You've got a lot going on there, Martin. I accidentally transplanted some tall weeds thinking they were black eyed susans. Suppose I'll get those dug up this weekend!
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Not only has our pineapple ripened & turned yellow, there's the beginning of a new pineapple plant right next to it! Mums from a few years ago are blooming & have a brand new pot of mums to be planted. Plus my sweet hubby just bought me a box of 20 multi-colour hyacinth bulbs to plant for next Spring!
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Some beautiful light purple mums and my strawflowers that have regrown and are blooming for the second time this year.
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my pineapple plant is growing new leaves which is a good sign. I keep working with it. I have a herbal terrace garden going. love doris
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got two raised bed planters from Robert dyas 30 quid each. flimsy wood of course but remarkly very stable when constructed. took me nearly two months to plants all my plants this year due to the back but these are at about 2.5 feet to 3.5 feet for the bed (box); so no more bending down trying and failing to deadhead the pansys etc. For the borders well I shall just get hardy fuschia's and some shrubs, anything to minimise the weeding (only had to weed 2-3 times a year) once the forget me nots and bluebells etc die off. Dahlia's last year from poundland have been excellent this year, five bulbs for a quid and two bloomed again this year.
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Added some oregano to my terrace garden and plan on transplanting it soon to a bigger planter love doris
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Love those Mums, Sur Steven! Doris, Greek Oregano is a perennial if you put it in the ground . I need to go out there and cut mine back to encourage new growth before the growing season is over so I can freeze it.