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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Harvested and ate the first cucumber today. Tomorrow we go on vacation; I've hired a local teenager to come and hand water the veggies and herbs - I sure hope she remembers to come every day!!
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    OR, Where you are at, you need watering everyday this year!

    And Leeze, when we moved in here, the soil was horrible. It was like digging into concrete with a plastic spoon and about as fertile as drywall. It has taken years of amending with compost, coffee grounds and the like to get it rolling to a decent state. We've lived here for almost 16 years. It took us a good while to turn it around. It's good now! :)
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    That is good to hear! I think we are on a good way. We basically reclaimed the garden from what used to be a lawn that had not been tended for a couple of years. We have parts sandy, parts loamy and parts good dark soil. We added soil from a nursery to the beds and also added coffee grounds, ashes and leaves. So far, it looks good. It just needs time. And we have yet to make a compost. We shredded trees that we took down and made our own mulch. That stuff seems to be good. I am jealous of a cucumber! Ours are still in their infancy. But I love checking the garden every day to see what changed. I am most excited about the melon and pumpkin patch. Hopefully, at least one thing will grow there :)
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    Tomatoes are finally red. Had one with salad last night--delicious.

    Wish I could eat our strawberries. Damn birds keep stealing them
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    The Juggler said:

    Tomatoes are finally red. Had one with salad last night--delicious.

    Wish I could eat our strawberries. Damn birds keep stealing them

    Bird-X netting will help resolve that issue.
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  • florence151
    florence151 Posts: 597
    Basil in a large pot near our deck.
    Made pizza on the grill last night and topped it with fresh basil right after it came off the BBQ.
    Tasted like (but not exactly) pizza from Bologna we got on the way home from the PJ show in 2006! Ummmm.
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  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    We are starting to haul in the squash up here and the tomatoes keep coming. The peas will be ready for harvest soon.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    So much squash! Lots of cucumbers, 2 watermelons, a few peppers. Corn is doing good. My one tomato plant is about 7 feet tall right now, I'm having a hard time keeping it under control.
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    RKCNDY said:

    So much squash! Lots of cucumbers, 2 watermelons, a few peppers. Corn is doing good. My one tomato plant is about 7 feet tall right now, I'm having a hard time keeping it under control.

    So no watercumbers? Glad it worked!

    My tomatoes are the same and I'm swimming in green beans right now.
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  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    my garden is a mess.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    We finally got some rain last night, which was awesome for the garden. This morning, everything seems larger and more fit. We got about five watermelons coming, which I am thrilled about because I never grw them before. All the cucumbers are starting to get bigger and bigger. I got two weird varieties this time around, one is a fuzzy Italian kind and the other one is a lemon ball cucumber. Tomatoes are all carrying fruit, but the yield was not too overwhelming so far. Zucchini and squash, and also the beans are doing good.And we have a pumpkin! It gets visibly bigger everyday, this is awesome. I would say, we have a D-cup by now :lol:
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    shortstack said:

    my garden is a mess.

    Hey there, Shortstack! Haven't seen you around for a while. I'm sorry your garden is having issues. :frowning:
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited July 2015
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I can't post pics of my cucumbers...I might get banned.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    :rofl:

    Nice beans, Deadend! I have edamame coming. I hope the Japanese beetles will leave some stuff. I put a bucket next to the plants that has water and dead Japanese beetles in them to deter them. They already pretty much destroyed my pretty elderberry and did some good damage to cherry trees as well. Fuckers. We tried Neem oil, but somehow we gert no results. We don't really want to use chemicals. We might for the cherries though. The trees are still small and in the front, so nowehere close by the garden...
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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Leezestarr313 said:

    :rofl:

    Nice beans, Deadend! I have edamame coming. I hope the Japanese beetles will leave some stuff. I put a bucket next to the plants that has water and dead Japanese beetles in them to deter them. They already pretty much destroyed my pretty elderberry and did some good damage to cherry trees as well. Fuckers. We tried Neem oil, but somehow we gert no results. We don't really want to use chemicals. We might for the cherries though. The trees are still small and in the front, so nowehere close by the garden...

    Just don't use beetle traps. Those draw them in and make the problem 10x worse. We had that one year. We would spray our tree down a few times a day with water and they would fly out in swarms!

    I'm with you with chemicals. We are chemical free here. Have to be. We're a designated Monarch Waystation, so we can't use chemicals on anything here. That's fine. We're good with it.
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  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    My wild strawberries! They are so tasty, I wait til they are dark red before I eat them
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    edited August 2015
    deadendp said:


    Just don't use beetle traps. Those draw them in and make the problem 10x worse. We had that one year. We would spray our tree down a few times a day with water and they would fly out in swarms!

    I'm with you with chemicals. We are chemical free here. Have to be. We're a designated Monarch Waystation, so we can't use chemicals on anything here. That's fine. We're good with it.

    Hm, we set one trap out yesterday, now I am reading your advice. We will see. The bag hangs on the opposite site of the garden. The bucket seems to work well with the beans. The cherries and the elderberry and the roses have gotten sprayed. I wish the birds would like them more.

    Next year, we will interplant some deterring plants between the vegetables. There is some good stuff that you can do.

    What I am most excited about right now is my watermelons. I have never grown them before and I am so stoked about seeing the fruits pop up. They grow so fast! I can almost see a difference from morning to evening. We will soon drown in them haha

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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    We had a monarch fluttering through the milkweed yesterday LAYING EGGS! We're going to have caterpillar babies soon!
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    deadendp said:

    We had a monarch fluttering through the milkweed yesterday LAYING EGGS! We're going to have caterpillar babies soon!

    That is awesome! I had to put my milkweed seeds in twice, the first time the squirrels or something ate the fresh buds. Now they are about a handwidth tall, no blooms yet. But I hope they come in time :)

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