Veggie Tales - November 2017
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Veggie Tales - May 2017
Comments (391)Wow everyones pictures are A+++! Sloan those peanut plants are so cool and Isgen continues with the seed catalog worthy radishes! Lots of good predators too, its a shame the toad had to go but you win some you lose some. Adding to the predator theme with less photographic evidence: I found a mangled rabbit in the back yard the other day... my first thought was fox but I think there was too much meat left on the bones. More likely one of the neighborhood cats fooling around. Hopefully the other rabbits get the hint (there are so many around this year). I also saw two different mantises yesterday on my potato plants. Its the first that I've seen them since releasing (admittedly I haven't really looked specifically for them, these ones just caught my eye). One was eating what looked like a small gnat. Both of them had probably tripled in size - they were about 1 1/2 inches long. Crappy video - I think it takes youtube a while to get HD: I continue to procrastinate on fertilizing the garden... missed a chance to incorporate some dry material yesterday (we got a nice drenching rain last night). Tomatoes could probably use it. A good bit of my onions look like they are starting to bulb up...should I try to feed them one more time or let them go? My peppers just look like they are asking for the warmer weather to start and the soil to dry up a bit. ETA - My 4 y.o. son was pulling out some new books last night for us to read together and guess what his favorite one was? --- Veggie Tales - God Loves Us All!...See MoreVeggie Tales - July 2017
Comments (342)Add me to the list of a slightly disappointing onion season. I'll end up somewhere around 50 lbs of cured onions from the over 300+ plants planted, which turns out to be a small ~3 oz per bulb average. I had a couple nice baseball sized ones though - I think the biggest was 13 oz or so. I had an opportunity to test out the kitchenaid strainer for tomato sauce this weekend. Wow it is amazing! It does a little better if you run the 'waste' through the system twice but that is no big deal compared to the time saved not having to boil/ice bath. I did about 5-6 lbs of tomatoes and the sauce was turned into a marinara/pizza sauce that I used Saturday night. Cant get any fresher than that! Picture of that massive giant garden paste - finally sliced (piece of bread for size comparison). This one went into a bruschetta that my wife made. I'd share the recipe but she honestly doesn't remember what all went into it. Tomato plant progress. I applied a heavy dose of TTF on Saturday. My mind is probably playing tricks on my but I swear I see more blossoms already. The septoria was pretty rampant so I did heavy pruning and then sprayed with mancozeb Saturday night after picking any fruits that were showing any blush at all (since I have to wait 5 days to harvest after applying the fungicide)... Brandywine still holding out - the last to blush. ^^ The big beef sucker experiment looks like it will be a success as long as I can keep it disease free. It looks mangled and ugly because I just wrangled it into the cage before taking the photo. There are a few fruits set already. Habenero and Ghost Chilis. Some of the habs are just starting to 'blush' orange. Not a fox like babushka, but our canine garden protector. We used to have the invisible fence line ran right through the garden so he wouldn't come in. I've since re-routed it around the outside and trained him that its okay to come in and help scare off pests for us. Broccoli (~20 plants) and cauliflower (~8 plants) after a pot up session. They have some crinkly leaves due to me missing a watering but should bounce back hopefully. Im in the same boat as Jack - I plan to plant these in spaces that are likely still going to be producing finely for me for a while (cucumbers, eggplant, and squash beds). I may end up planting them at the foot of the cucumber vines and pruning the bottom leaves - the vines still have a little while to go before they are fully supported on the trellises. Might also just rip out the squash bed (yellow, zucchini, and spaghetti) as they are all pretty engrossed with powdery mildew right now....See MoreVeggie Tales - December 2017
Comments (96)Jack - that is the greatest chia pet ever. And I mean GREATEST! The best. Like none other... I've been absent from the boards for just about the whole month of December (too busy brewing – have done 40 gallons of beer and 15 gallons of wine so far!), but Sunday I went through all my seeds and put in my order at Johnny’s. Also sowed some lettuce, kale, and spinach for S&G…should have done that a long time ago but better now than never – maybe it’ll last long enough to transplant outside when it starts to warm up (we’ve been at or below zero wind chill just about every day since Christmas - I have a hunch we are going to have a long cold winter). Jack are you doing regular onions from seeds this year or just bunching? I think I remember you thinking that seeds weren’t worth it based on the last couple years results. I’ll be doing seeds if only to have something growing in January – Monastrell, Walla Walla, Sierra Blanca, and Moonshine from Johnny’s. I have to start planning my plant start donation/sale benefitting my moms MS Walk team. Last year was a hit even though it was poorly planned and spur of the moment. I did tomatoes and peppers only but had some people asking about cukes, zukes, and herbs so I might add those to the list. Problem is keeping the varieties o a reasonable number. I had 10 tomatoes and 7 or 8 peppers last year. Here’s my list so far (subject to change - let me know if there's anything glaring you see missing): Tomatoes – Big Beef, Amish Paste, Black Krim, Black Cherry, Big Boomer Cherry, Moskvich, Sun Gold, Giant Garden Paste, Cherokee Purple, Early Girl, Brandy Boy. Peppers – Jalepeno, Baron Poblano, Hungarian Wax, Lunchbox, Habanero, Ghost Chili, Doux D’espagne. 1 slicing Cuke, 1 pickling (variety TBD) Yellow squash, zucchini Basil, Oregano, Thyme, Parsley Might pull up some strawberry runners to sell. Probably will sell some of the onions starts too. I need to get my greenhouse built !!! That has to be a priority this year....See MoreVeggie Tales - November 2018
Comments (231)2018 is officially Pittsburgh 2nd wettest year on record with around 52.5 total inches of rain so far. The record is 57.4 inches in 2004 (year that Hurricanes Ivan and Frances hit the mid-Atlantic regions). I've got quite a plan started for 2019.. around 95% of the planned crops are accounted for in the market garden I just need to figure out the most efficient locations for each crop (considering watering requirements, insect netting, trellising, etc), make the succession planting more efficient, and fill in the spaces with cover cropping. I've decided as of right now that I'll only be planting veg in about half of the total plot to start next year (using a total of around 30 fifty ft beds). The rest will be put into a ''soil building' phase and planted in cover crops. If we are doing well part way into the season I'll have the option to till some of that in and put them into production. I wont bore everyone with the details but this is a screenshot of where I am so far: Havent even started the front yard garden plans yet. Somehow I think that's going to end up being the "wife and kid's" personal garden - filled with flowers, herbs, and veggies they like to tend to. First seed order is already completed (Johnnys). Will be putting one in at High Mowing and probably Baker Creek....See Morebeth_b_kodiak
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