Gardening, flowers and veggies: 2014

[Lady tehMa]

Boy a few days make a difference! I have a pile of cherry tomatoes and the rest of my big tomatoes are coming along well :D

[Queen K]

Yup, our tomatoes are piling in now too. Mr. QK picked and cooked the ONE zuke we got.

[Bpeep]

Just wondering if all the warm weather helped your peppers along, lady tehma?

[Lady tehMa]

Not as much as you'd might think, bman :/ I am getting some peppers though. Tomatoes on the other hand, I will be swimming in them.

[JLives]

My tomatoes suck. I never should have moved them. The one I left in last year's spot is doing great. So do my peppers but I crowded them. The one kale plant I have took over.

I have a monster butternut vine that is just producing female flowers. I am having to hand pollinate though. I'm hoping to finally grow a successful squash that isn't a zucchini.

[Bpeep]

I finally got around to thinning my bell peppers tonight. I bet I took off a thousand blossoms. They'll bulk up fast now.
I always take all the blossoms off the tips. I grow the peppers under the canopy so they don't sunburn and the plant can support them without being top heavy.
I leave just enough flowers on so I can continue harvesting and later in the season I can choose the last keepers and take the rest off and just leave the peppers that will mature that season. Come later in the season I take off any pepper that won't have time to mature.
I usually get 5 to 9 big peppers per plant per season.
I'm a bit behind on pruning and thinning tho.
Too busy all the time.

[Bpeep]

I pruned the suckers off the ambrosias today.
The corns maturing faster than we can eat it. Already starting to blanch and freeze it.
Got monster taters. One tonight made a meal for two.
I have so many cucumbers I can't even pick them fast enough.
I had a blank spot on the berm around a freshly planted juniper. I needed sone ground cover so I planted about 40 cucumbers.
Not sure if that was wise.
They're like rabbits.

[Lady tehMa]

I pruned the suckers off the ambrosias today.
The corns maturing faster than we can eat it. Already starting to blanch and freeze it.
Got monster taters. One tonight made a meal for two.
I have so many cucumbers I can't even pick them fast enough.
I had a blank spot on the berm around a freshly planted juniper. I needed sone ground cover so I planted about 40 cucumbers.
Not sure if that was wise.
They're like rabbits.

Did you plant pickling cukes? Or english-style eating cukes? I'd have put pickling cukes in and made pickles. I have a great relish recipe if you want to use some of those up . . .

[Queen K]

I'd love to come over and see your garden lady teMah. If you're down here, stop in too k?

[Lady tehMa]

You bet! I've been meaning to stop in, and you should come over :)

How are your Himrod grapes doing?

[Queen K]

Coming along great. They've taken over the back fence as planned.

My sunflowers are attracting chickadees and Gold Finches and sparrows of all sorts. Got lots of pix for fb.

[JLives]

My butternut is finally getting it's butt in gear. I'm hoping to be up to my eyeballs in squashes soon.

[Queen K]

I've got flowers and no squash. But I have Lady teMah to thank for a bumper crop of varities of tomatoes I didn't have before!

WOW, did Mr. QK's eyes ever pop!

Now you've got to come over here.

[Lady tehMa]

I will, I promise :)

[Lady tehMa]

Anyone else looking forward to the cooler weather?