Tomatoes are coming off

[BudT]

2021 Cherokee purple tomatoes are coming off a few each day. Like the Armenian cukes they are nice size to. Black berries are almost done and string beans are coming on nicely even the Asian 3 foot beans. Basil is about done but squash is still making to much like the cukes. So far hair sniffer hasn't "f'-ed" this up but I guess there's always time for that to.:evil6:

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[PWC]

Thank you! I'm tired of hearing bout Biden and Af'stan...

Makes me so angry...don't watch TV anymore, can't do anything to directly help

[BudT]

Thank you! I'm tired of hearing bout Biden and Af'stan...

Makes me so angry...don't watch TV anymore, can't do anything to directly help

Potato crop here in ID is in pretty sad shape this year to but sugar beats are doing real well, I'm waiting for the sweet corn to start coming off, I love roasting ears with my chow. Archery season started today in a few zones and doves on the 1st so maybe in a day or two get the bow out and take it for a walk, then the shotgun for some bird. I wish all of this nightmare would go away right now but it ain't happening, it's only going to get worse. Oh well, when ya got lemons you make lemonade.

[lyman]

I was thinking you were a bit late, but then read the Idaho part,


my taters sucked this year,
sweet potatoes as well,

onions did very well,


tomatoes, they come in here around the 4th,

[one shot]

We get tomaters around the 4th of august , we just over plant to make up for the late harvest .

[BudT]

I don't think I planted anything until June so this would be about normal for here. I've been getting other things for some time and to be honest so much of some things I cant use all of it so I've been giving some away and in the case of the cucumbers I'm still having to throw quiet a few away.

[BudT]

For those that have never seen a Armenian cucumber. I get from 1-3 of these and some larger per day. Very prolific cucumber and they are excellent eating as well as make great bread and butter pickles. We made around 50 quarts last year.

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[dryheat]

[QUOTE=BudT;620521]For those that have never seen a Armenian cucumber. I get from 1-3 of these and some larger per day. Very prolific cucumber and they are excellent eating as well as make great bread and butter pickles. We made around 50 quarts last year.
-Good job.

[togor]

First time in years that the blight didn't get at our tomatoes. We planted in a completely different spot, basically in the middle of a patch of mowed grass. Soil seems a bit compact, the plants didn't do as well, but they're still alive and bearing fruit. With the blight it would be dead vines right now.

Sowed a second crop of snow peas where we took out the first. We will see if any of them survive the August heat to bear fruit in September/October.

[jon_norstog]

I just brought in the bulk of my San Marzano tomatoes. It was about a half-a-cooler. They should give us a year's worth of tomato sauce. Tomato sauce with a flavor that the canned stuff cannot match.

jn

[Allen]

Good job Bud and others. I grew up fortunate enough to have land to grow things on. My grandparents and parents always had a small garden. It was probably more for the education and experience for us than it was for the harvest.

My grandmother grew beets, my grandfather grew strawberries plus he farmed. He used to take produce (mostly satsuma's I believe) to Mobile to the farmers market. At the time there was no road across Mobile Bay and he had to take a ferry to get there. My dad was real good at growing peanuts, carrots, potatoes and all kinds of beans.

In my younger days I had some good results growing corn, potatoes, melons, squash and okra.

Once I started working I found that if you're not watching your garden constantly things can go down hill quickly. Overnight I found my tomato crop would be ate up with tomato worms, my okra plant flower buds infested with ants, cut worms cutting off young tender seedlings (usually beans).

In my later years I tried growing a garden between 2 of my barns because there was a water hydrant source nearby. Each time my lush garden full of bell peppers, tomato plants and onions went under water due to the never ending rains and drowned everything.

Melons are hard to grow for me since they can't be cultivated, they make the vines and the weeds help themselves. Growing melons can become a snaky, unsightly place.

My worse experience came when I was in my 20's. I thought since squash is so easy to grow and we have the land, I'll just plant a lot of it and give it away. I bought about 3# of seeds and planted a row about 300-400 feet long. Since I was working and had little time for a garden, I figured this was the best way. I could just disk or bush hog along each side of the row and not have to do any back breaking weeding. I suppose this would have worked out well except I planted the seeds way too close together and ended up with a nice healthy squash hedge. The plants were overcrowded and did not bloom.

Since my Dad had great luck growing carrots I figured I would try it in a sandy section of the field where nothing grows very well. My thoughts were the sand wouldn't affect the carrots so much since they would be growing in loose fertilized soil and would be practically weed free--wrong. The plants looked healthy enough but the carrot roots looked like a piece of wire when pulled up.

In my neck of the woods we have abundant (as in way too much) rainfall, long growing seasons (but extremely hot), buggy and weedy conditions. The experience of growing things yourself is priceless but as far as food goes I have found it is just so much easier to buy fruit and vegs that come in from Brazil and other places where DDT is still allowed.

Though retired, the projects I need to do around the home vs good weather and my health dictate me not having a garden any more but envy those that do and can.

Thanks for posting the pictures. They bring back memories.

[togor]

I just brought in the bulk of my San Marzano tomatoes. It was about a half-a-cooler. They should give us a year's worth of tomato sauce. Tomato sauce with a flavor that the canned stuff cannot match.

jn

And once a person gets used to home-made stuff it's very hard to go back to the factory-made product.

[BudT]

I just brought in the bulk of my San Marzano tomatoes. It was about a half-a-cooler. They should give us a year's worth of tomato sauce. Tomato sauce with a flavor that the canned stuff cannot match.

jn

Putting in your winter supply it would seem. Can use some of that cooking that elk in. You're 100% correct that the home grown will have a better flavor than the store bought and you know whats in it.

[BudT]

In the mean time the tomatoes continue to mount up. Right now I'm picking and except for what I use in salads or for slicers to put in a sandwich they get put in a grocery bag and in the freezer for use later. Bag 4 will be going to bag 5 soon enough. Threw away 25 or so pounds of squash and cucumbers yesterday, I really need to cut back on the amount of stuff I plant. Being it's just me the cat and the part time grand son here he and the cat don't eat much of the stuff I grow so it's to much even for me to give away to the neighbors. If I lived down south I would be gardening in a different way the growing season is longer.