2022 gardens

I got baby mater’s. these are campori tomatoes.

Here’s an update on the tomato rows. Each side has five different varieties that I started from MI Gardener seeds. One side is paste tomatoes, Opalka, Amish Paste, San Marzano, and Sheboygan. The other side is Tiffin Mennonite, Rose, Mortgage Lifter, and Dr. Wyche’s. Each side has two Tess’s Land Race Currant on the end. They seem to have some type of leaf spot but they’re still doing ok even though the leaves look like swiss cheese.

Here’s the other garden. Clockwise from the bottom left is yellow squash, then purple top turnip, then some yellow stuffer tomato, sweet 100 tomato, some radishes that are about done. In the back are Spacemaster 80 slicing cukes and Wisconsin SMR pickling cukes. At the right are a mess of 10″ Mary Washington asparagus and the black bags are hot Hungarian wax peppers, serrano, jalapeno and tabasco. In the middle are six kellogg’s breakfast tomatoes, a sun sugar and california gold tomato (the only determinate variety in the garden) and one each of a scorpion pepper and a carolina reaper. I also have a bunch of dill going in one of my raised beds. The other is a mix of weeds and a good amount of onions that glenn57 sent me.

Found this in the garden today!! Sure is dry though.

I got quite a few that size but unfortunatly its not the variety I thought i planted. On the bright side got 2″ of rain the garden needed last night and didnt even have to storm to get it. Hope the sweetcorn 6 miles away at my dads got the same rain. Its desperate.

JEREMY wrote:

I got quite a few that size but unfortunatly its not the variety I thought i planted. On the bright side got 2″ of rain the garden needed last night and didnt even have to storm to get it. Hope the sweetcorn 6 miles away at my dads got the same rain. Its desperate.

so Jeremy, what type of cukes did you intend to plant???? just asking. i prefer the straight eight variety!!!

i too was shocked and surprised this mornin when i looked and had 3/4 inch of rain. even the lawn greened up overnight!!!!

Straight 8 is what planted. They just look shorter and fatter then normal like the ones my dad plants for making pickles if he lets them grow longer.

the straight 8 is a good tasting cuke. i make frig pickles with them and slice them the long way and make another type of frig pickle. also eat a pile of them straight up.

when i can pickles i just buy those. i tried growing pickles for canning, thats a pain in the butt. buy a bunch and get it done all at one time. its what works for me!!!!!

Someone hooked me up with a spray bottle with a mixture they already had going to spray for potato bugs. Don’t know how long one spraying will last but it’s definitely done the trick for now.

Interesting note about my garden: Pumpkins I planted last year did well, so this year I created a separate “vine garden” for pumpkins and a few watermelon I’m trying. Well in the old area I had pumpkins last year I noticed a few popping up in early June, so I transplanted what I could. And now there’s still a ton growing where they used to. Our berry/potato/sweet corn garden probably has at least a dozen pumpkin plants growing in it, all from natural reproduction somehow. Hell, I think there’s a pumpkin growing 10 feet past the garden by the chicken coop. Unreal. Gonna have a lot of pumpkins this year.

I am really trying to get my pumpkins going this year. I do not have much experience with them. We tried last year and got about a dozen pumpkins off 9 plants. The heat last summer was terrible and the area I planted them does not keep water well so they dried up when we were out of town so only a few made it to fall.

This year I cut the bottoms off 5 gallon buckets so I could raise them and hope it helps when I water them. Not sure if this is a good idea?? I have 5 mounds of the giant atlantics mixed in and will need to give them regular watering I believe? I dug out deep holes last fall and buried all my fish scraps in these holes mixed with compost and just used the buckets as sleeves over the holes. So hoping for better results with watering and better soil for them?? So far so good. they look great right now.

Picked my first green pepper and carrots. Accidentally grabbed a bag. Of mixed. Colored carrots. Taste just like the orange ones. . Also started picking dill.

Picked 12 nice slicing cucumbers and 10 zucchinis yesterday. Sweetcorn starting to silk and pollinate but dang is it short.

Well these didn’t come from my garden, came from Becks off hwy 10. 41 qts but had 1 casualty. Packed to tight. Bottom of jar popped

Damn deer got in my sweetcorn again. Silks went from looking like Malibu Barbie to womens soccer team barbie or pride parade barbie.

I was gone for a week, my garden is looking like a jungle and there is a significant battle being waged between the peppers/tomatoes and the invading cucumbers. There’s going to need to be some significant mitigation taken or I think the tomatoes and peppers will be choked out.

I haven’t picked anything but peas yet. Beans are flowering like mad, so it won’t be long now. My broccoli looks great, as do the peppers and tomatoes.

My drip irrigation system is working well!

JEREMY wrote:

Damn deer got in my sweetcorn again. Silks went from looking like Malibu Barbie to womens soccer team barbie or pride parade barbie.

buy a bag ofMiloganite fertilizer and spread that in and around the garden.

i used it about 3 years ago when i planted some clover etc for the deer up north to fertilize it, i never seen a sign of deer till that fall!!!!!!!!

hows the gardens doing???/ tomatoes here are getting there. my dill is about done and going to pull that tomorrow. picked enough green peppers for a batch of salsa. jalepenos are slowly coming. onions are drying up and i’ll pull them next week and they look better then they have in the past 2 years. kalarabi is a failure again!!!!!!

I’ll pick our first beans tomorrow, I think. Everything else is coming along. My tomatoes look the best they have in a few years, but it will be a while before they are ready.

My daughter found (and promptly ate) our first ripe raspberry yesterday. There are a good # of berries, but the plants are not what they were last year. My neighbor noticed the same thing, so I am guessing it must be weather-related.

I have picked about a fridge full of cucumbers and zucchini and a few jalapenos. Tomato plants look great but the maters the deer havent knocked off seem fall off on there own. Sweetcorn is short and in desperate need for rain in the next few days to have a chance. Pumpkins are finally growing like mad. At least this year the shouldnt be ready to pick in beginning of September. Pulled all my onions they were already drying up. Hoping to put a late crop of broccoli in there spot if I can find some seeds. Bell pepper plants are finally getting big hope I get some peppers since ive been picking the flowers off for a month. Weird year it seems.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

My daughter found (and promptly ate) our first ripe raspberry yesterday. There are a good # of berries, but the plants are not what they were last year.

My plants look absolutely horrible but there has been a few random berries. A few weeks ago the lady and the kids picked like 2 gallons at my friends house and it looked like they hadnt picked any when they were done. I know they dont take care of theres but they look great. Who knows.

My raspberry’s were crazy last year, most I have ever picked, had berry’s all summer long, this year all I got so far is lots of new growth no berry’s yet.

Things escalated quickly while I was gone over the 4th. Going to have a ton of tomatoes, cukes and cayenne peppers real soon.

bigcrappie wrote:

My raspberry’s were crazy last year, most I have ever picked, had berry’s all summer long, this year all I got so far is lots of new growth no berry’s yet.

Berries are just starting on mine. We get them from around the 4th all the way up to the first hard freeze. Generally I cut them down after the first heavy freeze and then cover in White Pine needles. It seems we havent had that much heat this year which is why I think the production might be later than usual.

Havent had that much heat this year? You must be in a different part of the state then me. Its hot as balls everyday and never rains.

JEREMY wrote:

Havent had that much heat this year? You must be in a different part of the state then me. Its hot as balls everyday and never rains.

Central MN has not had hardly any 90 degree days at all. Heck I didnt even get my AC going until just before my mid June trip to Canada. I just came back from Houston, so if you want to talk about hot as balls, I can raise you 96 degrees at 9 AM and 105 at noon.

Beans are really coming on. Royal Burgundy bush beans have been picked twice, green bush beans are ready to pick in a couple of days. The Burgundy beans are fun – taste great, color is interesting but they turn green when cooked.

Tomatoes have set fruit and continue to flower, same for the peppers. Cukes are flowering but just starting to set fruit. One Mammoth sunflower is 5 feet tall, will likely grow taller than the phone line coming in to the house. Other sunflowers are doing well.

Snap peas are about done, spinach lasted until last week (pleasant surprise) and lettuce has been out for a while. Will replant those in 3 weeks.

Brad Dimond wrote:

The Burgundy beans are fun – taste great, color is interesting but they turn green when cooked.

I grew them for a few years and liked them. The best part is they’re easy to pick because the purple beans really stand out!

Dont know what you consider hot but just looked in the last 40 days there have only been 9 days under 84 degrees and 6 were still in the 80’s. 12 in the 90’s with at least 2 more coming this week. Little to no rain in that time.

JEREMY wrote:

Dont know what you consider hot but just looked in the last 40 days there have only been 9 days under 84 degrees and 6 were still in the 80’s. 12 in the 90’s with at least 2 more coming this week. Little to no rain in that time.

In the St Cloud area through the month of June we have only had 4 days 90 or above. It hasnt been anywhere near as hot here as the TC or South.