snowNH Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Great googily moogily SnowNH! Excellent results this year! Except my tomatoes which I have pretty much given up on.. the watermelon and cantaloupe LOVED that warm weather we had.. I believe they are both desert plants that's why I picked off 2 zucchini and 8 cukes yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Except my tomatoes which I have pretty much given up on.. the watermelon and cantaloupe LOVED that warm weather we had.. Bottom rot? Our tomatoes (even those in buckets) are doing well/producing many fruit, even if they are a bit stunted in height. Next year we will really expand our garden since it got way overcrowded this year. We had the peas we harvested this week...very tasty. I love fresh peas. Not something you typically find in a supermarket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Bottom rot? Our tomatoes (even those in buckets) are doing well/producing many fruit, even if they are a bit stunted in height. Next year we will really expand our garden since it got way overcrowded this year. We had the peas we harvested this week...very tasty. I love fresh peas. Not something you typically find in a supermarket. Yea the warm weather just killed them I think cause of the fluctuation of moist soil and dry soil. They were growing great in may and June but the lack of rain sucked this year.. good for melons bad for tomatoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Mowed my lawn today... hopefully it is somewhat dormant over the next 11 days since I won't be around to take care of it. I had mowed on Monday and it really needed it. I cut it pretty short today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Mowed my lawn today... hopefully it is somewhat dormant over the next 11 days since I won't be around to take care of it. I had mowed on Monday and it really needed it. I cut it pretty short today. Pubes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Pubes? Balder than yer noggin Have a great time in NH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Balder than yer noggin Have a great time in NH Enjoy Florida with the fam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Enjoy Florida with the fam Loading up the car. Never done a 10 day vacation before with them. My lawn will be longer than Petes pony-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Loading up the car. Never done a 10 day vacation before with them. My lawn will be longer than Petes pony-o Have fun dude. Enjoy some cool beverages down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Loading up the car. Never done a 10 day vacation before with them. My lawn will be longer than Petes pony-o LOL.. enjoy the tarmac at BDL today while you're there. I'm 5 miles south of there in Windsor working like a dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Except my tomatoes which I have pretty much given up on.. the watermelon and cantaloupe LOVED that warm weather we had.. I believe they are both desert plants that's why I picked off 2 zucchini and 8 cukes yesterday They may get better. I had several of mine suffer from bottom rot, but they are coming in like crazy now. Just picked a bunch yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monadnocks Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Beans and cukes are coming along fine. I expect to be inundated with tomatoes in a week or so. -monadnocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I got home after being away for two weeks and my pumpkin plant is now 40 feet long with a couple dozen secondary vines 5-15 feet in length. It occupies about 400 square feet now. Unfortunately the first two pumpkins have failed to pollinate but I think the most recent one pollinated while I was gone. Dozens of tomatoes picked, dozens of cukes, lots of zukes, several eggplants. Tons of various bell peppers, habaneros, cayennes etc. Corn looks good. Dozens of butternut squash on the vines. 6 small eating pumpkins on the vine. Swiss chard still producing heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I got home after being away for two weeks and my pumpkin plant is now 40 feet long with a couple dozen secondary vines 5-15 feet in length. It occupies about 400 square feet now. Unfortunately the first two pumpkins have failed to pollinate but I think the most recent one pollinated while I was gone. Dozens of tomatoes picked, dozens of cukes, lots of zukes, several eggplants. Tons of various bell peppers, habaneros, cayennes etc. Corn looks good. Dozens of butternut squash on the vines. 6 small eating pumpkins on the vine. Swiss chard still producing heavily. That's awesome. Vegetable overload. Kind of nice after vacation to come home to all that. I grew a pumpkin a few years back and it got to maybe 30 feet long but only got one pumpkin from it. Just harvested my first eggplant the other day probably 12-13 inches long. Also have had the cherry tomatoes going like mad for at least a month now. No beefsteak, roma or any of my heirlooms yet but have managed a few cukes over the last week. Also tried watermelons this year and have one a little smaller than a tennis ball, first year having any luck with them. Wondering how big the melons get around here I wouldn't imagine very large but who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Remember by luscious green garden.. Its down to this... Don't really know what to do... help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 sigh.. i guess this is what happens with missing every shower/storm for the past 2 months.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 sigh.. i guess this is what happens with missing every shower/storm for the past 2 months.. you cannot rely on rain when container gardening. hope you're not still letting them wilt between waterings. the zukes have powdery mildew but it rarely affects production enough to worry about. when was the last time you fertilized? the lime green cuke leaves suggest a rather desperate need for food. it's also entirely possible that you've simply got all you're going to get from them... they only produce so much. in that case, rip them out and replant more seeds. there is enough growing season left for a second round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 yep powdery mildew on the zukes but most of your problems appear related to the age of the plants. You had a good start it sounds like and got lots of production out of the plants. And you'll probably get some more for a while before they totally die back. It's possible that overcrowding (look how the cuke plants have some dead leaves mostly on the inside of the plants lower down to the ground) contributed to an early decline but you had an earlier faster start than most of us so I think it's mostly that your plants have passed their peak. Overcrowding leads to light competition and causes rot because the leaves stay wet much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Just pulled out my zucchini plants from the pictures above and tossed them in the woods. I planted two more zuke plants in their plants from the plants i have on the side of my house. I couldn't stand to look at the dying plant any more. See ya! now time to watch a new plant grow! Hopefully by pulling those huge zuke plants, the cucumber plants next to it will thrive. Just fish fertilized it for the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Melons are growing ridiculously! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HoarfrostHubb Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 We had tomato hornworms invade my plants while we were away., We salvaged about a dozen tomatoes that still had not ripened and found 3 of the nasty buggers, They are so gross when you squash them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Watermelon about 4" in diameter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Thanks to Walpole Joe for the Johnathan Green suggestion. I've done my research and I think my plan is to tart using their organic fertilizer program. They also have a calcium product and seed product great for drier climos. The prices are not much more than standard products so it seems worth it to me. My lawn has taken a eating this summer since I did not get a pre-emergent weed control down. I will do that in September and next spring. I will also try this calcium producy called Mag-I-Cal. It's a better for of lime that we typically see. http://www.jonathangreen.com/index.cfm/category/2/ http://www.jonathangreen.com/index.cfm/product/2/45/ http://www.jonathangreen.com/index.cfm/category/1/ Like I've said my lawn is a work in progress and it make y\take a year or two to turn it around. I made good progress on my patio area for the hot tub. I need to get some help moving the hot tub now so I can excavate under the hot tub area. Once that is done, I can put down the weed barrier, edging, than stone. Hopefully by mid to late September this should be all done. After that it's just hook up the electrical and get that b**ch running for the late fall/ winter. I'm still getting copious amounts of tomatoes off my 2 plants. Another few weeks and they'll be done. A couple other projects I am working on for the fall are getting my raised planting bed set up for next spring, which I have located where I want it and just need to dig it out. Also I putting thoughts out there for a wildflower planting bed up the top of our driveway. Ambitious at this point but I wanted to get the thought out there to see what it looks like. I'm not sure the wife is all in for it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Anyone ever plant pumpkins and get squash? I had "Big Max" pumpkins last year and I harvested the seed from them. Then I planted the seed this year and I have only two fruit so far. One looks like a pumpkin and is growing decently. The other looks like some kind of big yellowish squash. Maybe I can eat the thing as a default. Lots of other flowers so maybe there will be some more , but very slow year for them this year with only that few week period of true heat and humidity. Just as they started to take off it got cool in August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Just ventured out to the garden and found this WMD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Another productive day in the yard. Dud ou the area for my raised planting bed and roses that I will relocate when I complete my deck expansion. Freakin' exhausted at this point with blisters all over my hands. I had to take some drastic action today. I broke down and bought some weed killer. Crabgrass and these little weeds that have a milky consistency when you break the stems have invaded my lawn. I really need to get CGM down as my next round of fertilizer. Hopefully prevent some of the seeds from sprouting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Weeding FTL.... The incessant rainfall into early July resulted in an ugly situation on a 300 ft long back driveway I have leading to the horse field. The crabgrass stuff just took over the median of the unpaved drive and in a few places even worse. So every few days I'm out there for an hour slowly pulling it out because it's just too much to get with weed killer. I'd go broke. I see the highway department's spray tons of stuff along killing weeds, but they must buy huge quantities in bulk. When I get it down to just the unpullable weeds, then I'll spray the stuff on it. Another productive day in the yard. Dud ou the area for my raised planting bed and roses that I will relocate when I complete my deck expansion. Freakin' exhausted at this point with blisters all over my hands. I had to take some drastic action today. I broke down and bought some weed killer. Crabgrass and these little weeds that have a milky consistency when you break the stems have invaded my lawn. I really need to get CGM down as my next round of fertilizer. Hopefully prevent some of the seeds from sprouting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Another productive day in the yard. Dud ou the area for my raised planting bed and roses that I will relocate when I complete my deck expansion. Freakin' exhausted at this point with blisters all over my hands. I had to take some drastic action today. I broke down and bought some weed killer. Crabgrass and these little weeds that have a milky consistency when you break the stems have invaded my lawn. I really need to get CGM down as my next round of fertilizer. Hopefully prevent some of the seeds from sprouting. I found out what the "other" weed infestation was. SPURGE! Little ****ers. Spotted variety it would appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Weeding FTL.... The incessant rainfall into early July resulted in an ugly situation on a 300 ft long back driveway I have leading to the horse field. The crabgrass stuff just took over the median of the unpaved drive and in a few places even worse. So every few days I'm out there for an hour slowly pulling it out because it's just too much to get with weed killer. I'd go broke. I see the highway department's spray tons of stuff along killing weeds, but they must buy huge quantities in bulk. When I get it down to just the unpullable weeds, then I'll spray the stuff on it. Yeah, I missed getting down the pre-emergent corn gluten meal in early spring to prevent this so I'm paying for it. Will do it in early september to stave off any further damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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