2020 Victory Gardens

[Russ]

my flower hasnt bloomed yet   

oh our gardens doing ok, nothing amazing tho.

[Marc St Louis]

I have found that with certain types of garden crops, such as squash, it's best not to rely on insect fertilization for early crops.  I do it myself and because of that I have some spaghetti squash almost ready to harvest and been harvesting zucchini for a couple weeks now

[HH~]

Just pulled all my summer squash, crooked necks and green. In the compost pile now. Winter squash went in its place after a blast of compost and fert. Butternuts and acorns. Love butternut and chicken soup my wife makes in fall and winter months. Cant hardly beat some mashed garden butternut with butter and a nice Elk chop on the rare side with a side of red potatoes and asparagus.

Hedge~

[Marc St Louis]

Having a long growing season is certainly an advantage when growing a garden.  Here we don't have much more than 3 1/2~4 months before we start getting frosts

[DC]

These southern guys are picking tomatoes before we even take them out of the greenhouse

[Marc St Louis]

These southern guys are picking tomatoes before we even take them out of the greenhouse

It's just not fair  .  Of course on the plus side, we don't have to deal with the stifling heat they have 

[WhistlingBadger]

It's just not fair  .  Of course on the plus side, we don't have to deal with the stifling heat they have 

Agreed.  I'll take the northern, high altitude climate.  But I sure do wish I could grow tomatoes.  Or peaches.

[Hawkdancer]

Got some green tomatoes on one vine, and blossoms on another, putting some Anasazi beans in, hope to get a crop before the first frost, but will be able to cover the planters, if needed!  Might try to find a bush zucchini or late squash as well!  Hunting season is getting closer, too!
Hawkdancer

[Eric Krewson]

My Anasazi beans have been a disappointment, huge thick vines and very few beans. What beans I have picked were tough and very stringy.

[WhistlingBadger]

We have blossoms on our black beans!  We planted them the old way, in with the corn so they'd grow up the stalks.  The blossoms are bright purple.  Don't know if they'll make beans, but it sure is pretty having those splashes of color in among the corn.

Aren't anasazi beans more of a dry bean than a green bean?

[mullet]

I picked all of my green beans three months ago. Just picked the rest of the ghost peppers, tomatoes,Nampa cabbage, cucumbers, peaches and Barbados cherries. The garden is sitting dormant covered in saw dust growing worms for now waiting to plant okra and collard greens and broccoli. I have two tubs of purple sweet potatoes planted and waiting to pick muscadine grapes and pineapples along with figs.

[Marc St Louis]

Never tried the milkweed buds.  Guess I'll have to try them

[Hawkdancer]

We have blossoms on our black beans!  We planted them the old way, in with the corn so they'd grow up the stalks.  The blossoms are bright purple.  Don't know if they'll make beans, but it sure is pretty having those splashes of color in among the corn. 

Aren't anasazi beans more of a dry bean than a green bean?

WB, you are correct, they tend to be a high, dry climate bean from the Four Corners region.  There are several good articles on line about them.  They will survive a light frost, usually.  They do like a bit of water now and then for best results and when planted with corn and squash.  I think it is a bit too late for me to put in corn here, though.  I plan to use tomato cages as trellises.  Got to find a plant nursery in the area!
Hawkdancer

[WhistlingBadger]

I picked all of my green beans three months ago. Just picked the rest of the ghost peppers, tomatoes,Nampa cabbage, cucumbers, peaches and Barbados cherries. The garden is sitting dormant covered in saw dust growing worms for now waiting to plant okra and collard greens and broccoli. I have two tubs of purple sweet potatoes planted and waiting to pick muscadine grapes and pineapples along with figs.

Wow, Eddie, we live in different worlds!   

[WhistlingBadger]

Never tried the milkweed buds.  Guess I'll have to try them

My daughter would never forgive me--she wants it all for the monarch caterpillars!