2022 garden season

[Mht]

The gardens are going pretty good in spite of the lack of rain here in NC. I harvested my potatoes this past Saturday. I planted about 30 pounds of seed potatoes and harvested about 175 pounds. I had red pontiacs, kennebecs, and Yukon golds. The red pontiacs produced as much as the other two combined. I’ve been watering my tomatoes at least every other day. I picked a few last week and picked about a five gallon bucket full today. I ate my first blt of the summer today. My peas are looking decent but corn is going to be poor this season. We need rain very bad here

 

[Eugene]

Local farmers market prices: $2- a pound for tomatoes, green beans, and new potatoes.

It's been two years since we have had any vendors for garden produce. Prices are double from previous farmers markets.

 

[SONNY]

Onions about ready to harvest/process or dispose of somehow! gonna have WAY too many this year again.
Getting a bit of light rain here today, ---it will help a tad bit. Been dry all summer and I am not able to carry as much water as the garden needs. tomatoes are big bushes now, green golf ball size tomatoes set, first sweetcorn pollinated and growing. all of the potatoes look decent. carrots and beets are big enough to start on.
Weeds are the current problem!lol!

 

[Peter Person]

Been pulling yellow zucchini, zucchini, summer squash, and peppers out of the garden since the 1st of July. 3lbs of Kale from the early crop blanched and frozen, only 3 worms! Picked the 1st green beans on Thursday. Garlic is almost ready to harvest. Beets will be picked and pickled and shredded & frozen this week.
Still a week before tomatoes and cucumbers.

Added a little bling to the gate for Donna’s birthday.

 

[Don McCombs]

Been picking cukes for a week. First ripe tomato today. :{_}:
Finally getting some rain this evening. :wave:

 

[SamsFarm]

I picked my first ever garlic Saturday and a jumbo onion.

Replanted those spots with more onions.

Been real dry here for most of June amd July.

Raining now, supposedly through the night till afternoon on Monday

Ate the Onion today!

 

[Stanton]

The "chemo" garden was hit and miss.

The Contender green beans were as close to a failure as you can get. Most didn't sprout and come up. Been growing beans for years and never had that problem before. Won't be buying seed from the same place next year!

The white onions currently have medium-sized bulbs with greens that are about 3'-0" tall. Don't recall onions supposed to have that much "green", but they taste good.

Two heirloom varieties of tomatoes, purple and yellow, and the Roma tomatoes have a pretty good number of green 'maters on them. So, it'll be another week(?) before the blush and be ready to pick/eat.

Have a garlic plant my neighbor gave me, along with some I planted. It's doing well. Never grew garlic before. What's a good sign it's ready to pick?

Potatoes did well. Harvested 8 hills; 4 Pontiac red and 4 Kennebec. Been having fried potatoes! Also been using a recipe from Silver Dollar City for their "Calico Potatoes" (sweet and regular potatoes, onions, carrots, and hickory smoked sausage). Delicious!

 

[Eugene]

Have a garlic plant my neighbor gave me, along with some I planted. It's doing well. Never grew garlic before. What's a good sign it's ready to pick?

3 or 4 bottom leaves turn brown. Dug my garlic a couple weeks ago. Bulbs, hanging in old panty hose, are curing on front porch.

Starting to get dry. Haven't had a decent rain in weeks. Supposed to rain Saturday and all day Sunday - got 1/10". Going to acreage today, preping to start hauling water to pecans and apple trees planted last year.

 

[Peter Person]

The "chemo" garden was hit and miss.
The Contender green beans were as close to a failure as you can get. Most didn't sprout and come up. Been growing beans for years and never had that problem before. Won't be buying seed from the same place next year!...........

We have been using Agway's "Provider" green bean for 27 years now, and before that, my FIL used them for who knows how long. "Provider" is available from many other places as well as Agway.
Only time we've had problems is when we get too much rain after planting them, otherwise they never fail to produce...and multiple times during the season.

 

[SamsFarm]

I had to replant my green beans.

I think it was just too dry.

The replant was from the same seed, and is up and growing, so it was not a problem with the seed

 

[Stanton]

We have been using Agway's "Provider" green bean for 27 years now, and before that, my FIL used them for who knows how long. "Provider" is available from many other places as well as Agway.
Only time we've had problems is when we get too much rain after planting them, otherwise they never fail to produce...and multiple times during the season.

Good to know. Thanks, Peter.

In years past, I would alternate between Early Contender and Topcrop. Really good taste and quick maturity.

 

[Don McCombs]

First sweet corn of the season for dinner this evening. Unfortunately, not mine. Mine won’t be ready for another 2 or 3 weeks. This came from 50 miles East in the North Branch of the Potomac River valley. Picked this morning. I know, Ed. It was still good, though.

 

[Eugene]

Starting to get dry. Haven't had a decent rain in weeks.

Metal detecting this afternoon. Local clay soil has deep wide cracks. Hard as rocks. Moisture check at acreage, 2" down, powder dry. Soil, to hard to dig deeper.

All set up to start watering the pecans and apple trees planted last year. Drawing water from spring fed stream, then using the water pump to water the trees. 3 trips to the stream should put about 15 gallons water in the root zone of 7 existing trees. Hoping to get by with one watering a week.

 

[Peter Person]

This evenings picking, one row about 15’ long, 3lbs.

Blanched, bagged, and frozen.

 

[ScottyD'sdad]

First sweet corn of the season for dinner this evening. Unfortunately, not mine. Mine won’t be ready for another 2 or 3 weeks. This came from 50 miles East in the North Branch of the Potomac River valley. Picked this morning. I know, Ed. It was still good, though.

You can have your stale, "picked this morning", corn, mine will be ready this weekend. Some at a farmer's market was $15 per dozen, kind of pricey for stale corn!
Ed

 

[SamsFarm]

I once read of a guy who took his propane burner and pot of water into his sweet corn patch, got the water boiling, husked his ear of corn and cooked it while still attached to the stalk!

He wanted fresh!

 

[Don McCombs]

I guess you know Ed, then. :lol:

 

[ScottyD'sdad]

I once read of a guy who took his propane burner and pot of water into his sweet corn patch, got the water boiling, husked his ear of corn and cooked it while still attached to the stalk!

He wanted fresh!

A friend did that in my corn patch, a few years ago!
Ed

 

[SONNY]

Sweetcorn, greenbeans, turnips, etc. all done for this year. working on the onions right now. Had wind storm a couple days ago that messed up a lot of stuff, broke off fruit trees and knocked most all of the fruit off.

onions are good this year but everything needs rain here in a bad way. Not sure what the taters are going to make, test dug a couple places to get some for supper and they are not bad so far.
Cant find the sweet potatoes,---ground too hard/dry to dig deep enough with my fingers to see whats under the plants.
fourth planting of sweetcorn is knee high and might make something,---time will tell. gotta mow off the first planting now. the second and third plantings did NOT come up----not a single kernel sprouted,---same seed --same tractor and planter, (neighbor's 656 diesel and jd 7000 planter), and he had the same trouble on his side of the river too!

Wild year and getting wilder! LOL!!

 

[outdoors4evr]

Well there's some of that rain you were hoping for. Hopefully some of it made it to the ground before it evaporated.