Member Garden's for 2010 Season(pics. & vids.)

We planted all the leftover spuds from last year a couple weeks ago, in hopes of another small harvest from them!---Our main problem here is BUGS!!! ---I have been digging a few early planted spuds at a time in between trying to fight bugs and weeds!----Flood waters hurt my crop really bad, but there will still be enough for us this winter!
SWEETCORN!!!----ready now! got 2 kinds and so far it is fairly decent.---I wasn't able to help pollinate it, ( I was down flat with my spine), but it still did about 90 percent during that hot part of the month!----NOW, to find homes for the stuff after I grew it!! thanks; sonny

P. S.---How are the rest of you guys doing with your gardens ?---Don't be shy,---Hop in and tell us whats up!---Thanks!
 
Got the rest of the spuds dug!---used the digger on the last 3 rows,---put a real tractor on the digger (IH 404) and dug them in no time,--didnt mess around with a cub on it this year!
404 and digger


Should have put this tractor on it long ago!

We have picked and shelled some of the cornfield beans, also a few of the black turtle soup beans,(they make good chilie but are a little tasteless by them selves
lack of rain right now, and the heat is burning the gardens up, so may not get much else from them.----cant water anything here!
The big cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen 1 crop and thats all---no big toms, they are still small and green.
Melons and squash did have some good looking fruit set, but vines are burning up for lack of rain, so I dont expect them to do much!---thats about it for this report!
How are you guys doing in your gardens??? thanks; sonny
 
Asparagus is long eaten, but getting a few tomatoes and the carrots are edible size (not as sweet as I like). Rabbits have taken to the brussel sprout leaves, I will plan some more anyway.

Very dry around here, what rain happens is in thunder storms and very localized. It will pour in places and a mile away nothing. City water is wicked expensive, so for the most part I let God do the watering.
 
Picking "Incredible" corn and it is very sweet. The Silver Queen is approaching 8 feet tall and the ears are growing. Peaches & Cream was a late planting with some seed given to me and that will be ready in a couple of weeks. Fortunately, my corn is only 100 feet away from my barn spigot and I was able to water all five 100 foot rows just in the nick of time with my soaker hose. The corn really took off after that.

Tomatoes are great- very healthy this year after losing them all last year to blight.

I have some huge butternut squash this year that love all the sun and the heat. last year we picked a few but they were terrible. Not enough heat and sun to ripen. What a difference a year makes. Again they need to be irrigated or the crop would fail. I don't think I have had an inch of rain since May and we had the hottest July in the last 105 years. Last year we did not have a single 90 degree day in July.

Blueberries were so-so but I did get enough for some great pies made my my mother. I didn't think we would get any after a hard freeze during a very early blossom.
 
Thanks for the reports, guys!---sounds like we all need some rain!---we get lightning and thunder overhead but never any rain from it!---weird to say the least!!!
Neck pumpkins

late planted sweet tato rows

Australian buttercup squash

Wilted neck pumpkin vines

Fred beans ready to pick and shell then can them

Muskmelon!!!---had it for supper!---first one !

Things dont look the greatest, but we struggle along with what we get! thanks; sonny
 
Here are some pics. of the plums that we been canning!
a couple big bowls of fresh picked plums



Some in my hand to show the size of the plums


These are a real rich plum flavor,--dont know what kind of tree it is since it was already here! thanks; sonny
 
Sonny did those purple pod peas come from Baker Creek? If not where did you get them from? Have some type of white pea i need to plant next year to save for seed. One of my childhood neighbors gave them to me. He was 85 when he past away. Said they had been saving the seed since he was was a child. Once I get some seed I would like to share some with people in a northern climate to see how they do. Make much bigger vines than a purple hull, take a little longer to mature, and will produce until frost. Wish I knew exactly what they were. He named them after his mother because he said that was what she always planted. Thanks
 
Bakers Creek has the pole type (I have grown them before too)purple pod beans,---ours are the bush type and came from Bountiful Gardens, and are sold under the name of Royalty Purple Pod beans.---I have seen them in other seed catalogs as well.---they have been around for a long time.(when cooked they turn green and cant tell them from regular green beans.)---I just planted them this year as part of our 16 different bean test!

We have a large red bean that a family has grown/saved seed from since the 1840's and dont have a clue what the name is,--so we call them FRED BEANS!(Iron arts real name) he sent them to Virginia a couple years ago---really good bean too!
We like to try the really old kinds and the no-namers since they are much better than todays varieties! thanks; sonny
 
Found me some zinc phosphide!!!! ---also found some dead VOLES after putting some out, so maybe I can get them thinned down before winter sets in! ---This stuff might actually work!---they claim its the only thing that they are attracted to in line of killer chems. ----Its hard to find but reasonable priced for the good it seems to be doing!---I noticed an immed. reduction in damage after I started putting the chem. into their holes, but gotta stay on the lookout for new comers now that the farmers are harvesting the fields and chasing the rodents over here into my gardens! thanks; sonny
 
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