Is your veggie garden producing yet?

TDH · 06-16-2009, 06:46 AM

Today between showers (anybody else entirely SICK of these CLOUDS??

) I plan to go pick some broccoli and kohlrabi.... Mmm.....we love kohlrabi!

I planted strawberries 6 weeks ago, and ate my first one of those the other day.

I'm surprised I have anything at all ready, what with the lack of sun we've had the last while again. Anyone else enjoying fresh garden pickings?

corporate cowgirl · 06-16-2009, 07:34 AM

Lucky you! Strawberries--yum!

I planted my garden really late this year--I'll be lucky to have veggies by fall. We've been super dry here--I've been watering like crazy. Can you believe the difference a few hundred miles makes precipitation-wise?

pippy · 06-16-2009, 08:06 AM

ha ha ha...what garden? I planted 4 tomato plants, 1 broccoli plant, zuchini, cucumbers, rhubarb plant and different peppers...birds or something ate the tomato plants to the nubbins..zuchini's dried up (not enough rain, and hubby nicked the water pipe going over there w/ the post hole digger so there was no water for about 2 wks in that area till we fixed it and I just couldn't seem to water it enough, though I hefted buckets to it) The peppers & rhubarb are there but not growing...I fertilized but they just aren't taking off...also probably lack of water?

I give up...

royaldakotabreez · 06-16-2009, 09:34 AM

The BF planted some potatoes out at his old farm, and said they're growing like crazy! he took a couple old potatoes from the bag i wasn't using and planted them by the house, but i had him move them over by the garage...so we'll have potatoes soon!

SheriK · 06-16-2009, 09:41 AM

Hasn't the weather been really cruddy so far this "spring/summer"? Cold, cloudy and rainy. Not good crop or garden weather. I cut some lettuce last night for a salad and pulled a couple of onions to put in it too. We had radishes earlier and I just pulled the last of them last week. I have little baby green tomatoes and some jalepenos coming on, but that is about it. Taters are bloomed out and so are the zuchinnis.

The guys mowed hay last Thursday to bale on Sunday and then we got a huge rainstorm Friday night so all our profit on the small squares we were selling washed away with the rain

Major bummer! The second cutting hopefully works out better. It was the prettiest stand of alfalfa/grass too.

horsemom4 · 06-16-2009, 01:50 PM

I don't have a veggie garden, but I know my dad has been picking brocoli in his garden.

TDH · 06-16-2009, 02:38 PM

SheriK, I'm thoroughly sick of this weather. I'm really sorry about your stand of hay, that's enough to make you sick isn't it?? We got lucky and sqeezed ours in 3 weeks ago, got a beautiful stand put up. Thank God we did it then, because nothing but rain off and on since.

I'm SO ready for some SUN. I think that's why my pepper plants haven't done much of anything since I planted them, they must like hot weather. Everything else is looking good.... well, mostly, except the beans which are spotty -- I believe due to operator error.

Think I planted the seeds too deep.

Mmmm..... the kohlrabi was YUMMY for dinner at noon!

version1955 · 06-16-2009, 06:38 PM

I planted grass seed.
Watered it but it didn't come up
Phooey
Our hayfields are going to seed and its barely 8 inches tall. This is not good. I suppose our hay will be pretty low quality come fall.
Poopy

Orchid · 06-17-2009, 01:01 PM

This has been the crappiest year for grass hay I've ever seen.

Ours is going to be pretty sad stuff, I fear.

No veggies from our garden yet, TDH, although my broccoli plants are loving this weather! Nothing much else is, though. Except my dad's brussels sprouts. Yuck.

Joker · 06-17-2009, 02:17 PM

What Garden ?? Got 2 rows of sweet corn planted and 1 tomato plant and I think that died the corn is only 1-2 inches hi. still have to plant or is it too late?? have peas and carrots and pumkins to plant. Got a small feild of 1st crop in round bales ( it got rained on once ) and 20 + acers to go we will be baleing all summer if the weather doesn't co-operate and quality I'm sure is low. Ive heard farmers are not getting as much off either .

beth55051 · 06-17-2009, 02:24 PM

Garden? I gave up on that a couple years ago.

Instead I have wild rhubarb, wild horseradish and other various herbs growing wherever they may. I do have a couple of raspberry bushes that seem to be doing quite well in one of my flower beds. And a big patch of wild strawberries growing next to my lilac bush.

Hay down here looked really nice for those who had time to cure it out properly before the rain came. Those who didn't make it either have damp hay or it's still sitting in the fields. I'm just glad our neighbor still has 100+ big bales from last year left over. He said even being a year old they're better quality than what he just baled up.

sarahv · 06-17-2009, 10:21 PM

I do flowers only, I tried 2 years in a row to do veggies, but they need to be watered so much when it is dry and then the weeding! Yuck, no one wanted to weed or water, so I quit wasting my money. My flowers are coming up nicely again though!

version1955 · 06-18-2009, 05:33 PM

When I did garden I'd mulch the heck out of it and it not only helped a lot with the weeding, but held moisture in the soil and let you walk out there after a rain.

TDH · 06-24-2009, 07:45 AM

Yesterday I got some dinner-sized broccoli heads out of the garden, turned into three and a half gallon-size freezer bags full. And some MONSTER kohlrabi. The kohlrabi is usually half this size, most years if you let them get any where near this size they get woody and have a hollow spot in the middle. What with all the rain - maybe 2" a week for sure - they've been growing like gangbusters too! That's a 11x13 pan they're setting in.

SheriK · 06-24-2009, 08:29 AM

Holy cow look at how pretty your veggies are. I went out to the garden this morning in my muck books

to check on mine. With all that wind last night I was pretty worried stuff would have been blown to kindgom come. The hot humid weather has quadrupled the size of my cucumbers in a couple of days. I was amazed. Unfortunately the weeds have come on gangbusters again too. Parts of the fence blew over so I had to put that back up this morning.

version1955 · 06-26-2009, 04:52 PM

Oooh, nice ones, Teedle-dee, very nice

Applejack · 06-26-2009, 04:57 PM

Nice veggies, TDH! Mine are still a long ways away. My peas and carrots have barely popped out of the dirt. My peppers are doing well, but I started those indoors.

You got strawberries this year? I always thought they didn't produce their first year? I don't have enough room for them at my house, but we have a really nice pick your own farm not too far away. I'll be going there this weekend!

TDH · 06-28-2009, 08:06 PM

I was very surprised too, to have strawberries already; they're still blooming. Mom gave me a flat of them, and supposedly they are double-producers; they produce twice in a season.

I suppose as long as I make sure they're watered regularly, we shall see if I get a second crop. As it is, only a few at a time are getting ripe right now.... and it's a fight between the boys and I and the birds, as to who gets to them first.

I think there's a strawberry farm around here too, I'll have to do a little asking around. I'd love to get a gallon or two, and make some fresh strawberry-rhubarb jam. Mmm....

hezzer · 06-30-2009, 08:31 AM

My garden is pathetic! My poor beans only came up with little stalks, no leaf, something keeps eating them. My potatoes are just coming through the ground, and our corn is maybe 4 inches tall, so that probably won't amount to much. I planted pumpkins and watermelons in the manure piles, and the pumpkins have come up but no watermelon. Even my flower gardens are bad this year. Just a strange year all around. But there should be lots of wild berries this year, hoping to pick a bunch of blueberries and raspberries!

version1955 · 07-01-2009, 05:46 PM

My grass is finally coming up

We also have a nice crop of hoary alyssum and gum weed.

06-16-2009, 06:46 AM
TDH Seasoned Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 4,293	Is your veggie garden producing yet? Today between showers (anybody else entirely SICK of these CLOUDS?? ) I plan to go pick some broccoli and kohlrabi.... Mmm.....we love kohlrabi! I planted strawberries 6 weeks ago, and ate my first one of those the other day. I'm surprised I have anything at all ready, what with the lack of sun we've had the last while again. Anyone else enjoying fresh garden pickings? __________________ *If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.*

06-16-2009, 07:34 AM
corporate cowgirl Long Yearling Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,105	Lucky you! Strawberries--yum! I planted my garden really late this year--I'll be lucky to have veggies by fall. We've been super dry here--I've been watering like crazy. Can you believe the difference a few hundred miles makes precipitation-wise? __________________

06-16-2009, 08:06 AM
pippy Started Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: minnesota Posts: 2,466	ha ha ha...what garden? I planted 4 tomato plants, 1 broccoli plant, zuchini, cucumbers, rhubarb plant and different peppers...birds or something ate the tomato plants to the nubbins..zuchini's dried up (not enough rain, and hubby nicked the water pipe going over there w/ the post hole digger so there was no water for about 2 wks in that area till we fixed it and I just couldn't seem to water it enough, though I hefted buckets to it) The peppers & rhubarb are there but not growing...I fertilized but they just aren't taking off...also probably lack of water? I give up... __________________ "It's never to late to live happily ever after."

06-16-2009, 09:34 AM
royaldakotabreez Yearling Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: S. Dak Posts: 705	The BF planted some potatoes out at his old farm, and said they're growing like crazy! he took a couple old potatoes from the bag i wasn't using and planted them by the house, but i had him move them over by the garage...so we'll have potatoes soon! __________________ Proud owner of Short Go Playboy aka Axelhttp://www.allbreedpedigree.com/short+go+playboy

06-16-2009, 09:41 AM
SheriK Long Yearling Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Iowa City, IA Posts: 1,437	Hasn't the weather been really cruddy so far this "spring/summer"? Cold, cloudy and rainy. Not good crop or garden weather. I cut some lettuce last night for a salad and pulled a couple of onions to put in it too. We had radishes earlier and I just pulled the last of them last week. I have little baby green tomatoes and some jalepenos coming on, but that is about it. Taters are bloomed out and so are the zuchinnis. The guys mowed hay last Thursday to bale on Sunday and then we got a huge rainstorm Friday night so all our profit on the small squares we were selling washed away with the rain Major bummer! The second cutting hopefully works out better. It was the prettiest stand of alfalfa/grass too.

06-16-2009, 01:50 PM
horsemom4 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Southern Minnesota Posts: 821	I don't have a veggie garden, but I know my dad has been picking brocoli in his garden. __________________ Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all. ~Monica Dickens

06-16-2009, 02:38 PM
TDH Seasoned Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 4,293	SheriK, I'm thoroughly sick of this weather. I'm really sorry about your stand of hay, that's enough to make you sick isn't it?? We got lucky and sqeezed ours in 3 weeks ago, got a beautiful stand put up. Thank God we did it then, because nothing but rain off and on since. I'm SO ready for some SUN. I think that's why my pepper plants haven't done much of anything since I planted them, they must like hot weather. Everything else is looking good.... well, mostly, except the beans which are spotty -- I believe due to operator error. Think I planted the seeds too deep. Mmmm..... the kohlrabi was YUMMY for dinner at noon! __________________ *If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.*

06-16-2009, 06:38 PM
version1955 Bombproof Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: northern MN Posts: 9,144	I planted grass seed. Watered it but it didn't come up Phooey Our hayfields are going to seed and its barely 8 inches tall. This is not good. I suppose our hay will be pretty low quality come fall. Poopy __________________ God gave us the drive to quit as a gift

06-17-2009, 01:01 PM
Orchid Bombproof Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 11,076	This has been the crappiest year for grass hay I've ever seen. Ours is going to be pretty sad stuff, I fear. No veggies from our garden yet, TDH, although my broccoli plants are loving this weather! Nothing much else is, though. Except my dad's brussels sprouts. Yuck. __________________ Careful what you wish; Careful what you say; Careful what you wish; You may regret it; Careful what you wish; You just might get it. ~ Metallica, King Nothing

06-17-2009, 02:17 PM
Joker Weanling Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 348	What Garden ?? Got 2 rows of sweet corn planted and 1 tomato plant and I think that died the corn is only 1-2 inches hi. still have to plant or is it too late?? have peas and carrots and pumkins to plant. Got a small feild of 1st crop in round bales ( it got rained on once ) and 20 + acers to go we will be baleing all summer if the weather doesn't co-operate and quality I'm sure is low. Ive heard farmers are not getting as much off either .

06-17-2009, 02:24 PM
beth55051 Bombproof Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: East Central Minnesota Posts: 8,058	Garden? I gave up on that a couple years ago. Instead I have wild rhubarb, wild horseradish and other various herbs growing wherever they may. I do have a couple of raspberry bushes that seem to be doing quite well in one of my flower beds. And a big patch of wild strawberries growing next to my lilac bush. Hay down here looked really nice for those who had time to cure it out properly before the rain came. Those who didn't make it either have damp hay or it's still sitting in the fields. I'm just glad our neighbor still has 100+ big bales from last year left over. He said even being a year old they're better quality than what he just baled up. __________________ *If at the end of the day, all you have left is your integrity and honor. Then hold your head up, because that's more than most have.*

06-17-2009, 10:21 PM
sarahv Weanling Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Minnesota Posts: 340	I do flowers only, I tried 2 years in a row to do veggies, but they need to be watered so much when it is dry and then the weeding! Yuck, no one wanted to weed or water, so I quit wasting my money. My flowers are coming up nicely again though!

06-18-2009, 05:33 PM
version1955 Bombproof Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: northern MN Posts: 9,144	When I did garden I'd mulch the heck out of it and it not only helped a lot with the weeding, but held moisture in the soil and let you walk out there after a rain. __________________ God gave us the drive to quit as a gift

06-24-2009, 07:45 AM
TDH Seasoned Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 4,293	Yesterday I got some dinner-sized broccoli heads out of the garden, turned into three and a half gallon-size freezer bags full. And some MONSTER kohlrabi. The kohlrabi is usually half this size, most years if you let them get any where near this size they get woody and have a hollow spot in the middle. What with all the rain - maybe 2" a week for sure - they've been growing like gangbusters too! That's a 11x13 pan they're setting in. __________________ *If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.*

06-24-2009, 08:29 AM
SheriK Long Yearling Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Iowa City, IA Posts: 1,437	Holy cow look at how pretty your veggies are. I went out to the garden this morning in my muck books to check on mine. With all that wind last night I was pretty worried stuff would have been blown to kindgom come. The hot humid weather has quadrupled the size of my cucumbers in a couple of days. I was amazed. Unfortunately the weeds have come on gangbusters again too. Parts of the fence blew over so I had to put that back up this morning.

06-26-2009, 04:52 PM
version1955 Bombproof Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: northern MN Posts: 9,144	Oooh, nice ones, Teedle-dee, very nice __________________ God gave us the drive to quit as a gift

06-26-2009, 04:57 PM
Applejack Coming two Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,775	Nice veggies, TDH! Mine are still a long ways away. My peas and carrots have barely popped out of the dirt. My peppers are doing well, but I started those indoors. You got strawberries this year? I always thought they didn't produce their first year? I don't have enough room for them at my house, but we have a really nice pick your own farm not too far away. I'll be going there this weekend! __________________ Be nice.

06-28-2009, 08:06 PM
TDH Seasoned Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 4,293	I was very surprised too, to have strawberries already; they're still blooming. Mom gave me a flat of them, and supposedly they are double-producers; they produce twice in a season. I suppose as long as I make sure they're watered regularly, we shall see if I get a second crop. As it is, only a few at a time are getting ripe right now.... and it's a fight between the boys and I and the birds, as to who gets to them first. I think there's a strawberry farm around here too, I'll have to do a little asking around. I'd love to get a gallon or two, and make some fresh strawberry-rhubarb jam. Mmm.... __________________ *If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.*

06-30-2009, 08:31 AM
hezzer Long Yearling Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: northern Minnesota Posts: 1,481	My garden is pathetic! My poor beans only came up with little stalks, no leaf, something keeps eating them. My potatoes are just coming through the ground, and our corn is maybe 4 inches tall, so that probably won't amount to much. I planted pumpkins and watermelons in the manure piles, and the pumpkins have come up but no watermelon. Even my flower gardens are bad this year. Just a strange year all around. But there should be lots of wild berries this year, hoping to pick a bunch of blueberries and raspberries! __________________ *When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself!* *Presence is more than just being there!*

07-01-2009, 05:46 PM
version1955 Bombproof Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: northern MN Posts: 9,144	My grass is finally coming up We also have a nice crop of hoary alyssum and gum weed. __________________ God gave us the drive to quit as a gift