June Food Growin' Mamas - Page 3

[AlwaysByMySide]

I'm in the middle of moving, so I'm just finally getting my DIY Earthboxes over to the new house. My zucchini plant is huge and I already have a 4-incher on there. Tomatoes have started growing, and I'm pulling off beans on a daily basis.

My blueberry and blackberry plants are doing a whole lot of nothing. I'm moving my peppers, watermelon, and another tomato and another zucchini plant into DIY Earthboxes some time this week, so we'll see how they do.

I went small this year, because I had an impending move, but I am hooked on the Earthbox concept, and will definitely be doing more of those next year. I'm going to build up a little wall with cinder blocks around the planters next year, because orange Home Depot buckets really aren't attractive, and a whole row of them REALLY isn't attractive either.

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Originally Posted by FarmerCathy

Yummy photos. Now, that is why you thin carrots. That's way cool. Nice looking blueberries. I can wait to have some blackberries.

Yes, blackberries are great! We have tons of wild ones that are super yummy, the ones in the photo are marion berries and they are delicious and HUGE!

[tjlucca]

To excited to stop!

I just keep tilling up more space. DD now wants to plant watermelon and cukes. I am thinking she would like strawberries too. Any tips to keep rabbits at bay? I have lots of leafy greens! Happy Growing Mamas!


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[Momma Laura]

Yay!! 11 tomatoes planted!!

DD also asked me to get a "grape plant" so we did. It's occupying a space in the tomato plot near the new fence.

Now we nurture and wait!

[maciascl]

I keep wanting to plant more, but I get discouraged because of all the problems I was having. Now everything but the half eaten cuc plant seem to be doing well & I feel confident to plant more now. I am in zone 9-11 Southern CA. Is it too late to plant more & if not what would you plant? We have green beans, grape tomato, heirloom tomato, red bell pepper, a dying cucumber that needs to be pulled out, yellow squash, cantaloupe, strawberries & a few herbs. I'd most likely do transplants into containers.

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by maciascl

I keep wanting to plant more, but I get discouraged because of all the problems I was having. Now everything but the half eaten cuc plant seem to be doing well & I feel confident to plant more now. I am in zone 9-11 Southern CA. Is it too late to plant more & if not what would you plant? We have green beans, grape tomato, heirloom tomato, red bell pepper, a dying cucumber that needs to be pulled out, yellow squash, cantaloupe, strawberries & a few herbs. I'd most likely do transplants into containers.

I don't think it's too late to plant pretty much anything in zone 9/10/11....depends on when your first frost is, of course...but here in zone 9 central valley ca it's not until mid November. That gives more than enough time for most summer crops to mature Just get any hot weather plants in the ground asap. You could also play it safe and plant some cold weather varities that take a long time to mature, like winter squash.

My garden is pretty happy. The new tomato plants are doing quite well, much to my satisfaction. Planted another basil plant since the first wasn't doing much...not sure if it will grow, seems like in my garden all I can do is keep the basil alive, not actually grow it. Planted some dill where my parsley seedlings got dug up by a cat (might have been one of my cats, not sure). Planted a cucumber plant for the THIRD TIME after the second one got ruined, also by a cat. My green grape tomato is finally staring to grow a bit...it was one of the organic plants I bought at Whole Foods...for some reason none of them have done very well. Still waiting for the carrots to germinate, but it's been less than a week. Radish looking oh-kay, bush beans are huge. Eggplant is looking kinda sad esp after one of my kids mauled it, not sure if I'm going to get anything out of that plant.

Planted some watermelon for the summer, and winter squash for late fall harvest (butternut and spaghetti). I also had a huge 10 gallon pot (at least) and planted corn in it. Who knows if that will grow but I'm interested to find out.

[Milkymommi]

Gosh... I planted a row of corn with 8 plants. I was so excited about it until the man down the street told me that it won't really grow due to it's need for cross pollination They seemed to be growing nicely but I ended up ripping them up to make room for other veggies that I was sure to have a better chance with. Do any of you ever have luck with corn?

So, I discovered what curly top virus was first hand. 3 grape tomatoes went bye bye this week. Curly top. Other look great though. The grape plants were in buckets away from my other plants.

lettuce is peeking through! Just transplanted my very beautiful squash plants that grew in very nicely. Waiting on carrots to make their debut.

What's up with Broc? My plants are seemingly large but have no actual broc on them.

[SamGroom]

Wow, sounds like everyone is getting a ton done. I love the photos, those carrots are too funny. FarmerCathy love your blog.

Now that my garden is in and I can sort of sit back a relax I want to make it a little bigger. I will have to decide by the weekend I think.

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by Milkymommi

Gosh... I planted a row of corn with 8 plants. I was so excited about it until the man down the street told me that it won't really grow due to it's need for cross pollination They seemed to be growing nicely but I ended up ripping them up to make room for other veggies that I was sure to have a better chance with. Do any of you ever have luck with corn?

So, I discovered what curly top virus was first hand. 3 grape tomatoes went bye bye this week. Curly top. Other look great though. The grape plants were in buckets away from my other plants.

lettuce is peeking through! Just transplanted my very beautiful squash plants that grew in very nicely. Waiting on carrots to make their debut.

What's up with Broc? My plants are seemingly large but have no actual broc on them.

Curly top virus is the worst. I lost six tomato plants to it, but they were already diseased when I got them :

Corn will grow fine you just can't have it in one straight row or you'll never get actual corn, just really long stalks. I have two rows of two growing in my pot, who knows if they will turn out. The seed packet says it needs four rows Lots of people grow it though so SOMEONE must be having luck with it.

Broccoli needs cold weather to develop the heads I think.

[hdeering]

Originally Posted by Milkymommi

Gosh... I planted a row of corn with 8 plants. I was so excited about it until the man down the street told me that it won't really grow due to it's need for cross pollination They seemed to be growing nicely but I ended up ripping them up to make room for other veggies that I was sure to have a better chance with. Do any of you ever have luck with corn?

So, I discovered what curly top virus was first hand. 3 grape tomatoes went bye bye this week. Curly top. Other look great though. The grape plants were in buckets away from my other plants.

lettuce is peeking through! Just transplanted my very beautiful squash plants that grew in very nicely. Waiting on carrots to make their debut.

What's up with Broc? My plants are seemingly large but have no actual broc on them.

What zone or area are you in? We're in 8a (north Louisiana) and our broccoli is ending it's time with us now. It's still going though. It takes quite a while for it to make the heads at the top of the plant. Go ahead and eat some broccoli leaves though. I suggest de-veining them and then cooking them in some butter or olive oil. We put them on pizza after that and it's awesome.

Good luck! If they go to seed (make yellow flowers and then it will turn to seeds) gather them and plant them in the fall if you're in a fairly warm area. They should grow all winter just fine.

[FarmerCathy]

Originally Posted by Milkymommi

Gosh... I planted a row of corn with 8 plants. I was so excited about it until the man down the street told me that it won't really grow due to it's need for cross pollination They seemed to be growing nicely but I ended up ripping them up to make room for other veggies that I was sure to have a better chance with. Do any of you ever have luck with corn?

Yes, been growing corn for 3 or 4 years. Likes lots of food and water and yes, four rows works best. I only have 3 rows this year because I ran out of seed. So we'll see how it goes. Pictures of it on my blog.

Originally Posted by SamGroom

Wow, sounds like everyone is getting a ton done. I love the photos, those carrots are too funny. FarmerCathy love your blog.

Now that my garden is in and I can sort of sit back a relax I want to make it a little bigger. I will have to decide by the weekend I think.

Thanks! Oh, what it must be like to relax.

[dillonandmarasmom]

I have baby honeydew!! I'm so excited!:

[SAHMinHawaii]

Originally Posted by dillonandmarasmom

I have baby honeydew!! I'm so excited!:

Congrats! I'm always happiest when I see baby melons.

[SAHMinHawaii]

My Garden June 6

I'm leaving on thursday for texas. I will be gone one week. I have someone watering for me. There won't be a ton of ripening during that time right? :

[naturemama1]

You people with your mature gardens and ripe tomatoes are making me jealous!

Our garden is just starting to take off -- the popcorn and cotton (our "just for fun" raised beds) are peeping up in tidy little rows; all the veggie seedlings seem to have transplanted just fine; and the strawberries are spreading out along the hillside.

We put in a ton of new long-term edibles this year (a bunch of fruit trees, some grape vines, thornless berries, rose bushes), so they're all still boring little twigs and sticks, LOL. But it's an investment, right?

I just love June in New England. It's like a lush, shimmering jewel.

[splendid]

Thought I would sneak in here.

I just harvested my first round of peas. I should get another round by next week. I'm using square foot boxes (we were supposed to be moving and I didn't want to dig up everything), I still have lettuce and broccoli for probably another week or 2. Then I think they are going to bolt.

Then I'm going to have empty spots. My dh suggested I try putting in some corn as an experiment but I think not, I don't think they would do very well. I'm in zone 7, so I might just clean up some of the boxes and wait and then plant my fall plants. I was thinking about adding some last minute tomato plants.

[Talula Fairie]

Originally Posted by SAHMinHawaii

My Garden June 6

I'm leaving on thursday for texas. I will be gone one week. I have someone watering for me. There won't be a ton of ripening during that time right? :

Man that garden is fantastic. I wish mine looked half as lush. Of course, I just planted it and I don't get full sun, so it may never look that good. One could hope, though.

[CarrieMF]

My garden was going good, right on track for June considering we plant in the middle of May.

It was hit by frost Sat & Sun night. I saw the 4-5 beans that were hit on Sunday, then last night dh said more was hit.

most of my potatoes that were up were hit, most of my beans were & some of my corn. We covered what we could.

If the corn gets hit more or doesn't come there isn't anything we can do for this year, our season is so short as it is.

The beans I can replant & it won't be a problem.

The potatoes still have so much to come up that it shouldn't be a problem.

I did see some of my cucs are finally coming up & it looks like they may have been hit too.

The onions & peas weren't hit at all. If the onions get hit we'll replant & they'll be fine. We can't cover the peas as I have my fences in.

This is our 11th year planting a garden. We've NEVER had to cover the garden until sept-oct.

We haven't had rain in almost a month, just 2-3 10minute sprinkles. We haven't had a GOOD rain at all yet. I did rain just outside of town last night, but not at our house. It looks like it'll rain just outside of town again but it won't hit here.

[loraxc]

Hey gardeners!

Here are my questions of the day:

Pickleworm caterpillars are getting into all my zucchini...anybody know an organic way to get rid of them?

Growing lima beans for the first time this years. The pods are huge but flat (don't seem to have beans in them). Is this a pollination issue or does it just take a while for the beans to develop?

Does anyone have any suggestions for keeping the %^&%*^%@@@!!! squirrels from eating my tomatoes???!!! :::

I had 3 cucumber plants and 2 died. The one I have left is doing well but not making any cukes. I lost the seed packet...should we assume it won't make cukes without a friend?

Finally, should I let my mystery squash take over my yard or not?? :PI don't know what it is, but man IT IS HUGE. I already have two other humongous Thai winter squash vines. I suspect mystery squash is a pumpkin. If I let it go we won't be able to mow the back, really (not like we ever do very much anyway). Hmmm...

[greeny]

I sauteed some chard from my garden for lunch today! : It was delish.

I'm just outside Chicago, so we generally don't startgetting veggies (tomatoes, peppers, beans, cukes) till later. So the chard is a nice addition this year. Something I can eat earlier!

Everything else is going good. I need to take pics. =)