OBIO
July 25th, 2010, 15:01
Just wondering how other people's veggie gardens are doing.
Our tomato plants are so heavy with maters that I have had to add more stakes and a lot more ties to hold them up and to keep all the maters up off the ground. Have had 4 ripe tomatoes from the garden so far....another week to a week and a half and we will have maters ripening like crazy. Good thing we bought that small chest freezer a couple months ago...going to freeze a lot of maters. And the landlord will have more tomatoes than he will care to eat...so we will get a lot of maters from him as well. Deb's patio tomatoes are doing very well and will have a dozen ready for picking in a couple days with lots more to ripen.
Our pepper plants....not so good. Not a single green bell pepper and only a handful of yellow banana peppers. Now the landlord's peppers are bumper cropped like crazy..so many peppers that the weight of them has pulled the plants over.
Our Egg Plants never came up.
Cucumber plants..only 3 made it...they are just now getting blooms. We might get 12 to 18 cukes out of the 3 plants.
Bird House Gourds.....they are doing wonderfully. Some of the gourds are over a foot long already. The 4 plants will yield close to 100 gourds. Can't eat them....but once they dry and cure, we will decorate them and sell them to local nurseries and plant stores. Takes a year for them to be fully dried and cured.
OBIO
Our tomato plants are so heavy with maters that I have had to add more stakes and a lot more ties to hold them up and to keep all the maters up off the ground. Have had 4 ripe tomatoes from the garden so far....another week to a week and a half and we will have maters ripening like crazy. Good thing we bought that small chest freezer a couple months ago...going to freeze a lot of maters. And the landlord will have more tomatoes than he will care to eat...so we will get a lot of maters from him as well. Deb's patio tomatoes are doing very well and will have a dozen ready for picking in a couple days with lots more to ripen.
Our pepper plants....not so good. Not a single green bell pepper and only a handful of yellow banana peppers. Now the landlord's peppers are bumper cropped like crazy..so many peppers that the weight of them has pulled the plants over.
Our Egg Plants never came up.
Cucumber plants..only 3 made it...they are just now getting blooms. We might get 12 to 18 cukes out of the 3 plants.
Bird House Gourds.....they are doing wonderfully. Some of the gourds are over a foot long already. The 4 plants will yield close to 100 gourds. Can't eat them....but once they dry and cure, we will decorate them and sell them to local nurseries and plant stores. Takes a year for them to be fully dried and cured.
OBIO