was keeping this blog going through the heat of the summer. The tomatoes stopped producing flowers and we used an amazing amount of water to keep the garden growing. Eventually it did cool off enough for the tomatoes to start producing but we did end up with alot of green tomatoes to eat. Almost time to start seeds again. Spring is around the corner.
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Harvested my first tomatoes on July 24th. some nice yellow taxi tomatoes and a few red currant cherry tomatoes. Nothing like taking those healthy tomatoes, piling them on bacon and slathering them with mayo! YUM! Planted 2 types of pole beans on July 14th. They are a pole wax bean and an unknown pole green bean from seeds saved 2 years ago. Thats one of the best things about string beans. Buy seeds once and you never have to again. Just let some dry on the plants at the end of the year and harvest before the first frost and you have next years seeds. Ciao.  water! ........ water!  color coordinated string beans Too many 90 to 100 degree days this month. The jerusalem artichokes are looking a bit happier because we finally got a little rain. Still harvesting kale and now harvesting 2 types of string beans. Time flies. Been harvesting indian mustard, broccoli raab, kale and just yesterday yellow snow peas. Not quite as tasty as some of the peas I’ve grown in the past. Planted purple, dragon langerie and butterwax string beans in planters. Planted bok choy seeds and broccoli and cauliflower transplants in raised beds. I was given yellow squash seedlings and I planted them in a spare planter. Never had squash plants grow for me in the ground. I have at the moment 28 tomato plants planted in my 2 15 foot rows with about 8 more to go. Been real dry here on Long Island. My lawn already looks like it does in August. Been letting some of the radishes and raab go to seed to collect seeds for next year. Hope to blog more often as June goes by. Ciao! Wow! Surprised its been so long before there was something to write about. Lets see, first the failures. The old carrot seeds, bright lights chard and lettuce sown outside have not germinated. Not to worry, there’s plenty of seeds left to fill in. The okra and a couple of tomato seeds I saved from last year didn’t germinate indoors. On the plus side there are tomato seeds germinating in the raised beds from tomatoes that fell off the vine. I brought some of them indoors to fill in for some of the seeds which didn’t grow. Last year they were sun sugar cherry tomatoes and I’ll assume that is what they are this time. Peas are growing well. It’s interesting to note that radish seeds I used to mark the carrot rows planted on April 2nd have more harvestable radishes than the radish seeds planted March 8th. I’ll have to think about why that happened. I also transplanted some broccoli raab plants into the bed where the chard didn’t grow as it seems every raab seed germinated. Working on my new tomato beds and getting ready for May when there will be a new flurry of planting activity. Now if I could only get those squirrels to dig holes in a straight line…. Have you started your wolf peach seeds yet? You know lycopersicon esculentum. Oh all right I’m talking about tomatoes. The German name for tomato translates to edible wolf peach. Apparently back in Europe the tomato was associated with witches and werewolves and was also used to ward off evil spirits. Wish they would work on squirrels! I started mine on March 30th. Can’t believe there was a time when I would start my tomatoes in February and they would be ready to plant outside in April. That was way to stressful for me and the plants! Now I start my plants so they will be ready to go in the ground in May when the chances of a really bad cold snap is over. I’m starting 13 different types of tomatoes this year which is more than normal but I’m trying to use up those old seeds. They started germinating on April 4th. Go to my Tomato Page to see what varieties I’m growing this year. I noticed that Red Giant Indian Mustard plants have self sown and are growing in a planter I grew them in last year. They mature in about 30 days so they won’t tie up the planter for May planting and I can grow some thing else in the regular garden. Well off to the back 40, think some squirrels chewed thru some barbed wire……….. I know what you’re saying- not another April Fools Day blog. This time you’re wrong as it is harvest time for veg4table. Its time to harvest some of the vegetables that have overwintered. I actually discovered this by accident about 2 years ago when I didn’t harvest all of the kale I had growing at the end of the season. Much to my surprise most of the plants survived and started growing in the spring. Last years surprise was seeds from a sun sugar tomato that had fallen off the plant overwintered and started growing in the spring. I eventually grew 2 plants to maturity. This year I didn’t harvest a few cabbage and collard plants. They survived even thru all the snow or maybe because of the snow. The 2 problems with overwintering are- the plants bolt very early{the collards are doing that already} and they clog up your beds for early spring planting. This year I will try to find a space out of the main gardens to dedicate a bed for kale to overwinter. Won’t it be nice to have something out of the garden even before the radish seeds germinate? You can find out whats growing by visiting my seed page on the blog or at veg4table.com. See ya on the back 40! Well it’s raining and it’s cold but that’s not why you haven’t heard from me. It’s because setting up this blog and website is taking up most of my time. Much harder then gardening. Boy if you can write code you can grow some veggies! I now have a table that will keep track of all the seeds I’m growing. It’s the SEED PAGE and there are 2 links to it on the blog page and it will soon be on the veg4table website. Beside reading about what’s going on you can go to that page to get an overview of what’s growing or not. At the moment radish and peas are planted with some radishes poking their heads out of the ground. So grab the raincoat and boots to go with the trowel and I’ll see you on the back forty! Greetings March is coming to a close and there’s alot to do. First may I suggest you check the about me page and my website veg4table.com to get the low down on what I’m trying to accomplish with this blog and website. Now lets get to the garden and don’t forget to bring your trowel! The vegetable garden will be in 2 sections. One is a section containing 4 raised beds measuring 4ft x 2ft on a north/south axis. For an easy way to make raised bed frames go to my projects page. The other section is 17ft x 12ft on an east/west axis. This bed has a 15ft pea fence. It will also allow me to have two 15ft rows of tomatoes and it will be the home for various size planters. More on the planters when I get to planting them. Off to the garden I go…….. |
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