Garden sucess

[tikkalover]

Our garden is 16' X 16'. In it we had, 5 tomato plants, 17 hills of potatoes, 3 bell pepper plants, 3 jalapeno plants, and 4 cucumber hills. We got 15 gallons of potatoes, around 24 bell peppers, 4 lbs. chopped up jalapenos, around 200-250 cucumbers, 40 pints of salsa, 20 pints of canned tomato's, gave away, and ate, a butt load of tomatoes, and still have 1.5 gallons of green tomatoes in the basement. I would consider our gardening year a success!! :;:rockit How did your garden fair this year?

 

[KDM]

Got hailed out 3 months ago. Ended up with 2 pumpkins, some corn, a few melons, and a couple squash. Not a total fail, but darn close.

 

[Account Deleted]

Good haul Tikka. Didn't put a garden in this year on account of my wife being pregnant at the time and me on the road constantly. Had a great year from my fruit trees though. Probably 50 gallons of apples plus a good take of chokecherries and wild plumbs. Can't complain.

 

[dean nelson]

How many tomatoes fit in one's butt?

 

[Traxion]

No problem growing tomatoes this year. Garlic was early and small but good. Onion crop was OK as well, need softer soil! Carrots were good. Peppers were a miserable failure for some reason. Herbs did well, parsley was great this year. Cilantro was good early and late. Basil went nuts as well. I'm mostly happy for a 2nd year gardener.

Have a good amount of salsa made, going to make marinara this weekend. Lots of green tomatoes yet too.

 

[lunkerslayer]

Had another bumper of peppers especially with my new drip system

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[tikkalover]

Nice!! Lunker what kind of peppers are those in the top picture? If you want to soften your soil put gypsum in your garden. Over the years I have probably put 200 to 300 lbs. in my garden, and its pretty soft. I would put a 100 lbs. at a time on it, and rototill it in. This fall I'm just going to turn it over with my potato fork.

 

[lunkerslayer]

PEPPER - HOT BASKET OF FIRE are quite Pungent measuring 80,000shu ( Scoville heat units) which is a little less than a habanero type. The unique habit of Basket of Fire makes it a superb choice for hanging baskets as well as pots and containers.
I put peat in my garden as well as grass clippings to keep the soil from drying out to a crust.

 

[Putz ND]

Pumpkins went crazy! Took most of the year off from gardening because we were landscaping this spring. I hope to hit it hard again next year.

 

[lunkerslayer]

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[Kurtr]

Mine was good till hail wiped it out. Pumpkins and beans came back. My enclosure protected the strawberries. Next year I am going crazy on strawberries they were so good

 

[LBrandt]

Gave away enough tomatoes to meet the canning supply of three family's . Wife and I froze 85 bags of sweet corn, froze 80 green bell peppers, gave away over 200 green bell peppers. Had about 60 cantaloupe mature and about 25 water melon mature also. Countless cukes, onions and potatoes, green beans buy the five gallon buckets, little cherry tomatoes by the ice cream bucket. Had fresh potatoes from early Aug. Still have about 30 hills to dig for winter supply along with white onions the size of softballs. Got 3 five gallon buckets of yellow onions hanging in mesh bags in basement. Got fall carrots to dig yet and got a killer frost a few days ago so can see all the winter squash that have to be picked, there is just too damed many squash, don't have that many friends, and I don't raise z squash cause if I cant spell it I not eating it. I got sick and tired of picking cukes because of all the dam skitters, now after the frost I see pickup load of big ones to use as target practice. Kinda fun to watch them explode. WE did make a few runs this summer, filling our Ranger pickup up with fresh veggies and hitting the assisted living centers. People ask why we don't sell stuff and I tell them that selling don't make US feel good. All in all it was a real good year. Happy digs to you all next year.

 

[lunkerslayer]

I am in the same state of mind when it comes to giving away or selling for a buck. I give away what I don't need which is probably a good half of what I may use. Since i have my vacuum sealer now which really makes it great to give away a melody of veggies to friends and family members as well as vacuum fresh slough sharks. Now I need to buy a bigger freezer!!!

 

[svnmag]

How many tomatoes fit in one's butt?

 

[ItemB]

Good production from the garden this. The apple trees really produced apples though this year. Heard an old time tale of when the fruit trees have good production it is going to be a bad winter

 

[Auggie]

Nice!! Lunker what kind of peppers are those in the top picture? If you want to soften your soil put gypsum in your garden. Over the years I have probably put 200 to 300 lbs. in my garden, and its pretty soft. I would put a 100 lbs. at a time on it, and rototill it in. This fall I'm just going to turn it over with my potato fork.

I'd switch to compost. It'll mellow your soil out just as good, improve water infiltration, flocculation, provide nutrients, and more. Gypsum is one of the salts that can turn soil white and lower productivity.

 

[tikkalover]

If you use grass clippings in your garden, make sure you don't spray your weeds in your lawn up to a month before you use the clippings. ;:;badidea The chemical residue on the grass will not be very friendly to your garden plants.

 

[svnmag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqI2HHDKCCc

 

[Lycanthrope]

Had another bumper of peppers especially with my new drip system

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didnt do much this year, but broccoli got giant and I just harvested a mess of potatoes!
Looks good lunk! My peppers

 

[Lycanthrope]

Yukon gold taters, got another couple gallons of ones I speared while digging them up that will need to be used soon...