How are your gardens doing this year?

I planted lots of sweet corn and it has taken off. Tomatoes and peppers too. Lots of rain so far this year but fortunately this soil drains well. Blackberries might be a bumper crop this year.

This is my patch after I picked a gallon. My Garden looks great so far, plants are liking all this heat and rain.

not to be THAT guy....but those are raspberries


ive got green tomatoes and my greenbeans are about three inches or longer and starting to fill out. peas blooming like crazy. gonna have pickles galore from the looks.

last I checked my sweet corn was hit n miss...its 8 miles down the road

Trapper, yes black raspberries they are, but they are better than blackberries. Very sweet this year and made an awesome cobbler. I also made muffins with them and they turned out really good.

My tomatoes beans and zucchini are doing great. My corn isn't doing the greatest I have never had luck with corn.

My tomatoes, beans, cabbage, broccoli, onions, and pickles look great too. Hope the crop turns out as good as the plants.

We might have to agree to disagree on that =)

I love both but blackberries are my favorite!

To me blackberries have more flavor. The seeds are bigger though. They're just starting to get ripe here. Should be a banner year, with all this rain.

Pickin beans today, and more raspberries....bumper crop this year

Too much rain up here, got another 3" yesterday. We've had about 12" of rain in the last two weeks. Most of my garden plants show stress of getting too much water. Its not been the best year for gardening so far. h.h.

Our first bean pickin:

Bean, you're way ahead of me. My beans are about 1" long. Probly be another week to ten days for me.

With all this rain my garden is showing water stress bad I'm afraid I'm fighting a loosing battle at this point.

buried in beans. third picking this afternoon

Same here HH. my plot has great drainage, but the ground is so saturated my plants can't take it. Scoping the farmers markets pretty close this year so I can at least put up some veggies.

picked another half bushel of beans this morning. my peas have been blooming like crazy for at least three weeks...but no pea pods???

First planting of peas, mustard, and cabbage are finished. Picking cukes, squash, zucchini, some cherry tomatoes and various peppers everyday. Beans are showing signs of too much water. Planted sweet potatoes in containers again this year and they are going crazy.

Pollen is not reaching the female parts of the flower. Peas are self-pollinating...try gently shaking plants during blossom period will aide the distribution of pollen.

Picked first batch of beans today, they got ready quicker than I thought. Got a few grape tomatoes turning red everything else is still green. Already picked a couple heads of cabbage and my flathead Dutch cabbage will be ready soon, they are HUGE...looks like I'll be making some sauerkraut again. First time I've planted the big cabbage and made kraut for a few years. Hoping it turns out. Jalapeños will be ready before long too...love to make homemade salsa.

Was wondering hows every one's garden is doing ?
Ours has been slow coming on, didn't really start do much till the rain slowed down.
It has been slow going with the canning getting about a dozen quarts of tomatoes at a time and only a dozen pints of salsa.
Finished up with about 30 quarts of corn in the freezer.
Thankful for what we have received so far just would like to have a little more to get through the winter.

I picked 2 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes today for canning. Corn didnt do much due to me not hitting it with high nitrogen fertilizer. Beets and beans did good too. I had lot of cucumbers and cukes. Next year Im not planting much garden. h.h.

Corn is done for the year. I sold about 100 doz ears for sweet corn this summer.

I froze a ton for us too. Still getting lots of grape tomatoes and plenty of blackberries too.

HH were getting about a lucky buck bucket of tomatoes about every 4 days, just not doing good. usually our tomatoes do very well. But after the strong storms around July 4th it just messed them up.

Good looking corn there Justin, Ours did very well I just didn't plant as much as last year.

We still have some time left, it will just be slow going. Its starting to get very dry here tho.

We have been done w/ greenbeans for a while. Had a bunch of cucumbers and tomatoes. Wifey made/is making a ton of salsa and pasta sauce. cantaloupe is ready now and watermelon soon.

All in all, our garden was pretty good. Of course with 100,000 honeybees beside the garden, that helped.

Bean I think thats what happened, the very heavy rain 2 to 3 days at a time a couple times a week just kept the pollin from doing its job.
The tomatoes seem to be coming on better, still plenty of time. Picked the last tomatoe last year Nov 3, so if the frost holds off we'll be good

I got 10 quarts of pickles done, 6 quarts of spaghetti sauce and about half a freezer full of whole tomatoes ready to can when I find the time. Still picking plenty a couple times a week for the table.

On round 3 of lettuce, still eating tons of kale and zukes are coming on from a late planting.

I have eaten about a million raspberries and still picking a pint a day.

40 pounds of pears too this year. I freeze them and use for smoothies along with surplus raspberries.

I even have a volunteer pumpkin in the compost pile.

I got about 100 habaneros and twice that many chili peppers. Made some awesome sauce with smoked peppers, tomatoes and carrots.

Got some beans and broccoli in there too. Overall a good year.

Persimmons are next for me. Did 406 bags of pulp last year there appear to be more this year.

Well after long look at the garden I beleive that its to far gone to put any more effort into it.
So I mowed it down, I do have a couple of plant that are good for sandwiches but thats it.
Good Lord willing there will be next year.

My garden was the worst ever due to heavy rains and flooding in Indy. I canned 7 quarts of beans and had to buy Tomato's to get 14 quarts.

Will try again next year......

Now!!! we planted Tomatillo's 2 plants this year and have made the BEST Salsa or Verde salsa for mexican dishes ever. 2 plants have made 10 pints with another 10 pints to make next week.

Those Tomatillo's do make good salsa, we also bought tomato's wed at the Plainfield farmers market to can. That is a first for me ever, usally I can can grow a pretty good variety and amount of tomato's.
Finally just cut our garden down, going to get it tilled under for winter and start over next year.

End of Sept. I will be sowing winter wheat on the garden to get ready for next year.

Parrot.... What are the benifits of this? I have never planted any thing. I usally never even turn it under till spring to give the birds something to pick through.

Look on line they call it "green fertilizer". The roots open up the soil too. IT is very easy to plant I just till and broadcast spread it and that's it. Thay stuff will grow anywhere. Just don't plant it to early like I did last year IT was 10 inches tall by spring and I had to mow it before I tilled it

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/cover-crops-garden.htm

Here is a quick article I found.

Thanks PH I will check this out.

I do that almost everyrear. Green manure. Till it under in Spring. Don't let it get to tall or it will be a pain. Not doing it this year. Using chicken manure in the Fall

I use donkey manure on mine. A local guy has all I want. I put 2 truck loads on two years ago and still reaping the benefits from it. h.h.

I will dump chicken poop on top of the wheat in the winter too.