Fruit and vegetable gardens 2023

[Fiddler's Green]

Weight in pounds from left to right:
122, 214, 252 and 157


Not bad for a first try. Looks like I'm a better pumpkin grower than herb

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Number 12
If you have a gopher problem this thing is money

 

[H.A.F.]

Weight in pounds from left to right:
122, 214, 252 and 157
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Not bad for a first try. Looks like I'm a better pumpkin grower than herb

Those yellow ones must be a lot more dense, they look smaller and weigh lots more.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

The yellow are more round then the orange pumpkins. It doesn't show at that angle

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Harvested seeds from the 214 pounder and the kids carved it. Not bad for using a reciprocating saw for the first time supervised by mom.



These will be a test since the pumpkin had a some rot that worked its way inside from a wound caused by the vine rubbing up against it. We only took the seeds from the clean part. We'll have them dry for a couple weeks and do a viability test.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Not a bad haul from 3 plants

 

[Zaphod420]

Sweet haul there Fidder! Do you ever grow any pepitas(I'm hooked on those things) pumpkins or always just the big monsters?

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Sweet haul there Fidder! Do you ever grow any pepitas(I'm hooked on those things) pumpkins or always just the big monsters?

Thanks amigo, this is our first time growing these bigguns. We've grown a Jack o Lantern variety the last few years and roasted the seeds after carving.

These seeds will be for gifts and next year project. Just waiting for them to dry to do a viability test to not waste time next season.

 

[H.A.F.]

Thanks amigo, this is our first time growing these bigguns. We've grown a Jack o Lantern variety the last few years and roasted the seeds after carving.

These seeds will be for gifts and next year project. Just waiting for them to dry to do a viability test to not waste time next season.

I'm realizing my plan to have dead biomass build soil for the next year may be a little over optimistic. If all the melons and pumpkins I planted grew and made fruit I would have been close but I only have the one birdhouse gourd and it's just not enough. I realise I didn't put enough work and pre-planning into the mounds so that will be next year. I'd love to give one of the bigun's a try. If nothing else a few of the 200lbs hunks of worm food busted up and spread around will be gold.

 

[Deleted member 60]

Sugar Rush and Habs dryin' on the racks. Definitely a banner year. Plants are still rockin' in the greenhouse so we will have a good flow for awhile.

Still some carrots in the ground....and the strawberries were rockin' so hard with big, fat berries we decided to cover em really well and sneak a small heater in there to get em over this cold snap. Tomatoes are ripening in the greenhouse. Everything else is a done deal.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Chopped the volunteer Mammoth sunflowers. These are the fourth season for these and they were between 8'-10' the heads got to 15''. Figured I'd keep the seeds before the birds cleaned them out. Not bad for no trellis and I transplanted them when they were about 16'' tall to keep them out of the way of the pumpkins.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Pruned and transplanted a currant bush to its final home.
It was where the metal post was, over to the left of the pumpkin.


Also marked and top dressed the fruit plots with corn husks and pumpkin chunks

 

[treefarmercharlie]

This is the final harvest from this years garden. I pulled all the sweet potatoes today. Cleaned, skinned, and cubed them up, then blanched them and bagged them up for the freezer.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Nice haul, did you saving any for slips?

 

[treefarmercharlie]

Nice haul, did you saving any for slips?

I didn’t. We figured we’d just get some next year. We got all of that off a single slip we planted in late May early June.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

I'll be trying sweet potatoes next year in a temporary pot to bust open at the end of the season

 

[H.A.F.]

This is the final harvest from this years garden. I pulled all the sweet potatoes today. Cleaned, skinned, and cubed them up, then blanched them and bagged them up for the freezer.

I have the lilac sweets in the ground and the vines went crazy as soon as the heat abated. What is the clue for when to harvest? I haven't had a freeze yet, but I have had a few nights in the high 30's Enough to kill the beans, but the 'taters still look strong. It has runners like a strawberry, will I get littles like you have from those secondary root systems?

 

[treefarmercharlie]

I have the lilac sweets in the ground and the vines went crazy as soon as the heat abated. What is the clue for when to harvest? I haven't had a freeze yet, but I have had a few nights in the high 30's Enough to kill the beans, but the 'taters still look strong. It has runners like a strawberry, will I get littles like you have from those secondary root systems?

I asked other gardeners about when to harvest them and I was told I could wait until after the first frost and to not worry about going a little longer but that they can be harvested once the leaves start changing. I was going to wait until after the first frost, but I started seeing posts of people harvesting theirs, and it was beautiful out yesterday, so I spent time out in the garden and pulled them. All the small ones came from the most outward sections of the plant so I think they just didn’t have enough time to get larger. There were two huge ones right where I planted the slip, but they were too gnarly to deal with, and had worms in them.

 

[Fiddler's Green]

Did a viability test on all the pumpkin seeds. I can't wait for spring.

 

[BigBallzWillie]

Nice haul, did you saving any for slips?

Go to whole foods or some similar organic place and get some in February. Make slips.
All my inside grow dirt ends up doing potatoes outside, either sweets or regs, in fabric bags. After that crop, the bagged soil goes into a pile and gets a cover crop like beans, clover or vetch, and then gets turned and put into bed or bags for something else the following season.........because the new dirt is always coming in, it works out. But I live on a rock so any dirt is welcome.

Also, the thing about slips is they last forever in a jar of water and around here, I can craigslist slips for $2 each, especially if you have reds or purples, Purples are the highest. You won't get rich but a making a couple hundos is easy and goes directly to the seed fund.

Making slips..........bury the plant long ways, cover half in dirt, half exposed...........done...........fuck all that water toothpick shit