Garden

How has yours been this summer? Good tomato crop this year. Some beautiful Celebrities and a lot of Romas. A few cukes (very few) and not a bad crop of yellow onions. I was going to title this post as "Yard'n'Garden," but I don't even want to talk about the yard.

About a month ago, or maybe longer, I went out and "hoe'd" the garden. Then I got really busy with other things in my life and now the weeds are horrible. I think the hubby is taking care of it. lol I'm scared if I go out there, I might get lost.

PS I don't want to talk about our yard either!

Cantaloupe is doing ok, and a fair number of tomatos, but watermelons are unusually small and pumpkins have had major trouble even though sprayed for bugs. Been an odd year.

Ratzilla wrote:

Cantaloupe is doing ok, and a fair number of tomatos, but watermelons are unusually small and pumpkins have had major trouble even though sprayed for bugs. Been an odd year.

Some varmint ate a bunch of my dad's onions so he pulled them all up that were left. I don't know if my dad planted any melons of any kind, but as sparse as the cukes were it was probably a good idea if he didn't.

I heard cucumber beetles are troublesome this year. I think I had stem boers in the pumpkins because my spraying kept the squash beetles to a minimum. Why the watermelons are so small I can't say, but they are growing way slower than normal.

SlumberGirl wrote:

PS I don't want to talk about our yard either!

Oh, it has been so freekin' dry. We just throw our hands up and let Mother Nature take its course. Parched, no matter how much we water.

It's really beginning to annoy me. All around us there's heavy, even flooding rains, but we just get a few sprinkles to bring up the humidity.

Just wait Ellis county will get one of those flooding rains soon.

Yeah, probably after the growing season is over.

Ratzilla wrote:

It's really beginning to annoy me. All around us there's heavy, even flooding rains, but we just get a few sprinkles to bring up the humidity.

It does seem like the storms do a b-line around us, doesn't it? Why people planting new lawns decide to plant bluegrass and fescue in this part of the state is beyond me. My parents are guilty of the latter. The patches where the fescue dies is plush with Buffalo. Buffalo can be cut at almost the same height as fescue, but around the city they just freekin' scalp it. I have my reservations about Bermuda. I don't consider it a true, native, mid-western Kansas grass. That's a grass that needs to be scalped. I remember watching Terry Manell on the tube addressing the city commission when they were considering planting new grass in some park. He argued for a more native friendly grass and was shot down. The only goddamn time he chose to testify in front of them to do something sensible. The commissioner's response was, "The people want green grass." My oldest niece broke her ankle on that goddamn clumping K-31 fescue at the soccer fields. I heard once that Ellis requires a native grass on new lawns. Why can't we do that in Hays??

Bermuda is a nuisance. It overgrows sidewalks and gardens, it's tough to mow if it gets tall, it's dead 6 months of the year, and builds up way over sidewalk level in time. The only good points are it takes heat well, and needs little water. Buffalo is low maintenance, easy mowing. It's warm weather grass too but it's great stuff. Both do poorly in shade though.

The cherry tomatos, habaneros, cayenne and jalepenos are doing good. Oh, so is my basil and thyme.

LukeTHr wrote:

The cherry tomatos, habaneros, cayenne and jalepenos are doing good. Oh, so is my basil and thyme.

Man, I love basil antipasto mixed in with some pasta!!!

my cukes taste like energizers

wilkykav2 wrote:

my cukes taste like energizers

I don't want to know how you'd know that!

Our garden is mostly a weed patch, because we thought we'd be able to get out and actually maintain it this year. Time got away from us, though. We've got a few tomatoes and a jalepeno and bell pepper. The onions, I don't even remember where my husband planted them. My son ran them over with the mower, and chopped the tops off.

I have been using the basil and thyme and rosemary along with fresh chopped garlic and tomatos mixed with olive oil and making a pasta salad that has been quite tasty. can't forget the black olives in there too.....

You have an olive tree?

no olive tree, just the canned variety

SciFi wrote:

Good tomato crop this year. A few cukes (very few)

WOW we are the exact opposite. Have got cukes coming out of our ears and the tomatoes have been terrible except for the cherry tomatoes. Corn was only fair what the raccoons didnt manage to eat. Had lots of green beans, peas, radishes, green onions and zuchinni. Only have one watermelon set on the entire plant and its growing pretty good. Have schwatzberry by the tons too.

this is our first year at attempting a garden - we underestimated the area we planted in and we have an overgrowth of tomato plants, cucumber vines, squash vines and watermelon vines. Have lots of green tomatoes - only a few have turned for us. The rain has been great for us, except that we have to mow the yard twice a week and we have friggin gigantic mushrooms growing. Not to mention frogs are EVERYWHERE!

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Not to mention frogs are EVERYWHERE!

Lots of people have trouble finding the seeds for those.

luv2cook wrote:

Have schwatzberry by the tons too.

Whats that?

the little round blackberries.

It's a chermin thing.


That's 2 ropes.

wilkykav2 wrote:

my cukes taste like energizers

Maybe this is why.

Wilky's cuke

OMG!!!that's some funny shit right there......hey Slumbergirl ,do you have these???

luv2cook wrote:

SciFi wrote:

Good tomato crop this year. A few cukes (very few)

WOW we are the exact opposite. Have got cukes coming out of our ears and the tomatoes have been terrible except for the cherry tomatoes. Corn was only fair what the raccoons didnt manage to eat. Had lots of green beans, peas, radishes, green onions and zuchinni. Only have one watermelon set on the entire plant and its growing pretty good. Have schwatzberry by the tons too.

L2C......are racoons ripping off my corn and eating half and leaving it on the ground???I have been stumped on this!!!!!

luv2cook wrote:

the little round blackberries.

Gonna make some kucken? Yum!!

wilkykav2 wrote:

luv2cook wrote:

SciFi wrote:

Good tomato crop this year. A few cukes (very few)

WOW we are the exact opposite. Have got cukes coming out of our ears and the tomatoes have been terrible except for the cherry tomatoes. Corn was only fair what the raccoons didnt manage to eat. Had lots of green beans, peas, radishes, green onions and zuchinni. Only have one watermelon set on the entire plant and its growing pretty good. Have schwatzberry by the tons too.

L2C......are racoons ripping off my corn and eating half and leaving it on the ground???I have been stumped on this!!!!!

My mom and dad think that's the varmint which chomped on their onions. First year in which that has happened. I wonder if the raccoon has a natural predator? SciFi with a .22.

SciFi wrote:

luv2cook wrote:

the little round blackberries.

Gonna make some kucken? Yum!!

most likely - too bad I dont like schwatzberry anything

ANd the snozberries taste like snozberries.

I killed my strawberries in Farmville!!!!!!!

you have to harvest them quick! If you arent gonna be around when they are due to be done you need to plant something that will take longer.

i have planted some wheat and eggplants along with a cow

Yeah its sad with farmville i actually plan my crops around times i know i can harvest them. Here in a couple of days i'm going to get creative and make some designs in my field.

Degeneration X wrote:

Yeah its sad with farmville i actually plan my crops around times i know i can harvest them. Here in a couple of days i'm going to get creative and make some designs in my field.

Crop circles?

my farm is so much smaller then yours and Jaimes. How long have you been playing it?

LukeTHr wrote:

I have been using the basil and thyme and rosemary along with fresh chopped garlic and tomatos mixed with olive oil and making a pasta salad that has been quite tasty. can't forget the black olives in there too.....

Man Luke, that sounds great! Do you eyeball the ingredients or have a recipe?

luv2cook wrote:

SciFi wrote:

luv2cook wrote:

the little round blackberries.

Gonna make some kucken? Yum!!

most likely - too bad I dont like schwatzberry anything

Ohhh, L2K, you wound me. I've heard that they're hard to pick.

Ive only been playing for 3 days lol

Hmmmm. A search for schwatzberry only came back with one link to something about that damn Bruno movie. But a search for schwarzenberry came back with a link to this..

schwarzenberry

Harvest Party at L2C's?

It should be schwartzen berry...meaning black..local dialect changes the spelling and pronunciation somewhat

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

It should be schwartzen berry...meaning black..local dialect changes the spelling and pronunciation somewhat

Cool, Blackie. Thanks, I love German food.

As far as this goddamn farmville bullshit, take it over to the facebook page. Come on, moderators.

I have been playing farmville for 3 weeks now. It takes some time to build it up.

wow scifi....

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

It should be schwartzen berry...meaning black..local dialect changes the spelling and pronunciation somewhat

That's what I thought. I got the weed link when I searched for schwartzenberry all one word, but all I seem to get from a search on schwartzen berry is a bunch of damn links to some jackass named Barry Schwartz.

May the Schwartz be with you.

luv2cook wrote:

Have schwatzberry by the tons too.

I brought a couple of those back here, from my mom's yard. They did great, until some black beetles from Hell (they literally swarmed out of a crack in the ground... there were hundreds of them) devoured everything in our garden 3 years ago.

slickjay12 wrote:

I killed my strawberries in Farmville!!!!!!!

I have neither the time, nor the inclination, to do Farmville. I do like my Yoville, though I don't spend much time on that, either.

slickjay12 wrote:

i have planted some wheat and eggplants along with a cow

You can plant cows??