Homegrown is the way it should be.......Gardening!

[aMillionDreams]

Yeah, I did bush beans in containers this year.  I'll know better next year.  

[mjkoehler]

KY Wonder Pole Beans are the way to go.

[mjkoehler]

This is the harvest just from the last 2 days. This doesn't even include the green beans I picked.

[crazylove]

OMG!!!  Kudo's to the container gardening King! aMD!!!  I bow at the base of your orange Homer buckets!  You are a master,Dylan!  

It was so good to see you and Candace on Sunday!  I really enjoyed the time we had together.  I'm going to keep on Matt about the worms.  That was awesome.
You two are the TOPS
And make sure to keep your datebook open for Matt's "big event"!
Love you guys.

[searchinbig]

This is the harvest just from the last 2 days. This doesn't even include the green beans I picked.

Beeeeeuuuuuuutiful!!  :D

Hey..ever try to dehydrate those cherry toms? I did it last year cause I was blessed with a ton of them and it works really well. I just soak 'em in water for a while and then add some salt and olive oil. Delish!

[mjkoehler]

This is the harvest just from the last 2 days. This doesn't even include the green beans I picked.

Beeeeeuuuuuuutiful!!  :D

Hey..ever try to dehydrate those cherry toms? I did it last year cause I was blessed with a ton of them and it works really well. I just soak 'em in water for a while and then add some salt and olive oil. Delish!

Kind of like sun dried tomatos? I will have to try that.

[the_wizzard]

For those not on facebook, here is the garden as of this weekend:


And a choice pic of our Black Hungarian peppers:


And some juicy Big Beef tomatoes:


And the fence we built this weekend with our awesome neighbors:

[searchinbig]

For those not on facebook, here is the garden as of this weekend:


And a choice pic of our Black Hungarian peppers:




And some juicy Big Beef tomatoes:


And the fence we built this weekend with our awesome neighbors:

Lookin good Wizz! Everything looks so good and healthy in your patch!

Are those peppers hot?

[aMillionDreams]

Very nice, Liz!

[the_wizzard]

For those not on facebook, here is the garden as of this weekend:


And a choice pic of our Black Hungarian peppers:




And some juicy Big Beef tomatoes:


And the fence we built this weekend with our awesome neighbors:

Lookin good Wizz! Everything looks so good and healthy in your patch!

Are those peppers hot?

They are supposed to be mildish (1 to 1,000 Scoville Units), but I have never tried one so I will report back once they get a little bigger.  They surely will be no contest to the Habenero & Thai Orange peppers....

[the_wizzard]

Very nice, Liz!

Thanks (and nice time there on the post, btw)!

[aMillionDreams]

We ate our first ears of fresh, homegrown corn-on-the-cob yesterday.  It was so delicious!  I didn't expect that corn to make it because I knew so much could go wrong.

Half of the patch did get knocked down by wind, but so far no pest or pollination problems, which I had expected.  Hopefully the rest of the patch will yield some more corn.

In other news, I just bought the Square Foot Gardening Book.  I think I'm going to do that next year instead of container gardening.  It looks better than container or conventional row gardening.  The website combined with the FAQs at Gardenweb really have all the info you need:
http://www.squarefootgardening.com/
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/sqfoot/

[searchinbig]

Congrats on the corn, D. Does it take up a lot of room? Always thought of growing some.

[aMillionDreams]

I grew a 6X4 patch.  Apparently you need to grow at least a 4X4 patch to hope for pollination as the male and female flowers are feet apart on a corn plant and they count on the wind for pollination.

4X4 = 16 plants X 2 or 3 ears per stalk = 32-48 ears of corn.  Not bad if you can make it work.

[mjkoehler]

That's awesome D! We've never been successful with Corn. Ironic for someone from Nebraksa.

Anyone grow Okra? Any tips? My wife totally wants to grow some next year, and I'm ok with that.

[aMillionDreams]

My wife loves okra. We're growing 5 okra plants.  Three in the ground and two in containers.  We haven't gotten anything off of them yet because you have to start them so late into the season.  I'll let you know if i have any tips at the end of the season. They are very interesting to look at for a veggie.

[searchinbig]

I grew a 6X4 patch.  Apparently you need to grow at least a 4X4 patch to hope for pollination as the male and female flowers are feet apart on a corn plant and they count on the wind for pollination.

4X4 = 16 plants X 2 or 3 ears per stalk = 32-48 ears of corn.  Not bad if you can make it work.

Very good. Speaking of pollination... I was tying up the maters today and saw tons of bees with all that jazz on their tiny legs!! So cool. Last year there was a lack of bees if I remember. My maters got tons of flowers and vegs. Still none to eat here in the Northeast, probably next 2 weeks or so.

This is great stuff!!  :)

[TheBigChicken]

been cutting okra for month or so ....FLA for ya....okra loves full sun and grows really tall and is VERY itchy

[mjkoehler]

been cutting okra for month or so ....FLA for ya....okra loves full sun and grows really tall and is VERY itchy

I remember the itchy part when my Dad grew it when I was a wee little Husker. Any tips?

Let me know how it goes Dylan. Such a strange, but delicious plant. Great and stews and shit, fried okra pretty much rules!

[mjkoehler]

For those not on Facebook. This is my haul from last night. Holy crap.