Recent content by Duckworth

Okay, now I'm seriously hungry!

I don't know whether what I planted was OTV. I got them from a local non-big-chain nursery as starts. One pink, one red. I got a huge amount of foliage from the pink. The red went in late and with a cage instead of the tall trellis the rest had. It sprawled everywhere and gave some fruit...

My tomatoes were prolific here in the Central Plains. I planted fewer plants, but got my largest and longest ever harvest. I grew Orange Oxheart, Black Prince, Brandywine both Pink and Red, San Marzano, Mortgage Lifter, Boxcar Willie, Yellow Pear, Lemon Boy, Sweet Cluster, Early Girl, Sugary...

I just have ducks, but our fence isn't high enough to let them free range in the yard, so they have a large enclosed pen. Lots of duck predators here. I do spread their spent straw on the garden for mulch, since duck waste isn't hot like chicken waste is. I think I need to go out very early...

I didn't get a lot of yellow squash this year, despite planting quite a bit of it. Vine borers got into virtually every one of my squash plants. I cut them out and a few plants survived. Then, I planted again and vine borers got about half of them, despite my cutting them out of the new...

Our front yard veggies, early in the season. Our side yard veggies

I grew bush wax beans starting the second year, but didn't grow pole beans until this year. I like the wax beans, but I'm sold on the pole beans. I will be planting a lot more next season. I love the ease of picking the pole beans.

Post-canning fall cleanup in progress!

I'm new to TEG. I gardened in Arizona before I moved to Nebraska. I started in AZ with a flat gravel moonscape front yard with a huge, scraggly attack cholla, and ended up with a contoured garden of cactuses and desert trees, some of which were volunteers that I pruned into healthy trees...