majors 2018 garden..

[flowerbug]

8/5/18 update....... some good some bad...
after receiving over 11" of rain in less than a week.only a few things enjoyed the rest will be tossed.

the winners..
bells peppers everyone is loaded with either green or red..
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highlanders..some of the biggest have seen in august..will pick,roast and freeze them.
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the corn... jumped a mile...
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the gourds....
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the mators are the big losers.. either split,cracked or molding.. but theres hope for the greens ones..
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once the dew has evaporated will be going out pick whats good,pick the spoiled and toss, pull 2 terminally infected plants..

seen powdery mildew, blight, blossom rot, white mold. so will be spraying all the plants....

time for tomato wine! sorry major it hurts to see such loss/damage. i had a season like that where i was burying hundreds of lbs of tomatoes from buckeye rot.

 

[majorcatfish]

update 8/5/18 part 2...
ended up throwing out 12 gallons of mators, salvaged 5 gallons and 5 cucumbers plus a handful of asian bell peppers.
taking this to work in the morning......

pulled the russian beauties, brandywine, 1 mariana and all the cucumbers.. those russians had a very serious root system..

before spraying picked a nice bucket full of bell peppers and highlanders..

mixed up 15 gallons of copper sulfate and calcium, went to town spraying the mators,bells and gourds....

 

[majorcatfish]

a fast way to do it is to take an old pillow cases, put them in there and then walk on them or mash them somehow to release them. then you can skim off the pods from the top leaving mostly beans in the bottom. if you have a fan you can blow the chaff off the bottom that remains by dropping it all gradually in front of the fan.

i only shell one at a time things when i have a lot of time in fall/winter. for the bulk beans i go with the pillow case method. oh, and i don't do this in the house either, as it can be dusty.

funny you mentioned that, i did the exact thing for the orca beans, differently a outdoor job....

 

[majorcatfish]

Dang those tedious orca beans. I'd toss them all away and never grow them again. Yet.....stay tuned for the next post:

the dw wants to grow them next year, being the first year i'm on a learning curve with them... more fertilizer and water= bigger beans

 

[Collector]

Well that sucks throwing maters away, at least you can salvage most of your plants and some fruit. Stay dry major

 

[majorcatfish]

I have pepper envy Major. Mine are little dwarfish items, they're producing peppers, but they are barely tall enough to hold them off the soil.



Fun?
I would never be able to finish it wearing that white jacket with the oversized sleeves on.

the royal dungeon guard says your having a mental block on writing your autobiography, so yes won't send you the puzzle for christmas.
oh once again proof your a true redhead....

 

[majorcatfish]

Major: you mailed me some Wes tomatoes. Mine were puny, even after replanted two of them. But I always share my bounty, and look what a friend now has with his Wes tomato:

dang congrats, they never did that for me.....once again some mators just grow better out west....

 

[majorcatfish]

Well that sucks throwing maters away, at least you can salvage most of your plants and some fruit. Stay dry major

the forecast is for much drier the next 15 days..

 

[Collector]

@majorcatfish

 

[majorcatfish]

@majorcatfish

amen brother.....