would like to see your 2013 garden

[MontyJ]

Very nice harvest major!!!! Looking good. cant wait to start harvesting ours

thank you dewdrop, you and monty sure have put a lot of effort into your garden and chickens....congrats

since you are so far behind us , i know where to get green tomatoes when we run out.....

Dang you people...stay out of my maters!!!

 

[majorcatfish]

Major, you can always chop and dehydrate the extra onions. I like to do that with the smaller ones or those that tried to go to seed, since they won't keep as long anyway. I love how it saves me prep time when cooking later!

I am close to pulling mine here soon too. The wind blew the tops over, but they are still green for now.

My raised bed potatoes look like they've gotten the late blight. We've had sooo much rain here lately. It just won't stop... We're on tap for more every day clear through to NEXT Friday, so far as they can tell. The weeds are getting way ahead of me too, since I can't step foot in the muddy garden. My row of potatoes in the main garden still look great, green and growing. I'm pretty sure it's the late blight on the others. The tips of the leaves are brown and burned looking on those. I had such high hopes for a big harvest on that patch too. :/

We had early blight in our potatoe bed got that under control,
And it looks like we are getting late blight as well.

Here's a question being our first year growing onions....
Planning on dehydrating some, do you still need to cure the onions ??

 

[journey11]

That's a good question. I usually do the curing first and then get around to dehydrating them later. But I don't see any reason why you couldn't just go ahead.

I store mine in a tightly sealed canning jar. For long term storage it is recommended that you put a dessicate packet in there to control moisture. I'm sure those can be bought online. Another option is to oven can them, which puts a bit of a vacuum seal to the jar. If you think you'll use them up within a year, you wouldn't have to do either unless you wanted to. They come out just like the ones you buy in the store.

Do you all think maybe I should just go ahead and pull those potatoes and burn the vines? I've not had late blight in the main garden and I don't want it to spread. It must have come in on some of the soil I put in that raised bed.

 

[majorcatfish]

That's a good question. I usually do the curing first and then get around to dehydrating them later. But I don't see any reason why you couldn't just go ahead.

I store mine in a tightly sealed canning jar. For long term storage it is recommended that you put a dessicate packet in there to control moisture. I'm sure those can be bought online. Another option is to oven can them, which puts a bit of a vacuum seal to the jar. If you think you'll use them up within a year, you wouldn't have to do either unless you wanted to. They come out just like the ones you buy in the store.

Do you all think maybe I should just go ahead and pull those potatoes and burn the vines? I've not had late blight in the main garden and I don't want it to spread. It must have come in on some of the soil I put in that raised bed.

kind of funny you mentioned that, as the day has progressed the potato plants are looking sicker, so going to have a potato plundering tomorrow morning < if it's not raining again>
have some other waste that needs burning so will add them as well.

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Wow! You are all making me so jealous! My gardens have nothing ready in them yet except radishes. My tomatoes and sadly peppers are embarrassing. They are coming back around though. The weather has been so strange here and I have been trying my best but they are still so shrimpy! My beans, peas, onions, cucumbers, and squash are all better than ever though. Here are a few pictures of what is happening in the garden so far...

Bright Lights Swiss Chard

Squash in front, Cantaloupe in back

Sugar Snap Peas, Yellow Wax Bush Beans, Royal Burgundy/Dragon's Tongue Bush Beans, Yukon Gold Potatoes, Cherry Belle Radishes, Red Norland Potatoes, Blue Lake 7 Pole Beans

New cucumber trellis! I love it!

They're staring to climb!

Tiny tomatoes and peppers

Some of the onions. Walla Walla, Red Zeppelin, Yellow Spanish

Maizy and the Raspberries!

 

[NwMtGardener]

Great pics HPQ! Your cuke trellis looks awesome, might have to try that next year! Do you have to irrigate your tomatoes and peppers? Just wondering!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Very nice harvest major!!!! Looking good. cant wait to start harvesting ours

thank you dewdrop, you and monty sure have put a lot of effort into your garden and chickens....congrats

since you are so far behind us , i know where to get green tomatoes when we run out.....

Dang you people...stay out of my maters!!!

Major, with all the rain we have had lately we have a LOT of weeding to get done.... garden is too wet to even walk in right now. We come out with mud caked to our shoes. :/

Monty, you know I'm just waiting patiently for a nice green tomato

 

[canesisters]

HPQ I am SOOO impressed with your cuke trellis!!! Everything looks great, but that is a wonderful idea. I'm thinking that a little chicken wire over the bottom 2' (to keep them from eating the bottom of the plants) and it could serve as a 'day pen' for chickens too! Little weeding, little fertalizing, little bug eating...

I am SOO going to do this! Much improvement over my little accidental 3'tall cuke tunnel.

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Thank you! My whole yard is irrigated, so I rigged the sprinkler system to water from a few different angles on both gardens. It is really nice and saves so much time.

Great pics HPQ! Your cuke trellis looks awesome, might have to try that next year! Do you have to irrigate your tomatoes and peppers? Just wondering!

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Thank you thank you! That is a great idea to make it into a chicken run. I let them outside last night and they loved crawling under there. I may have to steal your idea

HPQ I am SOOO impressed with your cuke trellis!!! Everything looks great, but that is a wonderful idea. I'm thinking that a little chicken wire over the bottom 2' (to keep them from eating the bottom of the plants) and it could serve as a 'day pen' for chickens too! Little weeding, little fertalizing, little bug eating...

I am SOO going to do this! Much improvement over my little accidental 3'tall cuke tunnel.