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New watermelon update, update the rest of the garden tomorrow.
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This is wednesday.
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And this is this morning.
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:( I want one...... Congrats!!!
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*cough* weekly update is 4 days late *cough cough*
Heres how mine is looking along with some extras!
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Heres a few shots of some lillies i planted earlier in spring, i love how they look!
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Now here's a puzzler for you gardeners! Backstory: we have a huge butterfly bush in my yard thats been there for like 5-7 years. Its flowers are dark purple like this:
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Now 2 years ago when my stepdad was trimming it back for the hell of it he took one of the big healthy branches and stuck it along the edge of the outside of the veggie garden like 15ft away. Well it took root and grew last year but didnt really bloom. Well this year its huge and bloomed alot. Now heres the puzzling thing: the blooms on it are MUCH lighter purple. Almost like a lavender instead of a dark purple. Heres one of the new bushes blooms:
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Weird huh? Im wondering id it like cross pollinated with the pink lavender bush like 20feet away. Is that even possible lol? Either way i thought it was pretty wild! Hope everyones gardens are doing well!
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Sorry for no update Mike, I've been so darn busy with work it slipped my mind. You garden is looking great. And for the plant being 2 different colors my guess would be the level of acidity in the soil is affecting the color.
This is the only recent pic of my garden
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I have zukes galore, a bunch banana peppers as well. Corn is finally getting some ears. I've got 4 watermelon and 5 or 6 cantelope that will be ready to pic hopefully by the end of this week. My cayenne peppers are finally turning red. And my bell peppers are starting to grow as well. Cukes never turned out the few I picked were bitter. And squash is growing rather slowly only picked 3 or 4.
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Nice! Its looking good. I wish it was hot enough here to grow peppers. We plant green peppers EVERY year bc i love them but outta like 8 plants we only ever end up with like maybe 4-5 decent sized peppers :(
And ya idk what it is but its cool. I feel like the soil 15 feet away would be about the same acidity but who knows lol.
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I LOVE the smell of Star gazerillies! Hubby tells me they stink. I think its just so he doesn't have to buy them, lol......
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Looking good man. I had to leave my garden when I came to my new FOB but the rest of my team is coming up here before too long and will be bringing it with them if they can. I hope it survives the journey!
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I LOVE the smell of Star gazerillies! Hubby tells me they stink. I think its just so he doesn't have to buy them, lol......
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I cant smell them bc itll instantly give me like an allergy attack lol.
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Re: Finally got my garden in the ground!!!
That sucks. I could stand around all day with my nose stuffed in them, they are my favorite.
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Originally Posted by gsarchie
Looking good man. I had to leave my garden when I came to my new FOB but the rest of my team is coming up here before too long and will be bringing it with them if they can. I hope it survives the journey!
I hope it survives too. Send us an update when it arrives.
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That sucks. I could stand around all day with my nose stuffed in them, they are my favorite.
Ok well not an allergy attack like ill die but my nose stuffs up instantly haha. I realized i may have worded that a wee bit incorrectly
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Soooo hows your garden doing? Mines doing ok :D
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This is like what weve been getting once a week for the past month or so. :gj:
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Very nice man I'll try to snap a few pics tomorrow. For whatever reason I had 4 watermelons go bad and only two left growing I've picked 1 cantaloup and a ton of banana peppers and Cheyenne peppers
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Very nice man I'll try to snap a few pics tomorrow. For whatever reason I had 4 watermelons go bad and only two left growing I've picked 1 cantaloup and a ton of banana peppers and Cheyenne peppers
So my grandpa gave us some seeds claiming they were pumpkin seeds. (Not like in a package, he had saved them from last season). As i was planting them me and my stepdad were both like wow, those are odd looking pumpkin seeds. We didnt really think anything of it until today when my stepdad finds a butternut squash growing. Now it all makes sense lol. I was really disapointed bc i wanted some punkins for fall! :(
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Nice! Squash are good! I like to bake them (I use acorn), then while they are cooking, fry up some link sausage. When squash is almost done, turn face up and put link sausage in the hole, with butter and brown sugar...yum! You are making me antsy for fall, and fall food. Pumpkins are cool too. Making jack o lanterns and pumpkin butter. I will be lucky to get some tomatoes before the weather turns. Plants are huge, tomatoes on them all, but none turning red or yellow yet. Looks like I will be doing the brown bag trick.
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Hi Chris!
Congrats to your garden, I also planted late this year, have a couple of tomatoes on the pots, cabbages, broccoli, and beets on the soil bed.
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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle
Nice! Squash are good! I like to bake them (I use acorn), then while they are cooking, fry up some link sausage. When squash is almost done, turn face up and put link sausage in the hole, with butter and brown sugar...yum! You are making me antsy for fall, and fall food. Pumpkins are cool too. Making jack o lanterns and pumpkin butter. I will be lucky to get some tomatoes before the weather turns. Plants are huge, tomatoes on them all, but none turning red or yellow yet. Looks like I will be doing the brown bag trick.
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Dude, too bad your west coast. We had like a huge surge last week where we gave away like 40 tomatoes to my relatives. Just bc there was so many ripe ones lol.
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Dude, too bad your west coast. We had like a huge surge last week where we gave away like 40 tomatoes to my relatives. Just bc there was so many ripe ones lol.
Ummmmmmmm... I'm not on the west coast!
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Hi Chris!
Congrats to your garden, I also planted late this year, have a couple of tomatoes on the pots, cabbages, broccoli, and beets on the soil bed.
Sounds awesome got any pics?
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Ummmmmmmm... I'm not on the west coast!
If youre willing to drive to CT ill glady share some tomaters with ya! :)
I dont think of SC as east coast. I think of it as south. Even though you guys have nice beaches lol. Idk, its a snobby nutmegger thing ;)
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If youre willing to drive to CT ill glady share some tomaters with ya! :)
I dont think of SC as east coast. I think of it as south. Even though you guys have nice beaches lol. Idk, its a snobby nutmegger thing ;)
It's NC get it right, lol. I'll meet you half way tomorrow 12 noon. You better be there or else.
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It's NC get it right, lol. I'll meet you half way tomorrow 12 noon. You better be there or else.
Oh yea, idk why i said SC lol. Im an idiot. Anywho, where do you wanna meet? Like 15min from my house theres this awesome Indian place. I call it the indian buffet place. Its 15min on 95 south for me, so its in your direction. Thats like halfway, right?
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Oh yea, idk why i said SC lol. Im an idiot. Anywho, where do you wanna meet? Like 15min from my house theres this awesome Indian place. I call it the indian buffet place. Its 15min on 95 south for me, so its in your direction. Thats like halfway, right?
If I'm driving that far I might as well just come to your house; I can see the snakes and the garden.
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If I'm driving that far I might as well just come to your house; I can see the snakes and the garden.
Hey man you do what you gotta do, im just trying to make it fair lol.
But yea that would make sense. I get outta work at two so dont come before that.
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Dude, too bad your west coast. We had like a huge surge last week where we gave away like 40 tomatoes to my relatives. Just bc there was so many ripe ones lol.
:( I made a basil pasta salad tonight and was way bummed I had to BUY tomatoes.
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NO RIPE TOMATOES!!!!! :mad:
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How tall are the metal cages youre providing them?
Tbh, we dont even cook with them much. Just eat them like apples. Except with salt of course lol.
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Naw, this was a cold salad. But those are the big cages, like 4-5 feet. Dang things are as tall as me. We just don't get much sun here. :( There are maters there, just not getting ripe. Typical for here....
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I love acorn squash just baked, but I also love baking butternut squash and then sauteing shallots, garlic and frsh ginger before putting it all into a blender with chicken broth to make butternut squash soup. Definitely my favorite soup recipe!
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Naw, this was a cold salad. But those are the big cages, like 4-5 feet. Dang things are as tall as me. We just don't get much sun here. :( There are maters there, just not getting ripe. Typical for here....
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Try using shorter ones. Cut the ones you have down to 3feet. If you give the plant the oppurtunity to keep growing taller then it will. But if you keep the cages at only 3ft then the plant will reach that height and stop putting all its energy into growing taller and will put the energy towards bearing fruit. :gj:
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