Garden 2021

[Skidog]

My cucumbers are going nuts so I put some stakes for them to climb. Within less than 24 hours they had tendrils wrapped around the stakes. Cherry tomato plants are like 4ft tall lots of flowers but no fruit yet. Beans are tall and flowering. Potatoes look like BobMcs but smaller box. Baby peppers are forming as are the bells. Carrots doing well and the green leaf lettuce will be trimmed for eating in the next day or so. All in all good start to my first growing season

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[stapes]

Finally getting some strawberries and luckily the squirrels haven’t found them yet this year



Greens and herbs doing well. A lotta salads on the menu





Squash coming along



Beans, peppers and tomatoes in different states. Some radishes, beets, broccoli rabe and others in there

[Thaleia]

Potatoes


Bok Choy, onions, garlic



Cycling things along


Easier stuff like greens, herbs, radishes, bok choy etc are producing about as fast as we can keep up. Tomato's cucumbers and peppers have been a touch slow. Beans and peas are on schedule.

[Boissal]

^^ Some of the finest looking greens I've seen in this thread, strong work!

[Thaleia]

Thanks! Besides giving them a head start indoors, I didn't do anything special for them. Got lucky, thought they would bolt more with the heat we've had.

First year doing radishes and gotta say they are incredibly satisfying to grow - seed to harvest in four or five weeks. It's just too bad they taste like... radishes lol. Actually I've come to like them a bit young, cut thin in salads.

[Boissal]

First year doing radishes and gotta say they are incredibly satisfying to grow - seed to harvest in four or five weeks. It's just too bad they taste like... radishes lol. Actually I've come to like them a bit young, cut thin in salads.

Young is key, the old ones get real tough. Back at home we'd put a slice of butter on them and a pinch of salt. Can't say I've ever enjoyed radishes any other way. Other than their sprouts which are deliciously spicy.

[Thaleia]

Hey thanks will definitely try that.

[skaredshtles]

Also - radishes are pretty good as the "crunchy bits" on tacos. I will use them in place of cabbage some times...

[MakersTeleMark]

You can pickle them too.

[AK47bp]

These fucking aphids are really pissing me off. Next spring I’m going nuclear. Trim it down, coat everything with insecticide soap, then this aphid killing powder, after that I’ll add ladybugs.








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[climberevan]

Aphids suck so much. We gave up on brassicas thanks to them.

Things are going along here. We have more greens than we can possibly eat, and are looking forward to a big harvest of lots of other things. The arugula and mustard are done, so we're going to reseed that bed soon. We just had our first few peas yesterday. One of the 3 rows of potatoes is ready to bury.

Gardening is so fun!

[Thaleia]

Also - radishes are pretty good as the "crunchy bits" on tacos. I will use them in place of cabbage some times...

Like when you run out of better stuff?! Kidding, sounds good, will try it. Crunchy accents are always good.

You can pickle them too.

The woman made kimchi out of some. That will be interesting. Pickling sounds good too.

[MakersTeleMark]

Like when you run out of better stuff?! Kidding, sounds good, will try it. Crunchy accents are always good.



The woman made kimchi out of some. That will be interesting. Pickling sounds good too.

I have a whole jar of daikon kimchi that I made in my fridge.

[gravitylover]

Mine is a bit slow to get going but it's been pretty manageable and I have almost no bug problem this year. Maybe it's because it hasn't been raining all that much, I don't know but I'll take it. I do have some stuff that's overgrown like the 3 foot tall lettuce towers that haven't bolted because it hasn't been really warm yet, for the most part everything is still pretty small but really healthy and starting to produce. I guess it's a good thing I got over an inch of rain Tuesday and Tuesday night because I have to go out of town for 2 days and there won't be anyone here to water, hoping all is well when we get back tomorrow night.

[riser4]

You can pickle them too.

Bahahaha.

[Thaleia]

gl I'm roughly 500 miles northwest of you and same thing with the bugs - virtually zero so far and it' been dry as well. Had a touch of slug damage a week or two ago but that's been it. So far..

Lots of bees early on as well but not much now, come to think of it.

[skaredshtles]

Like when you run out of better stuff?!

Pretty much. We used to get radishes via a CSA share, and it's pretty much the only way I could tolerate those goddam useless veggies.

[skaredshtles]

On a gardening note... does anyone have a recommendation for a drip irrigation system pressure regulator that doesn't suck? I have had both of these, and they have failed. I've even gotten replacements for both... which have also failed.

[total_immortal]

Just found this thread and impressed with everyone's green thumb. We're little behind most of you here in zone 4b and it's been hot and dry making it difficult to keep the greens from bolting.

[BobMc]

On a gardening note... does anyone have a recommendation for a drip irrigation system pressure regulator that doesn't suck? I have had both of these, and they have failed. I've even gotten replacements for both... which have also failed.

How have they failed? If by fail you mean leaking you have to put some teflon tape on the threads to seal them.

[skaredshtles]

How have they failed? If by fail you mean leaking you have to put some teflon tape on the threads to seal them.

The upper one failed at the center seam on *both* units. The lower one, while it didn't fail outright, leaks at the center seam.

It's kind of irritating, because they seem, on the face of it, pretty simple devices.

[BobMc]

I had the same thing happen. Left my set-up on the spigot last year too long and got caught by a freeze. This year I got a new timer and pressure reducer, ordered them both from Amazon. Put it together and the damn regulator leaked, also looked like it was leaking from the reducer itself. Went to Lowes and got a replacement and that damn one leaked too!

I even went and got a new two way valve thinking maybe it was causing the leakage, still leaked. Got looking closer and I could see the reducer was leaking past the threads. I found some teflon tape in my garage, wrapped some around the threads, put it together and it’s been leak free.

[skaredshtles]

I had the same thing happen. Left my set-up on the spigot last year too long and got caught by a freeze. This year I got a new timer and pressure reducer, ordered them both from Amazon. Put it together and the damn regulator leaked, also looked like it was leaking from the reducer itself. Went to Lowes and got a replacement and that damn one leaked too!

I even went and got a new two way valve thinking maybe it was causing the leakage, still leaked. Got looking closer and I could see the reducer was leaking past the threads. I found some teflon tape in my garage, wrapped some around the threads, put it together and it’s been leak free.

Yeah - these are def not leaking around the threads. Apparently *nobody* makes a decent pressure regulator...

[Thaleia]

Ok allium pros, help? First time growing onions (from sets) and garlic (from bulbs).

Some onions are bolting way too early, maybe because of intense heat. Garlic is forming scapes.

The onions that are flowering will simply not develop further, and therefore should be pulled now to use. And the garlic scapes can be harvested, and the cut garlic will continue to swell.

Is this the general consensus?

[BobMc]

If your onions are bolting on their first season they’re being stressed. Possibly not watering enough? My green onions never flower till the second season and my walla wallas have never bolted.