2024 Garden Plans

[wtxbadger]

You're probably right Ranger and home grown maters are sure hard to beat along with fresh black eye peas.

I have been buying my seed from Willhite Seed for years now and haven't had any problems with them and they are a Texas based company. They have a good selection of heirloom seeds according to their website.

[Ranger99]

You're probably right Ranger and home grown maters are sure hard to beat along with fresh black eye peas. . . .

I like to slice maters and and onions thin and
you make a "sandwich "
Lay an onion slice on a plate.
S&P
Tomato slice on top of that
S&P
Onion slice on top
S&P
Etc. to make a stack. Put in the
refrigerator and let it "marinate "
A goodly chunk of cornbread, or
even a couple of slices of light bread
and that's almost a dessert to me.

That's from some loozeeanna cook
or a book or something. I wish I
could claim to be the daddy of that,
but I cannot

[Bob Riebe]

Tomatoes are now producing ripe fruit abundantly.
Goatbag Tomato is producing the large tomatoes I have ever grown, picked two soft ball size and one even bigger is still green and growing.
Gave a dozen to relatives at a family gather last weekend and they were very pleasted.

Black Beauty, is producing many fruit while it was the first to show fruit they take the very longest to fully ripen.
Dumped six large ones in he compost heap today as the other half stores to tightly bunched and does not use the one susceptible to going bad soones like she should.
In the past I would treat my tomaoes with  bio-fungicide into Sept. but I no longer have the desire to play nurse maid for them into early Oct. and while I will pick of bad looking leaf stems, when they go belly-up is of little concern to me this year.(and actually for a fair number of years in reality, but old habits die hard)

Chiles are have been mostly pulled as with two exceptions they were one and done but I have a freezer full of those from past years.
Potatoes so far have been mediocre up North and lousy down South but most are still green and growing.
Onions were a great disappointment.
A lot of golf ball size and smaller.

Squash is going bonkers but so far only one fruit, I hope enough get ripe before frost but , IF, one can believe NWS long range forecast, it will be a warm September.

[Bob Riebe]

Sweet corn is still producing a cob or two; potatoes are one half out of the ground; carrots have yet to be dug up; squash plant is doing very , very well.

Tomatoes are producing lots of fruit and with seventies, forecast, till mid-October, I will have late season tomatoes with out and sheets needed to protect from frost very late in the season.
Last time I remember a late summer like this was approx. 20 years ago when we had seventies all through Oct. then BAM, truly cold weather hit.

I have Zinnias growing on the edge of the garden and today , I had a LOT of Monarch Butterflies flittering around, never saw that before.

[Bob Riebe]

Both gardens are now done.
I pulled the tomato plants up North yesterday, so with the odd exception of a single Elephant garlic that is still green and some three carrots I missed when I dug carrots, nothing in the garden growing; I even pulled all weeds large enough to grab.

South garden I pulled the corn stalks and did make an small ugly corn shock; I had thought of turning the garden over but it is rock, not really mataphre this year, hard and do not want to spend two hour with the tiller doing a bouncing Betty routine.

[wtxbadger]

Gave up on this years garden a couple of months ago. Couldn't keep the Axis out of the garden even with a fence charger and deer netting. They just blew through both and ate everything down to the ground. Considering we're having a drought it's not surprising and I'm studying on changing up my fence from poly netting to welded wire next year.

Fingers crossed next year is better than this one.