let's see your veggie garden {pics}

[Jitterbugdude]

A buddy of mine has been growing shrooms for years. He'd come up my house, wander around the woods and grab a few logs to take home. He's throw the logs (with the dowels inserted) under the deck of his townhouse. He always had massive amounts of the turds growing. It's a shame I find them extremely disgusting because I could probably grow them by the ton for a cheap food supply. I'd rather smoke Back Woods cigars than eat a mushroom... that's how disgusting they are...

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

A buddy of mine has been growing shrooms for years. He'd come up my house, wander around the woods and grab a few logs to take home. He's throw the logs (with the dowels inserted) under the deck of his townhouse. He always had massive amounts of the turds growing. It's a shame I find them extremely disgusting because I could probably grow them by the ton for a cheap food supply. I'd rather smoke Back Woods cigars than eat a mushroom... that's how disgusting they are...

I've been in a mycological society for some time and have spent countless hours picking mushrooms, but I agree that they are kinda gross. I've had dozens of different species and only eaten them to say i did. I don't really like them. It's the science and time spent in the forest that attracts me to mushrooms. I would get mushrooms growing around my compost bin from emptying my basket into it.

One year one of my choke cherry trees up and died. The next year Armillaria mellea the honey mushroom popped up in my yard next to the stump. They're pretty good, actually, and since they were in the city, which never happens, they were bug free. Anyways, i killed my tree. There's no way they came there naturally. At least I have lots of nice wood for smoking meat.

 

[Smokin Harley]

my garden has been going great ,couldnt be better until a few hours ago...Had some storms roll through our area during the night/early morning and all of my corn which were almost 5 ft tall and looking perfect, are all now flat on the ground. Looks like an alien spaceship landed right in the middle of it.
They didn't even get a chance to tassle. I just can't grow corn.

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

If the stalks aren't snapped, you could try putting a stake at the end of each row and using a few runs of twine on both sides to prop them back up - like the Florida weave for tomatoes. I think you can also hill the dirt around them to encourage more rooting. I'm so sorry to hear that, man. It reminds me of when we were little, my buddy next door always tried to grow sunflowers, and invariably in June or so, a storm would come through and flatten them. I remember seeing him drag the 5' stalks out to the brush pile in the street and thinking "wow, that's disappointment."

 

[deluxestogie]

Smokin Harley, just about the only things grown in Illinois are soybeans and corn. All the wild deer are corn-fed. I'll blame your blowdowns on wind vortices created by closely spaced houses. Urban blight. You might try removing a few neighboring houses.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

Smokin Harley, just about the only things grown in Illinois are soybeans and corn. All the wild deer are corn-fed. I'll blame your blowdowns on wind vortices created by closely spaced houses. Urban blight. You might try removing a few neighboring houses.

Bob

ok, I'll try that...if anyone says anything I'll just say "whats the big deal, Bob told me to"
I'm wondering what method I should use. I don't think they make any house killer spray , no neighbor-b-gone pellets...about the only thing left is a flamethrower, maybe I'll try the local military surplus and see if they have any this time of year .

 

[Brown Thumb]

my garden has been going great ,couldnt be better until a few hours ago...Had some storms roll through our area during the night/early morning and all of my corn which were almost 5 ft tall and looking perfect, are all now flat on the ground. Looks like an alien spaceship landed right in the middle of it.
They didn't even get a chance to tassle. I just can't grow corn.

Jeesh 5 Ft. Mine are Luckey to be 2 ft. Stand them back up and smash the roots into the ground. It works.

 

[deluxestogie]

Jeesh 5 Ft. Mine are Luckey to be 2 ft.

Corn farmers say "knee high by the 4th of July," then they're doing fine.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

I stood my corn patch back up this morning. drove a few of what some of you guys refer to as "tobacco sticks" (1 x 1 oak ,4 ft and pointed on one end) into the ground on each end of the rows then ran some garden jute from stake to stake giving each corn stalk a little wrap halfway up the stalk on the way by. Ground was soft enough to do it without damaging roots or stalks, got it done before it hits Africa hot and humid again. I just hope they take and start tasseling soon.
My garden is starting to look like a suspension bridge or I'm growing marionettes.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Corn farmers say "knee high by the 4th of July," then they're doing fine.

Bob

I wonder if that applies to Baccy also,

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I stood my corn patch back up this morning. drove a few of what some of you guys refer to as "tobacco sticks" (1 x 1 oak ,4 ft and pointed on one end) into the ground on each end of the rows then ran some garden jute from stake to stake giving each corn stalk a little wrap halfway up the stalk on the way by. Ground was soft enough to do it without damaging roots or stalks, got it done before it hits Africa hot and humid again. I just hope they take and start tasseling soon.
My garden is starting to look like a suspension bridge or I'm growing marionettes.

It's worth a try. They stand barley and wheat back up all the time.

 

[Chicken]

I think I'd rather smoke a backwoods cigar than eat a portabello mushroom .

 

[Smokin Harley]

I wonder if that applies to Baccy also,

If it doesn't ,it should.maybe we need our own proportionate month/ height creedo. my tobacco was "4 ft at the 4th (of July)" .

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

If it doesn't ,it should.maybe we need our own proportionate month/ height creedo. my tobacco was "4 ft at the 4th (of July)" .

Well, Jeeze, don't that make me feel like buying an f250 diesel to compensate.

 

[Smokin Harley]

Yesterday afternoon I picked a good 6 quarts of wax,green and purple beans. Wife is ecstatic about beans.
I also looked at my cabbage. They're ready. Nice big solid heads. I'm going to make my own fermented sauerkraut and dill pickles. So, I'm heading over to the Goodwill this morning and see what kind of crockery they have today. Looking for some of the gasketed flip tops (flour/sugar storage crocks) .
Sweet corn finally showed me 2 ears with silk on them. Maybe I'll get to eat some for my birthday ...second week in August.
Busy ,busy,busy

 

[rainmax]

Some beans for winter.
ChinaVoodoo! Potatoes are not good from flovers. So, don't colect them. It is better you seed from some old potatoes or buy potatoes for seedeing.
This is what we colect from about three pounds of old potatoes...50+ pounds. (1,5m x 8m).

This is my garlic field...

 

[deluxestogie]

Large garlic!

Bob

 

[rainmax]

small hands. lol

 

[Smokin Harley]

While I was out in the patch yesterday ,when I wasn't priming tobacco I was picking veggies ,weedeating the path and inspecting the rest. I noticed the potato plants I have in straw bales are dying out . I was hoping this meant the potatoes beneath were almost ready. So, I carefully pried back some straw bale which has since turned from the dry golden yellow it started out to become an organized block of rich brown organic matter . I am so disappointed . The plants easily gave way and all I see are tiny potato buds the size of peas and small grapes. Not one handful sized spud anywhere. We still have over 2 months of season left so I'm letting them go and maybe they'll grow . I can't even say this was a moderately successful straw bale crop. I didn't even get back the same amount of weight that I planted.
However. My corn has ears that continue to grow and produce with silk all over that patch. The beans are ready for the 2nd picking (today) and the Baby Bubba okra is producing.
Tomatoes are plentiful and mostly green ,a few of the Beefsteaks are huge and finally turning a blush color.
Cabbage - I turned the first one into a crock of fermented sauerkraut last week.
Cucumbers - Wife has been making cucumber (onion and tomato -store bought)with sourcream salad . I make refrigerator garlic dills and I also made a crock of fermented kosher dill pickles. Those should be almost ready , they smell wonderful. I need to go buy some wide mouth mason jars to put them up and start a new batch.
Zucchini squash- we've been picking those almost a month now and what we're not grilling, we're cubing up and sauteeing with fresh basil and tomato(store bought crushed with garlic and oregano)as a side dish. Started giving some away to my wifes co-workers. Sent her to work this morning with a cardboard flat box full .At least 10 lbs worth of zukes and cukes.

 

[deluxestogie]

Sounds like a bountiful veggie garden. For refrigerator pickles, I try to avoid metal lids for the Mason jars, since the brine will sometimes leach metal into the pickles. The plastic Mason jar lids are WAY overpriced. I discovered several years ago that a standard mayonnaise jar (not the wide mouth) uses a perfect plastic lid that fits a standard-mouth Mason jar. I now save all of these lids, and use them for refrigerator pickles, without worrying about the brine-metal interaction. I haven't found a plastic lid on a commercial product that will fit wide-mouth Mason jars.

Bob