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How my garden's growin.....

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Worked in the garden all afternoon today. It’s lookin good. Corn is growing like crazy…we side dressed it with fertilizer and then plowed it. I have 42 Tomato plants. Not all are the same variety. I’m so excited hoping they make bunches and bunches so I will get to can tomatoes this year. I have about 8 rows of peas, that came up hit and miss. Planted cabbage today. Supposed to be “all season” cabbage…we shall see. Never planted that before. Also planted my squash today. And I have to get my okra in the ground soon. Here’s a few pictures of how it’s lookin.

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And…..the cutest itty bitty white flowers I think I’ve ever seen. Dunno what they are…I’m sure they are a weed of some kind LOL The whole lil flower cluster was about the size of a pencil eraser….maybe not quite that big.
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And then this……once again, no idea what it is..Never have seen it before. The stem part looked like hair. Then had them tiny tiny leaves on it.
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burnt

Well-known member
Your garden's looking great! Way ahead of us northerners!

Wife planted corn yesterday which must be the earliest ever for us. Definitely a real danger of catching a late frost but we can cover it if necessary.

The early peas are up or should I say WERE up until her henny pennys discovered them yesterday and thought they looked itchy and spent the afternoon scratching them over! Radishes are poking through and maybe a few other plants but the tender stuff like your tomatoes are still in boxes in the front room.

Maybe I'll try to build that hotbed for the tomatoes today will I'm watching for that rain we are looking for . . . then they could be transplanted right out into the garden instead of into bigger containers.
 

burnt

Well-known member
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:

Can't fool me with that sticker in front of that plant.

I know and you know that ain't no mater plant!

That is one of the finest specimens of Wacky weed that I ever laid eyes on!

Jersey, jersey, jersey, you are telling on yourself. Growing wacky tobaccy right out in the open, say what? Pretty bold even for a Texan, no?



:wink: :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

Well-known member
LOL @ Wacky Tabacky.........

I would love to have a green house where I could have stuff growin year round. Not a big one...just one big enough to start plants in durin the winter. But that'd be so far down on the list of things to do that it'd never get built. So....guess I'll just keep buying my mater plants and pepper plants each spring.
 

Kato

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That is one fine tomato plant!

When you get your okra growing, please post some pictures. It's something that we can't grow here. Our season's just too short. I'd love to see what it looks like in the garden.

:D
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

Well-known member
Will do Kato.......last year it got about 10 feet tall. Had to pull the stalks over to reach the okra. It blooms and puts out new ones from the new growth on the top of the stalks. Sometimes it'll make side chutes too. Gets hard to pick when it gets that tall. I use my utility scissors to snip off the pods.
 

Jassy

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Heck you'll be canning maters by the time I get one planted here! If we had a better growing season I'd have a garden too...ohwell! I'd like to see an okra plant too!
 
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