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We are getting a few tomatos on. Actually will have a couple of Black Cherry maters next week. The smaller ones are growing a little. I found a video on youtube that had a receipe for tomato food. So I got the stuff and mixed it today and fed our maters, peppers, and cukes. Video said to reapply every 3 weeks. I'm hopin it gives it a good kick.
Tomorrow gonna plant squash, melons, & pumpkins. Got the ground worked today.
I also went to Tractor Supply last night and got some Cattle panels, 16' x 50" to use to train the maters on. I needed new cages anyway and saw this method and wanted to give it a shot. I got enough of them to finish off my grape arbor this winter too.

BacP. you really have a good garden even grapes ,huh? :cool:
 
I see fresh Cayenne peppers in just a day or two! Best way in the world to fire up some scrambled eggs!


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BacP. you really have a good garden even grapes ,huh? :cool:
I have a row of Concord grapes. Also have a row mixed with White and red muscadine grapes. The. Muscadines came from. Cuttings at least as far back as my grandpa.
I love having my own food to eat. Looking forward to retirement so I can grow more. Want to try my hand at aquaponics as well to have year round harvest of at least some stuff.
 
I have a row of Concord grapes. Also have a row mixed with White and red muscadine grapes. The. Muscadines came from. Cuttings at least as far back as my grandpa.
I love having my own food to eat. Looking forward to retirement so I can grow more. Want to try my hand at aquaponics as well to have year round harvest of at least some stuff.

Lucky you BacP we can't seem to grow even a Muscadine. There is one here in the woods that is well over a 100 years old but haven't been able to go check on it in couple years now, it is covered with vines of all kinds now.
I transplanted some muscadine vines up against fence and all they did was spread like wildfires and not produce.:ghostly:We have been here for almost 22 years and I've not seen one grape in these woods yet. As a kid we had wild grapes all over Stone Mountain property.
 
I know they are a southern grape. But it may be too hot for them in Florida. I have wild grapes all over the place here. They have tons of tiny grapes on them, but never get any size. The ones in my little vineyard get as big as a dime or so in a decent year.

I live in northern Australia and I have muscadines growing.
I was told I needed two dif. Varieties so the would cross pollinate to get fruit. I chose a black muscadine called Nobel to act as my pollinator for my bronze green muscadine called Apollo.
I get fruit every summer and the good thing is Nobel is self fertile so I get black fruit off it.
 
I have a row of Concord grapes. Also have a row mixed with White and red muscadine grapes. The. Muscadines came from. Cuttings at least as far back as my grandpa.
I love having my own food to eat. Looking forward to retirement so I can grow more. Want to try my hand at aquaponics as well to have year round harvest of at least some stuff.

I'm planning on growing Concord grapes and peanuts after the move. I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Makes me feel like a kid when I eat them.
 
Out in the orchard today pruning dead branches. One of the pear trees died but the roots survived o new shoots are coming up. I may leave a high stump to train the limbs to. If I'm messing up with this idea let me know.
 
I know they are a southern grape. But it may be too hot for them in Florida. I have wild grapes all over the place here. They have tons of tiny grapes on them, but never get any size. The ones in my little vineyard get as big as a dime or so in a decent year.

Could be for some varieties but I know my friend in Jax grew concords or at least thats what seh said it was. They sell them down here too. I just haven't had any luck with them at all. And probably has lots to do with it.
Its has been a bad spring for us and the record breaking May heat didn't help at all.
 
Thank you everyone for the k8nd words.

I have been timing how much sun each part of the garden gets and I am having to totally redo my garden plan.
On my plan I put veggies with high sunlight requirements in places that 4 hours sun max.
Not good.
The place I was planning on planting my roma vf tomatoes only gets 3 hours now that I have timed it.
My cabbages and onions need to be put elsewhere on the plan.
Broccoli from what I have read needs less sun as do leaf crops like chard, collards and spinach.
I am just grateful I haven't planted them out yet.
Making garden plans in summer for a winter garden isn't the best thing to do because the sun shifts and with it the shade footprint.
 
Very nice harvest Dutches. What type onions are those? Are they sweets or keepers?

One of my garden spots (I have 3 for veggies), only get 4-7 hours a day of sun. The other 2 most all day by 9am. One of these two shades over starting around 6, total by 7.

Today I tilled everything I have planted. Hoe'd around every plant. Installed 9 cattle panels to use for training my cucumbers, tomatos, and gourds up them. First time I've used them, but I love the way they look and how easy they are to deal with. Other than being 16' long they are very simple. Planted 3 Ozark Giant, 7 California Wonder, 3 Serrano Chili, and 3 Jalapeno peppers to finish out my cucumber row. Mulched with glass clippings in the bed near the house. Wife call it her kitchen garden. I also planted 13 "Pork Chop" tomatos. They were part of the trial garden seeds I got. Look to be a decent size yellow tomato. Put panels up for them and for the gourds that was part of the trial and the tomatos. Fertilized the squash, melons, and both rows of onions. 1 of which are starting to bulb. I'll start harvesting one here and there on the first row. They aren't keepers, so we'll just eat on them as we go.
 
Very nice harvest Dutches. What type onions are those? Are they sweets or keepers?

One of my garden spots (I have 3 for veggies), only get 4-7 hours a day of sun. The other 2 most all day by 9am. One of these two shades over starting around 6, total by 7.

Today I tilled everything I have planted. Hoe'd around every plant. Installed 9 cattle panels to use for training my cucumbers, tomatos, and gourds up them. First time I've used them, but I love the way they look and how easy they are to deal with. Other than being 16' long they are very simple. Planted 3 Ozark Giant, 7 California Wonder, 3 Serrano Chili, and 3 Jalapeno peppers to finish out my cucumber row. Mulched with glass clippings in the bed near the house. Wife call it her kitchen garden. I also planted 13 "Pork Chop" tomatos. They were part of the trial garden seeds I got. Look to be a decent size yellow tomato. Put panels up for them and for the gourds that was part of the trial and the tomatos. Fertilized the squash, melons, and both rows of onions. 1 of which are starting to bulb. I'll start harvesting one here and there on the first row. They aren't keepers, so we'll just eat on them as we go.

Or you could chop them up and either freeze them or dehydrate them.
I love having dehydrated onions on hand even if the process stinks up the house.
 
@Tank-Girl you have done a wonderful job of your garden and so ordered and neat :) . I hope you get some abundant crops off them all.

@Dutchs nice crops how wonderful you are producing so much in your garden.

@Terri9630 @Tank-Girl is in a tropical region and really hot in the top end of Australia and barely any winter. We are about halfway down the East Coast of Australia, slightly inland and we are a temperate region. Really cold winters with frost and hot and dry in summer without the humidity that @Tank-Girl gets.
 
@Tank-Girl you have done a wonderful job of your garden and so ordered and neat :) . I hope you get some abundant crops off them all.

@Dutchs nice crops how wonderful you are producing so much in your garden.

@Terri9630 @Tank-Girl is in a tropical region and really hot in the top end of Australia and barely any winter. We are about halfway down the East Coast of Australia, slightly inland and we are a temperate region. Really cold winters with frost and hot and dry in summer without the humidity that @Tank-Girl gets.

So in Texan speak, Tank-Girl is in Brownsville and your in Dallas. Got it, Thanks
 
Today I transplanted brocolli seedings into new cells.
Planted more spring onion seeds.
I found a heap of KY1 tomato seedlings sprouting in the garden bed I grew them in last year so I dug them up and transplanted them into a seeding flat I had spare.
I said I wanted more tomato plants and the good Lord provided.
Amen.
 

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