You let him watch sports on TV? :lol:

No, but she did take the parental block off of G4.

First beans http://www.flickr.com/photos/busterb...in/set-446798/

Buster, are those purple beans like stringbeans or do you shell them? :confused:

String beans, they turn green when cooked.To me just easier to see when picking.

And they are beeee-uuuuuu-tiiiiii-fullllll!

BusterB,
What is the name of the seed, and where can I get it?

I was just outside looking at the sugar snaps and snow peas. I didn't realize that they had begun to set pods. I saw the flowers last week, so i figured it would be soon, but they are pretty well hidden. (Or I need glasses)

Purple would make it easier.

Louisiana purple pod beans. I get mine at feed store. I love sugar snaps & snow peas. Guess I need to get more wire for a row next year. Or plant bushh type so can pull up when time to plant other things.

Blue berrys on wash rack I built. Pie this wkend. Yumm.

Wow busterb, nice job! The pipe planters in your album interested me, what did you use to seal the ends up so the dirt doesn't fall out?

LR, I know you weren't talking to me, but I found this. May be interesting/useful.

http://thepipeplug.com/NonPressurePlugs.htm

My parents came back from their place in the country with 20 pounds of cherries, and my mom's been pitting and preserving ever since. :yum: It was pie last night.

I like the washrack, you're full of good ideas. Last year I put up about 30 pints of blueberry jam. I think washing them took about half the time.

This year I am freezing everything, I've got more room than time.

15 quarts of strawberries so far.

LR. I cut the ends out of pressure treated 2x 12s, then screws. 1 board made the base and ends HAd to cut 2 circles out. 1 for the ID and 1 for OD.

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Happy gardeners, the amount of growth still amazes me.

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Zucchini flower.

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Yellow squash coming along, can't wait for this.

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Beans developing - and wrapping around each other very tightly.

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First sign of pea development.

Whoa, first sign of pea development? I'd expect your peas would have been done a month ago.

[bragging] our sugar snaps are over six feet, and the snow peas have just about reached escape velocity.[/bragging]

The beans and peas are in week 6 or so.

It's the other way 'round Farmer Toad.
Thank YOU....for putting up with US.
:notworthy :thankyou: :notworthy

J noticed that there are a 2-3 ready pea pods this morning, so by this time next week...

I froze about 4 or 5 pounds of turnip greens and beet greens last night.

God help me (or my wife) when the peas are ready for freezing. The first planting was 40 feet. Both sides of a 20' trellis.

More beans at http://www.flickr.com/photos/busterb. I didn't pick for 2 or 3 days, while messing w/new AC and roof. Boy they liked to got ahead of me.

3 FT. old folks rumor has it as beet greens are like nightshade, bad news. I know of no one in my part of south who plants beets. Me I like them. But they smell just like new plowed ground. Thanks Army for feeding me them. Not the rest of crap. hahahaha Canned beets, onions and dago dressing, great

Buster, as a carpenter I once worked with liked to say: "ya gotta die of something it might as well be..." you fill in the blank.

For me, steamed beet greens with a humongous pile of butter is just damn fine. :love: As for night shades, the only thing I love more than beet greens is 'taters and spinach with a bunch of olive oil or butter.

My wife tries to give me the old "spinach has too much oxalic acid" crap, and I just give her the raised eyebrow look.

I know the beets, onion dago dressing thing. I like it, but sometimes people slip in the green beans. I like those steamed with butter/garlic alone next to chicken.

Harvested a salad spinner full of snow peas today. gonna remove the strings and freeze them.

I was big on canning last year, but we got this freezer (lowes, haha) and although I was born in Georgia, I like my greens green, not BDU green.

I like Spinach also, but doesn’t do well here, too hot? I do my beans and new taters in pressure cooker. Taters first, about 4 minutes depending on size. Then take them out, put beans in and taters on top for around another 3 minutes. Of course w/a big teaspoon of bacon grease, S&P.

Buster you could probably grow spinach in the winter. It germinates at 40º readily. Up here by now, it is way too late for spinach. I let a couple of plants go to seed, just to see what they looked like, the seed is nearly ripe by now. I'm told the plants will survive 30º nights. I may try a fall planting.

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I thought they were just kidding when they said that if you let a zucc go it will grow as big as a bat. This one is as big as my forearm.

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I thought they were kidding when they said there would be too much!

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First corn husk. The corn is as high as my eye on the 6th of July.

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Big ol beans coming along.

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Green beans ready. I wish they were purple so we could find them all.

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Peas ready. The first harvest yielded about 100 of them, which is not enough to fill a small bowl. The next one will fill that bowl. But I hope we get more, because they're great.

I can see I'm going to have to come down for a visit soon to enjoy some of that produce!

In a small spot only plant determinate plants, as the indeterminate plant will grow out of any cages you put around them, they will grow over a 4 ft. cage and fall over. This pertains to tomatoes. This photo is what I'm talking about. If we get wind from Dennis, will wreck them. The red ribbon is top of cage.

I sure hope you planted some peppers to go with them 'maters, Buster. Is there some salsa in your future?

Yep about ten hills.

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Yes, if you let a zucchini grow it will just grow and grow and grow.

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Until it's very impressive.

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But some zucchinis are less impressive than others.

:biglaugha I did try to warn you about the zucchini.

You know, if you just switch to hand lotion, you don't get those uneven tan lines that you get with sunscreen...

I bet you'd be happy with that 'little one', though. ;)

I vote for shot number two. That's your best angle, UT. I mean, at least from THIS remove. :)

First 3 photos are of pepper I raise for sauce.
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What's happening in Green Acres? :question:

Oh I envy all of you with your long warm growing seasons!! (not so sure about the long warm growing thing that UT is holding though......eeep)

From what I've seen at UofA farm in Fairbanks and giant veggies in the Mananuska Valley, you've got nothing to envy for gardening. :biggrin:

I've got no pictures of it, but the 3 plum tomato plants and 3 eatin' tomato plants are in heavy, heavy production right now. We have et several, and they were great as expected, and there must be at least 12-15 more fruits per plant coming along.

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Finally the late garden pics. Here's everything left growing right now. In front are two massive cauliflower plants. In back are the six tomato vines.

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We didn't think the cauliflower would even happen. We thought the zucchini overgrew it, and it wasn't until about six weeks ago that the white cauliflower part appeared in the center of the massive leaves. And now, both are almost ready.

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The tomatoes have been great, although a patch was invaded by some sort of spider or something that wound up dwindling down the plum toms a bit. Here's the other enemy of the toms: we've had so much rain that the toms got over-juicy and the skins burst.

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We still have about 10 plum toms out there. A large batch was used two weeks ago to make a homemade pasta sauce ("gravy", if you rather, since it included some meat) that could not be beat.

I'm still envious.

Our trees have lost all their leaves, and the snow has made it's way even further down the mountains. Brrr....

Webmaster, Professional Musician, Stud, Farmer .........Where will it end? :devil:

we have been working on these for a few years ,
Just uncovered , and they are growing BEFOR your EYES !!!!!
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Sweeeet!! I have wanted to grow asparagus for a long time, but I always read the "harvest in three years" thing and it turns me off. Of course if I had planted the asparagus crowns six or so years ago when I wanted to........ oh nevermind. :)

What type is that? Jersey Knight?

Marth Washington
3 years to get a harvestable crop , then 10 years of groth , so we are thinking about where we can put some purple rootlings we got a while back

What do you do about weeds zip? I think we're going to plant more roots this spring using the glorious composted goat poo. Our earlier attempt is thin and weedy.

we have them in a raised bed , and ever now a then sit and pick weeds , not to bad

You can cut it out now Bruce, you've already got the moderator job.:p

Your lack of respect for the great frog father has been noted in your permanent file.:rtfm:

I found Florida dragon's raised beds were great to see built in stages.
bysterb's garden was interesting in it's location. He has scare owls on his bean poles plus he had the biggest blueberrys I've ever seen in my life.

someones got great ornamental peppers too.

Maybe we will see more additions as time goes on.