Envious!!! Next year, if you post when you're planting your corn, I'm copying you!
Jade
I'm so close I can taste it already! I think Monday I can pull the first one. Maybe. When did you put yours in?
ShannonBGWA
I also think I don't have enough corn going. There was a lot more corn that got shaded out by the beans. Timing was wrong this year!
Jade
I read in the Veggie Gardener's Bible to plant another crop when the first one is about waist high. I did that this year, but I don't think that they will make it all the way this year. Only bc of the weather though, I'm going to do it again next year.
ShannonBGWA
That's interesting advice. I wonder if it works here in the NW. Has it worked for you before?
I try to do the same thing with lettuce. When it gets an inch or two across, that means "plant some more". But (this spring at least) I've been terrible at succession planting. I'm trying to do better this fall, and so far it looks like lettuce may be taken care of.
Jade
This is my first year doing that, but I think it's success in the NW means we needed a better season than this one. The guy who wrote the book is in VT, so I would lean to it being ok for us too.
Generally, I do a row every week or so starting in late April through early June. We had a kitty issue though (dug up a bunch using my raised beds using it as the neighborhood toilet), so I had to plant a new couple of rows at the end of June.
ShannonBGWA
Apparently, if you plant tomatoes far enough apart, you can water them just when they're getting started, and then a couple times in the summer, and they'll actually do pretty well.
Jade
We're fighting caterpillars for tomatoes this year...we're picking early!
Garden Growers
I pick them before they are really ripe, I don't like them to get too soft. Those are a beatiful variety. I took some ugli-ripe heirloom tomatoes from the store and saved the seeds and planted them last year. It worked except they never got ripe due to the terrible weather. This year I did a no-mulch area and due to circumstances never took off the covering. Two HUGE tomato plants esacped the edge of the covering and are thriving even with no rain. That's what is so cool with heriloom, if the tomatos fall on the ground they'll reseed themselvs!
Dave
Here is what I did the other day. I trimmed some thorny barberry, and made a hedge around the little young trees. The idea is to make a little thicket the deer won't want to mess with. What do you think, will it work?
Jade
Here's another picture. I tied it to posts to secure it, and then tied smaller branches along the tree to cover it with thorns. I hope deer don't like thorns. Will this work?
Jade
My Camano Phantom dahlia with some leftover rain this morning.
That is so freakin awesome that I can do that from my phone, Jade!!!!!
ShannonBGWA
Beautiful! And I'm so envious that you can do that on your phone! I can't on my iPhone...
I'm considering writing an app for that, but it's a lot of work, and I'm trying to decide where to apply my programming time.
Jade
Yeah that is a fine line. Plus I'm sure your wife and daughter like too see you every once in a while too!! All in good time. If gardening teaches us nothing else we do learn the art of patience!
ShannonBGWA
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