Mid Way Point At The End Of The Season
Hello fellow Garden Nerds! How are your gardens doing? I imagine for many of you it is coming to an end, and of course for our friends south of the Equator, it is at the start. I love this about Hive. We are a world wide community. Our cultures, way of life, surroundings are so different. Yet we are so alike, for we share quite an unique bond. The bond of the Hive Block Chain! If you post to IG, or even Twitter, and Facebook you may share a photo or two, and a paragraph at most. But here when that Markdown box is open, it inspires us to give it our all, and share whatever we can think of. This is why I tell someone new to Hive to just be yourself, and post about what you love. Then it will come easy for you. There are some things I like, and I may have posted once or twice about it. But the things I love, that is what you will see the most of when you open my Blog. Family, and yeap. GARDENING!
It has been 13 days since the last update, and I am at the mid point. Due to my late start this year, I am a couple months behind. But this is ok since my grow Zone will not have any frost to at least late December. So I am not worried.
I had such a hard time with these from the start. From the seeds being to small, and my dumb a** trying to start them off in a paper towel. They where doomed from the start! LOL. Then the ones I did manage to get going, well you see the end result above. Next year I copy how @bluefinstudios did his Onions.
My Tomatoes are looking great! I have been feeding the branches through the cage. The one that I waited to long is a complete mess. But a little bit of cleaning up is doing the trick.
Here is something that has been in the works for quite some time, Yellow Watermelon. Now this one had a lot of little fruits coming in, but they keep falling off. But there is finally one that is doing good. I will take it!
The Pumpkins are coming along good. Up to this point each vine only had 1 Pumpkin, with1 vine having 2. Now I am happy to see more Pumpkins form on the vine that had the 2 Pumpkins.
There are even some Pumpkins coming in on the little ones I planted outside of the garden!
Between the Pumpkins, and this Glass Corn above, it is going to be a colorful Fall!
Almost forgot to share my Serrano's! These will be ready to pick in a week or so. Cant wait to make some Tacos, and throw some of these on!:)
Then my side project, the Sunflower patch. These seem like they grew fast! Next year need to get them in the ground sooner, so they can be taller. But they are still visible from the office. Which is nice, since they planted Black Berries across the road, and blocked our view to the mountain's.
When the beauty is taken away, you can always bring it back with a little hard work, :) Next year I plan to plant more of these Gladiola's. That, and more Garlic. But in the meantime I will make due with my current garden, and go with the flow. Have a great week everyone!
PS this is my entry to the September Challenge. I know this post is against the max 10 photos, so please consider this post as one for fun, and I hope to see more of you enter to win!
I observe that you like gardening and food production, I really observe that you have a diversification of crops and that's great, the best thing is to consume food grown and managed by ourselves, in this way we are sure of the quality of the fruit and vegetable we are consuming.
See you later, have a great week.
Thanks! Nothing like a good home grown tomato!
Your watermelons and pumpkins are some of the best bro, really impressed with those Serrano peppers too.
Those are babies for me, I need an extra zero added to that heat unit :D They look really delicious though, I love all peppers :)
That's a bummer about the onions man. I'm re-growing some market green onions right now and discovered they like their pH around the same as the cannabis :)
I just move my plants back inside for the season change lol. I wonder if people scratch their head in wonder when I pull out flowering plants during the spring time lol.
Great post bro, your garden is looking great this year!
My wife loves Serrano, myself I love Habenero. I think it has the perfect heat and flavor profile, and a little goes a long way.
I did not think about PH regarding my onions. I bet that is it. The water here at work is very high in PH. Good looking bro!
The onion looks small but do you have an idea if you can use that little onions to cook or it has to be very bug before you can use it to cook?
Then, I love how you plant things that are eatable
Onion can be used at ANY size for cooking!
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I'm going to try it, lol. Maybe I have enough to put on a chili dog😃
Things are winding down for us here. I threw in some garlic last fall hoping it would do something for me this year. Unfortunately, I trimmed it too early and we had a drought at the beginning of the summer that pretty much killed it. I don't know if I will have a garden next year. I have a lot of weeding I need to do if I end up planting one.
That's unfortunate about your garlic. I have actually had a few people tell me this year their Garlic did not do well either. I will keep the trimming in mind in the future, I actually did not know that. Probably what happened to my friend as well.
I fell you on the weeding, what I did last year was throw some ply wood in a few spots. It seemed to work well, the only issue I had was it seemed like the gophers really liked the cover and made a home under neath!
I have some landscape fabric that I am probably going to put down next year if I do anything. Hopefully that will help. There is a point with garlic where the scapes start forming and you trim those off, but having never seen them before, I thought they were ready and I was wrong. I ended up cutting off some of the stem.
your squash and peppers looks great.
remember when you chose onion seed for next year, make sure to chose the correct type:
Long Day, Intermediate Day, and Short Day are the main varieties. You need to pick the day length type based on your location. you are in Salinas Valley, so that is really SHORT DAY onion types. Up north in New England, it is cooler, but I have longer daylight hours. So, I choose Long Day Types. You can also plant any kind of Bunching Onion, or Green onions.
That's interesting. I will definitely choose the right seed next year. Thanks for the tip!
Hell ya man. So many cool things growing for you.
Thanks homie! Got to make it a little bigger next year. :)
!LOLZ maybe you planted dwarf size onions? 😁 Or maybe they could stay in the ground for longer? I once planted shallots and around September they looked like a joke still, so I harvested them in late October/November. The winter was very mild that year though.
Your garden is looking great nonetheless. Look at those huge tomatoes and pumpkins 🤩
Garden for me a constant work in progress and a learning curve. We learn new things every year and just being outdoors and in contact with nature is a win. Happy harvest friend 💙
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Nah these are regular onions and should be round. Not sure what exactly went wrong, but I suspect it is the soil. Oh and these may be better suited for the northern part of my country. Hopefully I can get some better ones next year:)
Ah well, we live and learn. Maybe the soil indeed, who knows. Still, it’s great to try and experiment with what we can and can’t grow and there is always something yummy to munch on in between the trials. Good luck 🤞
Fantastic! Still no mulch though? It's killing me!
I never have luck with onions either - I thought I'd give it a red hot go again this year and the blakcbirds pulled out 18 of 25. Man, I was mad.
Birds can really do sone damage can’t they!
I did sone work the other day, and kept all the old trimmings that were underneath the bush I trimmed down. It is perfect!
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