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Post by CCL on Jun 21, 2020 6:27:45 GMT -5
The tomatoes are done for the year and it's too hot to plant anything else yet. We had some really great rain today with more expected tomorrow and next week. Oped, I don't know your zone but Malabar spinach is a warm weather variety that thrives in zones 8-9-10. DH prefers it to classic spinach because it doesn't get mushy/stringy when cooked. I finally have some little tiny tomatoes and peppers. It's hard to imagine it too hot for tomatoes. Mine always like the heat. My herbs are doing great. It's been hot and dry, so I'm doing lots of watering.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 21, 2020 7:18:13 GMT -5
The tomatoes are done for the year and it's too hot to plant anything else yet. We had some really great rain today with more expected tomorrow and next week. Oped, I don't know your zone but Malabar spinach is a warm weather variety that thrives in zones 8-9-10. DH prefers it to classic spinach because it doesn't get mushy/stringy when cooked. The fact that your tomatoes are done and mine are just flowering is such a vivid example of how large this country is, LOL!!
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 21, 2020 9:24:34 GMT -5
The tomatoes are done for the year and it's too hot to plant anything else yet. We had some really great rain today with more expected tomorrow and next week. Oped, I don't know your zone but Malabar spinach is a warm weather variety that thrives in zones 8-9-10. DH prefers it to classic spinach because it doesn't get mushy/stringy when cooked. The fact that your tomatoes are done and mine are just flowering is such a vivid example of how large this country is, LOL!! Depends upon the tomato species: some are determinate (limited growing period) and indeterminate (unlimited growing season). Reads like Donethat's tomatoes might have been determinate.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 21, 2020 9:41:38 GMT -5
The fact that your tomatoes are done and mine are just flowering is such a vivid example of how large this country is, LOL!! Depends upon the tomato species: some are determinate (limited growing period) and indeterminate (unlimited growing season). Reads like Donethat's tomatoes might have been determinate. True, but I also think she lives "deep in the heart of Texas". I'm thinking even heat-loving tomatoes don't like THAT amount of heat.every.day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 9:52:13 GMT -5
I'm not sure about the two varieties I chose this year, but July 1 is about as far as they go most years. With daily temps in the mid to upper 90's, they just get sad no matter how much I fertilize or water. Of course, I do get to start them in March
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 21, 2020 9:57:21 GMT -5
Depends upon the tomato species: some are determinate (limited growing period) and indeterminate (unlimited growing season). Reads like Donethat's tomatoes might have been determinate. True, but I also think she lives "deep in the heart of Texas". I'm thinking even heat-loving tomatoes don't like THAT amount of heat.every.day. Could very well be. Our summer temps are not that much different than DoneThat's. June, July, August and September, day temps, on average, are in the low 90s. Yet we can get locally grown tomatoes during those months.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 21, 2020 11:51:12 GMT -5
I always plant indeterminate tomatoes so they keep producing until October frost. Local ones are in now. Mine have flowers but I planted at least a month later then I could have. But you know when it warms up many plants catch up to the ones planted earlier when cold.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 15:29:10 GMT -5
Next year I think I will try to find indeterminate varieties to see if I can prolong the season a bit. Can anyone recommend a good indeterminate cherry or grape variety?
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 21, 2020 15:39:11 GMT -5
I see this variety at nurseries here.
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Post by oped on Jun 21, 2020 17:26:49 GMT -5
I did nothing today... I’ll need to water in the morning if it doesn’t rain... and plant a few things.
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Post by CCL on Jun 21, 2020 20:56:41 GMT -5
Hmmm... I've never even looked to see if tomatoes were determinate or indeterminate. Maybe I've been lucky and planted the right ones? Mine always produce through the summer til first frost. They're just getting started with tomatoes when it gets into the 90s.
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Post by oped on Jun 21, 2020 21:38:17 GMT -5
Paste tomatoes tend to be determinate... makes sense as you want them to grow and ripen largely at the same time... so you can make paste and sauce. Heritage and other ‘slicing’ and cherry tomatoes tend to be more indeterminate and keep growing longer and fruit in succession not all at once.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 21, 2020 21:47:59 GMT -5
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jun 22, 2020 6:56:00 GMT -5
I had a garden in Texas, by end of May even with heavy watering it was pretty much done except for egg plant. Each year I had to plant earlier and earlier, it would just burn up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2020 19:36:05 GMT -5
I've sort of but not quite lost interest in the garden. It's easier to just look instead of knock myself out. Not to worry, though, I'm still doing the maintenance stuff, and today I added two pineapple red hot poker plants to the three orange ones from last year. Now I want some red ones. After all, they're called red hot poker plants.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 27, 2020 8:48:04 GMT -5
We have stopped buying lettuce and are having salads every night from the greens in the garden. Thursday night we ate the first green beans!! Today I need to fertilize before the rains hit later today.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 27, 2020 9:14:12 GMT -5
I finally gave my plants some attention last night. I actually have pea pods on two of the three containers. I was so excited to see that.
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Post by oped on Jun 27, 2020 10:16:32 GMT -5
My current lettuce might not make it till my next is ready. I should have done another planting. We’ll see. Spinach is good. I have to keep after it so it doesn’t bolt.
Got beets and yellow squash this week. Cabbage might make it before bugs take over but not the rest of spring crops. I’m about to start fall ones inside.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 27, 2020 21:50:09 GMT -5
Weird year so far - saw a coyote a few weeks ago and today, DH had an armadillo scamper about four feet from him. Never had armadillo around here before.
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Post by kadee79 on Jun 27, 2020 22:04:47 GMT -5
TWC...beautiful pictures of your flowers.
Done that....I live in SW Ga. & we have heat here too, but we also have humidity. I never had tomatoes quit producing during the summer months....they would slow down, but they kept some coming every couple of days. I normally planted Rutgers tomatoes which are a determinate so they would have one big batch all at once that I could can or freeze...and then produce a few for table eating as the summer went on. But the Big Boy, Beefsteaks, Better Boy...all of those should produce all summer for you. If you can find some old German ones, especially the pink tomatoes...those did super here the year I grew them...not a lot of tomatoes, but HUGE ones...one slice would cover a whole sandwich.
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Post by CCL on Jun 28, 2020 4:54:21 GMT -5
Weeds! They have taken over my flower bed this year.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 28, 2020 7:43:03 GMT -5
Weeds! They have taken over my flower bed this year. Same here. I’m a master when it comes to growing Virginia Creeper and Bittersweet and wild roses. 😆
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jun 28, 2020 7:55:32 GMT -5
I need to weed potatoes today. There are cukes, zucchini, peppers, and cabbage out there to pick. I think the beans are blooming and tomatoes are setting on. Onions looking good, need to check celery. It may rain today, gray out this morning and 97% humidity, close as it gets to rain without raining, LOL! Will be easy to get the weeds out of the potatoes, I did half the other day. I also bought flower seeds to finish out the row, the first bunch are pretty tall.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 14:38:17 GMT -5
I've done two turns in the garden today, one early this morning and another one when a neighbor came over with her FIL and asked me to give him the tour. He's a master gardener and approved...from northern New York so there are lots of flower and plants that don't grow up there.
For good measure, I used the choppers to take out some odd things growing in front of the house that DD overlooks and pulled some English ivy away from the house.
Now I feel virtuous.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 15:22:16 GMT -5
oped Wudju mind lending me your DH? I really need a retaining wall. And your garden looks gr8!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 8:26:59 GMT -5
I can't win. Yesterday afternoon the sky got so dark that the street lights turned on. I swear it was darker than the inside of a cow's belly. I wanted to fertilize the lawn so figured I'd run out and do that before the rain started. It did not rain. Not a drop. It was late in the day, and I figured it would rain last night. Just because it was predicted didn't mean it would, and it didn't. This morning I checked the forecast, looked at the radar, saw a bright blue sky. Rain supposed to start around 1 or 2, but in the meantime a good six hours of sunshine on the fertilizer would be plenty of time to burn the grass so I trotted out there and watered in the fertilizer. The blue sky went away. It's now overcast and looks like it will stay that way until the rain starts. I could have saved myself the trouble of watering. Why me? I must have sinned in a former life.
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