Got any fruits/veggies yet in your garden?

[omamcm]

Our garden has been in since Apr. 15. Had a very light frost that didn't hurt anything. So far we've got 36 tomato plants, 3 kinds of lettuce, spinach, radishes, kohrabi's, egg plant, zuchinni, yellow squash, cucumbers, rhubarb, 8 fifty foot rows of strawberries (really loaded with about 2 weeks to go), celery, red cabbage, green cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, bell peppers, banana peppers, okra, dill, other herbs and parsley, grapes, cherries and that apple is full. Still to go in when the ground is warmer, green and wax beans and sweet potatoes.
Also plan to put in an asparagus bed. Just got 6 large bales of wheat straw to put around the tomato plants. We just use 18" wooden stakes with torn bedsheet strips to tie the tomato plants that need it. The straw holds the moisture and keeps the tomatoes off the ground. Wire cages get too hot, dry up the foilage and the tomatoes get sun scalded.

[sue211]

I didn't even plant anything yet! I'm so jealous...nothing like home-grown veggies!

[mountain-moma]

Wow Omamcm,you really got a good garden going on there i'm sure glad the frost didn't hurt anything i love everything you guys have planted but i don't think i have heard of Wax Beans what kind od bean are they? Are they green or yellow hubby does his tomatoes the same way with the torned sheets You have a Bless rest of the wkend(

[Camerashy]

i have plans for a garden but nothing can be planted till at least the end of May...thinking of tomatoes, beets ,beans , and some pumpkins ..

[Muffin Baker]

We don't even plant around here til May 1st. I have heard if you put self-rising powder on the leaves, they will kill yourbugs and they will fall off.

[omamcm]

Wax beans grow like green beans, are just a few days later in maturing and don't have as green a flavor. They are also bush beans. I don't mess with pole beans or string beans. I've got enough work. I also forgot, we sowed red beets.
I have used self-rising flour on cabbage and the worms do eat it and explode. That's OK if you have 3 or 4 cabbage plants. But, self rising flour is too expensive and actually draws more insects to the cabbage. We have always included things in our garden that deter garden pests, however, as large as our garden is and the great amount of work that goes into it, I have begun to use on the brussel sprouts and cabbage a mimimal amount of Seven dust. It's the type of vegetable the outer leaves can be removed and when well washed, I feel it's OK. To see a beautiful head of cabbage chewed up and full of worm poop, is more of a deterant to healthy eating than a light dusting of chemical that is removable. I've also seen evidence of the invading "stink bug", not many, but a few in the strawberries.
Our garden is approx. 50' x 60'. For this years crop, we were unable to get the "Surecrop" variety. The berries are very large, but don't have the flavor of Surecrop. They just aren't as sweet. It could have been the unusal weather also.

[Carol1011]

Christine, I was told that mint keeps the flies away. Sorry I was so late in answering your question! We were camping!

[Christine Mlinek]

coooool..... I hate flies. So many dogs in our immediate area, the mint would be great. Will have to get some now!

[Susie Ann]

our tomatoes, onions, cukes, okra, and peppers omg are coming in by leaps and bounds, I am giving away to neighbors, we always start our planting mid Feb.

our fruits trees, already have fruit on the grapefruit, satsum, and lime trees, can't wait to harvest these