Meadowlark
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Last of the first planting corn today. 8 dozen ears from 4x20 foot space harvested over a three-week period. Second planting is about ready to pick now.
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I so wish I would've planted corn now! Yours looks really good! I won't make the mistake of not planting any next year!
Meadowlark
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This is one thing that actually tastes better than it looks.
What variety of bumpy squash is that?
Do you not have time to plant corn this year? I could.
Honestly, I don't know the variety of anything we have in our garden. My mom and youngest son picked all this up at the local greenhouse and all the tags have long since blown away or gotten lost.
No clue. I automatically assume it's too late to plant anything now that the temps are regularly over 100F now.
Meadowlark
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That is a good assumption. Corn in particular pretty much stops growing above 95 deg F.
Meadowlark
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Pink eye purple hull peas on the menu today.
These are the best eating peas amongst all the many varieties...but of course taste is an individual thing. The peas are a main- stay garden soil replenisher for me as I usually only pick a few for eating and shred the rest enabling successive generations of peas to enrich the soil.
These are the best eating peas amongst all the many varieties...but of course taste is an individual thing. The peas are a main- stay garden soil replenisher for me as I usually only pick a few for eating and shred the rest enabling successive generations of peas to enrich the soil.
Meadowlark
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Today's harvest... evidently we missed a few cucumbers yesterday. Today they're almost too big, but I bet they'll still eat as a pickle.
Few more squash for the ol' freezer too.
Oh, and our first zucchini of the year from our drip system plants.
Few more squash for the ol' freezer too.
Oh, and our first zucchini of the year from our drip system plants.
Meadowlark
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You're still producing squash!! Excellent.
Yeah, and still quite a few on the vines. The plants still look great! I took a few photos just now but they're too big for the server to process. I'll have to get that fixed soon so I'll upload a few photos of those later.
Here are a few of the squash plants, taken about an hour ago. There is one that doesn't look as healthy as these but other than that one, the rest are about like this first one. The second one is our next worst one.
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- Kent, England
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Brilliant Mr Lark@Zigs Bridgewater Beans. Two out of three seeds planted are off and running...or should I say crawling in this Texas heat. They are probably wishing for UK weather
They're not far behind ours, second planting as the slugs ate the first lot...
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- Kent, England
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- 9a
Got some of them in today...
We're still getting bad slug damage so I've smeared Petroleum Jelly on the bean poles and stems of the beans to hopefully keep them off.
We're still getting bad slug damage so I've smeared Petroleum Jelly on the bean poles and stems of the beans to hopefully keep them off.
Meadowlark
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Do the English grow the English Cucumber?
English cucumbers, Cucumis sativus, were bred to create a cucumber without some of the more undesirable characteristics that this vegetable has, i.e. a tough outer skin, large seeds, curled ends, and a bitter taste. Here in USA markets it is generally packaged individually in shrink wrap because the skin is delicate and easily damaged. Plus, I suspect they charge more for them when wrapped that way.
The English cucumber is long, thin, and straight. It can be twice the length of a regular slicing cucumber; a typical English cucumber in USA markets is around 14 inches long. However, I like to harvest them before they get those lengths and they are totally free of any bitterness, straight as string, and very tiny seeds and thin skin. I find they keep very well.
How about it...do the English grow them?
English cucumbers, Cucumis sativus, were bred to create a cucumber without some of the more undesirable characteristics that this vegetable has, i.e. a tough outer skin, large seeds, curled ends, and a bitter taste. Here in USA markets it is generally packaged individually in shrink wrap because the skin is delicate and easily damaged. Plus, I suspect they charge more for them when wrapped that way.
The English cucumber is long, thin, and straight. It can be twice the length of a regular slicing cucumber; a typical English cucumber in USA markets is around 14 inches long. However, I like to harvest them before they get those lengths and they are totally free of any bitterness, straight as string, and very tiny seeds and thin skin. I find they keep very well.
How about it...do the English grow them?
Meadowlark
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I have found them to be milder than all other cucumbers. Really good taste.
I agree, and they do say that if you eat them with the skin still attached it helps with the indigestion, but still we don't grow them. 
You may wish us luck with the latest planting of the beans! I have some in the potting shed too - it's got a transparent roof to let some light in. We have to net up the windows to keep all the ruddy neighbours cats out.
You may wish us luck with the latest planting of the beans! I have some in the potting shed too - it's got a transparent roof to let some light in. We have to net up the windows to keep all the ruddy neighbours cats out.
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Sheal
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Envious of those beans, hopefully I'll be able to get some under way next year.
