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  • Nice! Not so ghetto! I've got Cantelopes too.

  • Thanks! I'll probably give cantalopes a try again next year. I've had mixed results with them. One thing I've always done with mine is put the canatlope on top of a tin can as it's growing. I've always heard it gives them a less earthy taste. Or maybe that's just an urban legend. I can't imagine commercial growers ever do that and their's doesn't taste earthy.

  • Home, Home on the range... where the beer and the cantaloupes play...

    100 foot rows, my property is only 100X50, lol! Looks like you got a great crop there. My tomatoes are omly maybe up to my waist so far, but there are some yellow blossoms on there. IDK, but I think our growing season in Atlantic Canada is later and shorter than NC's. I've been putting veggie scraps and coffee grounds in around there too. egg shells and seafood shells are good for calcium too.

  • Right now I'm burying all my household peelings/compostable type materials in a different spot of my garden and I'll be planting my tomatoes in that spot next season. Best of luck with your garden John. A short growin season can be a challenge I'd think!

  • Dick Raymond, a popular garden teacher back in the 70s and 80s put his melons/watermelons on cans as the season got cooler...the cans would draw in heat which we know watermelons love.

  • @Blinkazoid you should get rid of some suckers you will get the same about of tomatoes ant they will be larger

  • @Blinkazoid you should try to plant them in different spots or perpare your soild every year buce what happens is your last planted every year will take nutrients then you plant new seeds wich wont have enof ntrients to thrive and grow

  • I had the same problems for my pepper and tomato this year which I thought because of too much rain..the okra looks really nice and try to make curry with some of them....nyum!

  • Usually I fry the okra. I plan on putting some in the freezer this year because I know I'll have a ton of it. Occasionally I'll use it in some veggie soup. I don't know if I'll have enough tomatoes to do much of that though. Hopefully when I rotate my crops next year things will be better with the tomatoes and peppers.

  • Yeah, that looks like blight to me. Tomatoes are so tough!  I can only do the small ones here (FL is just too hot--anything above 70 at night ruins them) My okra didn't do well this year because I had them in the same place as last...dang it! I'll switch things around next year too. I have squash envy...hehehe Great job!

  • Thanks Mic! It's a pretty rare night here that is above 70. The fog can be horrible though and can sometimes take 2 or 3 hours to really burn off after the sun comes up, which I'm sure contributes to the spreading of plant diseases. I've grown some of the most awesome tomatoes you've ever seen in the past but it's been tough the last several years. But YAAAAAYYYY, I'll have tons of okra this year!!!

  • Squash is huge!! Okra looks awesome. It is a good idea to ratoate crops.

  • Yep, I should have rotated things around 2 years ago but it's a lot of extra work. Especially when I have to yank up bean poles and dig new holes for them. I'll probably plant my okra and my squash in the same places next year and move everything else around.

  • Nice looking garding Blink. Nothing like fresh, home grown veggies. -Russ

  • Thanks Russ! I love fresh veggies in the summer. Hopefully it counterbalances the crap I eat at other times, LOL.

  • love these updates. your garden reminds me of my friend from primary schools grandmas neighbor!

  • Thanks Rory! I was a little slack in putting out garden vids last year. I've done a little better this year. I know once you start them you need to keep them up because there's a core group of people out there who do enjoy them and are interested in how things are progressing:)

  • Nice garden !

    I watched your video from 2006. Its looking better year after year.

    Check out my small garden.

    I have romaine, iceburg luttuce and potatoes. The only thing that would grow outside in the chilly nights in Alaska.

  • Thanks:) Ya, I would imagine Alaska would be a challenging place to grow veggies for sure!

    A subscriber of mine with the username myrnaukelele lives in Alaska and plants a few veggies. You might want to check out her vids:)

  • Give em all time, they look wonderful and youll get great beans, just mulch em up! Does my cam have macro? Oh Okra is splendid! That compost soil is going to be rich for next year. Your garden follower, Cooksterz.

  • I picked beans today and will eat them tomorrow. I got a fair sized mess but might only get one or two more pickings the way the vines look. I'm sure your camera probably has a macro mode. My camera has seperate modes for "total range" (which includes macro) "Standard" "Manual" and "Super Macro" Sometimes I wind up having to put it on manual because it simply refuses to focus on what I'm pointing it at. Actually my previous camera was the same way.

  • I need to come and visit you and figure out how to keep my plants alive. :)

  • I misread that as "keep my pants alive"

    Yeah, I either need glasses or a drink.

  • Nothing worse than a dead pair of pants:) Speaking of glasses I've got a new pair on order from Lenscrafters. I've finally gone frameless which is why they couldn't do them in an hour and had to send the order off. (I seldom vlog in videos so I do it in comments, LOL) I've been wearing shorts all summer so now I'll be pantsless and frameless. Gotta travel light:)

  • It's been a little bit of a struggle keeping mine alive this year, LOL. I've definately planted things in the same place for too many years in a row now.

  • I remember being taught about crop rotation at school - it's quite a new thing - they only discovered it in Roman times - you must catch up with the new farming ideas Blink!

  • Well darn, I shouldn't have let my subscription to Roman Times Quarterly expire, LOL. It's just aggrevating to rotate crops. For instance next year I'll I have to pull up the posts where I plant my beans and dig new holes for them, and this year I never even removed my tomato cages to plant my tomatoes. I just left them in place from last year and planted through them. But of course there's no use planting something if it' not going to grow well, no matter how easy it is to plant.

  • In our little yard we won't have that problem: just move the pots around!!!

  • Hey Blink.

    Nice video. I was wondering, where do you live and what kind of squash is it that is so massive?

  • I live in the mountains in Western North Carolina. These are just typical straighneck squash. There's really nothing special about the breed or anything. Around here the two main breeds are straightneck and crookneck. I prefer the straighneck because with the crookneck you wind up getting a lot of tiny slices and large slices insead of the more medium slices the straightneck produce.

  • great up-date. Lrsley is sooo excited because we hane tomato turning red and bunches of little green ones. Our chilli peppers are looking a bit sad but I talk to them every day in the hope that it will help

  • Yum.... tomatoes!!! I've now eaten 3 of them from my garden. I'll probably ultimately have all of them I can eat even though my plants aren't the best. I picked a mess of beans today and will eat them tomorrow. I might only get one more picking of beans as sickly as my plants look though. Really I should get a dozen pickings of beans if my plants were what they should be. Maybe you should play a ukulele tune for your chili peppers:)))

  • "Grow, grow, grow your leaves merrily up the stick..."

  • My word those are some freeking awesome squash and okra plants!!! Thanks for the update! Blessings, GandP

  • I'm hoping the okra gets at least 8 feet tall. By the time I start picking the okra I'll be tired of the squash and I might have to take a shotgun out and shoot it to get it to stop, LOL.

  • Great garden Blink. Fabulous squash. I'm jealous- we're having our coolest rainiest summer in 30 years and my squash is pitiful.

  • Thanks Maureen! We've had very little rain here and I've had to water quite a bit. I have to put earplugs in at night because I can hear the squash growing and it keeps me awake:)))

  • It's a shame about some of your plants. Still, you will be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Hey, can I come over for some fried okra? Gosh, I love that stuff!!! ((HUGS))

  • *Sending some cyber okra your way*:) I'd gladly give you all you could eat if you were here! When I rototilled for it I estimated the row was about 70 feet long and it turned out to be 100 feet long, LOL. Okra is far and away my favorite veggie from the garden. I never eat any at restaurants though because it's pretty horrible stuff. I'm sure your "I want to be left alone" hotel neighbor just needs a few good messes of okra and she'd have a better disposition, LOL. Or maybe not:) ((HUGS))

  • Great update, I need to do one myself. You could allways donate any unwanted squash to an old folks home or a shelter or a food bank.

  • Thanks Daryl! So far none of the squash have been going to waste. My dad has a few apartments he manages and has been taking the squash to his renters:) There's certainly only so many I can eat. I think I'm starting to turn yellow already, LOL.

  • We are slicing and flash freezing our extra squash for meals in the winter and I am still managing to give away some to friends and co workers. Cant wait till the tomatoes come in!

    D

  • you are wright pull out any infected plants straight away to stop further problems,you need to rotate and dig in some compost late autumn to leave through winter to revitalise the soil,love and respect scotty and libby:0)

  • I think I'll buy a couple of bags of lime to work into the soil where my tomato plants will be going next year too. The calcium in lime is supposed to be very good for tomatoes. I have tomato problems from time to time.

  • With 12 inch spacing your okra should grow 10 feet tall. Get the stepladder ready ...... Donald

  • Hi Donald. Welome to my tiny (In comparison to your's, LOL:) garden. I did have 10 foot tall okra one year but it's really unusual for it to get that tall here no matter what the spacing is. However this is the first year I've planted it on that patch of ground and it's very dark soil and we've had a pretty hot summer so far so it's possible:) When I planted it I fully expected that quite a few plants would die. That's why I planted it so close together. Not a single plant has died though:)

  • Have you ever grown any kind of melons or potatos, Blink?

  • For some reason watermellon doesn't grow well in this area. No one has any luck with it. I've had good luck with Cantalope one time and bad luck several times. The bad thing is I can't remember the variety of cantalope I planted the year it did so good. I might try it again next year. I do fair with potatoes. I'll actually probably plant a small number of them next year. I plant Kennebeck potatoes. I always have terrific looking potato plants but just an average number of potatoes.

  • Something about squash, it does not stop growing. Ours used to get as high as six feet sometimes. At least it seemed that high when I was a kid. The only draw back was we had squash all summer long.

  • At a different location I had some squash one year that was at least 4 1/2 feet tall and that was pretty early in the season. Then we had a huge thunderstorm with a lot of wind and afterwards it looked like a herd of cattle had been driven through it. They still produced squash after that but the plants looked pretty dismal.

  • it is gunna take 20 mins for this video to load.. FFS verizon needs to get their shit together.

  • clear out you cache, and cookies also goto TEMP INTERNET FILES, and clear out the cookies ONLY IF YOU KNOW YOUR ACCOUNT PASSWORDS cause it will clear things out on you. Should speed u up some.

  • that worked thanks whoners!

  • Your Garden Vlogs are really good.

  • Thanks Trainspotter!!!

  • Funny how some plants do well and others don't, just a few feet apart? :)

  • Yep, tis true. My best tomato plant and my worst one were side by side.

  • I can't wait to see the okra as it get bigger...I love it!

  • We've had a really hot summer so far so it's growing pretty fast! I'll probably have my first bloom tomorrow! (actually it took me a while to get around to editing this and it was filmed *last* Friday so it's probably about 6 inches taller now than when I filmed this)

  • I love your garden vlogs I get so excited when you put one up. I have really enjoyed watching your garden grow. I think you have done a great job and oh my you are going to have so much okra. I guess you can freeze some of it. Oh and by the way this vlog was way to short. I was all settled in with my coke and popcorn. :)

  • Thanks Debbie:) I'll definately be freezing some of the okra, not to mention eating it nearly every day from the time it starts producing a sufficient amount up until nearly time for it to frost. It's good you like long garden vlogs because I don't seem to be able to make them any other way, LOL.

  • Wow, the soil where you pulled out that tomato plant looked gorgeous! I guess the new tomato beds will be that good too though, with all that organic material worked into it. It's weird how sometimes one plant will do well and another will not! Thanks for the tour - happy harvesting!

  • I wish *all* my soil looked that way. That particular patch of soil came from a 40 pound bag of "garden soil" which I purchased this year from Wal-Mart. Unfortunately the rest of my soil doesn't look nearly so good in spite of working organic material into it for many years. However the soil at the place where I planted my okra appears to be far richer. I'll be planting my beans in the same general area next year as where my okra is now.

  • Looks like your tomatoes have a bad case of anthracnose

  • and the peppers too. That's too bad Blink. I hope some of the plants will be okay.

    If you google *Anthracnose of Tomato*, there is an Ohioline Fact sheet from OSU. It has information about the disease and how to prevent it in future plantings.

  • Thanks for the tips woosteria. I did a Google image search and you might be right about it being Anthracnose. I'm not going to do any sort of spraying or anything of that nature next year to prevent it. I'll just do some crop rotation and that should help.

  • much shorter than the last garden vid

    thank god...lol just kidding

  • I know you're kidding but it's still FAR too long!!! LOL. I've mostly succeeded at shortening my other vids but I don't seem to be able to do that with my garden vids or the occasional cooking vid I do.

  • I think your garden looks great except for a few plants. I wish I had room in my yard for a veggie garden. I guess I have to live vicariously through you.

  • If you had a veggie garden and it looked anything like your present yard it would be in perfect shape!!!

  • The tomatoes, peppers and beans look like they all have the same funk. You grew the squash from seeds right? wow...

    I finally caressed my gardens again. I did little during classes. But the perennials are doing well. BUT next year, Imma have a Blink-like garden.. hahaha.

  • Ya, they're pretty much in a funk alright, LOL. Yep, I grew the squash from seeds. I always grow both my squash and cucumbers from seed. Here's to you having a funk-less veggie garden next year!

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