Quickie Garden Vlog 8-11-2008

The deadline to enter my Okra Contest is 6:48pm Tuesday, August 12. Just enter your guess as to the ultimate height of my okra and total poundage harvested on the video this is attached to. I will be periodically doing a running total in the description of that video.

I attempt to be a little more concise on my garden vlog. This is unedited.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Garden
• Gardening
• Okra
• Tomatoes
• Squash
• Peppers
• Beans
• Food
• Farm
• Farming
• Agriculture

[gumleyboy]

I would imagine that it would be quite handy to live next door to you Blink, as you grow veg to excess, there is no way you can munch yourself through all that stuff, so you would be dropping unwanted items off on my doorstep by the barrow load!

[Blinkazoid]

Yep:) Especially cucumbers and squash!!!

[KurtGnu]

Why don't you try and sow / plant the cucumbers in batches, with a week or so inbetween? Then you should have cucumbers which are not bitter even at this time of year? Or am I wrong?? I grew nothing in my garden this year, nettles apart.. :)

[Blinkazoid]

No, you're exactly right. That would work out perfectly. Every year I tell myself I'm going to do that. And every year I seem to run out of energy and *don't* do it, LOL.

[KurtGnu]

Mind you.. it could be things as less light and cooler weather that affects the flavour, in which case sowing in batches may not neccesarily help! But from experience I do know that it works fine on radishes... :) :) I was an expert radish grower in my younger years.. like between 10 and 14.. :)

[Blinkazoid]

It works for corn too. I used to plant quite a bit of it and usually did it in 3 stages to keep all of it from becoming ripe at the same time. Corn will work you to death if you're putting it in the freezer because of how long it takes to silk, so you never want all of it to mature at the same time.

[KurtGnu]

..every year, to say the least! But she was much younger then.. :) I used to contribute with radishes, sweetcorn, wild strawberries and horseradish, I had my own little plot by the compost heap.. which probably explain my 'success' and a vegetable grower at the time.. :) My garden over here is much too small, and rather infertile, I'm sad to say.. but sometimes I long back to those days of old.. Why is it that your childhood summers always concist of endles sunshine?? :) :)

[KurtGnu]

I used to love growing corn, which worked quite well in the south of Sweden.. Mind you, this was in the garden of the house where I grew up, not of the house in which my parents live today! We had a massive 'allotment' dug up for vegetables and flowers, my parents grew peas, carrots, swede (rutabaga to you?), potatoes, strawberries and various other berries.. and the most delicious rhubarb I have ever tasted. We also had a small apple orchard (about 6 or 7 trees). My mother had a busy fall..

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks Lesley:) Ya, it's pretty much a given that the cucumbers will start getting bitter late in the season as the vines start dying. It's kinda odd since the cucumbers themselves will still look good. I'm hoping for better things next season. I've been burying loads of peelings in the garden in a new area where I'll be planting next years tomatoes. Best of luck with all your gardening!!!

[flydarling]

Love this Robert. Your season is so much earlier than ours but ours goes on after yours so I appreciate what we have now more, at first I felt ours was so poor, but it's just skewed. Our best producer was the potatoes and lettuce but we're looking forward to some great beetroot. Fascinating about the cucumbers getting bitter. I really fancy trying more next year and am determined to get beans on my arch - they died this year. Cheers, Lesley