WGregMiller
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I'll trade you. I have a lot to do outside and it's gonna be hot...
What have you done for garden prep so far?
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I'll trade you. I have a lot to do outside and it's gonna be hot...
Brent S
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Snow, really? It's gonna push 90 here! Do you even get a growing season there!
Danil54grl
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I just finished picking my tomatoes and it has been a pretty good season. Ended up filling my little red wagon and then got my bushel wagon filled half way.
Brent S
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I got a basket full of cucumbers today. Started digging up potatoes from the greenhouse today too but got too hot to get far. Two large tomatoes are turning color still, but not quite ready to pick. I can't wait for a cold cucumber tomato and onion salad with vinaigrette.
I have more tomatoes on the vine ,,I found 6 that are just starting to develop ,,,I am hoping for about a bushel before it is all said and done
Danil54grl
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Its been so wet this year that my poor peppers have just been struggling so I keep picking while they are still small except for the tobasco, they seem to be loving the weather. I may just have to end up dandy ng them this year instead of the jalapeños. I am down to my last two jars. . . butternut squash and curshaw pumpkins will be the next heavy picking along with the dry beans, purple hulls, brown Crowder, and silver skins. Limas just did OK this year.
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Picked some strawberries, had more than 7 plants producing berries already. Think the kids planted 30 plants in all of the strawberries.
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Wish I can grow bananas here 
I have a bunch of strawberry plants ,they are doing very well but I have not gotten 1 strawberry off of them,,,,I am very disappointed in that
Brent S
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I've heard you can grow them in a pot/container and move them inside during cold seasons. I'm kind of the mindset to stick with what plants are hardy in your area but if you have a green thumb and lots of time you can do a lot more.Wish I can grow bananas here
Brent S
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They do well with lots of water and some fertilizer. I had a lot of strawberries in pots a couple years back. Over winter I put them in the greenhouse to keep them warm and killed/cooked them. They are really cold hardy and didn't need to be protected to death..... I have one small plant left from that bunch, and got two strawberries off it a couple days ago. I guess I need to plant it and let it spread out into more plants. They send out runners that root when they touch the ground and make new plants easily.
Rob Painless
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Jealous of all y'all's garden successes. Sometimes (most years?) it's kind of a challenge to garden here....land of extremes. 6 weeks ago we got snow, today will be 104. Tomorrow, 108. And wind. Almost all the time LOTS of wind. I've got some stuff up & some doing pretty well but it's gonna be quite a while before I can pick anything.
WGregMiller
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Okay... I will no longer complain about 90 degrees.... you win....
Of course, I bet ya ain't got the humidity. Yesterday morning the air was thick. Yesterday afternoon, 60+ mph winds, then a storm. Actually blew up something of a dust storm before the rain. Rare for here.
This morning, the air was thick again...
Rob Painless
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Correct...we ain't got the humidity....usually. Only once in a while does it get bad here. (just out of curiosity, I checked. Next 7 days highest is 34% with lowest at 26%. Not terrible). Dust storms, on the other hand, are completely common here. I can remember many where it got so dark that street lights came on & you couldn't see 50 ft. away. Most are not that bad, but some flat cover up stuff with the dust/dirt that settles after a good blow. Funny, my mother-in-law was a 'hurricane specialist' with the Red cross in Florida. First time she was here and we had some straight line winds (gust front) blow through at around 70 mph, she couldn't believe it. She said "Wow, we put up hurricane warnings for winds like that!".
Oh. Well, yay, I guess. Didn't really want to win that one.
Arcticdude
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Between yestersday and early this morning we planted asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes and hot peppers. Made a couple more raised beds too. I'll look for some more tomato and pepper plants tomorrow while dad's in surgery (he cut his finger off today). The corn is starting to come up and the blueberry plants are loaded with berries.
Arcticdude
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ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danil54grl
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This is what I came home after work to pick. . .the reason why I have so many green tomatoes is cause we are already feeling the tropical storm in the Gulf. I dont hit the garden till after i get off at 2pm and i am sure it will be raining by then. Expected rainfall is a foot so we'll see. My peppers have finally started drying out and producing half way. Poor things have been struggling just to survive this year. Hoping i dont loose them after this storm blows tbru.
that is real nice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,my potatoes some are doing good and some are dying so I decide to dig a few of them up the potato they had sprouted from had rotted,it was so wet early on here that I am not to disappointed on the other hand I am starting to get a few tomato's ,,,I may come close to breaking even on this garden,it is still to early to tell
WGregMiller
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I did the end of my middle finger once on a table saw... I learned to not work 12 hours and screw around with a table saw.
