what you gonna grow for this season !!!

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:53 pm

More stuff
Cantaloupe, Basil, Legend tomato and Roma tomato

dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:44 pm

fantastic bro !!!!

the rocoto is looking good infact you have lots of chillies to and you seem to have lots of fruits on each plant.. the basil leaves are huge, and your tomatoes are red on the vine,

i am growing the san maranzo plum tomato but we have had the worst weather since 100 years in UK, i think the food prices will hike up in the winter this is what everyone i saying coz of the shitty weather all summer, i mean summer is almost over, we are in the first week of august and i have just got some small pea sized tomatoes growing.. and i can forget the pumpkins man lol

my runner beans are just showing the tips of there flowers...

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:13 pm

Hey thanks dill !

Well my peas are all finished with 36C plus temps beating 'em up.
My pole beans seemed to stopped production, got yellow bush beans flowering, but bean dry for now. Going put some more pole beans in where the peas used to be,
Still haven’t got the cilantro started, just lazy.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:00 pm

Ok where is smokes, butcher bob, jesus or even smotty?

Hey Butcher Bob, come to back to the ban free zone, nobody's gonna zap ya for posting non grow shit

and we love to see yer awesome strawberry bed.

Today’s harvest. I usually pick bell peppers as needed, tonite stuffed bells.

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dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:08 pm

this is good, small amounts everyday straight form the patch and fresh, i mean its better that you dont harvest your crops all in one week like the lovers of f1 seeds always say, if the whole plant ripens at the same time you will have to store the excess food, so harvesting small amounts everyday is much better...

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:12 pm

gosh that looks good intrinsic

hey,
im curious
i read alot about companion plants
planting
as a way of dealing this things

any of you have enperience with it?

dill786 · Post by **dill786** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:17 pm

hey ben,

there is a technique called 3 sisters planting, the native American Indians were doing this centuries before the white man arrived in the mayflower.. they sowed corn/squash and runner beans together as they make good companions, the sweetcorn takes a lot of nitrogen out of the soil and the runner beans are grown a bit later on near the base of the corn plant so it can use the stem to climb up as well as fixing the nitrogen when the plant dies ( legume family) and the squash helps to keep the moisture in the ground suppress the weeds coz of the huge fan leaves so i guess that is "companion planting",

i am growing sweetcorn and runner beans in a pot the beans grew around the stem and caught up to quickly with the corn plants so now i have to use bamboo canes,

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:18 pm

OK I have had these two fawns coming around for a couple of weeks, so I finally grabbed my camera to share a few pics of the cute lil’ moochers. I leave water out for the wildlife and garden scraps in a wheelbarrow for deer treats.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:31 pm

No ben I haven’t done much with companion plants planting. Other then trail and error. Bells peppers and winter squash do great together,
Cucumbers and beans growing close together I’ve problems with.

Also I tried some more the purslane, and not so bad when the leaves are young, kinda good, I could probably sell it in a restaurant, unique taste.

Sun · Post by **Sun** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:03 am

I bet it's the beans that give you more problems.