Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2021 1:28:52 GMT -6
While my pumpkins are going crazy now, I'll be watering them every day come next month. I've learned that x-plants or newly seeded plants require less watering.
If you're worried about not having enough bean seeds, know that we got your back. This is a legitimate insecurity for which I face too. Do whatcha gotta do.
One who recently passed taught us all so much. She would always create new starts to replace her existing bean plants, etc. She lived down S oklahoma on the border of texas and it was super duper dry there.
To that end, it's all about soil. To make this succession sowing work well, I gotta be feeding that soil while the plants are growing in it, like my pumpkins. They'll deplete everything in that soil and I gotta be pumping that manure in it to get it to grow something else in the winter. Some of that buffering can happen when the succession plants are tiny as they're mainly rooting in, not constantly feeding.
I'd be remiss if I did not make the claim that this level of gardening discipline is new to me. And that's exactly why I put the Seminoles in the front corner of the yard. It's right by the rabbit hutch and a spigot. I won't neglect it. lol
|
|
|
Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 4, 2021 6:07:27 GMT -6
I really need to be better about making sure that I actually manage to post my replies. I know I wrote a long one here yesterday morning, but I must have hit the wrong button again. I’ll try to recap.
Firstly, Bon, thank you for your encouragement about my bean seeds. Thankfully my drying pods are doing well. I actually brought the first three in on Friday evening because they were dry enough to rattle a bit in their pods, and I didn’t want them to get rain on. (I admit to being slightly amused that my Rattlesnake beans were rattling.). I put them in my pantry to let them dry down more, but I was wondering if it’s best to keep them in their pods at this point or to go ahead and shell them and dry them loose. This is all new to me.
I have several more pods that are in the drying down stage still on the vine. They weren’t all the way dry, though, so I left them to hang some more.
The vines from which we’re still eating really slowed down for a while, but Friday night I was able to harvest 10 ounces, which is more than they’ve been producing. I think they just needed a bit of reprieve from heat and dry. We had a couple of rain showers on Tuesday, and they really liked that. We had another yesterday (though pretty small) and will maybe have more today. I think I’ll keep harvesting for a bit.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2021 11:18:49 GMT -6
They rattle? That is so cool! I gotta watch my Cooper's and see if they rattle when dry. Those are doing well, but I didn't give the height of the strings much thought. I'll have difficulty harvesting from the tops. lol
I hate being fraught with indecision, a byproduct of inexperience. Ironically those moments and their results often give birth to gardening techniques that become intuitive.
|
|
|
Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 4, 2021 19:30:08 GMT -6
Bon,
You remind me of myself. I built a cucumber trellis one year from cane poles that I harvested along the river. When summer came, my cucumbers grew to the very top of the teepee I had built that was probably easily 10' feet tall. At the time, I had no ladder to reach them, so I left them for seed.
|
|
|
Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 5, 2021 17:09:35 GMT -6
I have taken a plastic step stool to the garden one or two times this year. I can reach to the top of my trellises (barely), but those plants have grown right over. I also prefer to keep my legs out of the zucchini that’s growing in front of my beans. I put on a long sleeved shirt to pick, but I think I might just die in full coveralls. It’s so hot and humid.
I checked out more of my drying bean pods today. No rattling and still moist on the vine and getting rained on now. Overall that’s a help to the rest of the garden. I imagine I’ll pick more fresh beans tomorrow.
|
|