Too funny.

I tried an ornamental rhubarb once... and killed it. How can anybody who's actually trying to grow a rhubarb kill it? I still have no idea what went wrong!

I have no use for rhubarb as I don't make any of the things people usually do with it like pie or preserves. So no rhubarb growing for me.

I still have company and grandson hoping to be born in the next hour or so...catch up with everyone soon!

Oh, wow, Arlene! How exciting!

Jackson Montgomery Van Wagner, 7 lb. 12 oz, 20 1/2" long...1:30 am, June 18, 2013

Arlene, Congrats to you and your family on the new addition. I had been wondering were you had been off to.

Yay! Oh, happy day!

That's a mouthful of a name, but a very nice one! And another Gemini...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... at least that's probably what my mom would tell you!

So my little golden beet and white turnip seedlings I planted yesterday. Looking good. All perky, none of them faded in sprite of the transplanting.



I have my second crop of radishes planted in back of those two seedling rows, they are already just starting to come up. But I am not sure if those seedlings I put in yesterday are too close together or not. We will see. The rest of this square garden has yard long beans for going up the trellis netting. Then mostly tomatoes on the outside with some peppers.

The square looking from the opposite side as the seedling side.

My bean seeds came in the mail today that I ordered the other day. These are the climbing yellow French Fillet Variety I ordered. So I planted them already. Now the bean towers will have one tower of burgundy beans and one of yellow. Both climbing French Fillet types.

And I was correct when I thought I had planted 25 of the Blue Lake that I dug up. Only found 23 but today I found the missing two because seedlings popped up. And on the other tower those burgundy bean seedlings are up.

While I was planting beans I also planted new Black Seeded Blue Lake Seeds in a different location. So now on the pole beans I have the Black Seeded Blue Lake, the French Burgundy and Fench Gold beans. I also have red seeded and white seeded both yard long beans planted and Tenderette bush beans. So I think I am good on beans I have planted!

This photo was taken 6/4/2013 -- now the middle pea vines are 2 feet taller, and lopped over on the other tall cage. I did harvest a nice big bowl of peas from them this morning - but I can't eat them because of some tooth extractions! has anyone frozen edible pod peas? If I can't freeze for later, I might contact a friend who married a woman from Thailand. I'm sure she would be glad to get them.

I won't grow the small pea again. To hard to bend over to pick them. The Mammoth Melting Sugar and the other one, whose name I need to look up - are much easier to pick from since they are very tall.


Also from the 4th - my zucchini - larger one is "black knight" or maybe Black night - smaller one is the yellow squash. Lots bigger now -- but still no fruit. I have yet to get out there and hand pollenate. The green zucchini does have a couple small fruits on it. It must be more than 2 feet across now.

I have such lovely tomato plants.





Love my tomato plants this year. Of Course, I loved my tomato plants last year too.

Now I am growing-

Big Boy
Better Boy
Big Beef
Jetstar
Rutgers
Supersonic
Beefmaster
Early Girl
Juliet
Sweet Million
Sugery
Sungold
Sunsugar
Viva Italia

Oh Juli, if your zucchinis are not making fruit then definately go out and pollinate. Your bees are being slackers! My bees are slackers also as I have been pollinating my squash from the day they started flowers.

Very easy to freeze sugar snaps. Just wash and quickly blanch and then bag them up in portion sizes in freezer bags. In the freezer they go. Save them, it would be a great shame to miss them and frozen makes good stir fry.

>> I won't grow the small pea again. To hard to bend over to pick them.

Amen! Plus, they flop over and lay on the soil. Even bush peas need some support, like one or two strings.

I've started collecting "pole" snow pea and snap pea varieties.

Pole Snap & Snow peas:
Carouby de Maussane - 5' vines (also called 'Pisello Rampicante Gigante Svizzero')
'Rembrant' Snow Pea - 4' Vines - Territorial staff favorite
Territorial 'Chinese' Snow Peas - 5' Vines
Golden Sweet Snow Pea Pod - 6' vies - lemon-yellow pods - NOT sweet - from India
'Sugar Snap' - sweetest - 5'-6' Pole
'Super Sugar Snap' - 5'-6' vines - plumper & earlier

Super Sugar Snap is one I grow and love.

Thanks. I'll give that more room in next fall's crop.

I'm still having Pea Envy every time I see your pea pot photos.

I don't have a current picture of the snow peas but in this picture you can sorta see the pots of the Mammoth Melting Snow Peas that are in the patio. They started flowering later than the Sugar snap types that I have but are now forming pods.

The driveway veggie farm. That first picture shows my pots and also my nice new bean tower bed off to the side there.








Lots of green tomatoes on Sweet Million.

I got such a late start that these are almost jokes.

Plus, the neighborhood cats dug up 1/3 or so of what I finally got into the ground ...

Wow, Rick they are really small for this time of year. You really did get a late start.

Doing the peas in pots lets one be lots more organised. You can just dedicate those pots full time to peas. That way you can do both a spring and fall crop in the same pea pots and they really will only sit empty for a short time in the summer.

I have seen some pretty organized gardens planted in the ground! Mine is not one of them but I am not organized anywhere else so why would I be in the garden

Rick, how has your weather been up that way? If it starts to get hot you could try to shade them some and that would help them out. It is only 65 here today so if I had peas planted they would be loving it