Yay, Rob!

More later. Organic gardening club meeting tonight

Hurray Rob for ripe tomatoes!

That is a very nice looking tomato Rob! Mine are all late this year but I do see some color changes going on out there. Big Zac and the one hybrid that we grow, Jetsetter, are going to be the first of the non cherry type for us.

My mother is in northern Mi. (NOT the upper pennisula though) and she said she still hasn't had her first ripe tomato, but soon. Mine are finished.

Arlene, you have had really bad luck this year with your tomatoes.

Yep. But so has everyone in this are. Just too much rain. Some years are like that.

Made stuffed peppers tonight. And picked almost half bushel of assorted peppers. I should have taken a picture. They were so pretty, yellow, red, green, orange and chocolate!

Yes, you should have. All those colors would really have looked fantastic.

I have some peppers turning red. Wow, couldn't believe it. Usually they don't last to that stage before I pick them.

They're so sweet when they turn red. I grow one, Nardello, that is a long, skinny sweet frying pepper but is great raw. I was eating one for lunch and my granddaughter asked me what it was. When I told her she wanted to try and. By golly, she ate the whole thing! Sweet as candy they are. I think we got the seeds free so we tried them. Big sellers at market too.

http://www.territorialseed.com...

Looks like a good one. Next year I will be growing more peppers than I am this year. But I am limited to plants I can buy locally, not about to try and start pepper seed. But fortunately there is a very good section of pepper plants around here in the spring.

Newyorkrita said:

My seeds from Parks came. Besides my list of melons, which I will be planting next year, I got this really adorable squash called Poquito. Looks like a tiny watermelon!

http://parkseed.com/squash-pic...

Neat looking squash Rita!!!

Hemlady said:
Neat looking squash Rita!!!

I thought so. And I just had to try it already. I know it is awfully late but yesterday I already put 4 seeds to start. It is an early variety, only 50 days so we will see.

Looks like it might rain later so I was already picking tomatoes and cucumbers just in case it does rain later.

Tubs of tomatoes


Cherry and grape tomatoes.


Cucumbers


And here are some of my late planted second crop cucumber seedlings.



Hey, bean towers have beans forming.



And look, Sugar Cube Melons almost ripe.

Well, I fixed two empty spots on daylily slope from two daylilies that used to be there but are just hot there any more. Moved one from the driveways side garden were it is in the way of my fenceline tomatoes. And moved one from the backyard. The Korth daylily I moved should look better out on the slope that were it was.

I have to fix up the front yard planterbox bed. I used to have two rows of daylilies along the front there. Last year some really dwinded to one fan. This spring still one fan, looking mighty poor. I can't have this looking so ratty and all those emplty spots. I am moving daylilies from one section of the backyard bed to fill it back up so that it looks pretty out there. And this will work out well as I will just use this mini section that I move daylilies from as veggie garden space. It is right there by the cucumber trellis and the used to be mid backyard Tall Bearded Iris bed that now is back to veggie garden space.

So funny that the backyard mid yard space there used to be all veggie space and now I am converting some of it back to veggie garden space again.

OH Hurray! Home Depot has free shipping on orders over $45.00 so I ordered those green metal fence pots I use all over my garden.

Four 6 foot tall ones and four 7 foot tall ones. I use these as trellis supports for my cucumbers and and anything needs to grow vertically. Also as end posts for Florida Weaving.

Now they just send them to me. I don't have to go and load them in my cart and car and get them home.

I did this last year also. I got the same green metal type posts on free shipping. I need these for my expanding veggie garden.

I can't wait till I get some cucumbers. Have a lot of 2" ones. Maybe another week or so and I'll have some to pick if the weather stays nice.

I love to pick and eat cukes straight from the garden. Cucumber and tomato salad, yumm, yumm!

I have a question about those green metal fence posts - I assume they are the green-painted steel stakes with a Tee cross-section. With bumps or studs down one side, no holes or fingers to hang fencing from.

"YARDGARD 1-3/4 in. x 3-1/2 in. x 6 ft. Steel Green T Post"?

How do you fasten things like hog panels or remesh or welded fence from them?
The HD clerk showed me some bent wire things. He said to twist them tight with pliers, to hold fencing in place, so I bought a bag.

I can't figure out how they're supposed to work! I can wrap one around the post, then crimp and twist the heavy wire so it is loosely jammed in place.They do kinda-sorta hang up on the studs and not fall to the ground,, but they seem very lame and clumsy.

Is there some trick to the wire-hanger dinguses?
Is there some other method that people use to hang welded fence or hog panels on these heavy steel stakes?

Waxed nylon twine is neater and seems more secure, so I used that rather than have a rat's nest of heavy gauge wire things looking like they were about to fall off.

Nope, not T Posts, But Metal Heavy-Duty U-Channel posts from Yard Guard. You hang the trellis netting from the little hooks. Easy.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/YAR...

U-posts! The hooks sound a lot easier. Mine were cheaper, and very sturdy, but yours sound more convenient.

Mine are strong and sturdy. They last forever and are easy to use for vertical gardening. I hang trellis netting or I string strong garden twine for my cucumbers and melons and pole beans.