The Endzone Garden Thread

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#1,379
Yesterday, I was policing the yard before mowing when I espied an aggressively growing invasive vine rising from my neighbors’ hedge towards the lower branches of my dogwood. I walked over and yanked it out. Unfortunately, bald-faced hornets have begun to nest in their hedge. I ran away as the angry mob arose, but three managed to find and sting me. The stings are exponentially more painful than those of a yellow jacket.
 
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Tin Man said:
Yesterday, I was policing the yard before mowing when I espied an aggressively growing invasive vine rising from my neighbors’ hedge towards the lower branches of my dogwood. I walked over and yanked it out. Unfortunately, bald-faced hornets have begun to nest in their hedge. I ran away as the angry mob arose, but three managed to find and sting me. The stings are exponentially more painful than those of a yellow jacket.
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Nature fights back! Ouch, that sounds painful.

I pulled approximately 4.3 quintillion goldenrod plants out of a large flower bed yesterday, and I’m amazed that there apparently aren’t any yellow jackets nesting there. I know my time is coming, though.
 
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Tin Man said:
Cow bird taters?
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Finally figured it out when I excavated the plant labels.

I DID order and plant Yukon Gold. There was a space at the end of the road row, and a Klondike Rose had sprouted in the tater drawer, so I planted it for why-not. I pulled that one last week, and they were all red.

Meanwhile, the cat approves of the newly opened-up space:
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GVF said:
Totally regretting not getting my taters in. I wonder if I can do a planting mid-summer for fall taters?
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Boy, I dunno. The vines really poop out in hot weather. Mine are lying flat in late afternoon, although they do look a bit better in the morning.

When’s your expected last frost date? Maybe you could plant in late summer, planning to dig around frost time? The ones I pulled were planted 3/4 and ready about a hundred days later. The russets still seem a bit small.

Maybe call your local extension master gardener office to see if gardeners in your area can get two crops? The trick would be finding seed potatoes now. Maybe buy organic (therefore untreated) potatoes, let them sprout in a dark drawer, cut them up, and plant? It would be a cheap experiment anyway.

Here’s a link from Berea College about planting now (mid-June or July), if you find a late-maturing variety: Potato Planting Time - Grow Appalachia

From UT and NCSU (for central NC, which gets pretty dang hot), advising traditional spring planting: https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/D69.pdf
It's Time to Plant Potatoes

— I add < site:edu > to search terms when I want to avoid clickbait BS from some random blogger who only knows how to copy/paste. They are infesting gardening posts these days. I also check serious commercial growers like Johnny’s Selected Seeds | Supporting Farms & Gardens Since 1973.
 
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VolNExile said:
Boy, I dunno. The vines really poop out in hot weather. Mine are lying flat in late afternoon, although they do look a bit better in the morning.

When’s your expected last frost date? Maybe you could plant in late summer, planning to dig around frost time? The ones I pulled were planted 3/4 and ready about a hundred days later. The russets still seem a bit small.

Maybe call your local extension master gardener office to see if gardeners in your area can get two crops? The trick would be finding seed potatoes now. Maybe buy organic (therefore untreated) potatoes, let them sprout in a dark drawer, cut them up, and plant? It would be a cheap experiment anyway.

Here’s a link from Berea College about planting now (mid-June or July), if you find a late-maturing variety: Potato Planting Time - Grow Appalachia

From UT and NCSU (for central NC, which gets pretty dang hot), advising traditional spring planting: https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/D69.pdf
It's Time to Plant Potatoes

— I add < site:edu > to search terms when I want to avoid clickbait BS from some random blogger who only knows how to copy/paste. They are infesting gardening posts these days. I also check serious commercial growers like Johnny’s Selected Seeds | Supporting Farms & Gardens Since 1973.
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I got a chance to do some quick scanning a few minutes ago. Technically, taters are cool weather, so I'm thinking on what I did have time to read I may can put in ground early august. I'm gonna leave some lying around for hte eyes to develop and then give it a try. I have had store bought taters sprout some pretty good eye growth before.

For any of you old timers with apple trees, dad said they used to do sulfer apples. They would put crocks in the ground, slice apples and had some sort of sulfer solution or sulfer pack and put them in the crocks and cover. Would have fresh, crisp apples all winter. Just pull them out and wash them.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
‘Sulfuring’ apples - The Mountain Eagle.
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Thanks for the link. I couldn't remember the exact process dad described. He grew up out here on the farm. Lot's of poor folk stories. No money, but they knew how to make and keep their food. Store bought bread was a treat. If ants got in the sorghum, you strained what you could and ate the rest. They salt packed their own country ham in a wood bin and cloth. They didn't get indoor plumbing till the house was expanded in 1952. Till then he had to cross the field to the spring to get water. I live in that house now. The chimney where the wood cook stove sat is still in great condition in the kitchen. They mostly had pork and chickens. Beef was a rare treat. And we are all still passing around the seed for the best green beans on mother earth. No one knows where it came from or what the real name is. We have it and some neighbors have it. But, if you can find a can of Allen's Kentucky Wonder Style, it is the only relatively comparable bean I know of. Allen's mostly sells only the Cut Italian now.
 
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GVF said:
Thanks for the link. I couldn't remember the exact process dad described. He grew up out here on the farm. Lot's of poor folk stories. No money, but they knew how to make and keep their food. Store bought bread was a treat. If ants got in the sorghum, you strained what you could and ate the rest. They salt packed their own country ham in a wood bin and cloth. They didn't get indoor plumbing till the house was expanded in 1952. Till then he had to cross the field to the spring to get water. I live in that house now. The chimney where the wood cook stove sat is still in great condition in the kitchen. They mostly had pork and chickens. Beef was a rare treat. And we are all still passing around the seed for the best green beans on mother earth. No one knows where it came from or what the real name is. We have it and some neighbors have it. But, if you can find a can of Allen's Kentucky Wonder Style, it is the only relatively comparable bean I know of. Allen's mostly sells only the Cut Italian now.
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GVF, I would kill to have just 3 or 4 of those seeds for next year. I could take those and turn them into several hundred and then have them here. Allen's Kentucky Wonder is the ONLY green bean that we will eat other than my family's canned beans.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
GVF, I would kill to have just 3 or 4 of those seeds for next year. I could take those and turn them into several hundred and then have them here. Allen's Kentucky Wonder is the ONLY green bean that we will eat other than my family's canned beans.
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Around here, the Kentucky Wonder style has disappeared. But alen's Cut Italian is a flat bean also and is very good.

Ours goes by mountain bean, grandma jenny's bean, neighborhood bean, a few other names, depending on which neighbor has it. AS it stands, I don't know of anyone besides me, my brother, and one neighbor that actually has it. Maybe one other other neighbor down the road that would have it if they still grow it.

We can probably arrange to get some to you after the season. I still have a few. My brother has a jar. You'll need atleast 30 to get a decent starter crop going. They've always germinated well. My dad would harvest enough to supply the whole family. His crop will produce better than mine and we are only half mile apart. We always leave the last pick on to vine dry, then we put them in mason jars in the freezer for the next year. My step-son has tried them twice, but they don't seem to like the South Ga summer. He's thought about trying them in a late summer planting for a fall bean to see if that helps. My brother plants 4 raised rows that grow over bent wire arbors. About 15 feet long. He quit canning last year at 70 jars and left the rest on. I picked enough to boost mine up to about 20. Still left enough on plants to dry. I bought those packets of bean booster that TSC puts out in hteir seed racks. Tried it first time this year. That stuff really jump starts them.

My wife hasn't eaten a single green bean since I opened the last jar a few weeks ago. If I fix some, she asks if they're my dads. If not, she passes.

Since you asked, sicummins@live.com. You can send me address at some point this season. But, I am limited on sharing a bunch of seed around the ballpark to all the fans.
 
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GVF said:
Around here, the Kentucky Wonder style has disappeared. But alen's Cut Italian is a flat bean also and is very good.

Ours goes by mountain bean, grandma jenny's bean, neighborhood bean, a few other names, depending on which neighbor has it. AS it stands, I don't know of anyone besides me, my brother, and one neighbor that actually has it. Maybe one other other neighbor down the road that would have it if they still grow it.

We can probably arrange to get some to you after the season. I still have a few. My brother has a jar. You'll need atleast 30 to get a decent starter crop going. They've always germinated well. My dad would harvest enough to supply the whole family. His crop will produce better than mine and we are only half mile apart. We always leave the last pick on to vine dry, then we put them in mason jars in the freezer for the next year. My step-son has tried them twice, but they don't seem to like the South Ga summer. He's thought about trying them in a late summer planting for a fall bean to see if that helps. My brother plants 4 raised rows that grow over bent wire arbors. About 15 feet long. He quit canning last year at 70 jars and left the rest on. I picked enough to boost mine up to about 20. Still left enough on plants to dry. I bought those packets of bean booster that TSC puts out in hteir seed racks. Tried it first time this year. That stuff really jump starts them.

My wife hasn't eaten a single green bean since I opened the last jar a few weeks ago. If I fix some, she asks if they're my dads. If not, she passes.

Since you asked, sicummins@live.com. You can send me address at some point this season. But, I am limited on sharing a bunch of seed around the ballpark to all the fans.
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I wouldn't take that many, 5 - 10 at the most because the first crop would all go for seed. Would probably grow them in a controlled environ like around the front porch in my barrels. If I do this experiment, I would be glad to also give you back some of mine to see if they mutated between my house and yours.
 
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I have gardened with my dad for years and I am adept at putting seed in the ground, fertilizing, spraying and harvesting. When it comes to the more technical aspects like saving seed from year to year, I am lost but learning. Hope to have our garden in next year but it still may be a ways off.
 
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