Bodeen's 2013 Grow _-_ Love at First Sting

Devv · Jul 12, 2013

Did you figure out the pickle issue?

BTW all the Cuke farmers around here call them pickles, maybe cuz it's easier to say. I've seen the lower leaves do that many times here, how's the new growth?

Congrats on the harvests, the first ones are the best.

Interesting Choc Cayenne's!

romy6 · Jul 12, 2013

Great updates Jeff. I too thought the perfume ripened red but heard it had no heat so I chose not to grow it.

Very strange your cukes are showing the same signs mine did a few months ago. They went from giant healthy producing tobrown then yellow in a matter of two weeks. Died very fast. I thought it was just the heat and humidity but after reading stickman's post and finding some worms in my last few cukes I am starting to lead towards pests.

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 12, 2013

Devv said:
Did you figure out the pickle issue?

BTW all the Cuke farmers around here call them pickles, maybe cuz it's easier to say. I've seen the lower leaves do that many times here, how's the new growth?

Congrats on the harvests, the first ones are the best.

Interesting Choc Cayenne's!

From everything I have gathered its too much rain. Usually later in the season they start browning on the bottom and soon are shot, but I believe that is just them running their course. They currently are still reaching for the top of the fence and are putting out the pickles.

I call em pickles because that's what I always heard them called growing up. Little town by me had a, what they called a pickle factory, where my grandma and dad would pick pickles out in the fields and bring them in. It was either a quarter an hour or a day, I don't remember.

Harvest was great and I have a great many bhuts hanging on the plants too.

PIC 1 · Jul 12, 2013

Most people here call cukes pickles, as their intent to grow them are for processing. I like to grow the English cukes, the lack of seeds make it a plus when slicing. Also have an Asian type or two and the usual Marketmore/ Straight 8 varieties. My neighbor has issues with the leaves on her plants turning spotty and eventually turning brown and drying up. The issue is the same with all her cukes and is following the plants up to the top. Oddly enough, the fruit on her plants are also growing deformed. I mentioned to her it may be Bacterial Wilt as this started right off the bat with the initial early leaves. She doesn't rotate her crops and grows the cukes in the same spot each year.....go figure

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 12, 2013

Yeah, I may have to raise the fence on the other garden and rotate mine as well. Little easier to do when you let them vine on the ground.

Off the subject, but after finishing my mancave, I finished my jonboat rebuild that got put on hold last fall due to the cold temperature.

BEFORE

AFTER

Today's lunch...red sails lettuce, kale, pickles, and 4 kinds of peppers. Topped off with some grilled chicken.

My hybrid yellow zukes....Burpee is getting a letter lol. This is one of the better ones. Some are all green lol

stc3248 · Jul 13, 2013

Great job on the Jon Boat! I really need to get me one...don't take the kid fishing near enough. I use those same archery targets you got in the back ground too! Haha! I got duped by Reimer on my "Spoon" Tomatoes this year...oh well. I suppose you get what you pay for!

Devv · Jul 13, 2013

I don't know anyone this year that's had any success with squash...maybe bad carma? IDK

SO I read somewhere.... you said you had your own server..being a geek...mines a Network Solutions account for a domain I still own after I closed the ISP...and your's?

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 13, 2013

Update Time

One thing I like doing is crawling through the pepper rows weeding up tight where the hoe can't get. Gives me some up close and personal time with the peppers.

Some pics are from the front garden that I didn't get weeded today.

7 pot

BB Jonah

Black Hungarian

Butch T

Choc Hab

Peach Hab

Mystery

Condor

Bump Please

muskymojo · Jul 13, 2013

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 13, 2013

Cascabella looks a little too big.

Fatalii

Purple Jalapeno but it obviously isn't

First time growing TS Green, is this normal coloring?

Yellow Bhut

Orange Cayenne loading up.

Jamaican Yellow Mushroom

Yellow Habanero

Congo

stc3248 · Jul 13, 2013

Bump again???

Looking good!

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 14, 2013

I think that is all the pepper pics I got yesterday. Skeeters were tearing me up.

GnomeGrown · Jul 14, 2013

Nice plants and pics, Bodeen.

:onfire:

Devv · Jul 14, 2013

Very nice!

Glad to see the poddage and especially the coloring up!

Spicegeist · Jul 14, 2013

Bodeen said:
Yellow Bhut

Everything looks great, but this is my favorite...

Datil · Jul 15, 2013

Great job so far Bodeen!

Cya

Datil

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 15, 2013

2nd Green Bean Harvest. First one of all 4 rows. Did well.

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 15, 2013

60 pints of beans canned today, 90 for the season. Bean stockpile is complete. Next mission!!!

Devv · Jul 15, 2013

Cool!

How do you can them? We just blanch and freeze..

HillBilly Jeff · Jul 15, 2013

Devv said:
Cool!

How do you can them? We just blanch and freeze..

I can not stand canned corn or frozen beans lol. My corn is blanched and frozen and my beans are canned. Canning is easy, 20 minutes at 11 pounds.
Today's meager harvest pic

In the very front there are Congos and Mushrooms. Behind them Condors and a Cajun Bell. 3rd row is a Black Hungarian, Tequila Sunrise, Bhut, and red savina. Last rows are Cayennes.

I have to give the Sunrise a pass on my taste test as it is the first one picked. Smells good, but the skin is a bit tough and there really wasn't any flavor. True test will be the next pepper it has ripen. Mushrooms are going in an omelet in the morning. (after my run). Going to taste test the black tonight.

I have always had lipstick peppers ripen red. Last year I had a plant that all of its pods ripened to orange. I saved the seed from it and those are ripening orange as well.

Yellow Jalapeno is loaded.

Lastly, the Tequila Sunrise plant.