Garden pics

[WilcoKen]

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My garden is doing good this year. The corn plot in the last pic is for selling this fall for decoration. The middle pic is one of my pumpkin plots for selling this fall too. It paid for most of kids Christmas last year.

 

[AllOutdoors]

Nice! Looking good.

 

[LA man]

Nice and neat

 

[DaveB]

So the decorative corn is one of those varieties that folks use for Halloween and Thanksgiving arrangements?

Kernels are all colors?

i tried to grow from Burpee seeds but to say the plants were scraggly is being ultra polite.

Your garden looks top notch. Congratulations.

 

[Vince]

Looks awesome...
Can't wait to acquire some land so I can do this..

 

[WilcoKen]

Most of the corn is just simple field corn. People put a bundle of stalks on the mailbox or porch columns. The corn in the garden is Peaches and Cream. I hope my pumpkins turn out better this year. If anybody has pointers for growing good pumpkins I can use it. The vines looked good last year but we didn't get that many that turned out good.

 

[DaveB]

1. Get the pumpkins off the ground. I used the plastic milk crates.
2. IMHO you have to, must, manually pollinate. Take stamen from plant A and liberally douse the pistils from plant b.
3. I never let more than a single pumpkin grow on one vine unless sub 20 pounders then two.
4. I used MiracleGrow like it was free.

My soil prep was to dig a square hole in the ground minimum 2foot on a side. Remove all rocks, clay, sticks, and replace with dirt, compost, 1/4 bag of cheap 13-13-13, and then as much top soil as necessary. Water weekly. I wanted a pyramid-like mound. Did all this early spring. Come late June NLT July 4, Square off the top, plant 4 Seeds NESW, and if you believe in it (My Dad did), only in the dark of the moon.

Since it is close to too late, about only thing you can do is manually pollinate. Then, pinch off blossoms that take and only allow one or two per vine.

I have a pic somewhere. My pumpkin leaves were over two feet long and about that wide. The hairs on the leaf stalks were sharp and stiff, enough to jab you like BlackBerry thorns almost.