My tomatoes aren't going to produce this year. The cherry & grape tomatoes are fine but the celebritys are hurting bad from all the rain. Got my first eggplants today.




the girls have been busy keeping it bug free, no horn worms so far.

I call p fowl on Payne! That's enough veggies to start a roadside stand, all I have got so far is cucs, and peppers Ditto on the celebrities, doubt I will get one this year.

That sucks. My Celebrities are loaded full. Already have birds that hit a couple that I let get red on the vine. I'm pulling them at first blush from here on out. Pulled about 10 or so yesterday and will have at least that many today. Some of the biggest I have ever had too.

I don't think you lose a thing by picking them a first blush. I did with all my bottom and middle crop. My top crop is now ripening on the vine. I've brought my last one in the house, except for salads and slicing. I have a couple quarts of creole sauce going now. I'll freeze it. I'm totally done processing tomatoes. I'm glad I went from 24 down to 12 tomato plants.

Just put together a 4'x4' raised bed over the weekend. need to get it filled up in the next few days. I figure I'm probably late to start tomatos, peppers, etc from seed? What should I plant now?

Also, where do you guys get your seeds?

okra and peppers, burpees or the feed store for seeds.

Do those peacocks not eat the veggies?

Thanks amigo!

they'll peck at what hits the ground but not off the plant.

Progress of my city farming in North Texas...

Prep began on the new garden Feb 21st. New casa, so new garden.. went 16x16..


Planted around the second to thrid week of March..from West to East, i planted corn to help with the late evening sun, okra, green beans, cherry tomatos + peppers, and last, my squash and cucumbers..

Apri 24th..Progress delayed with lack of sunshine..


We've made nice progress over the last two weeks with all of this sunshine..


I've never grown corn before and really just wanted to help with the evening heat, but i've enjoyed watching it take off. Should be ready to pick pretty soon.. We've been picking a little squash (straight neck), green beans, peppers, and buckets of tomatos. Just picked my first handfull of okra last night.. should be an interesting end of month through july..

That is awesome, nice job.

Thank your sir. I planted a plumb tree in the back this spring. It's not looking all that great but I think it will survive. It's been whipped around like a rag doll back in May with all those storms. We shall see

what kind of plum?

I can't recall. Bought here at a calloways. All I know is it's self pollinating, so no issues there. Haven't seen any bugs on it, just loosing a fair amount of leaves though. I'm thinking it's just a little stress

Maybe too much water with the rains?

yes sir, I lost an apricot this year from the rains but I've had a bumper year with the plums. Are the leaves yellowing?

Turning yellow to red then falling off.

thats not good but it might bounce back. just give it time

Thanks. Things started out slow. I'm guessing due to the cooler temps and massive amounts of rain, but when summer turned on, so did the plants. Hard to believe we had 5-6" of snow on the ground during the first week of March.

I have a second crop of peppers coming on. I'll plan to keep a few peppers and plow everything else up.

My peppers, squash and eggplant are doing good. Tomato plants are about to be compost.

Just build this bed. Got a really late start, but transplanted some peppers and tomatos. Planted a few more seeds, not sure how they'll do with all the rain we're getting right now.

4th of July's are coming in strong. About 15 days late though. Strange.

Assassin bug? I counted 12. Bad pictures I know. Bill was parked over Denton when I went out there.