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Charles.
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Had a good harvest this past weekend (at least more than normal)
This is year 2 of our garden using the square foot method.
About 3-4 lbs of potatoes in total - next year going to build a potato tower I think...very happy with the results here.
Carrots (1/2 length) took a while but nice to finally be able to pull some.
1/2 dozen jalepeno's and a few cubanelles
Green beans (pole) just starting to come in and waiting on most of my tomatoes which are growing crazy.
Have been picking some purple beans (bush) for a few weeks - yum
It's been a learning year mostly - will plant a lot more of certain things next year (peppers, beans) and not grow some things (chard)
Cucumbers did not grow this year (think not enough calcium, phosphorus in my compost mix (using a fully organic garden) although they did great last year.
Have not been able to get beets to grow again this year (no success last year) - not sure why?
Did you grow your spuds in a bucket (i.e., a trash barrel) or in the ground? We got about the same pounds but you got a nice big one.
Grew them in 3 separate 1 ft x 1 ft spaces in my raised bed - Put five cut pieces w/ an eye into each 1x1 section; just placed them at the bottom of 6" soil and just covered them up, no mounding, etc.
I am using the SFG method for soil which is 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 peat, 1/3 compost - works well.
How about yourself?
Had a good harvest this past weekend (at least more than normal)
This is year 2 of our garden using the square foot method.
About 3-4 lbs of potatoes in total - next year going to build a potato tower I think...very happy with the results here.
Carrots (1/2 length) took a while but nice to finally be able to pull some.
1/2 dozen jalepeno's and a few cubanelles
Green beans (pole) just starting to come in and waiting on most of my tomatoes which are growing crazy.
Have been picking some purple beans (bush) for a few weeks - yum
It's been a learning year mostly - will plant a lot more of certain things next year (peppers, beans) and not grow some things (chard)
Cucumbers did not grow this year (think not enough calcium, phosphorus in my compost mix (using a fully organic garden) although they did great last year.
Have not been able to get beets to grow again this year (no success last year) - not sure why?
What would cause a cucumber to go from turning green to change to a pale yellow while still on the vine?
I'm a bit jealous of the carrots, I tried 3 years and never had much luck with them. Same with cukes, they just need too much sun I think for my shaded yard.
What would cause a cucumber to go from turning green to change to a pale yellow while still on the vine?
What would cause a cucumber to go from turning green to change to a pale yellow while still on the vine?
Happened to me this year as well
Pretty sure it is a calcium/phosphorus in the soil thing
This guy has a really good blog - and some things on cucumbers are there:
The Rusted Vegetable Garden
The Rusted Vegetable Garden
Check through his blog - I think he has a few more things about cukes - tons of info on tomatoes.
This is the first year that I have had some luck - switched to using half-length carrots as my raised beds are only 8" tall (Danvers half long, little fingers and parisian market) and they grew much better.
I have only about 6 hours of full sun on garden so they grow very slowly - probably take about double the time to grow to a harvestable size. One thing I learned is to thin them as early as possible and look multiple times to make sure only a single plant is there - the kiss of death to carrots is having two plants (that you think is one) right on top of each other - lots of leaf growth but no carrot
I had the same thing
One cause is over watering. More likely, they were ripe and you didn't harvest them. Over ripe cukes will turn yellow, and become bitter tasting. Usually they only take 50-70 days to fully mature.
Thanks all.
It appears that some sort of bug ate it's way into the cuke and caused it to rot on the vine.