columbus garden 2020

[roper2008]

I like your new beds. Maybe you can buy a few tomato plants from Home Depot. I bought super sweet 100’s, Sunsugar, and Juliet from Home Depot, plus the few varieties I started from seed.

[maxjohnson]

Hi, added two more raised beds today, for a total of 10. Growing regular potatoes for the first time, which I really like as they grow so fast.

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[GoDawgs]

Your garden's really coming along. It looks like you'll have salads for days! A nice variety of greens.

[maxjohnson]

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Probably not a good idea to put tomato and corn in the same beds, but I ran out of ideas.

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Also growing bell pepper for the first time.

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Kohlrabi seems to handle heat pretty well.

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Self-seeded Tango lettuce. It appears the self-seeded lettuces grew the healthiest in the garden and resists heat the most.

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Grand Rapids lettuce continues to be the most productive and heat resistance variety I grew, it's been in the low 90s last few days and all the other varieties doesn't fare as well.

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Overwintered hamburg rooted parsley.

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[MissS]

Your garden in amazing!

[bower]

Ditto the beds look great, I'm in envy of your lettuce as I somehow have missed sowing some in the rush to do everything else. And the flowers are lovely - what a prolific rose!
I'm growing root parsley for the first time, and wondered if it might overwinter. What do you think of the taste?

[maxjohnson]

I'm growing root parsley for the first time, and wondered if it might overwinter. What do you think of the taste?

Not all of them survived, but the big ones did, they should survive if you cover them with leaves or low tunnel. The roots taste like parsley.

My freckled romain lettuce has been bunching up, like in the stores, they handle the heat well too.
The Tango lettuce is amazing, but it does seem to grown better with lots of space.

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[maxjohnson]

One of the easiest thing I've grown.

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[bower]

Max I have never grown kohlrabi. How long does it take?

[MissS]

Wow, that is one big kohlrabi. I could never wait and let mine get that big. They are very easy to grow. No work at all. Drop seed and watch them grow.

[maxjohnson]

Max I have never grown kohlrabi. How long does it take?

Most source seems to say 50-70 days to harvest. I bought the seedlings from the hardware store and transplanted them 40 days ago. It was the most sunny part of the garden and the soil is mostly worm casting because I put a low tunnel over this raised bed over winter and I guess the worms were very active.

[GoDawgs]

You've got one great looking garden. It has expanded a lot since your first postings!

The color on that kohlrabi is super. Is that perhaps Blauer Spec?

[maxjohnson]

You've got one great looking garden. It has expanded a lot since your first postings!

The color on that kohlrabi is super. Is that perhaps Blauer Spec?

I think it's just Purple Vienna. It's delicious.

[maxjohnson]

Finally, I can show off my tomato plants. Reminder that I started seeds a third time because the first two times were destroyed by frost.

It seems like the colder April and May which caused the season to start off late was actually a good thing, as it has been mostly a very warm and dry June, meaning there is significantly less diseases to go around. There is no diseases for any of the plants yet and they are growing ridiculously fast in this warm and dry condition.

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Girl Girl Weird Thing is the fastest growing plant and put out ridiculous amount of flowers. I felt it's too much so I have been limiting the number of flowers per truss.

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Probably the most beautiful tomato variety I've grown.

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First time ever growing bell pepper, this is amazing. This whole raised bed was cow manure compost.

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[bower]

So glad to see what a great season you're having after the faux spring. Fantastic garden! Wow.

[maxjohnson]

Some Burpee hyprid, probably Sweet Success.

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Better Belle II

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[MsCowpea]

Everything looks great!!!

[maxjohnson]

A comparison between Dan's Picolo Gato F6 last year and a F7 volunteer this year.

This F7 volunteer seems to have a more uniform truss and a lot more prolific, but it's less fuzzy. It seems there are still variation in the genes, so I will have to grow out more seeds from both the F6 and this F7. Top priority is to retain that fuzzy characteristic.

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F7

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[maxjohnson]

Not sure will get a great tomato yield this year. There is a wilt developing among the plants, which I've been controlling with Serenade. But otherwise, amazing growth for all the other vegetables. I think using Osmocote helped a lot.

Worst performers:
Sudduth's Brandywine - the first to be infected.
Mega Mav - was doing great last year, but not very well this time against the fungus.

Best performers:
Green Giant - remains diseases free while being next to the other infected plants.
Paul Robeson - surprisingly.

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Green Giant

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Paul Robeson

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Delicious tomato, and watermelon growing in straw bale.

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[bower]

Max, I like the look of the truss on that F7. Could be a great plant even if not quite as fuzzy.