Arnolds Survival Garden 2009

[zatoichi37]

Originally Posted by ArnoldsPupil

The leaves on the cukes are turning yellow, about half of them..Not sure why..Maybe getting to much sun as the garden gets it all day.
The tomatos are growing really nice, the cherries are inch and a half.

The big toms are 4 inches and should start getting our 2nd crop to can in about two weeks.

Okra and lettuce are growing good

Green bell peppers, cayennes and jalapenos are starting to produce.

Let it go this week and need to weed eat tonight and then fertilize tomorrow.

Left the dang water on all night. To many shots of whisky...lol

I think the yellow leaves are caused by a lack of fertilizer, so after you weed eat and fertilize tomorrow, they should turn back to green....i think...

[shawn]

Garden looking real good.

[zatoichi37]

Are they looking better after the fertilizer?

[ArnoldsPupil]

No not much better but out off all the bad areas there is healthy green vines growing out and lots of flowers so guess there growing well.

Having rain and thunderstorms tonight after a good watering well see what happens.

Everything else is growing like crazy and healthy.

Pulling up the green beans this weekend and planting more lettuce

[Merovech]

Originally Posted by Boomboy007

Sorry to get off-topic, but:

You mentioned that you owned a gym for a few years. After reading some of the posts by others, I realized that one of the biggest weaknesses in my preps is my own fitness. Last week I joined a very nice gym with all of the amenities, and I am starting my journey back to the fitness I enjoyed when I was a young man. I am 38, 6'0" tall, 270 lbs., and no known physical issues that I know would affect me. I am going for a physical tomorrow to make sure.

My question is that, in trying to research a health plan, I am running into lots and lots of contradictory information. I would simply like to lose about 80 lbs. and gain some muscle mass. However, what one "guru" says, another disagrees with. Keeping in mind that I am not so smart (don't want to mess around with overly complicated charting systems and such) can you recommend a site that can point me in the right direction?

You'll always get contradictory information in weight training. Focus on the macro scale of the advice given.

Strong Lifts (google) focuses on strength training, and offers information on building muscle mass while dropping non-muscle mass. You and I are in that "older" lifter category (38 male) that means we shouldn't try to keep the same pace; so cut in half its weight progression.

[pompeiijazz98]

How about an update on your harvest?

[Joni]

Originally Posted by ArnoldsPupil

Well everything is growing great.
Planted the cukes 1 week ago and they all came up(4 mounds X 4 plants each)

Green beans are growing like mad and okra

Tomatoes growing crazy...some 3 1/2" already.
Still having a small ant problem.....you see cayenne sprinkled on the ground.

Also notice big upheavals of dirt in the small 4x4 like something tunneling for the last 2 days...a mole perhaps? Its not coming up through just like an upheaval..Ill take some pics tomorrow and you all can speculate...its not happening in the large beds?

4 weeks since the potatoes went underground...How long before we see something? What does a plant look like.
Thanks for all the replies and props. I will continue weekly updates..
G

Get a chihuahua dog. They were originally bred to hunt rats. They'll find the moles right underground and dig them. Mine did not require training.

[Joni]

Originally Posted by ArnoldsPupil

Thanks Lady Bug.....

To everyone....

So I decided to pick these two toms off of the plants as they were the first to show color and show signs of something???
What causes the splits and rough skin?

Could it be that they were the first to mature and something with that?

All the rest are 4 inches and still green and will be two more weeks prob before they are ready.

Anybody got a clue.

Been watering morning and night and useing 10-10-10 fert on the garden

The cherry tom was itching to be picked and is in the window for a few days.

Other than that everything is growing by the day.

Ill post more pics this weekend
g

The tomatos are usually a victim of uneven watering. The radish was probably growing next to a rock. I've eaten plenty of split tomatoes, It doesn't hurt a thing nutrition wise or health wise either.

[pammygene]

Tomatoes that are fruiting, you need to keep evenly watered, if they are dry and then have a good watering, like a rain storm, yeah they will split, they will soak up the water faster than the skin can expand. Happens more often than not, wont hurt them, but you will want to pick them and use them quicker than not, cause bugs will get them faster.

[letsgetreal]

Originally Posted by ArnoldsPupil

...PS how do we keep the fire ants away?God Bless..Greg

From a native Florida Cracker, the best way to get rid of red ants is sprinkle some instant grits over the mound. Ants takes the grits to the queen, she eats, dies, they die.