@almstdone: I know, I have not seen rain in ages, except a bit this morning. Wow the 10% chance. I don't know what area your in-- towards the Mtns or near Athens, but its dry everywhere. We had a few forest fires near our areas but nothing close.
The smoke has/had been aweful and our neightbor burns wood for heat.
As for me watering been not as hard as yours, as I only had 1 plant. But dragging that waterhose around got to be a chore. So, best idea ever was to keep a ol' milk jug around and fill it daily from the sink. Still got tons producing, just not turning color.
And sorry to Hear ben on the issues with the greenhouse. That baby is huge.

R.I.P.
The last cold snap this past weekend took the plant, literally it was in so poor shape and leaves wilted. I had plenty of promising tomatos on it.
So, next project was pepper jelly!!!!!!

Did this include the giant pumpkin project?

Unfortunately yes. The last major hot streak we had that killed about 80% of my crop took the pumpkin out also. That thing was growing at an amazing rate. You could actually see the size increase day to day.

I even covered the entire plant with shade cloth and it was not enough.:(

In a very narrow band we had horrible growing conditions. 20-30 miles away in any direction got enough rain that their crops done OK but the rain just kept missing us. Even the outside gardens sucked this year and you can't hardly kill one of those usually.

Putting the offer of free chocolate cherry tomato seeds out again this year. They need to be started inside 8-16 weeks before you transplant them outside. The time varies by how you start them and how big you want them when you transplant.

Would be happy to answer any seed starting questions.

PM me your address if you would like some this year.

You are not alone. Last year I had collards all winter long. This year I got more creative, planting kale and chard. The streak of below-freezing days crushed everything except one kale plant. Very disappointing.

OH NO!!!!
We are finally getting our 1st snow coming today in Georgia.
Everyone is in frantic mode and schools are ending early.
WHAT!!! Over 1-4 inches of snow.
Only here in Georgia this happens. Urging everyone off the roads by 4pm. Geesh.

As for Kale..never ate any or grew any. I hear it mention a ton on shows, like Dr Oz and Rachael Ray etc.
Really I don't eat many greens at all. What it taste like??? And how to grow it? Anyhting like spinach, cabbage etc.

LOL 1-4 inches of snow is what we call a lite dusting.

To me kale is like spoiled lettuce dusted with dirt. The only thing worse is swiss chard, it is like salty dirty lettuce.

[ATTACH]Attachment 409123[/ATTACH]***** so this spring I came across some leftover seed that were sent to me as part of this thread. So my son and I decided to try the chocolate tomatoes and Chinese eggplant. Both have grow well this summer, unlike back in 2017 when my whole garden was a bust for the year. The picture below is a large 19" what is supposed to be Chinese eggplant but from me reaserch it should be smooth skinned fruit not having raised ridges. Any help with ID?

Sooo much for this old mans memory- it's a (((((Chinese cucumber)))) not eggplant.

It is a Chinese cucumber. I have no idea what the English name is for it. It is not meant to be eaten raw. You cut it up and add it to stir fries.

EDIT: over here it is called a loofah squash or chinese okra.

Photo of seeds from PM

Looks like I accidentally sent you the wrong seeds in the one package.:o I did have the long green chinese eggplant seeds at that time.

Here is my one and only tomato plant this year, a red cherry. It is four and a half foot tall. It has produced a few ripe tomatoes so far, should be able to start picking twice a week the beginning of next month. Once it starts producing good(2 more weeks) it will produce 30-40 ripe tomatoes per week till early/mid October.

Lets see some pics of every ones garden/plants.:)

Picked these today.:D

Just started a tuesday and saturday picking schedule this week. Got 9 tuesday for a total of 21 this week. Should be close to double that next week and for the rest of the season.

my day planted 20-30 maters...2 different kinds --been growing out the ass with these, been already gave 100+ last week, this week made blackberry jam.
I think he did a 2nd run of squash...not sure what else, maybe okra...have to check.

Awesone Chris, how long is your outdoor growing season? Up here we have 4 months, 5 if we get really lucky.

I really miss having the commercial hydroponic greenhouse with all the fresh produce. Don't miss the headache of running it though.

planted better boys & celebrities & cherry tomatoes. Planted 2-3 wks after Easter (after cold frost) Banana pepers, squash, green beans, watermelon(not so good), blackberries.
2nd run squash & okra just recently....I think my dad does collard greens or something before the next cold/winter comes. Lately we dont get much of a winter here, if at all

BTW- i had fun growing your cherry tomato seeds a few yrs ago...It was my 1st time doing something like that, they went crazy. My dad is the one with the thumb.