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Tommy looks well fed doesnt he

Knock on wood
*insert me knockin' on my head*

I don't have any of those bad~boy Tommies' here..

Wheewwwwwwwwww!!!

Jamie's sunflower..not near as tall as Michael's but still tall! Lil' shy of 12 feet and still growing!



BTW..we found 2 more tomato worms. Icky!!

That is awesome Christina

Holy Schmoly!!!
That's tall...

*I was thinkin' of you yesterday...
I was standing with my brother from Oregon,
and was looking at my sunflowers, and *I haven't been out there in days, doing anything cause I was next door cleaning up for his arrival* and I saw a double sunflower, just like the one you posted... I will have to take a picture and hunt down your post to your double sunflower and post it there...*

Next year for a bonus idea... if you do sunflowers just like that.. plant sweet peas or morning glories going up the stems..
You've got them spaced just right that if you have smaller vines like those growin up it,
it'll look reallllllllly cool...
The regular garden peas can be grown up them too, and will give extra nitrogen to the sunflower.....

WOOOOWSEEEEE!! Those Sunflowers are awesome!

WOW....Well done Jamie!!

Checking in to see if there is any updates on Jamie's garden?
Looks good!

Jamie's garden started out fantastic this year but then he had a couple upsets. His cucumbers got a disease and died. He still managed to get a good dozen cukes off them and there's still a couple left to be picked but it sure didn't take long before they looked like this:



He still hasn't picked any peppers but it won't be long now:





His cauliflower is going strong and has it clothespinned shut in order to blanch:



His tomato plant has done wonderfully even with the hornworm problem he had about a month ago. Here's just a few out of his MANY picked and the plant is still LOADED with more! The variety is Big Beef:



His tomatoes look fantastic but to be honest, the flavour is NOTHING like the ones I'm growing. He's a bit disappointed with them and said he'll be growing a different variety next year.

He's picked a ton of beans and they're in the freezer ready for many meals to come. His spanish onions are almost ready to be picked and dried. He sure has enjoyed the season and has MANY new and improved ideas for next year!

Wow Christina, I'll take a few peppers please!! Everything looks great....

What type of toms are you growing that taste so good????

And I'm sorry the cukes got a disease....that's too bad. Tell Jamie way to go!!!! He should sign up with his own account on here and come chat with us all.

Those tomatoes look absolutely great...
*peppers too*
Did you make salsa???

Those cukes look like mine..
**Did you have any cucumber beetles this year?
Yellow bugs w/ either black stripes or circles on them?**

Looks amazing...well done Jamie!

Weezie..we're certain the plant developed bacterial wilt. I know wilt can be caused by cucumber beetles but not in this case..as we found no bugs.

Thank-you for the compliments Penny!

Christina...Jamie's plants look great!!!!

Wow, Nice garden! Well Done Jamie!!

Jamie and I thought we'd dig to see if he had potatoes yet. Neither one of us are familiar with growing potatoes and I dug and dug and dug and only found one! Maybe I have to dig deeper? He seems confident that there has to be more potatoes in there! I'll try again later.

Here's his potatoe:



Then Willy got a hold of it:



Then Willy ate it!



Jamie didn't seem to mind, he's still smilin'!

Question?????

When you grew your potatoes',
did you put it in a great big well in the ground,
and as the potato grew green leaves upward, did you then throw more dirt on top, and do that step repeatedly???

That's how you grow potatoes, as they grow green upward, they then will send out shoots like underground sideways, and make the potatoes, then you just keep throwing dirt on top, and it does that consectutively..

But that sure was one nice lookin' potato though!
Perfect size and shape and color!!!

Hi Weezie

Jamie planted his potatoe at a depth about 10 inches. When the plant grew to be a foot tall, he covered it with dirt up 'til about 5 inches and continued to repeat that as the plant grew.
Should I just keep diggin' for more potatoes? I was a bit hesitant with my digging as I didn't wanna' "ruin" his good thing happening.

Yep, I'd keep diggin'...
Just to see anyways..
If you did all that,
there should be, theoretically,
more in there...

Of course, if you don't find them all,
they'll just sprout next year on you again!!!

Thanks Weezie!

And by the way:

Willy told me to tell you that it also tasted great!

Thanks Christina for the update

How's Jamie's garden doing these days Christina??
Allllllll wrapped up for the winter?

And what has he got planned for this coming next season???

Hi, Jamie and Christina ! I'm back !