Ron's Results
- Here's the report from the Wisconsin nonprofit headquarters. During the time we were
talking there were at least half a dozen instances noted where cars traveling Lieder street
actually stopped for from one to 3 minutes with the people gawking at the garden. One
even took out a camera and took pictures. All they could see is the zucchini, summer
squash and meal corn, as they block the view of the rest of the garden. The meal corn is
starting to tassel and is at least 15 feet tall! The sweet corn is over my head and teaseling
with some heads of corn already with silk. In all my years of gardening I've never seen
sweet corn so tall. I've been just assuming that the height of the meal corn was just an
illusion, so yesterday I stopped along side the road with my tape measure and measured
the height of the field corn on a farm that was teaseling. Sure enough, our corn is at least
3 feet taller and looks beautiful. If I were canning beans, today I could have picked
around 100 quarts of green and yellow string beans.
The peas, broccoli, and cabbage are barely holding on and I am surprised they aren't
shriveled up and dead from the heat They were all planted at least 2 months too late.
We'll probably get some green peas for seed, but not much at all. I doubt if the cabbage
and broccoli will make it. The scallions, from seed, are doing fine. I have two zucchini
that probably weigh at least 5 pounds and two yellow squash just a little less. They are
taking all the resources of the plant to grow, so no new fruit is starting. If these 4 squash
can go to maturity we will have several hundred times what I planted (3 seed of each).
Once I harvest these seed squash, then I'm going to start eating some of the new fruit. One
pumpkin has a vine that is almost 20 feet long. Lots of flowers, but no fruit yet that I have
found. One of the other squash (don't recall the name) is producing prolifically. The
Navy beans are doing great as are the kidney beans. Boy, the combination of soil and the
fertilizer has, so far, produced a fantastically impressive garden. The tomatoes I planted
for myself have lots of fruit that should start being ready to eat in a couple of weeks.
- Ron