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