Is your corn knee-high by the 4th of July?

Mine’s not. Close though, and picking up the pace.

How’s your garden doing?

That must be for more Northern grow zones. When I was visiting my hometown in Arkansas last week, I saw 5 or 6 foot high corn.

What I’ve seen here in Virginia is definitely past that, as well. But it’s been helped in both places by a fairly wet spring.

No corn here but we planted a garden for the first time this year and got a nice harvest of green beans and cucumbers so far. The tomatoes are looking pretty good and my basil has gone from a herb to a bush. Our peas died off and we haven’t seen a lot of growth in the zucchini yet. Still I don’t think its bad for a first effort.

Yeah, I don’t have that much space for a respectable corn patch, but I planted a small patch each of Amish popping corn, some ornamental corn (looks nice in the fall) and some of this new stuff called ‘Ruby Queen’ which is an edible sweet corn but duh - ruby red. That should look interesting when it gets stuck in my teeth.

I’ve got a spaghetti squash coming in, but the rest of my squashy/cukes/melons are just now flowering.

Planted a collection of heirloom tomatoes this year, but no blooms yet. They’re getting close.

Just planted some peas the other day, among the corn. Hopefully the shade will help them stay cool. I don’t plant enough for harvesting, just enough for me to snack on while gardening. Don’t tell the wife. :wink: She always wants me to plant a whole crop of the damn things.

No corn but my peppers are fruiting mightily, and the tomatoes are starting to redden up nicely. It’s salsa time!

Well, I hope you’re growing hot peppers and cilantro, too!

My cilantro’s doing pretty much okay, but the days are pretty hot so I’ll have to harvest soon before they decide to bolt, which with cilantro, can happen any minute.

Most of the farm corn surrounding us is knee high or higher, and that’s after getting a late start this year. Purgatory Man planted some sort of dwarf sweet corn that seems to be already at its maximum height of 3 feet. We’re also getting a late but especially lavish crop of raspberries this year.

Knee high–if you’re short. :slight_smile: Didn’t there used to be a web site where you could watch corn grow? I tried to find it but failed.

I was in northeastern Iowa (Dubuque area) last weekend – their corn wasn’t doing too well then, as a result of the recent flooding combined with the late planting. Driving I-57 through Illinois, their corn looked a bit better, since they didn’t get much flooding.

Are you my sister? Growing up in Wisconsin, I used to tease her we could use her as the measuring stick.

My raspberries are ripening, but my maters are just now flowering, and my watermelons are definitely being slowpokes.

The corn is short, but it’s already been tasseling. The tomatoes and peppers have been ripening and the grapes are imminent. The peaches llook lovevly but the plums were moldy. The blackberries are luscious but the blueberries are struggling. There are squash and watermelons forming and the sweet potatoes are running. Despite the irregular precipitation, we’re doing all right for a scaled back garden year.
The strawberries have been succulent.

Yeah, my one spaghetti squash is growing because I hand pollinated it with a Q-Tip. All the others I’ve been waiting for nature to take its course and it ain’t coursing. I think my next door neighbor fumigated his yard and killed most of the pollinators.

I’ve always found it fun to make a buzzing noise when pollinating.

As an aid to outcrossing, many cucurbits start off by producing only male flowers.
This could expalin their seeming reticence in fruit produciton.

Yup, I’m down with the male/female flowers on squahies, cukes, etc. I love explaining it to the wife: “see, this one’s gotta penis-like thing, and this one’s gotta weird vagina-like thing, plus it’s gotta little baby already on it just waiting for God to give it a soul (my wife’s an atheist - she hates it when I do that).”

I like to think of it as the plant going out and ‘having a little fun’ before settling down to raise a family.

Ours is knee-high in central Wisconsin.

At least where the fields weren’t flooded out it is.

In the low-lying areas it’s either absent or very, very stunted.

Central Indiana here, and I’ve gotten some nice banana peppers already, and my jalepenos are small, but growing. My peas seem to be dying, but I might get a few off of them. The beet leaves are still small, so I know they aren’t ready yet. Same with the onions. I have a couple of zucchini right now, but lots of flowers which I hope means there will be more. The tomatoes are green, but there are lots of 'em. And the cabbage is still growing, but nothing too exciting to report. And nothing from the pumpkin or watermelon plants, which I planted later than everything else.

This is my very first garden, so I’m happy to get anything at all. I definitely have a list of do’s and don’ts for next year’s garden.

That’s one of the fun things about gardening. You learn from year to year what works and what doesn’t. Last year I learned the squirrels around here love sun flowers and you simply can’t plant them anywhere near a fence, or they’ll chew the tops off. My friend back east plants hers by the fence and the squirrels apparently don’t care that much.

I have voracious squirrels that love to chew off whatever they can and carry it back to their nests. I’ve seen squirrels dragging more than their own weight in produce.