2026 Gardens - My Nebraska Kitchen

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July 18, 2026 at 7:43 pm #49694
Mike Nolan
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Looks like I'll get 3-4 small (golf ball) tomatoes tomorrow from the 4th of July plants.
July 19, 2026 at 12:06 pm #49698
RiversideLen
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The leaves on the squash plants have been turning yellow and now they are dead. Too bad since they showed so much promise in the beginning. But I know squash in the container might be a challenge. I'm going to pull them and plant green beans.
July 19, 2026 at 12:58 pm #49699
Mike Nolan
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I've got a couple of small chestnut trees that aren't doing well, either. I was hoping to replace one of them this spring but the arboretum I get them from didn't have any available because the squirrels ate the seedlings.
July 30, 2026 at 12:30 pm #49777
Mike Nolan
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Some of my other tomato plants are starting to have ripening fruit on them, so tomato season is about to get fully underway.

I also transplanted the seedlings into the hydroponic garden for the next cycle of it, I should start getting tomatoes from it in mid to late October.

Here's a photo, I'll post an update in a couple of weeks to show progress. (Sorry about the purple color, that's due to the lights I use.)

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July 30, 2026 at 10:09 pm #49784
BakerAunt
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That's quite a set-up Mike.

We have yet to get any large tomatoes, although there are two green ones. We are doing well with cherry tomatoes. We have had a first picking of green beans, and more are on the way. The pickling cucumbers are doing well, and I just made my second batch of refrigerator dills from our garden. However, my husband forgot about two in the garden, and they have yellowed skin. I will see if I can peel them and use them in another way. We have some small green peppers on all the plants. The pumpkin plant has finally formed some flower buds, but it looks like they are all male flowers. We may have a repeat of last season when most of the pumpkins developed too late. The potato plants have really grown, and my husband had to cover up a potato or two that had started to show.
July 30, 2026 at 10:44 pm #49785
Mike Nolan
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I think I'm a week or two away from ones that are 8 ounces or heavier from the garden, the biggest of them aren't showing any signs of ripening yet.

I do expect to have some 4-6 ounce ones in the next few days, and that's big enough to do some interesting things with.
August 3, 2026 at 5:35 pm #49797
RiversideLen
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It's nice that you have space for all that, Mike. A nice setup.

I'm starting to get tomatoes, I've had a few over the past week or so but today was a nice harvest. One of the bad tomatoes rolled off the table onto the ground. When I went back out there a few minutes later, I saw one of the rabbits had eaten a good portion of it.

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August 3, 2026 at 7:02 pm #49802
BakerAunt
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What lovely tomatoes, Len! Ours are so slow this year, and I am yearning for that turkey bacon and tomato sandwich. At this rate, we won't have any until September, and there are not that many.
August 3, 2026 at 8:07 pm #49805
Joan Simpson
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Len your tomatoes are nice!
August 4, 2026 at 9:32 pm #49811
RiversideLen
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Thank you, Joan and BA!

My green bean patch is looking good. 15 seeds have germinated, I think there were 2 failures. Hopefully I will have some beans later.

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August 4, 2026 at 10:02 pm #49816
BakerAunt
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Good luck with your beans, Len. Our green beans are producing well.
September 9, 2026 at 5:07 pm #50023
RiversideLen
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My green beans patch is doing OK. I can see 4 beans so far. Pretty soon I'll have enough for a banquet!

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September 9, 2026 at 6:56 pm #50028
BakerAunt
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Your green beans are looking good Len. Our green beans got some kind of bug infestation, perhaps because we had all that rain and humidity. The bugs destroyed the leaves, so this year there really are no more green beans.

Our pumpkin plant has produced a long vine with male flowers. When a female flower showed up, there were no male flowers to pollinate it. If any were to form now, it would be too late for them to develop. My dental hygienist had the same issue with their pumpkin plants.

As of today, I have another Dester Indiana tomato, and another two developing, but I am out of turkey bacon, which I cannot get locally. I will probably break down and buy regular bacon. I have Canadian bacon in the freezer, but that is not going to give me the taste I crave.
September 9, 2026 at 7:43 pm #50033
Mike Nolan
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We have a volunteer melon in the garden, I think it's a crenshaw, I grew those a few years ago.
October 5, 2026 at 7:14 pm #50165
BakerAunt
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The only vegetables left in the garden are cherry tomatoes, which continue to ripen and make nice addition to salads, a bell pepper or two, and some green tomatoes from a volunteer plant. I'm sad that I did not have tomatoes for making sauce. Scott thinks that the tomatoes do not get enough sun in that location, so he is planning to put them in pots along the side of the house next year, as the cherry tomatoes did very well.
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