Posted on 08/24/2018 8:04:35 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Apologies for not posting the weed killer recipe sooner- finally found it today:
1 gallon vinegar 2 cups Epsom Salts 1/4 cup Dawn or other DW liquid.
Very quick killer - kills every thing. May need to respray, if there are seed that haven't sprouted.
Still getting a few tomatoes and squash. All else is pretty much done. Not a very good year from a production stand point.
Hubby managed to get the gravel shoveled in to the landscape feature this week between showers. Hoping for weather to allow to finish the final set up and pour in the next 2 weeks.
Hope all is going well for you and yours. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
Pinging the List. Hard to believe that August is almost gone, and summer nearly done for too. Time has passed quickly this year.
Here at 8500 ft elevation in the Colorado Rockies it gets cold at night which hurts certain things I try to grow. Potatoes did well again this year. Turnips and collard greens did well. Have many immature delecta squash, hope they mature. Tomatoes are slow and pole beans are slow. Low night time temperatures vary, mainly 50’s and 60’s, but have had many nights in the 40’s and one night last week it got down to 35F. I have two pots with tomatoes so that I can bring them indoors.
We had such heat here. My beans were late but now they are here. My squash is unreal, I am throwing it away!! I can’t even give it away.! My tomatoes are small but coming on!! I love my garden.
At 85 the weeks are flying by way too fast greeneyes. We had fresh corn on the cob and a cucumber salad from the garden for dinner tonight...
I agree-too fast for sure. Jealous of your corn and cukes. We had such a nice plot of corn, but a night time storm downed the stalks and coons finished them off by morning.
I plan on starting some tomatoes from the stalks of the sweet million for growing this winter indoors and also planting a couple of green pepper plants. Maybe some spinach.
I love the fresh produce from the garden - even though sometimes it is not so plentiful.
That picture of corn is making my mouth water. LOL
It was SO GOOD ge...
Me too. A garden is therapeutic.i have had a garden since 1978.
Thanks for the pics - looks good to me.
As regular garden thread readers know, (and a few might even care...hyuk hyuk), I live for watermelon.
The flagship of this years crop is a beauty, best one I've grown in years. I'm guessing maybe a sixty - seventy pounder. I always go by the little flag leaf by the melon turning brown to determine ripeness, as this has proven the most reliable method over the years.
Had some hail 'bout a month back. No complaints, damage was minimal, praise God! But that flag leaf took a direct hit and is long gone.
If I cut into this masterpiece of the good Lord's handiwork and it's either green or string, I just may start bawling.
The "thump" test is just asking for trouble.
The "smell" test probably works good if you're a bloodhound. I wish.
The "squeeze" test - too many variables with both the squeezer and the squeezee.
The "field spot" is helpful with melons lying directly on the ground but I use melon boards.
Any melon Gurus out there that will take pity on my plight and graciously offer advice?
I was away for a couple days and returned to find tomato hornworms had decimated my 2 best plants. (Somehow they seem to know which plants to go for.) I’d never seen this before: They attacked the green tomatoes almost as vigorously as the leafs! These things are so voracious — I put several in a cricket cage, thinking I’d try ‘em as fishing bait, and a couple hours later returned to find most of them had eaten holes in each other!
Howdy Greeneyes!
I’m so glad the great new things have been added to your home and garden this year. Even without a great crop y’all will have so much more in years to come.
We’ve had more rain here in central Texas than I anticipated too. By no means as much as most areas but just when my rain collecters were almost empty we had 2” then the next time the containers were dry we got 8” over 3 days. We collect the rain from the roof gutters so even a little fills my containers. Looking to get another 250 gal container soon.
I’m still getting squash and peppers. I kept some sweet millions alive thru the heat of summer and they’re blooming and starting to set again for an extra fall treat. I am missing fall tomatoes this year due to a trip up to visit our kids in Maine. I had a sweet young friend who drove 50 miles out here every other day to water for me while gone but didn’t have the heart to try to ask her to care for a freshly planted fall garden.
God bless you all.
Caladiums and coleus have produced lush growth, rose bush produced more blooms than ever. After an initial spurt of flowers and fruit, the tomato plants stopped producing. Probably partly because it was way too hot and humid for them. Same with the cucumber. Sowed seeds of two different lettuce, romaine and bibb. Planning how I will plant spring bulbs and pansies. Looking forward to cooler weather and less humidity. Hopefully will be feeling better and this blasted sinus infection will clear up.
Thank you, Tubebender !
Pix are sliced Roma tomatoes, finished pasta sauce and finally, the anchovies, onions, etc that make up putanesca topping for pasta.
Our tomato plants are still kicking out produce every day. Cucumbers and peppers are overwhelming...
I find the thump test works well but I have to have a few melons to thump for comparison.
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