Posted on 06/05/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by Gabz
Weekly Garden PING!!!!!
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“Weekly Gardening Thread — IT’s JUNE!!!!!”
Not here~! lol.....we’re having frost warnings! My poor little plants don’t know what to do. Two weeks ago, it was over 100 degrees....we’re expecting a high of 60 today. But I do have a few ripe strawberries.
Ditto for 2008!!!
I live to garden as my favorite hobby. 40 qts of salsa last year and the last consumed a month ago. We are starving now. Tomatoes are blooming, broccoli is great, and corn in the ground this week. We have had the hindrance of cool, wet spring, but the weather has finally warmed.
my green tomatoes are already the size of a small fist. i can’t wait to taste them in a few weeks. yummy!
Thanks Gabz! Hope y’all enjoy it!
I hear you on the weather! Sunday was the first really hot day we’ve had. Usually we’re fighting ourselves to make it til the first of May before turning the ac on. Didn’t turn it on this year until Sun—first of JUNE!
WOW, gardengirl outdid herself with this one. I love it!!!
Running out to check my tomatoes now for those worms (LOL).
I haven’t been on the gardening threads lately, have been overwhelmed with the company of friends from out of town. I finally, today, got a break.
I have green beans blooming, a few small tomatoes on the vines (I have 25 tomatoe plants thigh high, with a few tiny ones up among the cucumbers, strays from seeds mixed in with the cukes).
And have been enjoying salads from the three types of lettuce. I have plenty of lettuce, and will pick a bunch of it to share with Mom’s neighbors tomorrow.
I have had a MAJOR battle with these big ugly white larvae. Best I can tell, from reading Jerry Baker’s book, is these are the larvae of Japanese beetles. So, I’m anticipating the onslaught of these pests.
And of course I am currently battling aphids, they come every year, always do, and attempt to eat every flower, everthing in their path.
I have a bed prepared for a rose garden I didn’t get planted this spring. At least now I have time to shop around, and need to order these from Diana. I had plans to order veggies from you Diana, then, with so much going on, I just bought seeds locally and had to get everything in the ground asap, as usual I was running late.
WOW, gardengirl outdid herself with this one. I love it!!!
Running out to check my tomatoes now for those worms (LOL).
I haven’t been on the gardening threads lately, have been overwhelmed with the company of friends from out of town. I finally, today, got a break.
I have green beans blooming, a few small tomatoes on the vines (I have 25 tomatoe plants thigh high, with a few tiny ones up among the cucumbers, strays from seeds mixed in with the cukes).
And have been enjoying salads from the three types of lettuce. I have plenty of lettuce, and will pick a bunch of it to share with Mom’s neighbors tomorrow.
I have had a MAJOR battle with these big ugly white larvae. Best I can tell, from reading Jerry Baker’s book, is these are the larvae of Japanese beetles. So, I’m anticipating the onslaught of these pests.
And of course I am currently battling aphids, they come every year, always do, and attempt to eat every flower, everthing in their path.
I have a bed prepared for a rose garden I didn’t get planted this spring. At least now I have time to shop around, and need to order these from Diana. I had plans to order veggies from you Diana, then, with so much going on, I just bought seeds locally and had to get everything in the ground asap, as usual I was running late.
Great article! Thanks!
WOW AuntB, and I thought our weather was crazy.
We had beautiful cool weather until this week (I turned my air conditioning on this week the first time), and now BOOM summer has arrived.
It’s hot as heck here now. I did enjoy the unusually cool weather while I could, knowing it was a matter of time here in the South.
Thanks! Glad you like it!
My garden is about the same stage as yours. We have some peppers coming on, and ate vidalias and swuash and zukes the other night for supper. Our lettuce is toast. :(
We had a hellacious windstorm with scattered hail come thru Sun nite. Blew all our peppers over but hubby straightened them back up. He was not pleased, as he likes hot pepper vinegar and hot is all we planted.
Had a customer come in with pics. His squash—bearing—had been beated into the ground. His corn looked like someone ran it thru a shredder. He was back for more plants.
Hope you enjoyed your company! It’s always nice to see them come, and usually nice to see them go too!
Glad you like it—Thank GAbz for posting it! I’m a writer not a computer genius!
I am having fun with my garden and eating some good stuff!
UMMM. Eggplant!
Did your zukes ever pick back up?
Sorry for the double post.
Now that June has arrived here in the South, here are some things we can expect:
June Bugs (as kids we’d tie a piece of thread to them and try to fly them like model airplanes).
Lightning (sp) bugs. Since I live in the woods, I have a light show in the summer when these hatch. They are thick here. I am so lucky, just think how many people have never seen a lightning bug.
Yellow jackets. Last year I had a tussel with these while filling up a hummingbird feeder. I NEVER want to do that again, these suckers are MEAN. I suggest never let one fly up under your T-shirt like I did last year. I have never had anything hurt so bad or take so long to heal.
Ticks. Oh boy, I had one embedded already. It was bad. I have plenty of these little terrorists.
Don’t worry about it! FR has been really slow and off center the last couple of days.
If you need anymore bugs just let me know! BE glad to share!
LOL. NO THANKS!!!
We even have some Cicadas this year, they are noisy, and I found a dead one on the deck this morning.
Talk about funny, you should have been here the year my city grandkids came for a visit and caught jarfuls of those lightening bugs. They had never seen any, and had a ball.
Being a “fun” grandma, I agreed to let them turn them loose in the house, then we turned off the lights and watched them.
I woke up with lightening bugs in my bed, clothes, etc., for weeks.
We’ve had plenty of ripe tomatoes this week even though the plants are starting to wilt already. I don’t think we over watered or fertilized, since I use mostly leaf and cow manure compost before planting the seedlings.
The same for the cucumbers crop. I have to pick several every other day. The biggest problem I have is the heat here. We’ve hit 100+ at least three times this year and isn’t even summer yet.
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