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Good morning! We had our first fireflies last night so this evening I will be transplanting all my starts! Tomatoes, Green Hubbard, Pumpkins, Vegetable Marrow! Seeds will go in over the next few days also.
It’s been a busy, busy week up here in upstate New York.
I turned over the garden soil for the veggie beds and snuck in an early planting of some of my favorites. Still waiting on the seed potatoes, but other than that I have got my tomatoes, basil in. The garlic I put in last October is thriving with the occassional nitrogen supplements.
Problems this year: blisters through gloves, sun on bald head (note to self: bandana next time!)
So many weeds in some spots! Actually had to rip up the top three inches of weed infested soil.
Taking a much needed day off today. :)
Going from wet ground (6+ inches in a week) to 90’s on Sunday.
My soil is going to be baked like a clay pot.
But I will take the sun and never complain.
Getting ready to till the garden.
Last years onions did well over the winter. The snow was an excellent insulator. They were too small to dig up last fall.
This is going to be a busy week...I have loads of tomatoes with blossoms and fruit which are being ‘potted up’ into their large containers; potatoes are going into their raised beds; earth boxes are being ‘prepped’; beans, carrots, beets, corn all going in...lots more in addition to that. The exercise is really beneficial; though...
I picked three tomatoes the other day. We have onions that are almost ready to pull. Bell peppers are almost big enough too. The cilantro is coming along nicely too.
Peas are climbing the new pea fence and are chest high and blooming. Potatoes are up and growing. Eating lettuce, onions, spinach, a few radishes and turnips. Few strawberries and pick some rhubarb and cherries yesterday.
Have one tomatoe as big as a tennis ball (From the one I started early in the new greenhouse) Others need to be caged.
Planted beans: green, lima and soup earlier in the week.
Also squashes and transplanted all the cabbage family into square foot area: Brussel spouts, brocolli, cauliflower.
Today’s list just gets longer and longer...but it’s suppose to rain and the HD crew should be here to put in new garage/shop door. At least we shoud have a good test of the repaired roof Rubin, Jacob, Levi and Marvin did this week.
Picked my first cucumber this week! From one of three Spacemaster plants I’d put in my raised bed about 6w ago. There are another 5 or 6 that will be ready to pick today or tomorrow. I’m going to have to start giving them away already! They’re trying to take over. Hubby will have to work on a trellis solution for me this weekend.
This bed is one he filled with composted manure dirt and just plain old compost. Everything I’ve planted in it for the past 9m has gone absolutely insane. I’ve got a couple cabbages going to seed in it. We’re going to have ‘experimental’ cabbages this fall in our big garden. Once the cabbages are done with that I’m going to put some bush beans where they are now.
I’ve got another raised bed with the same dirt that my snowpeas have been in. They’ve finally given up the ghost and will get pulled this weekend. I’ve said that for the past 3 weeks and they seem to pull it together and I pick a gallon or two more but I think they mean it this time. I’m still debating what to put there. Anyone have any ideas? I had thought some Minnesota midget melons or some Galia melons maybe. It’s way too hot for lettuce down here now.
Our corn is about 3.5ft tall now. Looking much better since we’ve had a little rain and I mulched it to get rid of grass.
Monday morning and evening we’ll put out the rest of the hot peppers, the okra and plant some peanuts. Hopefully get a chance to set out the rest of my cucumbers and small melons that I started in peat pots last week. Hubby is going to put up about 50ft more field fencing for them all to run on. I’m going to set out my ‘giant’ winter squashes Monday/Tuesday as well. They’re all just starting to peek above the top of their peat pots as well.
Still picking a zucchini or two every day.
No tomatoes yet, that’s my fault. I let the seedlings get too cool a couple times and they ‘sulled’. Some of them are starting to perk up though so maybe in a couple weeks we’ll start to have some tomato action.
Peppers suffering same as tomatoes. I’m going to algoflash them all this weekend.
Hubby set out 6 hazlenut shrub/trees this week. Hopefully Rocket Squirrel won’t get all of them.
And we got in the rest of our online nursery orders. 6 Apache blackberry plants and 3 Liberty Apple trees. EVerything down here (apple and pear) has to be fireblight resistant. Our selections have been thusly limited. I’d rather have apples w/o spraying continually. Both for the expense and if TSHTF spray might become difficult to get.
Off to fix more coffee.
Morning,
Everything summerwise is in the garden and going to town. Now the hard part...waiting and watching.
I did notice that nobody’s tomatillos are putting on fruit. The “balloons” fall off. Is this a lack of pollinization, just not hot enough yet or something else? Anybody know?
My garbage-can potatoes are doing great! I planted red potatoes and Yukon Gold. My onions are looking good and my beets are coming up. I planted carrots last weekend. The strawberries have blossoms on them, and I think my horseradish is FINALLY making a showing.
This weekend, I’m going to be prepping the garden to start my Three Sisters garden and green peppers.
I’m still trying to learn about fertilizers and when to apply, etc.
Looks like I might have to buy tomato plants though. My seedlings don’t look healthy. I’m planting them all in five gallon buckets this year.
What does the soil need if radishes and carrots grow (actually, quite vigorously), but they don’t make any radishes and the carrots are barely as big as a ping pong ball?
I think it’s potash but not sure...
however,everything seemed to survive and if it weren't for the fact that I have a lot of weeds and some burnable stuff to get rid of from last season , the garden doesn't look too bad....good garlic, onions coming on, tomatoes small but surviving, as well as a few peppers I put in....some lettuce and brussel sprouts...and my leeks...
Thanks.