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Our community garden is in a state of chaos with early blight striking almost all the tomatoes. I am one of the lucky ones with a combination of resistant types, late planting and good airflow in my spacing. We have some slackers this year that have overplanted, not pruned and not practiced good garden culture.
The manager sprayed copper fungicide this week to combat the problem and we are probably going to have to solarize the soil this Winter/Spring which means no over winter planting that I wanted.
The upside is that in order to strenthen the plants we are now allowed to use inorganic fertilizers and my plants are taking off! I harvested a salsa batch yesterday and have a bumper crop of squash about ready.
I don’t have much change to report since the last time. Plenty of tomatoes to harvest, and pulled some huge onions last weekend.
My tomatoes have really taken off. I have small tomatoes now forming. Heirloom (Brandywine), Roma, Sweeties (cherry tomatoes) and a beefsteak or two. I’m keeping an eye on them for the blight. So far so good. I’ve harvested Romaine lettuce, onions, strawberries and some beets. My garbage can potatoes look good too. I can’t wait to dump them over in the fall and hope to find (Yukon) Gold! and red potatoes! We’ll be harvesting green beans soon.
Now it is time to go out and take care of all this...there is only one of me; my wife will probably find me dead amongst the plants some day.
But I will have a smile on my face. :-)
The cucumbers have provided plenty of refrigerator pickles. I have about 8 quarts today to try out some new recipes for water bath canning.
Hubby got the square foot garden constructed, but failed to take into account the width of the landscape timber, so he shorted the inside by 3 inches on all sides. Net result, I only have about 21 square feet instead of 24; 6 squares are only half the size (6” x 12”). One square will be for chives, and cilantro and another for beneficial bug mix.
I have a tentative plan on paper, and will plant it Saturday. Still no tomatoes to eat. We have some green ones though, so I am impatiently waiting.LOL.
I got my tarragon and thyme re-potted, and herbs planted in pots. Basil, Peppermint, Dill, Parsley. My corn appears to be doing well. It is almost 3 ft tall, (it should only get about 4 ft tall).
Have a great Independence Day weekend everyone.
I’m thinking about next year. I’d like to do heirloom seeds but I will need to start them somehow. I have an old kitchen table in my basement that will hold all the flats of peat pots that I will need. However, I will need a light source. Does anybody have any suggestions for cheap light sources? And I can’t stress cheap enough. Grad school is expensive for this documented worker.
A cold front came through yesterday. It got down to 39F last night. Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park was closed due to heavy snow.