Got the irritation pump set up last week, and have put nearly 600 gallons on the garden & fruit trees. As luck would have it, after going through the first 400, we got just under 2” of rain in less than an hour. Between runoff instead of soaking in at that rate, plus a couple pf 100F days right after, it’s back to watering. So glad God was kind enough to create straw for mulching.
Due to poor emergence, I replanted a bunch of bush speckled butterbeans.
Still have to hill the potatoes, but at least I’ve tilled furrows between the rows, so just have to pull it over them. I was going to do it this evening, but spent that time dusting the damned potato beetle infestation; building some hills & planting cocozelle.
Egyptian onions are done for the year; getting too tough; and the garlic is about ready to dig.
Strawberries were a total bust; need to replant.
So far, we still have a peach on the tree. Might be a couple more, but I haven’t found them if there are.
Our strawberries were just planted this year. Some were from Walmart in bags and some in pots. The ones in pots are growing. The ones that came in a bag-similar to seed potatoes have none nothing. So we have spaces to fill in when we get runners.
We have peaches for the first time since planting in 2010. They are about the size of ping pong ball. Keeping fingers crossed that we get a crop. Peaches are so iffy in Mo. We had a great peach tree in a trailer park long ago. It only got fruit on average every 5 yrs. Early frost usually gets them.
Been eating 4 or 5 pie cherries every day - they are sour!
Didn’t have enough to make a pie, and anyway, I’m not allowed to have sugar and pie crust.
I do wish I had more time to devote to the garden. I work 40+ hours a week and hubs doesn’t do anything with the garden other than to try to give me pointers. Which are usually ruinous because he comes from a farmer’s background and not a gardeners. Apples and oranges.
I live near a swamp errrr, “wetland” so everything I do is in raised beds I have a 30 by 30 raised bed in the front which is now mostly a flower and asparagus Garden. In back I have a raised bed 10 by 10 which I am growing just a few tomato and pepper plants, squash, lettuce, spinach, beets. I have herbs in pots. I have a side garden on the southside which is growing some ornamental tall pumpkins and watermelon.
I also planted a few pear trees 1 cherry tree that made it 1 prunetree a gooseberry and 2 currants (childhood memories in Canada)
I have a raspberry patch and 4 blueberry bushes which I moved to the front raised bed. Mostly full sun because when I moved in here ten years ago we cleared about 50 trees.