I am going to can some potatoes this year. We have more than we can eat before they go bad, even though the results were not as good as last year. I am selecting some potatoes to put into the corner of the unfinished part of the basement and hope they will last well enough to use as seed potatoes next spring.
I would swear my cukes are growing an inch a day! Will have to do another batch of pickles within the next 4 days I think. Someone asked for the zuke pickle recipe, so I'll type that up and post it down thread.
Corn is finally getting some height to it - it's the deck corn - short DTM and should be ready by first week in September. I had 3 smallish Roma shaped tomatoes from the volunteer bushes, and 1 cherry tomato that are all various shades of red on the counter. So I ate one of the Roma type - good flavor.
Hope everyone is doing well. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
My computer is running slower than molasses today - well really yesterday too. Not sure if it’s the service or my computer. But the service is bad even on a good day, so I don’t even really have a word for what it’s doing today. sigh!
I need to mow and weed but it is too hot and humid. Aphids are all over the green beans but I’m too unmotivated at this point to care.
Sometimes I wish I lived in a place with seasons. Gardeners need to have a fallow season for the winter too.
I have corn that has nice cobs growing. I am thinking of giving each plant a shot of fish oil. Will this increase my crop yield or is it too late?
I just walked in the house with a half gallon bucket of southern pink eye peas. They just keep making.
I’ll check the butterbeans tomorrow. I was soaking wet in this Mississippi humidity and couldn’t stand it any longer.
Stinkin’ horsefly put three welps on my back that my wife just sprayed with Benadryl.
Little cherry tomatoes did great, squash did great too. Bigger tomatoes are starting to ripen now, but seems lateish.
The Cabbages were amazing this year !!!
Blueberries finally came through.
Replanted the strawberries, and planted new rasberries.
Pole beans good as always. The dogs love them and will pick them right off the plants.
Heat index in southern MA today was 107.
And then everybody got rain except our little corner of the world.
Picked my first watermelon today (Black Diamond)- it was ALMOST RIPE...
Oh well, I’ll let the next one get a deeper yellow ground spot.
Good discussion on picking a watermelon here: http://www.fifteenspatulas.com/how-to-pick-a-superstar-watermelon/
Endless rain in the Ozarks. Weeds out of control, but harvest has been good for tomatoes, beans, silver hulls, and cukes. How to keep the stink bugs off the tomatoes????
Trying something new. Covered all my raised beds with hay. Going too see how it composts by fall season. Hopefully alot less need to till weed and water. Lots of heat generating underneath.
The grass and weeds and veggies are all growing like it's May and I can't keep up. I've got tomatoes running out my ears, sweet corn is ready, and there are little baby bean pods all over the Blue Lake vines. The Straight 8 cucumber vines have pretty much all croaked so there is some relief there.
I picked a few Roma tomatoes and a couple peppers and made a small batch of salsa and spicy tomato juice over the weekend.
