Lovely weather we’re having this week in Central Missouri. We’ve gotten a bit of rainfall and the temps have been rather pleasant for this time of the year.
The japanese beetles started to appear about ten days ago and I’ve had to spray seven on my orchard trees and set out the traps. Several of my plum trees had already been hit pretty hard by the time I noticed, but I put some hurt on the bugs and managed to knock the first wave down quite well.
Nephew came over yesterday evening and helped me pull dripline on the pumpkin rows. I’ll get the taps installed on the mainline later today and replant the skips. The rains came at a good time and I got a good stand but there are a dozen or so hills where nothing came up. I expect the birds dug the seeds up before they sprouted.
Spent a couple hours pulling weeds in the kitchen garden this morning. I’ve got a spot cleaned up and ready for Mrs. Augie’s russian pickle cucumbers. I just need to put the fence up and stick some seeds in the ground.
My tomato plants are doing well. Most of them are waist high and have apple-sized green tomatoes. The garlic tops are starting to die back so it won’t be long before that’s ready to dig. Spuds are all blooming. The blue lake pole beans have made it about ten feet up the arbor and are branching like crazy.
I harvested the last of the sugar snap peas and pulled the vines a couple days ago. I’m going to come behind those with kentucky wonder pole beans and some other variety of pole bean that Nephew is wanting to try out.
Busy, busy, busy...
I’m anxious to get the garlic harvested, so that I can plant some stuff there - usually it’s done by first of June, so that’s put me behind.