Posted on 06/08/2018 11:21:28 AM PDT by Augie
Greeneyes is having computer issues today, so we'll have to start the party without her.
It’s nice seeing a healthy tomato plant at the fruit-bearing stage. Around here, there’s a nasty blight that kills from the lower leaves on up.
I agree. We have to grow our tomatoes in a greenhouse due to the cool day and night temperatures and eventually the late blight hits them...
Clip off the bad leaves as soon as they’re dead.
There are remedies for this on line.
It was hotter than a popcorn fart here in Central Missouri over the weekend. We haven’t had much rain lately and things are starting to get very dry. The kitchen garden would be suffering mightily if not for irrigation.
I got my basil starts transplanted into the dirt from their starter cells. Kitchen garden is well-weeded and everything is rocking. I have a few fist-size green tomatoes, cukes are blooming, spuds are blooming, the snap peas I thought were going to croak have even started blooming.
Got the okra planted in the kitchen garden Friday evening. Spent most of Saturday and Sunday working in the pumpkin patch. Planted two varieties of summer squash, butternut squash, cantelope, and sweet corn out there. Got about half an acre of pumpkin seeded, and all of the irrigation line has been placed and connected.
Most times I would have been able to finish that little bit of work in a weekend, but it was just too dang hot to stay out there all day long.
With any luck I’ll be able to finish seeding the pumpkin after work today.
Almost forgot Neighbor Dave got my hay field done. Mowed on Friday, baled on Saturday.
The dry spring really showed there. Most years I’ll get 18-20 2500lb bales. This time I got 11.
I’m glad I resisted the urge to sell a bunch of my small square bales that are left over from last year. If this dry weather continues I’m going to be needing them.
Grow a ghost pepper in amongst your tomatoes. They’ll only eat it once!
Yeah...at this point. Grr.
I don’t even like tomato.
But that little....
;)
“Or, anyone who’s ever had to have a piece of plant matter surgically removed from their hand. Not fun!!!”
I’m in the habit of just plowing everything under and discing it up good.
This year is the first time I have tried a small garden. Just some tomatoes in pots and peppers on an old flower bed.
“Did you know that plant stems don’t show up on xray?”
That I did not know.
Makes sense though, the plant matter would have about the same density as human tissue.
Did you know a thorn from a briar plant can work its way through a tractor tire and cause a flat?
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