Diana; (Greeneyes) Thanks for the list of summer starts! I need to review and see what will work in KS Summer!
Garden status; We had a week or so of Seattle weather and got back to Kansas again for 4-5 days. It may rain tonight though.
Beets and Rutabagas and Kohlrabi harvested. Garlic harvested and in a braid in a cool place in the garage. Multiplier onions drying on the back porch.
I began harvesting tomatoes five days ago, Black Krim and Trifle; 2 days ago, Carbon, and starting yesterday Stupice, Principe Borghese, and 10 fingers of Naples.
Dried a bunch of CatMint in the back porch, some dill drying there now.
I moved the potatoes to partial shade and closer to water. They are doing better. Japanese Cucumbers are growing up a trellis. Pruned off the branchings. Yellow squash is up and growing. Will run them up a small trellis this year. Lots of peppers, Jimmy Nardellos, Chevna chuska, I think one Baklouti, A Thai pepper, a japanese pepper. (I like peppers...easy to freeze.) Leeks are growing. (Easy to blanch and freeze. Okra is getting larger. (Had one next to some dill....it did not grow well!)
Japanese beetle population has moderated. I do not know if they have passed or whether there will be later hatches.
I sprayed my Plum and Viking Aronia them with a mixture of Sal Suds soap, neem, cedar oil and spinosad.. They left the Aronia alone.
The mixture resulted in some burning to the leaves of the plums, but they continued to set up their little orgies on the new leaves (now skeletonized....) I ran around for a week knocking them into a bucket filled with soapy water.
They have not bothered the Fig trees!
“I began harvesting tomatoes five days ago, Black Krim and Trifle; 2 days ago, Carbon, and starting yesterday Stupice, Principe Borghese, and 10 fingers of Naples.”
All of my faves! I have decided that NEXT season I am growing tomatoes, peppers and flowers and that’s it! I get the most use out of those things; the rest I can buy here for cheap as cukes and zukes and onions and such are SO readily available. So, re-thinking my strategy, too.
I have seen exactly TWO Japanese Beetles - so happy! I think our VERY dry spring, and the fact that they need to emerge from the lawn which was like CEMENT, really helped this season.
(I killed the two I saw - I did NOT want to risk them getting together!)
Pictures tomorrow of the deer I’m ‘growing’ for later harvesting. ;)