Mid-Western Connecticut:
Strawberries are done (all picked), and waiting on our raspberries and gooseberries.
Potatoes are in,
tomatoes are in and caged,
squash is in,
cukes are in,
peppers are in,
bush beans are in.
Waiting to harvest our garlic, and then plant string beans in their place.
Have been getting (and stagger-planting) lettuce and spinach since March.
This is such a fun time of the year!!
Although this is not about Scare Crows it is about my new yard and garden.
We had a tree outside the window of my wife’s sewing room. It was shaped like a big ornamental crab apple or something similar in the winter — 20 foot in diameter on a 12” diameter trunk with about a 10’ to 12’ overall height. It had disease and looked like an old cherry ready to split.
Turns out, it is a Hardy Hibiscus. Yep, the darn biggest hibiscus I have ever seen or heard of. Now with fifty blooms and about 200 and climbing more buds. I have to see if I can root some cuttings.
Happy and productive gardening to all.
After weeks of temps running 20+/- below average; and 3-4” of rain & hail over the last week & a half, we had a single day to transition to the dry 80s;
Finally was able yesterday & today to plant 25 each of Yukon & Kennebec sets. Just barely time enough for full maturity. Also got my fava, bush-green, and Kentucky Wonders planted
Corn and speckled butter beans are emerging; spinach got hail battered to death. Onions & garlic are doing well; waiting on my squash & dry beans to emerge.
Bees are doing well, and my super that was sitting near the hive for later use accidentally captured a wild swarm.