Weekly Garden PING!!!!!
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“Weekly Gardening Thread — IT’s JUNE!!!!!”
Not here~! lol.....we’re having frost warnings! My poor little plants don’t know what to do. Two weeks ago, it was over 100 degrees....we’re expecting a high of 60 today. But I do have a few ripe strawberries.
Ditto for 2008!!!
I live to garden as my favorite hobby. 40 qts of salsa last year and the last consumed a month ago. We are starving now. Tomatoes are blooming, broccoli is great, and corn in the ground this week. We have had the hindrance of cool, wet spring, but the weather has finally warmed.
WOW, gardengirl outdid herself with this one. I love it!!!
Running out to check my tomatoes now for those worms (LOL).
I haven’t been on the gardening threads lately, have been overwhelmed with the company of friends from out of town. I finally, today, got a break.
I have green beans blooming, a few small tomatoes on the vines (I have 25 tomatoe plants thigh high, with a few tiny ones up among the cucumbers, strays from seeds mixed in with the cukes).
And have been enjoying salads from the three types of lettuce. I have plenty of lettuce, and will pick a bunch of it to share with Mom’s neighbors tomorrow.
I have had a MAJOR battle with these big ugly white larvae. Best I can tell, from reading Jerry Baker’s book, is these are the larvae of Japanese beetles. So, I’m anticipating the onslaught of these pests.
And of course I am currently battling aphids, they come every year, always do, and attempt to eat every flower, everthing in their path.
I have a bed prepared for a rose garden I didn’t get planted this spring. At least now I have time to shop around, and need to order these from Diana. I had plans to order veggies from you Diana, then, with so much going on, I just bought seeds locally and had to get everything in the ground asap, as usual I was running late.
WOW, gardengirl outdid herself with this one. I love it!!!
Running out to check my tomatoes now for those worms (LOL).
I haven’t been on the gardening threads lately, have been overwhelmed with the company of friends from out of town. I finally, today, got a break.
I have green beans blooming, a few small tomatoes on the vines (I have 25 tomatoe plants thigh high, with a few tiny ones up among the cucumbers, strays from seeds mixed in with the cukes).
And have been enjoying salads from the three types of lettuce. I have plenty of lettuce, and will pick a bunch of it to share with Mom’s neighbors tomorrow.
I have had a MAJOR battle with these big ugly white larvae. Best I can tell, from reading Jerry Baker’s book, is these are the larvae of Japanese beetles. So, I’m anticipating the onslaught of these pests.
And of course I am currently battling aphids, they come every year, always do, and attempt to eat every flower, everthing in their path.
I have a bed prepared for a rose garden I didn’t get planted this spring. At least now I have time to shop around, and need to order these from Diana. I had plans to order veggies from you Diana, then, with so much going on, I just bought seeds locally and had to get everything in the ground asap, as usual I was running late.
Great article! Thanks!
I am having fun with my garden and eating some good stuff!
It snowed this AM.
Ahhhhh... New Mexico.
I had never heard of tomato hornworms before I found one on my tomato plants one year.
I about set some kind of Olympic standing long jump record.
June is here and in a couple of hours, my garden went from winter/spring to summer. Pulled out all the pansies as they were heat beat. Also pulled out all the arugula and most of the lettuce. Will have a nice salad for dinner. In their places, planted basil, geraniums, zinnias, double impatience (looks like mini-roses) and petunias. Also, put together a planter with tomato and cucumber plants for a neighbor. Watered well as rain seems to be skipping around Virginia Beach.
Trying to garden at 75 is like swimming upstream in a river of cold molasses... you make damn little progress! My First Wife,who is a few years younger, works circles around me every day. I hilled my corn, transplanted a few tomatoes in large tubs, transplanted 3 hills of pumpkins and weeded a patch.
I will have to write a book about my wife’s efforts of today