having a baby boom.
This little guy is guarding my squash and tomatoes.
Posted on 07/31/2009 4:00:03 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning to all of you gardeners. The last day of July and I am wondering what August has in store for us weather wise? One thing I do know is the weather will continue to do what it wants and the only thing you can do about it is to accept it or move somewhere else. Of course once you move the weather there will change.
I saw they passed one...Is the bill they house passed last night the one we’ve been worried about? DIdn’t catch its number.
Test the soil....IIRC there is a simple mutrient that takes care of blossem end rot. Google it for instructions. Even pictures to confirm that is what you have.
I am in the tomatoes, and made two batches of salsa yesterday. And since I planted my green/purple/yellow beans in stages I am not being overwhelmed by them. I am getting bell peppers purple and green, cucumbers, pickling, straight 8, burp-less, and an European kind.
Not sure what is left of my corn that the molester raccoons have not devoured but have planted a second bunch that is about a foot high. Got sweet potatoes spreading, onions I used whenever I need, and have tomatoes by the bushel. Oh I did already say I am in tomatoes. And beets at ready when I decide to steam them for a meal. I plan in the next day or so to plant a fall planting of snow peas.
Today I am trying to get some mudding and taping done on a install of a new sliding glass door where the plaster board developed an ugly crack.
This little guy is guarding my squash and tomatoes.
Have you tried spraying your Tomato plants with Blossom Set?
I use it on my tomatoes and they produce all year. Just don't spray
when there's fruit on the vine.
/Salute
Your eggplant story is hilarious!!!!!!!
Thanks -— I’m working on it!!!
The local gardening shows said that when the nighttime temps get above 70 degrees, tomatoes quit setting fruit. Some of the smaller pear tomatoes are still going strong.
mom is feeling better. getting a bit less jaundiced everyday. still gets tired out pretty easy, but determined as hell to do what she usually does. the woman went to work this morning! only stayed a couple of hours but still. we did not get any reading on the cells they brushed so we wait for monday and the actual biopsy. keep praying for benign. good for you to have your son helping out. i will try to get that berry info for you sometime next week.
That is rich............oh man o’ man. LOL!
Yes...I believe it’s the one everyone was scared of....
W/the zuhcinii out of production, I also picked the 1st my late planted yellow straight neck squash, a bucket full of tomatoes, 6 sweet green peppers....and some cucumbers. My provervbial cup, refrigerator, and kitchen counter runneth over. LOL
(The heat, though, is cooling my gardening efforts since there's more need to draw the hose around to water everything.)
Yeah! I hear you. I keep walking in the house with more and more tomatoes and peppers every morning and my wife says, “where are you going to put them”? I have tomatoes in every stage from slightly yellow-pink to deep ripe red all over the place. As they ripen I am canning them - mostly pureed. Some oven roasted - yummmmm!
One small bit of advice to you on your watermelon trees ... remember to look up whenever you’re standing underneath one. You don’t want this to happen to you:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/05/06/melonhead.jpg
How do you cook your Okra?
Anyway, here is a photo of the eggtree which measured 85 inches wide:
And, either last week or the week before I posted a photo of my newest cuke trellis, so here is an update on that one. It is producing very well, and those cukes are going straight to the stoneware crocks to ferment for sweet pickles. I have a 6 gallon crock started with dill and spices for sour pickles and it smells heavenly!.
While I'm at it ... here is what is now the newest trellis of cukes. This is actually the 2nd go-around for this trellis. The first cukes were my earliest, planted in early April, and they had pretty much produced and played out in the heat of June and early July. I pulled the old vines off and planted a new crop. I'll be the only local with cukes going now and the price I'm getting from the folks that peddle them is getting better every week.
This trellis of cukes is only producing in the very top these days, so next week I will pull these vines off. It is nearly time to plant my acorn and spaghetti squashes, so that is what will go there.
And lastly, I couldn't resist taking a pic of this pretty tray of this afternoon's harvest. The afternoon picking is pretty much what I missed during the morning harvest, and the difference from the lighting from morning to afternoon always lets me see what I didn't see before.
I've got tomato sauce on the stove and am going to put it in jars and get it in the canner right now. Does this work ever end????? ;-)
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