Keep us posted on the bean ring thingie. I saw those on the Parks site this year too.
Most of my tomatoes have blooms, especially the volunteers who weren’t shocked by transplanting. And they’re all covered with pollinators. We don’t spray with anything so my whole garden just hums. We’ve been getting cucumbers and zucchinis for about a month now. Corn is about 2-3 weeks out. Tasseling and silking up just fine now.
I planted winter squash this past week (or week before) and it’s just gone nuts. Completely insane. Already has leaves bigger than my husbands hand.
This weekend we’ll plant the rest of our okra, a second planting of corn and some more winter squash and melons. We’re goign to try to trellis the winter squashes (c. mixta and c. pepo) to enable easier spraying for squash vine borers. Hopefully these will be a trap crop if nothing else to keep them off my butternut squashes (c. moschata) which are supposedly less likely to get hit with SVB’s.
My strawberries are making a gazillion runners now. I’m letting them for a while because we’ve got a list of people who want runners now. As of end of June though I’m getting brutal with the scissors so we actually get a lot of strawberries again.
Got a quart and a half of blueberries yesterday. Made my kids blueberry muffins for bfast this morning when they wake up. Suckers galore on the blueberry bushes as well. Yay.
Got a small bowlful of blackberries too. Apache (thornless). Very pleased with these so far. Only have 12 smallish plants from last year. The 2nd year canes aren’t big for now. The cane’s they’re putting out this year will be ginormous. We’ll be tip layering those to generate more plants.
Picked over a quart of sour bush cherries (Hansens) too. I’m saving all the pits from these as they’re supposedly started from ‘seed’ or sucker. They’ve made a goodly number of suckers too. I need to get a real bona fide cherry pitter now. Have to add that to my list of things I Must Have!.
Planted about 200ft of pole beans/butterbeans/asparagus beans. Those are all coming up nicely as well. Have a 4x4ft section of one of my raised beds planted in bush beans to replenish the nitrogen the lettuce I was growing there this spring too out. Planted another 6-8 cucumber and melon plants that my helpful hubby already built a trellis for. He loves melons and my oldest loves cucumbers.
The asparagus beans I planted in the ‘divots’ about 6w ago are already climbing over my head on the screen arch hubby built. Waiting for them to bloom now. And the cherry tomato plants (tumbling tom, both colors) I planted in the divots are all blooming like crazy. My eggplants (also in divots) aren’t doing OK at all. Something is eating them up!
I invested in a bunch of organza gift bags this week to save pepper and tomato seeds. We’ll see next year if I had a clue with that LOL.
AND, the cowpeas I had given up on (deer love cowpeas) might just get started again. Two deer got hit by cars just in front of our house the other morning. I hate it for them. The population is just too great down here even with hunters. And WHERE, I’d like to know, were these deer last witner when my hubby waited for them with his deer rifle? Nowhere to be found. So instead all that lovely deer meat was wasted and eaten by buzzards. Bummers.
Oh well, I’ve bored y’all enough. It’s nearly 7:30 here and time for me to weed! before it gets too hot!
Bored? You've DEPRESSED me. It's raining here, and I need to go to the store. Perhaps a garden center, or two. However, my husband has given me such a long list of stuff for the plant (as in manufacturing) that I won't have room in the car for anything else. Besides, who wants to load muddy sacks of mulch into their nice, clean car?
BA, we want PICTURES.
The good news here is that (although) my roses have had NO CARE this year because I've been preoccupied with this veggie garden, they are GORGEOUS. Unbelievably gorgeous. This is their 3rd year in. They got no winter covering, no spring pruning, no mulch, no weeding, no spraying, no anti deer application (I still have the cannisters in their package waiting to be put out) just toal neglect. The roses are huge and in full bloom. I've never seen anything like it. They are 3 yrs old this year.