Weekly Gardening Thread
Posted on 06/25/2010 5:13:58 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Weekly Gardening Thread
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I was just out in the garden and had to run for cover after about 30 seconds. It was a skeeter ambush.
My computer room overlooks my garden, and my (normally) silent Golden Retriever barked. I looked up to see him chasing a deer out to the road. I trained him not to do that 8 years ago, but he seems to have forgotten. Besides, the deer easily get away, and he’s content to let them go.
My garden is growing like gangbusters, especially the weeds.
I have a ton of little tomatoes growing, my summer squash is a week or so away from picking. Peas and green beans are already being harvested daily.
My best garden yet!
Good morning.
We are in the same heat wave (hotter than usual here at 1000’)and a noticeable lack of rain. We also have many cases of early blight in the community garden. Our plot is barely effected, but we are not sure why exactly.
Good news is that to combat it, they are easing the organic restrictions! Now if some folks would trim their plants properly we can beat it.
Harvested zuke, squash, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cilantro and peppers this week. Made a nice salsa and grilled the squash.
Good morning.
I like to fish tidal swamps, and this stuff is as good as any other repellent, it's not all slimey and oily, doesn't feel gross and smells decent. I can use it for a lunchbreak fishing trip, and not gross out my coworkers when I gat back into the office.
If I had the space, I would grown mostly in raised beds. I do compost. My main method of preservation is dehydration. I am skilled at canning, but prefer the space saving convenience of dried foods.
FReegards!
Sounds like you might have a “squash vine borer”. You can learn about them by doing a google search. They’re not good.
Thank you.
I planted a second row of purple hull cow peas this year. I picked a kitchen garbage bag full yesterday. WHAT was I thinking.
Up here “Massachusetts had its warmest spring in the 116 years that conditions have been recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and Michigan also set records for the March-to-May period that meteorologists consider to be spring. By contrast, the same period was among the 10 coolest for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. (Boston Globe, June 10, 2010)
Also, “much of the area from Little Rock, Ark., St. Louis, Mo., and Chicago, Ill., to Portland, Maine, New York City and Richmond, Va., temperatures have averaged 3.0 to 6.0 degrees above normal this spring.” http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/33055/100degree-heat-may-follow-reco-1.asp
In May it averaged 72 versus normal 67 and you could have planted tomatoes in April, rather than waiting till the official safe date of May 31.
This is much contrast to last year, when it think it was May that was the fourth coldest and June the second cloudiest, or vice versa, on record.
However, i was not able to work much after the middle of May in my neighbors plot, but the corn that did get planted is already knee high. thanks be to God. I also have 16 tomatoes plants on the roof, which i began inside from saved seeds, and being on the north side of a hill, with no south facing windows, the do not get that large. But some are now big and bushy with lots of flowers, though they are 3 plants in each 22”x15”x13 bin.
“(hotter than usual here at 1000’)”.
Your garden must on the planet Mercury:)
Our bell and jalapeno peppers are coming along. We should be awash in tomatoes in the next few weeks. We have two fig trees and it looks like a bumper crop this year.
My wife will be preparing our FIRST batch of salsa from fresh garden tomatoes this evening...the first of many, I hope.
I hate those skeeters!
Thanks to the assistance from those on the weekly gardening thread my baby giant pumpkin is happy, healthy, and chillin’ in his little hammock I made for him.
At 3 weeks, he is the size of a large grapefruit!
I shouldn’t be cocky and arrogant, as bad things always happen when I get too optimistic.
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