Good morning!
We got a good, all day rain on Wednesday, no downpour, just steady.
What’s in store for tonight is an entirely different story. Looks like torrential downpours overnight into early morning which does not bode well for having to get small person over to school by 4:30 tomorrow morning. The middle school Chorus is in a competition tomorrow - but they face a 4 hour drive to get there.
I planted cabbage this year. Never did before. Something is eating at them, and I see a lot of white moths hanging around. Any suggestions?
I’ve been picking tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers this week. My neighbor pulled his onion crop and dug his potatoes this past week. He gave us some of the smaller red ones and my wife loved them cooked with butter.
Finally got all my trees planted, except for one. There was a delay on the witch hazel, so it hasn’t gotten here yet.
I’m starting to get buried in strawberries! For such a tiny patch, those plants sure pump out a lot of berries! I’m having trouble keeping up with them, especially with my bad shoulder. Yesterday I cooked a big pan full with some sugar and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to make sort of a thin, chunky syrup. Mom likes to use it in yogurt, I like it on ice cream. After it was done I also used part of it to make strawberry cobbler, boy that was good! I had the cobbler cold for breakfast this morning :)
The liquidy part of the syrup also tastes really good in an iced tea.
The rest of the garden seems to be struggling. I’ve had to replant the tomatoes too many times, this last attempt was direct-seeded. If they don’t grow, I may just give up on tomatoes this year. Dad put some in his garden, so I won’t be going without. Still, it hurts when my plants won’t grow.
Thanks for the ping JaDB.
Hi everyone.
My tomatoes are not doing well this year. (They are in a raised bed filled with the SFG mix.) The leaves are going yellow on some, and getting light green on others. Also, something is eating whole stems off, leaves and all.
Am I missing something in the soil there?