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[hoosiermama]

Morning....Hopfully cooler today

[illiac]

North Idaho - had our first two days in the 80’s this year....has been wet...quarter size hail. Corn up about 1 foot tall, other veggies struggling to make it due to all the rain and cool weather. Another thunder and lightning storm coming in tonight and tomorrow night. Tomatoes fairing very well with three tomatos on each plant any many blossums...early here for them, but will be happy with what we get. Everyone have a great weekend!

[rightly_dividing]

Good morning! The plum jelly looks great. Temps here have been mild, low 90's but forecast for Tuesday is 104.

We have been enjoying the first fruits of our tomatos for this year all week long, about two per day. Wife put up 4 pints of banana peppers, with more coming, and we have an eggplant growing now. The okry is coming along just fine.

[Gabz]

Good morning!

Here in NELA, we welcomed the first day of summer with temps in 3 digits ... at one time yesterday afternoon, our digital weather station had the temperature outside at 102.4! The remote unit that is transmitting the temp is on the north end of the house, tucked up under the eve and out of the sun. Whew!

at 11:30 yesterday morning the weather station fit 101.2 with a heat index reading of 112 here in coastal Virginia. It too is on the north side under the eave. It is reading 99.9 right now. It is supposed to break with T'storms this evening - praying it happens!

[painter]

Ate my first tomato yesterday,nothing like it. I'll have sweet corn (Incredible)in a couple weeks if I can keep the treerats out of it.

[greeneyes]

Beautiful bounty in those jars. Thanks for the thread. We are in the 90’s and still pretty dry. We did get about 1 1/2 inches of rain one night recently. Rain barrels got back to almost 1/2 full.

We have decided to just let clover grow in several of our raised beds till fall planting, because we just don't have the water this year to support them.

First corn planting is about knee high. We are collecting wild Blackberries daily. I will process them today. Since our freezer is on the Fritz, I am just going to do a light syrup and water bath canning. This will be great for cobbler or just berries and cream in the winter.

We had to have a new phone line put in, and even though the guys were pretty careful, they damaged one of the grapevines, and it appears to have died. All the rest have great looking tiny green grapes.

Several of the fruit trees we planted 2 years ago are struggling this year. Probably the lack of rain. We are only getting about 5 gallons of water per day from the air conditioner, and can't use much of the well water.

I really do think a cistern is the way we need to go.

Have a great weekend. God Bless.

[ApplegateRanch]

We've been enjoying sweet corn (var. Serendipity)

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Mine is about 4-6", and growing rapidly; 6-25' rows of it. After looking it up before planting, we're impatient to try it. The Painted Hill corn is also up (5 6' rows) and doing well. The white supersweet variety we tried had about 35% germination, and is slow growing, so won't be bought again.

Squashes -- pink banana, green pattypan, cocozelle, and buttercup -- are taking off, as are both the pole & bush beans. Picking peas, and thinned the carrots; they'll be on the table tonight.

The tomatoes in the Topsy-Turvys are doing great: the Purple Cherokee has set at least 3 fruit; and the 2 Delicious & 1 Bonnie Best are also flowering. OTOH, the garden tomatoes haven't started to really grow yet, let alone flower, even though they were all started at the same time.

I took some brush to the free dump last week, and come home with about 25 iris, and 40-50 Egyptian walking onion plants, with lots of bulbils attached, that somebody had dug out and tossed. Couldn't let them just lay there, and die a miserable death. ;-) (Last fall, I also filled a feed sack with over 40 ears of still in the husk sweet corn somebody had tossed; the chickens & wild turkeys appreciated it. No excuse to waste perfectly good food.)

Potatoes have gotten their second hilling, and are looking great.

A thunderstorm came through Tuesday evening, and gave us an inch of rain, most of it slow & steady from the trailing edge of it. A close by strike also fried my modem, which the tech came out & replaced Wednesday morning. Second time this year; glad I don't have to buy them.

Thursday night/Friday morning last week, Big Mamma gave us a litter of 6 bunnies; one didn't survive, the rest are thriving. Hassenpfeffer!

[Texas Fossil]

Wife and I made 2 batches of plum jelly this past weekend. They were purple plums and the jelly was great. We shared with family and neighbors, both the plums and the jelly.

Wife had zoysia grass sod put in our front yard, and we had enough left over to put a large strip down the backyard fence. I put that in myself. It really is greening up and looks great. The area we covered is shaded by large pecan trees and we are hoping it gets enough light to be healthy. Looks like it will, seems to like the shade.

Everyone have a great weekend. And may your garden be productive.

[Rightly Biased]

Tomato Question

My tomatos still on the plant still green are starting to get brown and shrivel on the bottom of the fruit... Really ugly I pulled about 10 tomatos off yesterday and threw them out.

Not just one plant I have 10 plants I looked at a lot of the fruit and many of them are starting to do this...

I wish I had someway to host a pic and I would post a pic of one....

thoughts? Anyone?