We have been eating a few Blueberries the past couple of days…
Also transplanted two hills of Diva salad cucumbers yesterday
The Benders large and small are Lutherans and we agree with this…
I have been eating endive and spinach from the garden. Rain has kept me from much else. I have a 9 inch pot of rosemary that I need to transplant somewhere-it's been indoors - only half is alive - too much water and direct sun I expect.
Tiny lemons have formed, but lemon tree is badly in need of transplant I am sure. Been scouting out pots, but haven't found one I like yet.
Hope everyone is doing well. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless
Pinging the list.
It has been a decent week out here on “Suchman Corners” [our name for our little slice of Heaven] My squash & beans, my pumpkins & watermelons are doin ok. I lost all our corn to birds & other garden raiders...
Well that is a wrap up from Foley,Mo [by the mighty Mississippi River & Lock & Dam #25]
It’s warm here in the hills of Massachusetts. My seedlings and online purchased transplants are finally looking good. Mr. trisham seeded some lettuce, cilantro and other herbs last week end, and they are coming up!
Finally. Things are looking up. :)
And in Texas, it’s still raining..it’s drowning my garden. Well, what the hail hasn’t beaten or broken off, anyway.
Planted 6 “Georgia Blue” yesterday. I’ve put them as a border on a full sun side of the yard. They get about 4 inches high and bloom from Spring to Summer.
Today I planted a “Spirit” Sedum seiskianum in full sun area. It will grow to 4 to 6 inches in height with yellow blooms.
A knock out rose bush I dug up a few weeks ago and planted in a full sun area with more drainage is starting to get several new leaves. Everything newly planted this year seems to be thriving. I have had to water almost every day.
I hate my garden now, I am so tired of those EVIL potato beetles.
But I’ll try to ignore that for now.... the rest of it is doing well. I have some tomatoes and peppers that I’ve been postponing transplanting until the potato beetles are gone but they have been thriving in Seven, some other powder the farm supply place sold us, and now a neonicotinoid that was our last chance. The potato plants are about gone...
Cilantro is producing coriander now, but the romaine, butter lettuce, and spinach hasn’t bolted yet.
Speaking of which, how did a salad of lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers become the norm? By the time I have tomatoes and cucumbers, my lettuces are hopelessly bolted.
Fig trees are out of control now that the real summer heat has begun. I built a compost pit and can now say that it is full up, owing to the massive amounts of compost able garbage from my work - I was picky-choosey and still almost got too much.
The varmints are aggressive - had to bleach my front porch garbage while I await a day off to transport the stuff.
Planted a grape next to my big back porch to provide cover while I bathed two years ago (I’ve since remodeled my bath and moved the claw foot indoors). The grape is already close to claiming half of a large wood deck, and though it breaks my heart I may have to cap it’s happy ass come wintertime.
Worms are happy. Some bins were starting to get anaerobic so I added a mess of shredded cardboard and they are happier now. I desire a much more massive herd of worms but it will take a master plan, several truck loads of horse manure, and buku cinder blocks.
I love the lushness of everything right now...
I have not planted any produce or herbs at my house, as I’m taking care of my mother’s container garden at her house and that’s enough.
Would like to have enough time off that I can start foraging wild edibles again (I have an excellent book on the subject)
Wish I hadn’t given a former friend my only copy of Possum Living... I find as I grow older that people are utterly unreliable. When I hear one give an oath toward such and such I just shake my head, sigh, I know how this one ends...
Mosquitoes are bad in the swamp where I live, and one day, if I grow enough wanna-do, I’ll build French drains and tile drains and fix my crappy land which I love.
Very far behind here. Should have potted up tomatoes and peppers weeks ago; they are week and spindly things.
I hope to get beans, squash, and melons in the garden tomorrow.
If it weren’t for self-sowing greens - mustard, arugula, and lettuce - we wouldn’t be eating anything from the garden yet.
Fruit is behaving oddly - scarcely any cherries set, but the peaches are abundant and my daughter is thinning them. Not as many blueberries as usual, and the summer-bearing raspberries are even making flower buds.
Poison ivy lurks. The enriched soil reverts to hard clay. And the Louisiana iris thinks NJ is Louisiana, and is spreading rampantly.
Asparagus is done for the year - way too fast.
Have been eating spinach, lettuce and kale.
The beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, cukes, and squash are in and doing great.
Just cut the scapes off our garlic - great looking crop this year.
Strawberries are out, and raspberries aren't far behind - what an awesome time of the year! (Thank you Jesus).
Green beans, dry beans, speckled butter beans, squash, chard, spinach, leeks, and cukes all got planted this week.
Also planted some Dame’s Rocket in our gully.
Been using volunteer spinach and leaf lettuce.
I think the winds did in the sweet potato slips, but I’m keeping them watered anyway. I do have some replacements if I need them.
We have been eating a few Blueberries the past couple of days…
Also transplanted two hills of Diva salad cucumbers yesterday
The Benders large and small are Lutherans and we agree with this…
Hi All! We came back from the trailer, stopping on the way to pickup Miss Mandy Stardust, our new Border Collie puppy. The house is now turned upside-down.
Haven’t checked the bees, yet, but willl be getting the first honey super frames waxed and ready for installation. I picked up two queen excluders to place between the top brooder box and the first honey super to keep the queen from getting up into it and laying eggs.
I am hoping that today, I will finally get my garden area ready to plant. The plants that Barb put in her raised beds really are growing.
CANNING QUESTION.
Here it is planting season, and I’m already thinking about the harvest. LOL.
I have a flattop cooking surface on my stove, which is not recommended for canning.
Does the The CANner 9.5 Quart Pressure Canner and Cooker safely can vegetables and meat? Or, it is recommended only for water bath canning?
Ball FreshTECH Automatic Home Canning System is only meant for water boiling procedures and apparently has only a limited number of recipes.
Since we’ve had so much rain in Texas the mosquitoes are on a rampage. My neighbor suggested spraying the yard with Cutter’s Backyard Bug Control, which you attach to your garden hose, then spray. Has anyone had any experience with this product? I’m not spraying it around any edible plants, but I do have a dog in my backyard.
It was a beautiful weekend in Central Missouri. I didn’t get terribly ambitious in the garden, but I did manage to get a few minor things accomplished.
I’ve gotten most of the mess cleaned up that was left over from harvesting the winter greens. There’s still a couple hours work remaining to finish that. I put 18 starter cells of basil in the ground, and another half dozen in pots. I tilled up a good bit of the unplanted area. Seeded 75 row-feet of sweet corn, and planted a 30’ row of butternut squash along the north fence.
The tomatoes are finally starting to snap out of the funk they’ve been in due to the cool wet weather we had last month. I reseeded the skips in the pumpkin and cucumber rows. I’ll seed the remaining 250’ row of cucumber next weekend.
I picked up 20 6”x6” white oak posts and 80 1”x6” planks at the sawmill Saturday morning. I’m going to pull up the wire fence between the yard and the horse lot and replace it with board fence. It will be a great improvement in appearance over what’s there now.
Went fishing yesterday and brought home a nice mess of bluegill. Cleaned them as soon as we got home, pulled out the banjo cooker and fried em up for supper.
Goals for this week will be to finish cleaning out the rows where the winter greens were growing and get some okra seed into the ground.