The garden is doing great.
I got my pumpkin plants hopefully protected from squash vine borers.
Been picking off Colorado potato beetle eggs and adults, usually in pairs, all week.
Tomatoes are flowering, which is early, but welcome.
Weeds are growing like, well weeds.
Ticks are still looking for a meal. We have to do tick checks every time we work outside. I ***HATE*** them.
Good to hear the garden is doing good. What difference to you find btwn NY and NH?
We got a much-needed inch of rain Thursday overnight - with accompanying wind and T&L, but no damage that I can find other than a few branches down.
No Colorado Potato Beetles on my taters - yet!
Beau is back from his far-north fishing trip (Canadian Border @ MN) but they didn’t have as much success as was hoped, due to really high winds to deal with, so they ate what they caught every day. Fine with me! I found a mess of fish still in the freezer. I have about 12 ‘chores’ for him to do for me today...if he ever wakes up, LOL! He was home for about 15 minutes last night, then went to a coon hunt, so he’s still sacked out. Slacker.
Mom was here for 2 days this week, so she helped me prune tomato plants and get the peppers staked and tied and we added a bunch of sunflowers and zinnia to The Big Garden - where we could dig - the soil is so dry and compacted with this drought. Grrrr! I cut up two of my favorite, ratty old t-shirts to make soft ties for the pepper plants. Waste Not, Want Not! ;)
Pretty much now it’s Weed, Water & Wait - the calm before the Canning Storm, but my tomatoes are due for a shot of fertilizer this week, and I’ll probably do the peppers, too.
The potatoes can fend for themselves as they are growing in ‘Ithaca Grow.’ :)