[Diana in Wisconsin]

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Hi Everybody!

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

Making these for breakfast:

Mom's Zucchini Pancakes

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/222870/moms-zucchini-pancakes/

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the ping. We’ve had rain. Gotta let the ground dry out. Garlic is harvested and potatoes are about ready to dig. Will need to plant some stuff - green beans and haven’t decided yet on what else.

We still have no tomatoes it’s been cooler than normal and everything seems to be slower than usual. We did get some volunteer squash.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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[Bon of Babble]

I am traveling at the moment visiting family in upstate Pennsylvania. Came across these beautiful double tiger lilies in my travels. They won't grow in my area b/c they need a good, solid freeze, according to the gardener whose garden they were in.

[daniel1212]

Thanks for the ping. Garden not doing as well as previous years due to this being (so far) the 3rd rainest July on record, and with rain having come every day this month except for 2, and with more rain forecast for all but one of the next 7. Plus I did not add much to this soil and which has had tomato plants for at least the 6 years. Time for a rest next year.

The rain coming off the roof near the front by the stairs has pretty much killed the plants, spreading disease and waterlogging them. About 3/4 of the rest are growing as is the squash but some disease is seen on many leaves, which I cut off.

I would show pictures but once again the Samsung S6 Galaxy phone that someone gave me (which is not activated, but I connect to the Internet with it and via USB to my PC ) is no longer connecting to my PC, or Windows has decided it does not exist, despite following directions to fix it.

But otherwise we are very very much blessed, thanks be to God.

[TheConservativeParty]

My perfect flower garden, with 14 varieties of zinnias, is less than perfect after last Wednesday’s wind and rain. One small tree fell on the driveway, that I removed with my E-Go battery powered chainsaw (a full size chainsaw but quiet and easy to maintain).

The garden did well considering the tall lovely blooms of the perennials and annuals. I did not watch as the wind and rain pummeled them. I took the hanging baskets down and retreated to the east end of the house.

The japanse beetles returned to eat the zinnias on Thursday, so I re-applied insecticide. Bon appetite to them, and they will be belly-up by this morning.

😁

[ApplegateRanch]

Still getting adequate rain & more than enough heat for me, though not too much for the plants.

Harvested the last of the shallots. Also been eating thinnings: carrots, beets, and beet greens.

The corn has reached its full mature height of 4’, and is putting out tassels.

First squash flower opened this morning; and the green beans are covered with open blooms; should be picking by next weekend.

Last night, I dug clumps of from-seed leeks, and transplanted them,, while also side dressing the older, purchased transplants.

Also last week I deflowered the potatoes. Consensus of online sources was that it won’t do any harm, and MAY help improve yields.

Pole beans & scarlet runners are finally able to start climbing the fence wire; the scarlets are already trying to bloom.

Time to side dress the onions again.

Trees are full of apples this year, but late frost after an unusually early hot spell pretty much did in the stone fruits, other than wild plums.

Our day lilies have gone nuts this year; not to be outdone, the wildlings, purple echinacea, magenta spikes of wooly vervain, and yellow cone flowers & sunflowers are everywhere I look.

Still tilling under ground covering ‘crops’ of redroot pigweed every week; each mature plant produces 75-150,000 seeds, so the ground load is still enormous.