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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Thanks Diana.

Mid-Western Connecticut:
Strawberries are done (all picked), and waiting on our raspberries and gooseberries.
Potatoes are in,
tomatoes are in and caged,
squash is in,
cukes are in,
peppers are in,
bush beans are in.
Waiting to harvest our garlic, and then plant string beans in their place.
Have been getting (and stagger-planting) lettuce and spinach since March.

This is such a fun time of the year!!

6 posted on 06/11/2022 5:40:49 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Psalm 73

When do you harvest your garlic? We are in Michigan. Ours is still green and growing.


7 posted on 06/11/2022 5:52:08 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Psalm 73; Diana in Wisconsin
Coastal central New Jersey - 6/11/22:

Most of my tomato plants are in (outdoor 5 gallon pots), and caged.
I just need to transplant & cage 8 more tomato 'seedlings'.
They're over a foot tall now - so out they go.
(Roma plum & Early Girl. I need to go buy a few more cages.)

Most of the pepper seedlings are also transplanted outside.
10 more need to go out. (Red/Yellow Bell & Marconi)

Simpson, red leaf & green leaf lettuce are growing in flats outside.
I grow lettuces in moveable flats - so they can be rescued from the deer,
groundhogs, rabbits - or whatever other critters - if need be.

I have started basil and zucchini for a second time -
the nighttime cold & wind killed both the first time.
That was weeks ago - I moved them outside way too early.

And, while rummaging around in all of my gardening stuff -
I found a packet of spinach seeds leftover from last year.
Maybe if I plant them, they will grow. (LOL!)
So baby spinach salad will be on the way - with any luck.

And that is about all I am going to attempt to grow this year,
vegetable-wise.

I'm not going to attempt parsley this year - due to the 'parsley caterpillars' -
(they become black swallowtail butterflies)
Going out every morning and squashing caterpillars by hand
every morning is too much to ask for parsley - I'll just buy it.)

They are both pretty though -

Happy gardening everybody!

25 posted on 06/11/2022 8:01:33 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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