Posted on 06/25/2022 7:06:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Our tomatoes are doing great—probably red by a week from now. I checked them last night but found two nasty tomato worms munching away this morning.
Visiting son from Seattle and I hit the local Farmers Market this morning. Returned home with hard neck garlic, loose leaf lettuce, a bag of green beans and one Mennonite tomato.
95 or hotter today. We’re ready for the cool-down.
Eric
My garden is in great shape so far.
The asparagus didn’t do as well as I had hoped, but I did notice something very interesting.
I planted some oregano near the asparagus and the plant has spread immensely. I am drying a lot of oregano at the moment. But the thing I have found most interesting is that the asparagus plants that are surrounded by oregano are by far and away, the biggest, healthiest, and most productive ones I have.
I know that asparagus doesn’t like competition from weeds, but I’m wondering that sine asparagus has deep roots and the oregano doesn’t from the looks of it, if the oregano is actually helping. There is certainly noting else growing up though the oregano. It has completely suppressed any weeds that I am finding in other ares of the garden.
I did start a few more oregano plants this year and transplanted them today near a few other asparagus plants further down the row that have not been doing so well. It should be interesting to see how they do in the next couple years.
My potatoes are doing well as I’ve been keeping up with hand exterminating the Colorado potato beetles.
I also cut my garlic scapes and am waiting for those to mature, and my onions look great.
I have butternut squash started and those are doing OK.
The tomatoes look good.
Your photos are my favorite part of this thread!
Thank you!
🌸🌝🌺
I am curious whether anyone here has tried to grow Galia melon. I bought one at costco, and loved it so much I planted some seeds, but they are VERY slow.
Two of the seeds sprouted, but they seem to have stalled at the cotyleden stage, the first pair expanding slowly with no stem coming up. This is week 3, and the first pair are only 3/4” long each.
Or am I just being impatient?
Good Morning! :-)
Just waiting on the maters
My best potato year was when I dragged some leaf mold from an area I was clearing onto the garden and forked it into my loamy silt. Big perfectly clean potatoes that I harvested by pulling the plants out when not super dry but not wet either. I had Yukon Gold the size of baking russets.
My tomatoes are full sized but waiting on them turning. My pepper plants turned out to be Democrats. They made a lot of promises, required a lot of attention and resources but I’m not seeing much results.
Short Spring this year in the Ozarks. Happens more often than not but the jump from 50s/60s and rainy to 90s and dry was a bit crazy and quick this year.
June is the new July.
Oh, thank you.
It makes all the effort worth it!!
I’ve never had much luck with dahlias, it’s been hit or miss, mostly miss. I don’t see many growing in my area so they must be marginal here. Same with peonies that have been developed for our area.
If you’re ever in San Francisco around July, there is the most fabulous dahlia garden in Golden Gate Park. When I left last week, the dahlias were just starting to bloom. Verities I’ve never seen or heard of, really spectacular.
There was also a corpse flower that was about to bloom in the flower conservatory - but by the time we got over there, there was a huge huge line and we didn’t want to wait. I’d love to see one in person (not smell it, though!).
I planted a flower box full of radishes but all I’ve gotten is just green leaves and long, skinny roots. No radish bulbs.
A friend of mine here in Wisconsin has a Corpse Flower and it blooms every few years. It’s spectacular and GROSS at the same time.
I think our UW Hort. Dept. has one in one of their greenhouses, too, and it’s a Big Deal when it blooms - lots of news coverage.
Are your seedlings getting enough sun and are in a WARM spot with some bottom heat? That will speed things along as far as germination. Be sure not to over-water them and don’t fertilize until they have two sets of adult leaves.
I have never grown that type of melon - Wisconsin and melons just don’t mix; we’re potato, onion and carrot growers. ;)
Too much nitrogen either in the soil or whatever you’re fertilizing with.
All root crops prefer little nitrogen and lots of phosphorus and potassium. A 5-10-10 is a good fertilizer, or anything formulated for bulbs. (Tulips, daffodils, etc.)
“June is the new July.”
Ain’t THAT the truth!
Thank You!
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