I have to take a closer look at the planting schedule but I will tell you that in this heat I am almost to the "Die Garden Die!" stage!
They have just about finished storm debris pickup in my neighborhood! I have Power and air conditioning...a good thing since it was 102F yesterday! (Lost power 3 times in the last 2 weeks, once in our big storm. I would blame it on "Biden Brownouts" but it was really Neighbors who do not maintain trees in their yards along the power lines. If or when I move the next house has a buried power line.)
Tomatoes are not growing/ripening well in the 90-100 F heat. Cool days I try to go out and shake/brush tomato flowers to get them to set if possible. When it cools down perhaps some of the set tomatoes will grow.
Heirloom and specialty tomatos...small garden, over 50 lbs picked more to come. These sell for about $5 lb at the local grocery so at least $250 equivalent cost! These are appreciated and are great for sharing with family and friends.
June planted Burpee's Long Keeper tomatoes are filled with blossoms and some small green tomatoes so they should be producing at the middle or end of August.
Cucumber beetles spotted and striped and bean beetles are destroying my trellised walls of pole beans. (Sort of expected.)
I bought traps for transparent winged moths (Squash vine borers/maggots) that are working incredibly well! The sticky trap bottoms get filled with moths and I replace the bottom of the trap with a yellow sticky trap. I have multistory stickies! (A possum or someting pulled the stickies out of the trap and ate all the moths off of them. Since I do not have chickens its sort of allright.
Incredibly no zucchini harvested! Cocozelle not doing well in this heat. I am about to replace it. Striata d' Italia variety is vigerous, but It probably needs more room than available in my garden. I was growing both varieties vertically in tomato cages. I have another fast growing variety that takes about 40 days to fruit. They may need more sunlight and water.
I am getting some patty pan squash. Red Kuri is climbing up trellises and crawling along and over the top of the pole beans on my fence. I have several squash growing, hoping for a lot more. I have one butternut squash that is growing on a sad vine on a trellis and I am hoping to nurse it to maturity.
Planted some Hybrid Northern sweet corn for daughter, a bit of a novelty. Fast growing, about 5 feet tall, good taste but I can' grow enough in my small space to get through germination. I have harvested a number of 1/2 full cobs of tasty corn. (I sliced the soft ungerminated ends and used them in a vegetable medley with slightly overgrown romano beans.
Picked an almost perfect 9" "Diva" Cucumber from my protected gardening fabric covered trellis! Beit Alpha variety, no spines, you can grow it under a row cover do not need insects to pollinate!! Recommended! Growing Artist Cucumber too. It produces spiny gerkins which would be very good for pickling!
Eldest Daughter is visiting from her Group Home, need to go off now and do some grooming stuff. (Mani-Pedi) She moves and kicks when nails are being trimmed so I am the one who needs to do this!!
Thank you for the detailed update. Wow! Is all I can say. We are eating zukes (romanescu) and more yellow squash than I wish we had... haha. Cukes, not pickling which is the only kind we like, but DH is picking them small. Beans... bugs were eating the plants but we do have flowers. Small tomatoes, several varities, hope to have ripe ones soon, we like romas best, more solid, less acidy. DH picked several weird squash and I couldn’t figure out what they were, harder but light green/whitish stripes and then I realized he’s picking the immature butternut!!!
He’s doing the garden himself this year becaucse I currently can’t walk without assistance and garden is 250 feet away. Hope that gets fixed, as he is not a natural gardener. He refused to put labels on what got planted, and thought that 5 or 6 collard and kale plants were ehough. Finally I told him that you need 20 of each! (sob sob, my faves).
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I just hope he’s keeping my catnip alive.