It’s been another crazy weather week here in Central Missouri. Saturday started off clear and hot and ended up with another round of ugly storms blowing through. We got 1.5” of rain in less than an hour and more bad wind. Trees down, limbs everywhere, garden thrashed. More of the same last night after I hit the rack, and it’s raining again this morning.
Mrs. Augie cut the grass cut Saturday morning before the deluge hit and I got some good stuff done in the victory garden. Took the week whacker to the undesirables, tilled up a spot, seeded the 2nd planting of sweet corn, and set up a soaker hose on that.
Pulled another bucket full of carrots yesterday morning, along with a nice mess of blue lake pole beans. Supper last night was BLTs with fresh green beans and fresh sweet corn. It don’t get much better than that.
For the first time in I can’t remember when I’m having problems with early blight in my tomatoes. 12 of the 16 plants I started from seed in new ProMix mycorrhizae potting soil and I put weed cloth down when I set the plants out. The blight started on the home-grown black krim plants and spread to the rest from there. I’ve treated with copper spray and sulpha powder to no avail. I don’t think any of the plants are going to survive past the middle of September so I’m going to have to root some cuttings if I want late season tomatoes this year.
It’s time to get busy starting seeds for other fall crop plants so I need to start thinking about that real soon now.
I planted Blue Lake pole beans this year and they were all chewed down by sow bugs. I replanted with romano varieties that survived.
Eating fresh food from the garden at the end of the day is pretty close to happiness!
What variety of corn did you plant? I used Hybrid Northern Sweet corn, 67 days to maturity. Incomplete pollination because the corn was not planted in rows or closely together. Ears half full of kernals were delicious in spite of that.
Tomatoes; Try treating with hydrogen peroxide, neem oil, or baking soda. I used a neem oil and some baking soda on mine this year and have not had any real problem so far. (I am using a red plastic mulch this year. I am also planting in an area that has not had tomatoes before so that might help ) Lots of YouTubes on these things.
Good luck!
“Pulled another bucket full of carrots yesterday morning, along with a nice mess of blue lake pole beans. Supper last night was BLTs with fresh green beans and fresh sweet corn. It don’t get much better than that.”
Amen. Amen! AMEN! :)