calling any one from missouri

[shawluvsbirds]

Good morning Missourians.
I am Trying to enjoy some outside time before the heat hits. . but I've slapped 5 mosquitos in the last 5 minutes. 3 of them bit me first.

 

[jthornton]

I was going to say before it seems to me like too much water will do them in . .but I would've thought in a raised bed they would drain really well.

Keep them skeeters to yourself lol.

The constant rain keeps the leaves wet too long and that promotes the fungus, it didn't help that I had them way over crowded and the inside plants didn't get much of a breeze.

I harvested the green tomatoes from the right hand raised bed and it filled a Corona box past the top... the left and middle I'm going to leave for a bit longer and see if I can find a sun blocker for the cucumbers.

JT

 

[SueT]

How do fair shows work? I used to show birds when I was a kid but they were strictly poultry shows not fairs.

Well the youth fairs are for kids. But the county fairs you can enter. What is your county? Google __________county MO fair....for your county and surrounding ones. (be sure to put 2019) There will be websites and info/forms for entering livestock/poultry. We may be past the deadline for ones coming up soon.
The Ozark Empire Fair in Springfield is huge. I think you get in free if you are an exhibitor ...the little fairs are free for everyone.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I didn't even know I had any like this.

 

[jthornton]

I think @shawluvsbirds is at the botanical gardens taking photos lol.

JT

 

[SueT]

My first tomatoes of the year, a grape variety called 'Chocolate Sprinkles'---now why would I buy a variety with that preposterous name? Well out of curiosity, but also when I buy a tomato plant I try to get the biggest healthiest one and so Chocolate Sprinkles was the one. I suspected the tomatoes would be ugly, and that is why they tried to make it sound more appetizing, which the name does not do. But, actually, these tomatoes are pretty darn good!

 

[jthornton]

That pan and the bag have the Cherokee Purple tomatoes I pulled yesterday from the right hand raised bed. The ones in the front are Arkansas Travelers we had been eating for a few weeks now. Going to pull the rest of the Arkansas Travelers soon. The German Lunchbox are still kinda holding on.


I added a reed fence to the top of the raised beds to see if the cucumbers will pull through, the heat is hard on them after spraying them with the Fung-onil.


Sounds like some fried green tomatoes will be for supper soon.

JT

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Rut Row... that looked like a home run hit.

JT

Should have bIt got called a ground rule double

That pan and the bag have the Cherokee Purple tomatoes I pulled yesterday from the right hand raised bed. The ones in the front are Arkansas Travelers we had been eating for a few weeks now. Going to pull the rest of the Arkansas Travelers soon. The German Lunchbox are still kinda holding on.
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I added a reed fence to the top of the raised beds to see if the cucumbers will pull through, the heat is hard on them after spraying them with the Fung-onil.
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Sounds like some fried green tomatoes will be for supper soon.

JT

Fried green ‘maters sounds good....I like green ‘mater pickles too.

If you look ‘refrigerator pickle’ recipes you can use any of those that are to your liking, but sub green ‘maters for cucs

 

[OhZark Biddies]

My first tomatoes of the year, a grape variety called 'Chocolate Sprinkles'---now why would I buy a variety with that preposterous name? Well out of curiosity, but also when I buy a tomato plant I try to get the biggest healthiest one and so Chocolate Sprinkles was the one. I suspected the tomatoes would be ugly, and that is why they tried to make it sound more appetizing, which the name does not do. But, actually, these tomatoes are pretty darn good!
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I forget the variety right now, but one of the best I’ve had fell into the ‘ugly mater’ category

Edit:
It just came to me... the variety was called ‘mortgage lifter’