Garden thread

[cluckmecoop7]

Where I live it is still WAY to early to plant my outdoor garden. Right now I am growing radishes and garlic inside, but I am also planting flowers! (I guess it's not to early for them.....)

 

[TooCheep]

Just harvested my first asparagus and a little bit of greens. Plants look like they are developing well, but we have 33degrees in the forecast for Friday night. Aargh...

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Just harvested my first asparagus and a little bit of greens. Plants look like they are developing well, but we have 33degrees in the forecast for Friday night. Aargh...

33 degrees! Woe!

 

[TooCheep]

Yeah. The 10-day forecast looked fine and we were past our average last-frost date two weeks ago, so I decided to plant. This is going to be tough.

 

[rosemarythyme]

So far, so good. Harvested yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers today. Tomatoes are still green, but growing, and eggplant starting to flower.

Wow nice squash already! I sure appreciate living in a cooler climate but downside is it takes forever to get the veggies going.

I can start harvesting some arugula later this week I think, and that's... about it.

 

[LittleRedCoopLady]

So far, so good. Harvested yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers today. Tomatoes are still green, but growing, and eggplant starting to flower. So far I’ve been able to control the squash bugs, vine borers and stink bugs, but as it gets hotter I lose my enthusiasm
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How do you control those bugs listed? I always struggle with them? Can you share some of your tips?

 

[Melodychick]

Ha! I’ve never been able to control them either. Since I’m home a lot now, I’ve been stalking the garden throughout the day. I just happened to be out there when 3 squash vine borers came by and I squirted them with Neem oil then stomped them. I still don’t know if they had already laid their eggs or not. The squash bugs have been few so far and those I knock off into a container of soapy water after spraying them with neem. i also constantly check the undersides of the leaves for eggs and get them off. For that I use a piece of gorilla or duck tape wrapped around my hand, sticky side out. The eggs stick to the tape and come right off without injuring the leaf. Im using Bt on the caterpillars. Trying to stay organic, but I will resort to chemicals if necessary as it’s been a couple of years since I’ve had a good crop. Good luck and if you find out some other tips, please post them!

 

[OlympicChick]

Hi everyone! I'm joining this thread as well . I love the other ongoing garden thread too, but it is going way too quickly for me.

 

[OlympicChick]

Freakish hailstorm late yesterday afternoon and now it's repeating itself. Yesterday we had lightning and thunder too which is rare here. I got tomatoes, basil and calendula planted yesterday and cleaned up the yard some. Don't know how much I'll get done today.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

How do I keep beetles out of my garden in summer? They eat the plants leaves....