I do have pumpkin in the last month not planting corn here do not use it
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What did you do in the garden today?
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My corn is already silking out, which is nice. It's an old flint corn.
Lately things are in a quiet mood. I've gotten some zucchinis which is great, and had a massive number of male blossoms on all my cucurbits.
It would seem we've seen the last of the groundhogs, knock on wood.
I'm sloooooowly working through my tomatoes and pruning them heavily. A big oversight on my part this year was not pinching my suckers in a reasonable time frame. Now there are suckers as big as the main plants growing and even fruiting on many of the tomatoes and we're starting to see some blight creep in due to all the crowding. It's a shame, but I'm chopping off a lot of tomato plant trying to get them under control. I wish I had just pinched my suckers more judiciously - all that growth could have cone into the main stem instead! I'm also tying them off to the posts better. Seems like just yesterday I was tying them off because they were too bushy the LAST time.
Otherwise things are quiet on the garden front. Everything's just quietly growing. I pull some weeds and sometimes pinch flowers as I go through every couple days. If it's been dry for a while, I water.
Ultimately, I ended up loosing almost all my sweet peppers to the groundhog attacks but the hot ones have recovered and are growing fast.
The beans are struggling. The bugs are coming out in full force and the bean plants aren't big enough.
But excitingly I found a preying mantis chilling in the tall grass outside my garden last week! It was most likely a nativized Chinese mantis. It was a young one, no wings, about 2" long. I snapped a bunch of photos but haven't uploaded them yet.
Beneficial insects can be really rare around here. there's a lot of pesticide use both in the suburbs and countryside and there's a significant lack of native plant life appropriate for them to live in. So it was extremely exciting for me to see this mantis. I found what I thought might be a mantis eggsac last fall on one of my native frost asters, and it would seem that at least one hatchling stuck around. I even got to sit and watch it try to hunt a lightning bug! (It didn't manage to catch it though.)
We've also been getting a lot of house finches around lately. Last fall I saw some goldfinches. They live in this area but they're not common to see in the suburbs. Almost everything here is sparrows, jays, cardinals and robins.
Very exciting for me. We get all kinds of wildife here because we don't have a perfectly flat grass lawn.
Lately things are in a quiet mood. I've gotten some zucchinis which is great, and had a massive number of male blossoms on all my cucurbits.
It would seem we've seen the last of the groundhogs, knock on wood.
I'm sloooooowly working through my tomatoes and pruning them heavily. A big oversight on my part this year was not pinching my suckers in a reasonable time frame. Now there are suckers as big as the main plants growing and even fruiting on many of the tomatoes and we're starting to see some blight creep in due to all the crowding. It's a shame, but I'm chopping off a lot of tomato plant trying to get them under control. I wish I had just pinched my suckers more judiciously - all that growth could have cone into the main stem instead! I'm also tying them off to the posts better. Seems like just yesterday I was tying them off because they were too bushy the LAST time.
Otherwise things are quiet on the garden front. Everything's just quietly growing. I pull some weeds and sometimes pinch flowers as I go through every couple days. If it's been dry for a while, I water.
Ultimately, I ended up loosing almost all my sweet peppers to the groundhog attacks but the hot ones have recovered and are growing fast.
The beans are struggling. The bugs are coming out in full force and the bean plants aren't big enough.
But excitingly I found a preying mantis chilling in the tall grass outside my garden last week! It was most likely a nativized Chinese mantis. It was a young one, no wings, about 2" long. I snapped a bunch of photos but haven't uploaded them yet.
Beneficial insects can be really rare around here. there's a lot of pesticide use both in the suburbs and countryside and there's a significant lack of native plant life appropriate for them to live in. So it was extremely exciting for me to see this mantis. I found what I thought might be a mantis eggsac last fall on one of my native frost asters, and it would seem that at least one hatchling stuck around. I even got to sit and watch it try to hunt a lightning bug! (It didn't manage to catch it though.)
We've also been getting a lot of house finches around lately. Last fall I saw some goldfinches. They live in this area but they're not common to see in the suburbs. Almost everything here is sparrows, jays, cardinals and robins.
Very exciting for me. We get all kinds of wildife here because we don't have a perfectly flat grass lawn.
Got corn and pumpkins planted yesterday morning. It rained last night so no watering today 
The backyard looks good. Chickens keep the weeds gone, the compost pile was reassembled before the storms, and all the miscellaneous stuff has been put away. We have a pile for bulk trash back there but that'll be gone by next month.
Have a great day everyone
The backyard looks good. Chickens keep the weeds gone, the compost pile was reassembled before the storms, and all the miscellaneous stuff has been put away. We have a pile for bulk trash back there but that'll be gone by next month.
Have a great day everyone
Well tires where filled with compost mixed into the dirt so now a time to get out there and pop seeds in
The remnants of tropical storm Chris are dumping on us--no watering for me tonight! 
Something cracked into my sugar baby watermelon, grrrr. I've got three more coming, so hopefully I'll get at least one for the humans. The cukes are still coming, as are the Thai bird's eye peppers, anchos and habaneros, though they're slow. Tomatoes--handsful of cherries, atomic grapes and lemon boys, but only a few black krim so far. Annoying, because I like the black krims best. So it goes. I need to replant greens, I'm down to just chard at this point. Maybe this weekend. Happy Thursday all!
Something cracked into my sugar baby watermelon, grrrr. I've got three more coming, so hopefully I'll get at least one for the humans. The cukes are still coming, as are the Thai bird's eye peppers, anchos and habaneros, though they're slow. Tomatoes--handsful of cherries, atomic grapes and lemon boys, but only a few black krim so far. Annoying, because I like the black krims best. So it goes. I need to replant greens, I'm down to just chard at this point. Maybe this weekend. Happy Thursday all!
Happy Thursday back at you deep salad mustard's, spinach, salad greens getting planted tonight then the son will water we are hitting 80 now so not allot in the heat of the day
Hello! I'm way behind on reading posts, I might try and catch up tonight.
Been doing garden stuff anytime I get a break. Had to dig potatoes early. Heat wiped them out. Put my smallest potatoes back in the garden in as deep a trench as I could dig. Maybe they will sprout at some point. Had to clear out some grass from where the watermelons are growing.
Also still trying to help the squash plants recover. Covered the stems with more soil to try to get them to root farther down from the borer damage. I have at least one healthy vine that has put on 2 rampicante squashes.
Tomatoes have gone south. I figured out that we've been doing it all wrong, but kinda too late. The soil is wrong, there are spider mites, and aphids. Husband refuses to fix anything this season, so I've just been pruning and picking what I can get before the tomato stealing critters do. I think next year, we should try again after we've put a bunch of compost in the bed all winter. We should also try and figure out a better means of pest control, and choose our varieties a little more carefully.
Been doing garden stuff anytime I get a break. Had to dig potatoes early. Heat wiped them out. Put my smallest potatoes back in the garden in as deep a trench as I could dig. Maybe they will sprout at some point. Had to clear out some grass from where the watermelons are growing.
Also still trying to help the squash plants recover. Covered the stems with more soil to try to get them to root farther down from the borer damage. I have at least one healthy vine that has put on 2 rampicante squashes.
Tomatoes have gone south. I figured out that we've been doing it all wrong, but kinda too late. The soil is wrong, there are spider mites, and aphids. Husband refuses to fix anything this season, so I've just been pruning and picking what I can get before the tomato stealing critters do. I think next year, we should try again after we've put a bunch of compost in the bed all winter. We should also try and figure out a better means of pest control, and choose our varieties a little more carefully.
I freeze onion for peppers and tomatoes they are the one that get attacked also plain soapy water in a spray bottle will kill aphids dead
Hi dunnmom!
I'm right there with you--work is suddenly and unexpectedly intense, add the rest of life and.. garden neglect. I hope the rampicante make it. Mine are rocking the cattle panel and flowering, but no actual zukes. Here's hoping for both of us.
I'm right there with you--work is suddenly and unexpectedly intense, add the rest of life and.. garden neglect. I hope the rampicante make it. Mine are rocking the cattle panel and flowering, but no actual zukes. Here's hoping for both of us.
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