far away from an expert but I have seen trees coping with such issues without any fixing. I guess your product would be ok.
What did you do in the garden today?
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far away from an expert but I have seen trees coping with such issues without any fixing. I guess your product would be ok.
I eat them raw, they never seem to last long enough to add to a stir fry.
mine are going in this weekend. From seed. 
Way, WAY too much going on and the weather hasnt been cooperating.
I think it depends! Mid-Ohio here, and the farm near me starts their pumpkin patch (u-pick in October) around late June! They grow Jack-o-lantern types and pie pumpkins
Pumpkins & squash...depends on the variety & your weather. I live in the small state of Delaware yet the weather varies greatly between north & south. North follows Philadelphia weather & just 100 miles south...well our weather has practically mirrored Dalton, GA the past year.
For pumpkins to be ready for Halloween
they usually shoot for 120 days. Yellow squash though, only 40 to 50 days. People here have planted a 2nd squash crop in Aug, after July 100 degree Temps fried the 1st batch, since it doesn't really get wintery cold until late Dec or Jan. Last year, I still had fresh tomatoes in November, despite shorter days, they were smaller but just as delicious 
That Never happened for me when I lived 100 miles north. So...try it, ya never know!
https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/06/22/time-to-plant-pumpkins/
For pumpkins to be ready for Halloween
they usually shoot for 120 days. Yellow squash though, only 40 to 50 days. People here have planted a 2nd squash crop in Aug, after July 100 degree Temps fried the 1st batch, since it doesn't really get wintery cold until late Dec or Jan. Last year, I still had fresh tomatoes in November, despite shorter days, they were smaller but just as delicious That Never happened for me when I lived 100 miles north. So...try it, ya never know!https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2020/06/22/time-to-plant-pumpkins/
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This heat and No rain...even changed the forecast during the night to take away my 7am rain! Both hose pipes have literally exploded from this heat...odd like what the heck just happened as I turned around to see why I was getting soaked after hearing a crazy loud noise!
I'm trying to keep all my babies cooled down but not easy! And I sure miss sitting down there with em off and on all throughout the day! I got so tired yesterday down there dreading the walk back to the garage that I nearly waited too long!
I gotta check the tomatoes, cucumbers and squash though and get em tied up again cause they are growing insanely!
What do yall do bout cantaloupe plants? Do you just let em sprawl all over the ground?
And I've got a few cucumber plants reincarnated I gotta find a place for! Thought sure they were dead...no sign of life after fungus gnat attack from seedlings...now they are flourishing in awful places! But atleast I know now putting them in front of the tomatoes was not a good idea! Lol
Oh and bell pepper plants decided to grow...do I need to stake them? Still aren't very big but thought I'd ask before I forget lol.
I'm trying to keep all my babies cooled down but not easy! And I sure miss sitting down there with em off and on all throughout the day! I got so tired yesterday down there dreading the walk back to the garage that I nearly waited too long!
I gotta check the tomatoes, cucumbers and squash though and get em tied up again cause they are growing insanely!
What do yall do bout cantaloupe plants? Do you just let em sprawl all over the ground?
And I've got a few cucumber plants reincarnated I gotta find a place for! Thought sure they were dead...no sign of life after fungus gnat attack from seedlings...now they are flourishing in awful places! But atleast I know now putting them in front of the tomatoes was not a good idea! Lol
Oh and bell pepper plants decided to grow...do I need to stake them? Still aren't very big but thought I'd ask before I forget lol.
One of my best friends has a hognose, a male. She had a female. It ate once in a year and a half, before she finally died.
I let mine sprawl. I tried to get the melons on something, like a brick, or a block of wood, so that they weren't resting on the ground. That helped keep the slugs off them.
Also, about the 5th of August, any melons that weren't the size of my fist got removed, and I didn't let any more grow. This helped make the ones that were growing sweeter, since there were only so many leaves making sugar. Before I did that, I'd end up with lots of melons that were just... meh.
My first frost date can be about the 15th-20th of September, so if you have a longer season, you might get a bunch more melons than I did.
I'm not growing melons this year. The last couple were pretty much flops with ground hogs getting them juuuuust before they were ripe!
Melons: SUN, Heat, more SUN!! Aaaaandd…enough water and nutrients.
Last year, we had some planted where shade hit them part of the day- they hardly grew. Then, cucumber beetles? Or some other reason, the vines wilted on several. Maybe squash vine borer, but I don’t recall SVB evidence. It was a disappointing year for melons.
This year, we have 11 varieties of melons planted-one hill for each variety. They will be encouraged to grow into the mulch area. We have muskmelons, watermelons, and honeydew planted. Most are new to us.
When we had a melon of about baseball size, we would prop it up onto two sticks. This way, water did not pool under them, and they were not on the ground. The best thing I’ve used was two extra pieces of trim (1.2-2” tall) that were already primed and painted for an interior project (these were the off cuts) held together as a unit with long screws. The two pieces were parallel to each other. The wood shed water bc of the paint. And, it was tall enough to really keep the melons off the ground and dry underneath. Bc it was trim, the edges were rounded.
Pulling off the extra melons after a certain point is helpful to get the remaining ones fully ripe. My first frost date is in October, so I’d pull extra off around early -mid Aug. @Gammas Bearded Babies, your temps last pretty long, so you won’t have the same ripening issue. Instead you may thin fruit to help get fewer larger/sweeter melons.
Last year, we had some planted where shade hit them part of the day- they hardly grew. Then, cucumber beetles? Or some other reason, the vines wilted on several. Maybe squash vine borer, but I don’t recall SVB evidence. It was a disappointing year for melons.
This year, we have 11 varieties of melons planted-one hill for each variety. They will be encouraged to grow into the mulch area. We have muskmelons, watermelons, and honeydew planted. Most are new to us.
When we had a melon of about baseball size, we would prop it up onto two sticks. This way, water did not pool under them, and they were not on the ground. The best thing I’ve used was two extra pieces of trim (1.2-2” tall) that were already primed and painted for an interior project (these were the off cuts) held together as a unit with long screws. The two pieces were parallel to each other. The wood shed water bc of the paint. And, it was tall enough to really keep the melons off the ground and dry underneath. Bc it was trim, the edges were rounded.
Pulling off the extra melons after a certain point is helpful to get the remaining ones fully ripe. My first frost date is in October, so I’d pull extra off around early -mid Aug. @Gammas Bearded Babies, your temps last pretty long, so you won’t have the same ripening issue. Instead you may thin fruit to help get fewer larger/sweeter melons.
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