What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Anyone know what might cause a yellow squash plant to turn out dark yellow-greenish looking fruit? These are covered in the hoop house so I am hand pollinating. The plant itself is sandwiched between Country Gentlemen sweet corn and a Shining Light Watermelon. Not sure what is causing this?

 

[fuzzi]

Pruned and tied Summer squash

Hiding INSIDE the trellis!

Should I make a sling?

And outside the bed...these are volunteer watermelon plants!

Despite lots of rain the new tags are working out well, chalk not rinsing off.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Pruned and tied Summer squash
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Hiding INSIDE the trellis!
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Should I make a sling?

And outside the bed...these are volunteer watermelon plants!
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Despite lots of rain the new tags are working out well, chalk not rinsing off.
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I'm tying mine up rather than taking a chance if they are hanging (no trellis support underneath). I'm making slings for my big watermelon and pumpkins from old tshirts and old mesh potato sacks.

 

[Smokerbill]

I put the first bean trellis up this morning. I think it's about 9 feet tall, so I hope the 6 foot T-posts will hold it up. Made from free stuff- posts were left here when I bought the house. I found the cattle panel on OfferUp, free for the taking. I also got a big section of concrete reinforcing mesh and a second cattle panel. Free is good!

I started training the bean vines onto the panel.

 

[Acre4Me]

Yeah, that recommendation came from Plantnative.com. Even Rutgers has what I consider an insanely high recommendation.

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The general recommendation is 10 gallons of water for every inch diameter of your trunk. Per day.

Weird bc all info I found when deciding to buy peach trees was that they don’t like wet feet.. sounds pretty wet to me!

 

[WthrLady]

Mature trees can take UP that much water in a day. But don't need to be watered that much in a day.
And a mature, full sized fruit tree is HUGE.
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Another 90' day here, errands all day now pondering dinner.
Nothing but watering and shade cloth tightening on the books for tonight while the old hen walks the patrol in the garden.

 

[Sally PB]

What I did in the garden... measure the rain in the bucket. Somewhere between 1.25 and 1.5 inches. I am so very thankful.

Tomorrow, I'll spend a lot of time weeding. I'll get wet, sandy, muddy hands, even with gloves on. I'll get a bug bite or five. I'll get hot and sweaty. I don't care. I am so very thankful for the rain.

 

[WthrLady]

Weird bc all info I found when deciding to buy peach trees was that they don’t like wet feet.. sounds pretty wet to me!

If you spread the 40 gallons out over the drip zone of a mature tree, that's a diameter of 20 feet. and spread over 8 5gallon buckets. that's not so much.

 

[karenerwin]

Willie was looking good and sounded great. Much better than a couple of years ago when his emphysema was so bad.
I watered the garden and looked at the spaghetti squash which feels like it’s taking forever to ripen.
Edited to add. Can you see how beat up Willie’s guitar is! That is a big ol hole where there isn’t supposed to be one.

 

[Smokerbill]

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Willie was looking good and sounded great. Much better than a couple of years ago when his emphysema was so bad.
I watered the garden and looked at the spaghetti squash which feels like it’s taking forever to ripen.
Edited to add. Can you see how beat up Willie’s guitar is! That is a big ol hole where there isn’t supposed to be one.

Excellent! That guitar is named "Trigger". LOL