Fall is in the air, finally some cooler days and evenings. We actually had some frost on the roof a few days ago.
The garden looks like it’s winding down a bit. I am having some powdery mildew issues with the squash (normal) so I pruned. Probably should have hit them with some potassium heavy fertilizer speed along growth, but I think they have done alright. Next year I’ll be doing a lot of spraying through out the year. Lots of pests here, particularly with the fruit trees.
Starting to take in tobacco leaves to dry, tomato’s are ripening, squash are doing well. (The big ones are quite a bit larger than basketballs…oddly enough we haven’t grown any ‘wrinkly’ long Hubbards, mostly roundish footballs…anyone have any luck with that?) I hope we can start a month earlier next year.
Chickens are producing mostly medium and large eggs. 5-6 usually per day. Some real pecking order stuff going on. Two hens look OK, but the rest look pecked at at the base of their tails, two of the giants look OK…suggestions? Bears are coming down out of the mountains and setting up shop in the river bottoms. One is very curious around our coop. It knocked over my trail camera and passed over it. It’s been blowing up trash cans and fruit trees. It’s a younger juvenile, maybe 80-100lbs according to a neighbor. I started putting up an electric fence around the coop and garden. T-posts are in and insulators up. I just need to run the wire and we can sleep easier at night. I love bears, just not in the yard. The kicker is that the one in our neighborhood comes out during the morning hours too and is not afraid of people or dogs.
It is archery season but goddang! I am so busy I’ve only gotten out once. Saw a large whitetail spike and doe. Really crossing my fingers I can find an elk and a deer this year. I enjoy eating it but very much like giving it out to friends who eat meat but weren’t lucky that season or don’t hunt.
We love squash. Does BYC do a seed exchange?
