What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

If there’s any interest I can type up detailed instructions.. strong wind is really the only enemy with this technique.. so strong staking and keeping the stalks tight as they grow upwards is very important.. any play in the plant will snap the stalk with a 15+ mph wind..

I'm trying that this year, and wrapping the first 6" of the stalks with cloth to try to prevent borers.

 

[fuzzi]

I like to say here in CT that our state flower is a rock. Makes for impossible digging.

I remember that...every year when I tilled the garden I would remove every rock I found...and then the next year there were more rocks to remove.

We don't have rocks here, so nursery centers SELL them!

 

[Charlie Wooster]

Nice

I'm trying that this year, and wrapping the first 6" of the stalks with cloth to try to prevent borers.
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Nice.. most important thing to do is for every 2 squash you cut you must remove 2 leaves/stems.. I try to keep all stems and leaves just above the fruit, and remove all the long blossum shoots, since they can’t support a squash, leave only short blossums/fruit connected directly to the main stalk.. it takes a week or 10 days to get the stalk goin good but pruning stems/leaves early on makes a faster straighter growing plant/tree.. yours look great.. just take the long straight non fruit bearing shoots off. All energy will go to thick stems and leaves above fruit and then the next 2 fruit and so on and so on

 

[jerryse]

Pics first one seed grown strawberry. Then summer squash recovering from deer. Bush beans covered with a cage starting to bloom. Deer damaged pole bean and another damaged pole bean. Then damaged cucumbers.

 

[WthrLady]

Dark skies when I woke up.
Managed to set two long strawberry runner pots up, then the thunder started and I went in. I still need to got out and pin the runners TO the soil, but not in lightning. LOL.
We were gifted with almost .75" of rain.
The garden is in that heavy jungle looking phase. That will last a couple of weeks, and then it will start to suffer from the extreme late July/August heat, no matter how much you water it.
But I'll enjoy it for now.
I put up my new canning shelf. DH is going to cut me two more shelves, and then I'll put all 12 on the unit, get the whole thing anchored to the wall and fill it back up.
I put the old one on twitter to see if any of my local followers want it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Nice

Nice.. most important thing to do is for every 2 squash you cut you must remove 2 leaves/stems.. I try to keep all stems and leaves just above the fruit, and remove all the long blossum shoots, since they can’t support a squash, leave only short blossums/fruit connected directly to the main stalk.. it takes a week or 10 days to get the stalk goin good but pruning stems/leaves early on makes a faster straighter growing plant/tree.. yours look great.. just take the long straight non fruit bearing shoots off. All energy will go to thick stems and leaves above fruit and then the next 2 fruit and so on and so on

I also did my squash vertically on a 2x2 post. Has worked out great. I did notice that it makes my crooked neck squash more straight and cylindrical due to gravity.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We drove up to Indiana overnight. Got a beautiful lightning storm show but thankfully missed all the rain. When we got east of Terre Haute, there were tons of trees down all along the right-of-way and even partially in the road. Must have been a doozy of a storm.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Smoke is really bad right now. I did get the nightshade garden mulched with straw, then tan string for the lima beans. I shampooed my living room carpet finally. I’m out with the chickens now. And yes I’m wearing a mask. Thankfully we are supposed to get rain late tomorrow morning and early afternoon. Hopefully that will give us a break from dirty air. My only garden chore tomorrow aside from picking peas and raspberries is to put string up for the bush green beans. If the air is too bad in the morning I may wait until it rains.

 

[WthrLady]

We drove up to Indiana overnight. Got a beautiful lightning storm show but thankfully missed all the rain. When we got east of Terre Haute, there were tons of trees down all along the right-of-way and even partially in the road. Must have been a doozy of a storm.

Deracho

 

[Charlie Wooster]

I also did my squash vertically on a 2x2 post. Has worked out great. I did notice that it makes my crooked neck squash more straight and cylindrical due to gravity.

It will do that for sure