What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good rainy morning gardeners. I did take care of a couple of things this morning. Repaired some Chloe barrier fence. Checked on the gardens. I have squash forming with flower buds on the butternut squash. A couple more chocolate cherry tomatoes are forming and the green beans are growing and happy. I secured 2 more poles in the high garden to add netting. I checked on the corn briefly and the beans and squash in there are growing well. I had to come inside because the early sprinkle turned into a downpour. Not much else going on today except making my sourdough loaves.

 

[jerryse]

https://hgic.clemson.edu/give-parthenocarpic-squash-a-try-next-year/
Here is seedless squash article. With a row cover you could prevent SVB and not worry about pollination.

 

[Sueby]

Oh awesome, I've been looking for parthenocarpic squash! I will use them next year. This year I am not able to manage covering them, still recovering from back surgery. But thanks for the link, very happy to hear they exist!

 

[Acre4Me]

90 days until frost!!

Go Garden…GO!

Harvested the last haul of rhubarb. Figured 90 days was good for replenishment of roots.

Told spouse that I was pinching off tomato blossoms on the “beefsteak” types so that no bunch had more than 2 or 3 blossoms. He almost commented, but decided not to -lol, he wants lots of tomatoes -while I want BIG tomatoes. We have 20+ tomato plants, I think we will have way more than we need!

Some bugs here and there, using Sevin only where needed and not on or near any blossoms so bees ok. The parsnips have these little black bugs all over, hoping the Sevin helps.

Picked more beets -have another round to pick them will probably plant green beans in their place.

Summer squash look great! Not sure when SVB will hit, but maybe I can wrap the stems … and prolong harvest.

JBs - so far a tiny fraction of what we experienced last year. Not sure if it will get worse or not. They are having minor impact, but I’m hand picking them 2-3 x per day and I have 3 lure traps out. They really enjoy munching plum and apricot leaves, and raspberries too. They hit the green beans too, but not bad.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Here's a picture of the 3 Babydoll ewe lambs in the truck on the way home yesterday.
I'm going to have to spend some time with them to tame them down.

 

[Sueby]

Rain stopped so I went out to grab some beans for dinner. A mix of Dragons (not) Lingerie & Blue Lake.

Lots of cucumbers coming in. I think I saw a striped cuke beetle fly away. Oh well, I'll get what I get, I can't fight bugs this year.

The Dahlia that the bees love, not my favorite except that I love bees. LOL

 

[WthrLady]

Here's a picture of the 3 Babydoll ewe lambs in the truck on the way home yesterday.
I'm going to have to spend some time with them to tame them down.
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walk around with a handful of mini nilla waffers, giving just one of them a cookie every once in a while on a walk, then to a different one. Near the end give them each a cookie. Next day, repeat, and talk to them while you walk. Day 3. Their yours.

 

[Sally PB]

JBs - so far a tiny fraction of what we experienced last year. Not sure if it will get worse or not. They are having minor impact, but I’m hand picking them 2-3 x per day and I have 3 lure traps out. They really enjoy munching plum and apricot leaves, and raspberries too. They hit the green beans too, but not bad.

I've been going bug hunting every days since July 3rd. Yesterday and today, I got 60+.

They are really going to town on my cherry trees. Half of the ones I got today were on the the cherry trees.

 

[Smokerbill]

I spent the day actually gardening for a change. The tomato plants took a lot of deer damage. The three varieties of determinate tomatoes are in fair shape, and the Oregon Spring are doing the best.

The indeterminate tomatoes are another story. There's only one plant (a cherry tomato) that's in good shape. One doesn't have the top or even a single side sucker, so I don't know if it will sprout a new shoot. The others either have the growing tip intact, or a decent sucker that can be trained up the rope.

I pruned all the tomato plants and tied them up for support. Then watered them really well.

I transplanted several baby lettuce plants into various places in the garden. I pulled up the remaining rattlesnake vine beans (hardly a leaf left on any plant). In their place I planted a 7 foot row of Provider bush variety green bean (52 days to maturity), and a 7 foot row of Cherokee golden wax bush bean (58 days to maturity). I'm leaving some of the bean plants that the deer didn't demolish in place because some of them are blooming and I'm hoping they'll bounce back.

I also planted a new batch of summer squash seeds. Everything I planted today is inside the cages I built, so I should have something to pick by late summer.

I watered everything really well. Beets, turnips and radishes I recently planted are doing well. Even ate the first radish, and it was sweet, not hot either.

I deer proofed the big bed by setting a couple of rabbit cages in the bed, layed a couple 2x4s across them and layed a section of cattle panel over the top. And then I layed assorted sections of fence here and there to further protect things.

It's a nice, cool 66 degrees here, and cloudy. And I think I felt a few tiny drops of rain.

 

[Burnt Brass Homestead]

More zucchinis and cucumbers were pull from the garden.

We are also getting about 1 - 1.5 pints of raspberries and blackberries per day. I will freeze what we do not eat to make jellies and compote later.