What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

About on my way to take some pictures of the garden gong nuts.
I love what we have this year.
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Love all your "planters"!

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Today I learned what a vine borer is, and why I've lost some pumpkin plants. Stupid me - it wasn't that long ago that I actually saw a vine borer in my garden, and in my innocence I thought to myself, "Oh, how pretty! I wonder what it is?"

The squash bugs and vine borers are terrible here. I was told when I moved in by the neighbors that I had to either use heavy duty pesticides or forget about growing any squash. I started seedlings early indoors and over planting fully expecting some to be sacrifice plants. Last year I harvested almost 500lbs of zucchini and over 100 autumn frost squash.

 

[fuzzi]

Garden tour, June 30

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What are those dark red-purplish flowers?

 

[Sally PB]

Ugh, that makes it so much worse, doesn't it?

Yeah. The other three plants look fine. At least for now. I hung a short length of wire on the fence. If I see any signs of VB, I'll be trying to exorcise them with it.

 

[jerryse]

Mowed yesterday. Fried fish tonight the ones we caught Sunday. I like a cornmeal based dry coating. Grew up eating fish that way. I have changed the seasonings over the years. Got to buy some steel post to mark my plants. Caught my Granddaughter in-law pulling up orange painted stakes cleaning up. That stake means I planted something there. At least she can't pull a steel fence post.

 

[jerryse]

Yeah. The other three plants look fine. At least for now. I hung a short length of wire on the fence. If I see any signs of VB, I'll be trying to exorcise them with it.

Is a priest going to help with the exorcist?

 

[Sally PB]

Is a priest going to help with the exorcist?

No. But I might say something like, "Die you GD bug! Leave this zucchini and go to Hell!"

 

[akroberts1085]

Gotta get up and go water the garden especially the berries. My corn is going crazy nuts. I tried to count how many ears I could seem and said okay that's not working.

 

[fuzzi]

I lost one of my zucchini plants to VB. I saw it wilting, and when I tried to look at the base of the vine, it broke off right at the soil line.

They are just starting to have baby zucchinis.

I only have two squash plants left, and they're infested as well. I pulled up plant #3 and took it with me to the run. The hens clustered at my feet as I sliced open the vines and extracted the borers. After much hesitation Zack finally took a borer from my fingers!

I left the remaining leaves for the hens to pick through and find squash bug nymphs.

 

[Sally PB]

You know the close up pictures people are always posting of their chickens? Like this:

See this face, bugs? Be afraid. Be very afraid...