What did you do in the garden today?

[Backroadlogic]

I've been picking pounds of black raspberries every day, going to make some jam and some wine. My strawberries are going good but only a couple ripe every day. It's too hot and muggy here to do much, it's been raining alot and it's 88 degrees today. Thinned out my poppy patch before it was horrible out.

 

[Sylvester017]

I put compost tea on my sunflowers, 4 pepper plants and 9 of my tomato plants. Put a bucket of dirt in my potato tower. weeding, weeding, and more weeding.

Tomato plants love calcium. Pulverize or blender egg shells into a fine powder & mix into the soil compost before planting seedlings.

 

[Backroadlogic]

Tomato plants love calcium. Pulverize or blender egg shells into a fine powder & mix into the soil compost before planting seedlings.

I put eggshells in my compost so it's already broken down and available when I make compost tea or top dress with compost

 

[Sylvester017]

I did start a trap crop of pumpkins but apparently planted them in a bad spot. They died...

Anyway, I looked over my plants this morning and found ZERO SVB eggs.... Hopefully that means they've been foiled by the kaolin clay.

I picked another 4 cups or so of blackberries. Gonna make more simple syrup with them later today.

At a point where I'm just basically maintaining stuff now. Need to probably put the shade cloth up over the tomatoes. Temps are starting to inch up over the 90 degree mark... Although we have more rain predicted Wednesday - Sunday. Black rot from all the rain has decimated my Catawbas. No harvest from them this year. Concords are still hanging on though....

I feel like a dunce but what is SVB eggs?

 

[Sylvester017]

I put eggshells in my compost so it's already broken down and available when I make compost tea or top dress with compost

I don't keep a garden compost cuz of rat temptation so I keep egg shells pulverized to a powder in a container to use for planting later (heat egg shells to kill any mold bacteria then pulverize the shells & store away).

 

[Molpet]

I feel like a dunce but what is SVB eggs?

Squash vine bore

 

[TJAnonymous]

I feel like a dunce but what is SVB eggs?

No need to feel like a dunce... It wasn't that long ago that I asked my mom (a Master Gardener) what "cukes" were... I'd never heard of such a thing.

 

[Acre4Me]

Auxiliary garden underway. 80+ year old neighbors won’t do much from here on out with respect to their garden plot, so my husband nicely asked if we could plant corn there. They said yes! So on Sunday we planted 25’ rows of 3 sweet corn varieties. 2 rows Silver Queen, 3 rows Bodacious, 3 rows Bi-Licious. We spaced the rows 2.5’ apart, and seeds about 10” apart in the rows.

Since the neighbor also gave me his purple hull pea seeds (a type of Cowpea) I then used the other 25’ of his garden to plant 4 varieties of cowpeas, including the purple hull peas. He enjoys watching his garden grow, but his hips and knees won’t allow him to garden much now. So this way he can enjoy watching things grow.

 

[PopoMyers]

Had my first chigger bite of the season. Put a little charcoal lighter on it. Gone. I have tried many methods for SVB. Trap crops treated with imachlorprid systemic insecticide. Soil drench. Approved for food crops. Bio Advanced brand. Menards had it on clearance. Not sure where I will get it next. I know most of you will not eat a crop treated this way. However, a trap crop will reduce SVB numbers by preventing a new generation. Works on squash bugs also. Butternut squash group Moschata is not bothered by SVB. There is a Moschata type used like Zuke when young.

That would be Tromboncino zucchini. It's a vine, very delicious, and can also let mature for winter eating. I don't have the fencing for it here, did in Texas. Take that, SVBs!

 

[PopoMyers]

I feel like a dunce but what is SVB eggs?

Squash Vine Borer.