What did you do in the garden today?

[cj2024]

I just found out why I can't grow Marconi peppers in my yard. The yellow leaf curl virus which is prevalent in my yard is stunting my plants; the virus is transmitted by white flies.

 

[WthrLady]

I wish it was 70 here.... Our heat index is headed over 100 every day for the weekend and into next week.

Here too. Revolting.

 

[5.3acredream]

7b south jersey. I'll try to report pests incase anyone is in my area:

After looking at the weather forecast yesterday, I decided to pull my spring peas out. We are jumping from the 60s to highs in the mid 90s for the foreseeable future so I just bit the bullet and fed my chickens the scraps.

I removed the string trellis from the peas and installed a hardwire trellis in its place. I have 2 healthy muskmelon sprouts (seeds planted in the peas a week ago) that I'll train up this heavier trellis. First time trellising melon so I hope it is a great space saving solution as touted.

Shoved bamboo stakes around my grapes and I will be draping bird netting tonight since my avian stalkers are already going bonkers just from the raspberries. They had a lot to say to me when I helped myself to their precious raspberries last night.

My blueberries look far healthier than last year. That was my fault as I didn't properly amend my soil so they suffered nutrient deficiency. I certainly won't be getting a crop worth noting this year, but they look green and growing in their second year, so I call it a win and will plan to net next year. I'll let the birds have their handful this year...

I'm picking cucumbers, cherry tomatoes are beginning to blush out, and bush lima beans have germinated under the rain, as have the rutabaga. Added another layer of manure and straw to my haphazard potato bed, so despite the raccoon removing potatoes for fun, we have respectable growth.

Finding the occasional spotted lantern fly nymph on my grapes. They look to be third instar, maybe second.

Looks like my nasturtium is concentrating the leaf miners nicely so they are out there but occupied on my "I can eat it, but it's mostly for the pollinators" plants.

Made a few borax/sugar traps for the ants that are cozying up to all their aphid homies on my fruit trees and sprayed permethrin in the meantime to stop the sap suckers until their queen bites the dust.

 

[pennyJo1960]

More weeding here lots more.
Going to in bring plants out to daylight today.

 

[WthrLady]

I spent the morning tying up the tomatoes and re-corraling the terror-a-gon plant. That thing is OUT OF CONTROL!

The Lovage is over 8.5 feet on it's own.

Baby tomatoes are hiding out there as are green blackberries and tons of baby grapes.

 

[Smokerbill]

I spent the morning tying up the tomatoes and re-corraling the terror-a-gon plant. That thing is OUT OF CONTROL!

I just cut some tarragon to dry and my plant's pretty small, 6 or 7 stalks and maybe 3 feet tall. But one stalk fell down a couple weeks ago and now it has new shoots growing upward all along its length. I might bend a couple more down to the ground and see if I can make my plant expand.

 

[Smokerbill]

Because my pole-beans-planted-next-to-onions attempt has become more of an experiment to see what happens, I decided to plant a "control" row of the same variety of beans.

It's in the same raised bed at the far end, about 7 feet away from the alliums and behind the cabbages where the collards used to be. Now we'll get a better idea of how the alliums affect bean growth.

 

[WthrLady]

I just cut some tarragon to dry and my plant's pretty small, 6 or 7 stalks and maybe 3 feet tall. But one stalk fell down a couple weeks ago and now it has new shoots growing upward all along its length. I might bend a couple more down to the ground and see if I can make my plant expand.

Mine is 6 feet wide and over 6 feet tall.

 

[jerryse]

I bought this seed as Princess Louise pink oriental poppy. Not pink and an annual. eBay which I seldom have issues with seed sellers. No reply from seller yet.

 

[chickengr]

What's your sales tax rate? And how often do you have to pay vehicle registration? We pay 8.25% sales tax here. Vehicles have to be registered every year. Including the boat that I pay property taxes on and our travel trailer. Dirt bikes and other ohvs are every two years.

we pay tax on pollution. I am 100% positive pollution does not get any money, lol. (I am off grid so I don't pay any invented taxes people here pay with their electricity bills.)