Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

At my age it is getting really hard to get or do a first anymore. Well today's storm with gusts up to 50mph the weather station said leveled the corn that I picked today. I literally had to pull up a lot of stalks that were laying flat on the ground to pick the ears. The mid thigh high main crop block is leaning really bad but not flat on the ground like the 7' tall corn is now. As soon as the ground dries enough to till I'll going to till the stalks under and start preparing for fall broccoli, cabbage, & cauliflower in that spot.

 

[TOR]

You need to have enough acreage to justify machinery to pick with to get the price down. For me an acre coming in at once is more than I want to pick by hand by myself. Younger years no problem. I picked a John Deere garden cart almost full tonight for our use. I got it before the coons did. Anything they find now they will have to work for and it will take a lot of looking for them to find a single meal left in the patch. 4 rows about a 100' long. We had already picked a short block of very early corn.

Kinda surprised the coons not already into it, they seem to smell it, I put fence up about 15 days after tassel. Round about time frame is 21 days from tassel to corn, course vary from varities, weather.

 

[Nomadicus]

Kinda surprised the coons not already into it, they seem to smell it, I put fence up about 15 days after tassel. Round about time frame is 21 days from tassel to corn, course vary from varities, weather.

They had found it and ate a few of the early ears on the end of the row. They had not bothered with the mid season variety yet but would have soon.

 

[NanaK]

Yesterday I picked more tomatoes, squash and cucumbers. It is dry here again so I watered everything really good.
Last night we had our first BLTs of the summer. Yum!

 

[Sally PB]

one planter of potatoes is getting the leaves munched badly.

I've been "collecting" potato beetles for the chickens. I must have missed a lot of them, because I found a lot of their eggs on the underside of leaves.

Of course, they lay on leaves closer to the ground, so I have to bend over farther. At least the eggs are neon orange, so they're easy to spot.

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday I picked more tomatoes, squash and cucumbers. It is dry here again so I watered everything really good.
Last night we had our first BLTs of the summer. Yum!

Our tomatoes are still green.

 

[Nomadicus]

The shucking and capturing the worms for the chickens has started. At least this is work that can be done in the AC from the comfort of my chair.

 

[Nomadicus]

I see a few tomatoes looking like they are about to turn. By next weekend we start eating BLT's until tire of them.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Wind ended up killing most of my seedlings.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I've been "collecting" potato beetles for the chickens. I must have missed a lot of them, because I found a lot of their eggs on the underside of leaves.

Sadly I have no chickens to feed bugs to. (HOA rules.) If I did they’d get as many bugs as I could manage, and the weeds too!