Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

We picked or first Roma II beans today along with more tomatoes. There are small peas on the Zipper Cream rows. Kandy Korn is tasseling. On a sad note my Lima beans are blooming their hearts out but not setting any pods. They did this two years ago. I'm afraid it is just to hot for the pollen to set pods.

 

[Nomadicus]

Our sweet potatoes have beautiful flowers on them. 6 weeks until it's dig time on them.

 

[tripletfeb]

Watered the garden good tonight. Lots of blossoms on the tomatoes and little tiny romas starting. There are blossoms on the green beans too. My echinacea is blooming pretty and the chamomile is shooting up one shoot that is blooming

 

[NanaK]

Yesterday there was rain 5 miles to my north and just to my southeast. Not a drop here. I will keep watering.

I did pick a lot of green beans and cucumbers. Also a few tomatoes and zucchini. I'll work on the green beans later today.

Despite this awful heat and humidity garden is doing OK.

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday there was rain 5 miles to my north and just to my southeast. Not a drop here. I will keep watering.

I did pick a lot of green beans and cucumbers. Also a few tomatoes and zucchini. I'll work on the green beans later today.

Despite this awful heat and humidity garden is doing OK.

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You have such a pretty garden.

Yesterday we got about an inch of rain in the afternoon, first rainfall in weeks.

 

[Sally PB]

We got an inch of rain with the storm that went through this morning. Just as important, the power outage was only 3 hours.

 

[NanaK]

You have such a pretty garden.

Yesterday we got about an inch of rain in the afternoon, first rainfall in weeks.

Thank you!

I'm so tired of watering. With all the heat the soil dries out so fast. I'd love to get in on the rainfall party. It's been so long.

 

[fuzzi]

Today I noticed a couple squash plants wilting despite the rain we had. Yep, the SVB found a way into the plants, probably because I got slack about cutting leaves and staking the main vine. My bad. I pulled up the plants, one by one, and brought them to the chicken run. I sat and sliced the stalks in half lengthwise and fed about 20 borers to an enthusiastic flock, including the chicks. They would snatch a borer, squeal, and head for the other side of the coop in overdrive! And the hens also feasted on the squash bug nymphs I found, they found.

Oh well. I got about a dozen fruits or so. We're going on vacation in about a week, so it'll be one less chore for our "sitter" to handle.

The German Johnson tomatoes are ripening. I got three, but one had blossom end rot, and another broke open. I gave that one to the flock, yummy. The Romas are covered with ripening fruit!

I found a watermelon!

It's softball sized.

And I found a second, larger cantaloupe!

I'm not planting anything until we return from our trip.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have another week to get more Okra and purple hull peas planted. I have to clean the brooder out in the morning and then I can plant those two things. I need to get the pole Lima beans planted ASAP too. The bush Limas planted earlier may not make a single meal. Dropping blossoms like crazy in this heat. Bean a native to South American they should be adapted to hot weather.

 

[Nomadicus]

I saw the porch thermometer hit 103° today in the shade for a few minutes. A few to many at that.