Gardening

[alejandro]

So strawberrys don't die on subzero winter??.

 

[ruthcatrin]

The green leaves died back, but they were up and growing before almost anything else this spring.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Baby tomatoes!

 

[alejandro]

The last ones of this season

 

[ruthcatrin]

The garden, as of yesterday morning. The difference just a few weeks makes!



Of course, temps dropped into the mid 40's Saturday night/Sunday morning, and although everything survived that god only knows what its going to do to the growing cycles of the heat lovers. Hopefully the black tires kept the roots warm enough!

In other news the wildlife has found my strawberries. Went out yesterday evening to see what was ripe and discovered that every strawberry that was even close to ripe was well chewed on. By something with teeth. Though I suppose a determined bird might be the problem too. I'm going back out today to cut off every chewed on fruit and to spray the whole thing with deer & rabbit repellent......

 

[alejandro]

Wow, really can see a diference. Those strawberies must really be a treat for the wildlife.

 

[ruthcatrin]

They're really good strawberries, I guess I got lucky last year cause we didn't have any issues with something eating them last year!

 

[alejandro]

I don't know much about strawberries but i have raspberries and i have seen birds snacht them on a single stroke.

 

[Robtouw]

Our garden Is doing pretty well! We haven't had rain in 7 weeks and the ground is pretty dry. We've harvested radishes, onions, lettuce, some cucumbers and green beans. Here are photos of little cantaloupe, pumpkins, watermelons, peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes.

 

[alejandro]

Let's hpope you get some rain soon Rob, cause all o'those need a lot o' watter.

 

[Robtouw]

We desperately need some!

 

[Kujo]

I'm having a great 2nd year for my garden!

Lettuce, cucumber, snap peas, corn, wonderpole beans, bush beans, edamame, carrots, cilantro, green bell pepper, jalapeño, yellow bell pepper, eggplant, zucchini, 8ball zucchini, pineapple tomato, cherry tomato, mint, chocolate mint, basil, spicy basil, oregano, onion, garlic, chives.

And that's Kujo hard at work guarding the garden

 

[Smokeycat]

We desperately need some!

You can take mine. Almost everything planted around here is starting to drown.

 

[ruthcatrin]

My garden has been infested by Striped Cucumber Beetles. I THINK I caught the infestation early, cross fingers! They're nasty little bug, not only do they chew the leaves of the plants, they carry leaf wilt, AND their larva eat the roots of the plants.

 

[Robtouw]

We finally got 2.5 inches of rain.Probkem is , it was all at once, hard and fast. It pretty much beat the crap out of my corn and tomatos, I think some are lost. It's a shame, the corn was growing beautifully.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Sunday I harvested 14 cucumbers, today there are at least 4 more ready to be picked.....

I picked my first Sugar Snap pea yesterday. That crop isn't going to be as large as I'd hoped, but I'll take what I can get.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Garden today:



For the record I've now harvested 29 cucumbers.....

 

[broccolini]

I made some high raised beds this year thinking the height would deter the dogs from 'helping.'

I found a giant hole in the dirt two days after planting my tomatoes. Athena managed to dig out everything except the plants. I think it was some sort of threat.

 

[ruthcatrin]

Yah, I have no doubt that both of mine would "help" if we let them! Thankfully I have enough space I can put the garden outside the dog fence.

 

[Robtouw]

I've had great success with my garden this year and am pleased overall. We've harvested radishes, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, cantaloupe, cucumbers and carrots. Watermelon, pumpkins and corn is growing well. Our perennials haven't gone so well because of drought. But some are beautiful. My hibiscus has flowers the size of 10 inch dinner plates this year!