May week 4 2023

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4 months ago

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Don't mean to hog the thread but somebody needs to start it.

Made it out east and got caught up on things best I could.

Foot high grass got mowed.

Tilled part of the garden , some of it is getting to big to till.

About harvesting , loose leaf lettuce went gang busters.

So did the brocolli and some of the cauliflower.

The radishes that I scattered in the carrot row had to be pulled to save the carrots, got a ton of radishes. Got a ton of mustard greens too. Spinach is phasing out now (bolting).

I've had green onions (scallions) for a while now.

I made me a mess of wilted greens for dinner. That's a mix of lettuce , spinach , mustard , chopped radishes , chopped green onions , fried bacon and the hot grease from the skillet .

We always called it a green mess when I was growing up.

Got the Dixondale onions weeded out and the potatoes hilled up and laid by.

Put out the sweet potatoes , planted winter squash , some more summer squash , a little egg plant and some more tomatoes.

And I'm a sore boy.

Rick

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hazelinok

4 months ago

Larry, I love that you and Madge have so much fun together.

Lynn, I pruned and tied up tomatoes about a week ago, and noticed 2 days ago that some of them already had yellow branches on the lower part of the plant. I had just pruned the lower parts. Luckily it wasn't on all of them. They were pruned again. I don't know if it's blight or what. I have never been good at IDing tomato diseases.

I've kept myself indoors today to catch up on house chores; laundry, kombucha, putting eggs in cartons--stuff like that.

Last night (afternoon? evening?), I did some weeding in the herb and strawberry beds. Pulled the spinach plants and gave to the chickens. Tom put the other Vego bed together. I won't begin filling them until I have time to dig out the Bermuda grass. I'm trying to decide if I want to dig out a square of grass, put down cardboard/woodchips and then set the 2 beds on top. OR if I want to just dig our under and around each bed, put down cardboard/woodchips. I could just do the ground the beds sit on and if want to continue to make a full square, including the path in between the beds, I can do that later.

The thing about these two beds is that they are in the area that gets the most sun on our property. I like the placement for aesthetics and convenience, but full sun....just don't know. Shade cloth will be my friend, but it's not exactly attractive. And I do want this area to be attractive. We have a situation that prevents us from planting a large tree on that part of the property. I do have a couple of crepe myrtles just to the west of the Vego beds. If they would hurry up and grow, they could provide some shade.

Have any of you seen those playground systems that have 4 posts on the corners of the playground and have a type of shade cloth attached to each of the posts? I'm wondering how something like that would work during the months of April - October....

It could be done attractively, with strands of fairy lights.

Have y'all noticed a lot more earwigs and roly pollies this year? Normally those critters never are a cause of concern really. I feel like they are the culprits that are chewing on my plants. I don't mind a little of that, but their damage is becoming extreme on some crops. Until last year, I rarely saw an earwig.

Anyway...

Hope everyone is having a good day.

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