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Ethan:



Back when we could grow a garden (pre urban deer days) frost sensitive stuff was never put out before the middle of June. By the third week of August, get ready for frost. Never got good slicer tomatoes, sweet corn, or peppers with any fire.

Wow. It is cold as hell here. 58 tonight. I've already aclimatized to near 100 degree temps for the summer. lol

I am good with everything EXCEPT radishes that is in the ground.
Seed company set me back 45 days with tomatoes, so that may well be IFFY.
I did have some tomato seeds that I just broadcast in a little open soil area in the garlic bed and those are the plants that have been transplanted into a bed to provide something to eat.

The garden plot has set fallow for more years than I like to admit so will plant less than a fourth of it this year.

Radishes? ? ? ? ? Probably the simplest thing to grow and mine are NEVER successful. This year I bet they bolt with NOT ONE radish produced.

I have a bunch of seed left over. What's the best way to store it so I can use it to plant again next spring?

Bb

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Starting to get lots of tomatoes. Gonna be a pretty good year!

Had to go pick up some cages today.
I've always had several extra, but a few
of them got disappeareded
I can't imagine what these hood rats
around here might want with any tomato
cages since nobody grows a garden
because that involves work

Late frosts removed every pear from 3 trees and took it to my initial plantings.
Second round tomato plants are really getting big fast. Used mushroom mulch around them, and where it was dumped in the grass is deep green. Must be NH3 rich.
Rabbits liked my pumpkin seedlings and green pepper plants.

I bought 4 heaped up truckloads of mushroom compost for my garden this year. Never used it before. Down here it’s primarily chicken litter mixed with straw. Ammonia central.

My tame blackberries coming on strong.

My tomatoes are to the point I need to stake them this weekend. Plants look good. I've got peppers coming. I put in three rows of lettuce, all spaced two weeks apart. We've harvested off the first row to go in. I'll be cleaning that out this weekend and replanting. I should have good lettuce right up 'till frost. Onions are doing good as long as the danged squirrels leave them alone.

sweet corn coming in.

Somehow grabbed too many cherry / tommy toe maters plants by mistake.

Lil maters everywhere.

Blue lakes and row of collards

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Need to go and train the cukes up the panels, first training 3 days ago.

I’ve all these nuisance ‘volunteer’ cherries coming on the corner where I threw all the vines last year.

Might have to get after them with a weed eater


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I put the stakes in before planting tomatoes, the tomato plant can be planted right up against the stake and the roots are not damaged by the stake. Also, makes for a much neater looking garden.
Baby rabbit slipped thru a tiny space in the wire and made short work of the parsley.

I don't ever remember our blackberries doing as well as they are doing this year. Some cycle thing I can't explain I guess.

I hear talk of a cobbler this weekend.

The rabbits nailed my string beans but seem to have left everything else alone. We're not getting enough rain here. I gotta go out and water in a few minutes here.

Got the new garden spot rototilled on 02 June. Started setting out and planting on 3rd and 4th. As of yesterday on the 15th, have everything but one double row filled in a 25'x90' plot. Have been using the Farmer's Almanac online tool to lay out and keep track of "what is where".

What sweet corn varieties are folks putting out? I put out Park Avalon, Park Serendipity, and Gurney "Gotta have it". Both Park varieties have had good germination and off and growing. The Gurney variety has had significantly less germination, and the plants do not seem to be as vigorous. Will sow my second planting of sweet corn later this week. Thinking that I will only use the two Park varieties.

Sunday I was doing performance art for my 2 year old grandson. I would scream in pain as I watched a deer eat my cherry trees on the game camera. He thought that was funny.

Monday I watched a raccoon on the game camera..... take every cherry down from my two trees.

Tuesday... still devastated.

I gathering up 30 to 40 pounds of veggies every day. I get tired of picking the stuff.