Hello all!
Back from walk about. Garden got demolished by the puppies. So, my plans came to naught. The onions survived in the kitchen garden. The 2 planters in the dog yard that were happily growing tomatoes got dug out. The back garden was converted to chicken pen for the meat birds and they ate the cucumbers, squash, marigold, radishes and all. Not the original chicken plan, but the garden was suffering from the heat. The potted peppers and tomatoes were saved. The heat in July and August tapered everything off and I thought I was done.
The cool September let the squash spring back from the chickens and vine borers (OMG - those things are terrible!!!) and actually set another butternut.
The one original Jalapeno has given lots of peppers. HOT too! Now has two others starting to fruit. One of the original in ground that I wrote off has struggled all summer and is now 8" tall with a couple peppers. One of the surviving replants (I started 2 more batches and killed them) has made 18". Should have peppers through Christmas and a couple pints frozen.
The local church had squash leftover after the pumpkin patch festivals. I brought home 50-ish. The dogs, chickens and I are enjoying fresh pumpkin squash. The white Boer is better than the green Jarrahdale which has crunchy chunks floating around. These are the first ones, so I'm keeping an open mind. Fried squash mash and pumpkin harvest cake on the menu.
@baymule - what happened with your CX - I didn't see how the harvest went. I ordered 25 on 8-15 and harvested 21. The heat did not treat them well. Will wait until later in the summer next time.
as i'm not in the deep south and don't have to contend with them it's a tip to remember to pass along to others i know down that ways and see what they report back on trying it out...
hope they are ok...
