What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Nyboy]

Carol where are you going for vacation ?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I froze 12 cups shredded zucchini, made 2 loaves of zucchini bread, froze 5 quarts of sliced yellow squash, fried more yellow for supper and picked a few peas and half a quart of raspberries.

 

[Beekissed]

Sprayed the tomatoes, peppers and taters with baking soda/cooking oil mixture to try and combat this fungal blight I've got going on in the garden. Pruned tomatoes more to remove more blighted fronds. Probably fighting a losing battle, though, with more rains and humid, hot weather to come this week.

It will be what it will be.

Most of the tomatoes have reached the 6 ft. tall mark where I intended to prune them off anyway, so with pruning below and snapping off above, the tomatoes are either going to be so stressed they all die or they will snap back by putting out more bloom and overcome this fungal attack. The row of Romas all look like tomato vines in the nude, they were the first and worst hit and it just went in a wave across the garden from there.

Time will tell if we get any food out of this garden this year.

 

[ducks4you]

FINALLY yesterday I planted the lettuce that had been growing in the Chips Ahoy container! I also planted cabbage that I had been dragging along AND 5 honeydew melons (I think). Three of them look great, 2 may not make it BUT we've had rain today, more this evening, and they are in the same bed as the cabbage and lettuce. I want the melons to flower out after squash bug/vine borer season.
I bought 12 clearance Roma Tomatoes for 25 cents/each. They look fried, so I transplanted them and have kept them well watered on the porch. ALL are recovering. I bought 6 really healthy Romas after that, and I buried them up to their top leaves. They look great! I'm gonna give the Romas in the nursery (porch) a few more weeks to "healthy out", and then they go in the same bed.

 

[digitS']

Got some more cucumber plants in. This is about as late as I've ever planted the summer squash and they will have to wait ..! The plants are just too tiny to set out! Cucumbers in July were something new a couple of years ago. Lack experience but I'm more comfortable about them than waiting any longer for the zucchini. I think I may have missed the boat on those.

Not too late for the bush beans! They have never failed to produce just fine from a 15 July sowing. A day early - I've pulled the peas and have a hundred square feet of beans in!

Hot out there! We are back to "normal for mid-July." On its way to 85°f this afternoon.

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

STORM DAMAGE cleanup!! I still managed to plant some super clearance cauliflower. I will be potting up some zucchini this week. Every year since I planted in July I have avoided the squash bugs and vine borers and I still get fruit before the season is over.

 

[ninnymary]

Good for you Ducks that you figured how to work with your big problem.

Mary

 

[Smart Red]

Here's a part of this year's garden efforts.
My sweet potato beds are not too weedy. Check out the pathways.

The red in the next bed is my strawberries. No weeds there either.

Lots of tomatoes here and in another bed. The queen Anne's lace is outside the tomato bed (and outside most of the rest of the garden beds, too)

Then there are the onions and garlic that need to be harvested. Except for a few volunteer tomato plants that started growing after my last weeding in June, there are almost no weeds in that bed either.

Plumb forgot to shoot the potato bed, but it's pretty weed-free with dead, brown vines waiting for the gardener to harvest the spuds.

That's it! That's what I must sadly call my veggie garden this year. Sheesh!I'd be ashamed for anyone to see that mess so don't tell anyone.

 

[Smart Red]

Should find an avatar that hides my face.

 

[ninnymary]

@Smart Red, the important part is weeded, which are the beds. The rest is just cosmetics.

Mary