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Well, this time I'm pissed off. Someone stole all my gardening tools out of the tool shed last night. Cut the lock off the door. They took 3 shovels, 2 rakes, a 5gal bucket full of new hand tools, 1000+ zip ties, and 10 rolls of stretch tape to tie up my maters. Pretty much everything that was in a bucket right inside the door was taken. About $300 worth of stuff. I have the vehicle on security camera as well as the people faces. Do you think the cops would come and make a report for theft and trespassing 2 times in the same week? Nope, it's a non violent crime so they aren't responding. Gonna be ugly when I shoot someone with my s&w governor loaded with slugs for trespassing on marked property ,looks like it's time to take out the trash, I shoot first ask questions later,when you live in the sticks, and you don't have law enforcement, under current MO laws I reserve the right to protect my family and our property from trespassing thieves. I don't know who these people are or what they are gonna do next. 😂🤔😮

Did he go to Colorado recently ?(kidding)I hear large vegetable farms are also being robbed across the country due to high grocery prices. People just cut the side out of a plastic wrapped green house ,go in, and take everything they can eat. I caught a woman digging up my bulbs last week. Just decided to help herself. What a Bi tch lol

Well, it seems someone was hungry and borrowed some tomatoes while I was at a friend's house for about an hour . Having a garden right beside the road within 20' makes an easy drive thru opportunity lol. I had planned on picking those tonight had they not ran off with them ! Sure I have security cameras, will be checking the memory card now to catch a criminal trespasser on clearly marked private property 😄

My eggplants are so crazy slow . Started them from seed in February. Still no ready eggplant, there's just 1 small purple bump on one if the plants , but the others now have tons of blooms.

Please rain 🙏, terribly dry. Desperately serious situation. Hate to keep using city water every single week for months.

2022 is turning out to be a challenging year for our vegetable garden. Started the season with too much rain,then the bugs showed up early, then we went straight into Summer and 95° plus temps day after day, and I hear a lot of people are experiencing the same stress with their gardens across the country in our grow zone. At least the preventative measures I use for fungus and diseases are working well. We could really use some significant rain. We have had practically none, it did sprinkle for 2 minutes the other day ,not even enough to get the roads/yard wet, and I've watched and heard some thunder storms cruise by within a couple miles but we didn't get anything. Sunflowers are beginning to open! Hearing a lot more bees buzzing around now, wish they would get on the watermelon and cantaloupe flowers. I've got that huge watermelon vine and there's just 3 watermelons on it. Right now the bees are hitting the cherry tomatoes and sunflowers pretty heavy. Peppers are doing the best, no surprise there with this weather. Belgium maters are still green, still growing, getting bigger and bigger. Still waiting on eggplant. Lots of blooms. Just really slow growing. Cucumbers are doing ok, but man are they thirsty!

I'm aware ,but I don't plan on saving the seeds this year.

Same here. It went from rain every three days to, it hasn't rained in a month. My tomatoes get full sun for the entire day sun up till sundown, the Belgium tomato flowers second set basically almost all fell off and didn't set due to the extreme heat wave we had. Another week of 90's isn't gonna help that any. The rest of the veggies are full steam ahead doing great. Sunflowers I've been watering every day and they have really grown since my last picture. Starting to get tall! (That's bell peppers, Serranos, and a single watermelon vine in the corner that has gone crazy growing all over the ground now in every direction)

I won the battle of the bugs this time! Pulled about 50-60 carrots yesterday. Bell , Cayenne, sweet and hot banana, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers and some cherry tomatoes. Have some habaneros blooming now too. I must have the world's slowest growing eggplants. Started them way back in March and still no🍆 Have a gigantic cantaloupe vine with hundreds of blooms and not a single piece of fruit anywhere on it🤨,it must be 25' long and 10' wide. Same with the watermelons. Tons of blooms and no fruit. I haven't seen a bee in weeks and they are usually all over those melon flowers. Pruned the Belgian tomatoes and rooted the cuttings. The big plants are growing fast now and have small maters on em ,should be ready by end of August because they take months to ripen. The other tomato plants are loading up , the California gold has green baseball sized tomatoes on it, the Romas are about the size of a chicken egg now and I'll be pruning those this week and rooting them also. The cherry tomato bushes are loaded top to bottom with blooms and green tomato clusters. I have 1 plant that is ahead of all the others and I'm getting a few ripe ones off it now. Flowers are trucking right along and should have some sunflowers blooming soon and marigolds.

It's an all out bug battle right now! Who's going to win ?? Worst insect season I've ever seen here in the garden! (potted plants are fine) everything planted in the ground is being attacked right now. I counted six different critters on my maters last night. Living in the country adjacent to a forest we are bound to have troubles from time to time. I've been spraying organic bug spray I use every year, but I guess not enough of it and not often enough lol. Even the horn worms are over a month early ! So far no diseases 🤞

No clover here at the house . No wonder. No butterflies either which is extremely weird . Last year our Zinnias had dozens of butterfly. Maybe it's too early 🤔 I'm going to try some blossom set spray I've used on tomatoes before it works good.

We have flowers planted all around the yard yet there's no pollinators on my cantaloupe or maters. Haven't seen a bumble bee in weeks either. Not sure what's happening.

Please stop raining at my house, for about 10 days, that would be nice! Yet another top five wettest Mays recorded in the history book . Garden is just too wet all the time to even get in there and work. Kneeling in the mud sucks, and shoes are muddy. I'm getting some good growth on most things , but the peppers and tomatoes hate all this water and they haven't had one chance to dry out in over a month. My 30 gallon tubs are always soaked because it rains almost every other day. They have good drainage, but the roots need some air! About 10 days of no rain would be perfect. Yes it rained today. One of the most recent Belgium Pink transplants, still a long way to go. A row of Jalapenos . These first round of Belgium are doing ok. Not as big as I was hoping for due to all the rain made feeding schedules difficult. Getting a lot of blooms now. Sunflowers look happy 😃

6 Mo /AR border Things are on cruise control. Other than weekly prevention of bugs and diseases I haven't had to water much at all either ,,,, yet. Sounds like another wet week ahead too. The new potting mix I cooked up this year is a little bit light on N so I amended with some fast release urea and more feather meal. It didn't need much . Added a few dozen Earth worms to each container also. Next time I would use larger size pieces of pumice instead of the small, and more of it, the perlite seems to like to float to the surface , so I won't be using it again. other than that I got pretty lucky with this soilless medium experiment. The last round of tomatoes I put in have already tripled in size. The first cherry type ones I transplanted a while back are about 3 1/2'-4' tall and full of set blooms and tiny green tomatoes 😀. They are gonna be huge by the time September gets here!

Garden is in overdrive! Everything is in now, so the hardest part is done. Sunflowers and watermelons are up now. Picked my first cucumbers today. Getting a few strawberries now too. Peppers, cucumber, cantalope ,zucchini,and Cherry tomatoes are in bloom .

Are the effected areas on the lowest branches or on new growth?

Things are looking pretty good despite the constant 20+ winds beating the crap out of my pepper's leaves. Idk why I plant them so early anyway, they hate spring rains and never really take off growing until June. I pick all the early flowers off until the plants reach about a foot tall. Then I let them focus on making peppers. If I let them bloom now at this small size the bell peppers would be tiny. Put round 1 of the tomatoes in the ground last week, and they already doubled in size a few are about knee high tall the rest about 8-10" but very bushy. My 1 Zucchini has a dozen blooms already 👍 Cucumbers are loaded with flowers and there's a few tiny 2" pickles on em. Just transplanted them last week they were almost getting root bound. Carrot tops are about 4" tall. Eggplant is stunted I think. Watermelon just sprouted this week. Cantaloupe I think has a little transplant shock or they aren't liking the cold nights ,not sure. No sign of sunflowers yet but it's only been four days. Lots of lettuce. Lots of onions. Lots of radishes. White and red Planted some green bean, okra, basil and oregano seed today . Decided not to mess with doing potatoes this year. Flowers are starting to come back too. Will put another round of tomatoes in next week 👍

What also sucks about having gear stolen? From my experience it was getting law enforcement to do anything about it and then follow through . I know we had a terrible time with that when we were hit by thieves. Dealing with the law was just as frustrating as getting stuff stolen.

Seeing water temps from 54 to 65. Walleye and white bass spawn has been ongoing. Rainy days have been the best bite for me on swimbait. Crappie are lined up along the banks where they want to spawn in 8-12+' in the brush or suspended just outside the brush at the same depths, bite it hit or miss throughout the day. Finding black bass wherever the wind is blowing into. Just chase the wind to find fish. Pretty easy cause the shad will be there too. Been pitching jigs in the mud lines along the banks because Its what I like to do. Other methods will work of course. Topwater bite is also good if you're on the water at first light before the wind gets up

Like I said to Ketchup if you guys don't wanna see my posts, ignore me. But the rude personal comments need to stop.

If you don't like me, then put me on the ignored list. You are obviously trying to inflict negativity towards me on purpose.

Now I'm a troll? Y'all seem to like calling me names here. What a great forum 🙄 So listen up people , if you don't fish table Rock and make a post you're considered a troll by the locals. Be careful what you say here you don't want to say anything they might disagree with. That just brings out the name calling. I can form an opinion about people , any opinions. Who the hell are you to judge me?

Because I can

No

Look folks, another personal jab at me. Some real cool people on here for sure. 🙄