2020 Garden Thread.

[Fish24/7]

After looking through what seemed like a hundred feet of watermelon vines I finally found one,yeah just one 🤨

But! There were dozens of blooms 🤞

[ness]

We’re getting overrun with tomatoes! Look at the haul from today:

Ok, the ‘big’ tomato is from the little tiny Black Krim mutant that is only about 8 inches high. This tomato has been coming on for a month and will be the last tomato from that stunted plant as it’s totally shadowed  by the ones around it now. I picked it because it’s been laying on the ground for weeks and looked close to ready/worm food.

A couple of the first Sun Golds too. Had one other that split, as they’re prone to do when they get too ripe. 

[jdmidwest]

Picking cherry and sun sugar now, big tomatoes foundering from something.  Found a few plants last weekend an put them out in pots.  Green beans have been putting on for a few weeks now.  Peppers about thumb size. Zuc and cucs blooming but not setting fruits.  Having to water every other day, finally hit a dry spell 

[jdmidwest]

Started busting up a rally in the backyard this week. Ran Game cams the other nite an saw many coons, possums, armadillo, feral cats, several stray dogs, and one big ole doe deer.  Nailed a 2 fer last nite.  Must have a big litter after feeding on my bees all spring. 3 kits relocated now and counting.

[BilletHead]

                     The Tomato Jungle,

    Its looking like a good tomato harvest coming to BilletHeadVille this season. Tall and loaded with fruit.  Our snow peas were a bust. Not sure why they had started so well. Pulled them and planted some Peter Pan Patty Pan squash. Do have some one inch cucumbers and lots of blooms. Some peppers forming and blooms loading each plant. Lots of watering now. Had a shower this morning but did not amount to anything special,

[Terrierman]

You guy's tomatoes are ahead of mine.  They're loaded but nothing even close to ripe yet.  I did put up a high and low electric fence.  It's worked for me before and I expect it to again.

[BilletHead]

                      So far no problems with furry critters on tomatoes. Over all the years maybe a possum or coon ate one right on the vine. Did have a deer munch on the top of a pepper plant this season.  Some tomato hornworms pulled off and a spritz of seven spray applied. Now Pat's hostas are getting demolished by deer now. 

[Fish24/7]

Found 3 more watermelons the size of a tennis ball hiding on the vine this morning. So far just 4 total. Thinned out some runners with no blooms. Sprayed with Neem and watered/fed.

Spent 3 1/2 hours this morning tying up/training tomato branches, cutting off leaves to allow more light and airflow, spraying with Neem , removing tiny suckers near the ground, then gave everything a feeding of low nitrogen nutrients with calcium. Should be good for a few days now. Having to water every 3 days. Hasn't rained enough to do any good.

 

 

 

[jdmidwest]

Has been dry around here too.  Little shower last night strained all of the Sahara sand out of the clouds onto the cars.  Made a nasty mess.

[ness]

On a few visits to the garden lately a leetle rabbit surprised us and ran away. Now worries-the fencing we put up seemed to be working fine.

Tonight we were searching the bush beans and noticed a hollowed out section where they were eaten off. Checked the fencing around the bed and found this:

darn it!