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1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

I finally found the time to turn over my last raised bed and plant some Jade green beans, Black Beauty squash, and Straight 8 cucumbers.

Strawberries fizzled due to the wet weather.  Maybe a gallon.  Never got a one, again this year.  Don't know where they went.  Wife picked them and never saw again.

Lettuce and sugar peas are still going.  Tomatos are knee high and blooming.

Bees are busting out.

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.

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Clover is the target now.  Bees go for the big supply sources.  Each flower only produces a minimal amount, they have to hit many each trip.

Ants, butterflies, beetles pollinate also. Wind.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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10 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Clover is the target now.  Bees go for the big supply sources.  Each flower only produces a minimal amount, they have to hit many each trip.

Ants, butterflies, beetles pollinate also. Wind.

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. 

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Bees feed in a 5 mile radius from the hive.  They feed on whatever is most plentiful until the summer die down.  Then they loaf around and hit all kinds of things.  Fall comes and they finish off on Asters and Goldenrods.

Ants usually pollinate the tomatoes, bees will work squash and cucumbers, melons.  Corn and many other plants are wind pollinated.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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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 🤞

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

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.

 

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We garden in containers on one of our patios.

Our cherry tomato plant is producing well. Small fruits on our Roma. The Bushsteak and the patio version of Early Girl are both full of green fruit with no signs of ripening. The weather has driven us nuts trying to regulate water and we have leaf curl as a result. Had to buy ladybugs to control the aphids.

Bush cuke is beginning to produce, but the eggplant has only flowered. We are weeks away from fruit on it.

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On 6/25/2022 at 12:46 PM, rps said:

We garden in containers on one of our patios.

Our cherry tomato plant is producing well. Small fruits on our Roma. The Bushsteak and the patio version of Early Girl are both full of green fruit with no signs of ripening. The weather has driven us nuts trying to regulate water and we have leaf curl as a result. Had to buy ladybugs to control the aphids.

Bush cuke is beginning to produce, but the eggplant has only flowered. We are weeks away from fruit on it.

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)

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2 hours ago, Fish24/7 said:

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)

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I guess you like hot Bell Peppers? Planting Serreno's next to Bells usually produces hot bells. 

Or they have for me in the past. Cross Pollination. 

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On 6/30/2022 at 5:41 PM, Maverickpro201 said:

I guess you like hot Bell Peppers? Planting Serreno's next to Bells usually produces hot bells. 

Or they have for me in the past. Cross Pollination. 

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

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