Garden 2022

[Fish24/7]

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! 

[rps]

Harvesting eggplant, tomatoes, and cucumbers now.

Eggplant and tomatoes:

 

[Fish24/7]

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

[Fish24/7]

On 7/8/2022 at 9:23 PM, rps said:

Harvesting eggplant, tomatoes, and cucumbers now.

Eggplant and tomatoes:

 

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.

[Fish24/7]

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 😄

[MOPanfisher]

Heck my neighbor has been bringing me green and ripe tomatoes and some onions.  Didn't say where he got them though.   Hmm.  My Maters were way late but are growing well in the containers just sucking up the water right now.  

[Fish24/7]

3 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

Heck my neighbor has been bringing me green and ripe tomatoes and some onions.  Didn't say where he got them though.   Hmm.  My Maters were way late but are growing well in the containers just sucking up the water right now.  

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 

 

[MOPanfisher]

1 hour ago, Fish24/7 said:

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 

 

Back when I had lots of garden it wasn't unusual for folks to stop and help themselves.  Usually someone we knew and would have picked it for them.  But I have a thing for thievery, I might give them all they can haul but dang it I hate when they steal it.

[Fish24/7]

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.   😂🤔😮

[Maverickpro201]

7 hours ago, Fish24/7 said:

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.   😂🤔😮

What area do you live in?

I have a door lock and a deadbolt on my steel door to my shed. 

I absolutely hate thief's.

Why is the sheriff's office not investigating ?