Gardens for 2021 season

[oldballs]

My garden is still too wet and today it is 47 deg F anyway....Got my heart PET Scan test next week.
This has been one weird spring. Still have standing water in the low area of the garden.... Last time I added it up there has been about 7 inches of rain over the past couple weeks.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Sonny580]

Good luck with your test! Guess I go in tomorrow for scope in the bladder tube to check for scar tissue. Might get a valve put in, not sure yet.
We had maybe 4 inches total in the last month here. most of the rains have gone past us --either to the NW. or to the SE of us. guess our windmills are blowing the rain away! LOL!! Anyway I did hill the spuds for the last time as they are about too bit to get down the rows. I plant them in 5 foot wide rows and they still fill the middles. At least I have good mounds this year, so they should be happy and fill the mounds with spuds!
Transplanted another 30 cabbage plants last night. Dont really need more but had the plants in the hotbed and nobody will come get them.
Did till more with the 340 and the big tiller, still have a hydraulic leak on the tractor.
Sposed to rain here again in a couple days here.

 

[Sonny580]

Tatoes tall and fell over making it hard to walk the rows and pick bugs! Might have to go to spray,---dont usually spray tatoes, just hand pick bugs and mash them.
Onions for the most part have decent bulbs and will be harvested the last day of July.
tomato plants range from blooming down to just planted, so will see how that works!
Cucumbers about to start running, --- still have to set up the last 3 panels for the East row to climb on.

Some of the crops are so, so, everything needs more water than I can carry to them.

 

[mwemaxxowner]

Here is our Little garden!

 

[RalphVa]

I put up electric fence around my garden 5' high. For double protection, I've always heard Deer don't like the scent of Irish Spring soap. I bought 2 of the 8 bar pkgs., cut them in quarters, drilled 1/4" holes in each piece, then zip tied them to the tops of each T-post spaced at 10'. It worked..!!

A dual fence will confuse the hooved rats. Here're my daylilly blossoms thriving behind the nylon dual fencing. Planted 2 more pieces of hooved rat candy down behind the carriage house: camellia. Have dual wire fencing behind them. Can just barely see the teflon poles for that fence in the picture. Those are electrified, but the nylon fence up top is not. Don't think the wire fence needs to be now.

 

[MoKelly]

Had a deer deliver her baby right by the house yesterday. Baby was inside the fence right against the house. We had left a nearby gate open.

The momma left to dispose of her birth stuff in the woods. The baby was outside the fence late last night. He/she got up and walked outside.

This morning momma and baby are gone. There are coyotes around but it looks like all was ok for the baby.

My wife just thinks the whole thing is adorable. But - had they ate the peppers or tomato’s or squash - there may have been trouble!

MoKelly

 

[Sonny580]

tryin to save a few pie cherries from the birds!Hope for enough for 1 pie anyway!
tryin 2 nets but they dont quite cover the whole tree.

 

[DJ54]

My old 'puterwent up in smoke last Sunday, so been out of touch with the world. Finally got in passwords reset, and able to post again. Been busy in the garden with the cooler dryer weather. Got the tomatoesmulched, T-posts driven, cages up, and 3 courses of Florida weave to keep them upright. Plus, got the potatoe hiller adapted to the Fast Hitch for the 140, and/or 130when I get it going again. Sure beats using a hoe..!!

 

[Sonny580]

Picked over 8 gallons of cherries and made over 24 quarts of jam.
been trying to keep up on the cultivating and weeding after we finally got 3/10'ths inch of rain.
Onions a potatoes getting big. Cant walk thru the rows anymore and onions have big bulbs as of today. they will be pulled the last day of July, so they need to get finishing up growing!
Pic of 4 of the 24 quarts of cherry jam.

 

[kenmbz]

First Broccoli