My garden is basically a huge PIB !!!

[YesDeere]

As for the deer. I usually teach them a lesson early. I smear peanut butter on the electric fence!! Works good!!!

 

[GGB]

Regarding "The $64 Tomato", I'd bet that if I'd written it, the title would have been "The $100 Tomato"!

GGB

 

[dmccarty]

Congratulations on your beans! Last night I found Japanese beetles on my pole beans. Turns out 2x4 welded wire doesn't stop them very well. :smiley_aafz:

Chuck

Our garden is fallow this year. I had great plans, weeded, planted dozens and dozens of seeds for transplants, did it early, etc.

The some family issues popped up and no garden.

You guys with gardens are killing me. I do have one tomato volunteer.

For Japanese Beetles, there are traps at the farm store that attract the devil's spawn. The traps have a chemical attractor, and a yellow divider holding open a bag. The bugs follow the smell, hit the yellow divider and fall into the bag from which they cannot escape.

The traps really do work. Much less work than spraying too.

Later,
Dan

 

[keegs]

And I used to think I was the only one keep a running tab on what it's costing to maintain a veg garden. :laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

And I used to think I was the only one keep a running tab on what it's costing to maintain a veg garden. :laughing:

Thanks all for the input, and some of you made me laugh. I had the very best, most fertile soil of my garden plot tilled, raked, leveled, all ready to plant my beans. Then my cop neighbor texted me to ask if his kids (4 and 5 years old) could do some planting in my garden plot, it only took me an instant to decide and text back, "sure, they can use the area to the west that has been raked and leveled, it's the best soil"

How can anyone look at these cute kids in the attachment and NOT give up the best area of the garden for them?

 

[jonyyuma]

Kids seem to get the lesson from where food comes ? I would not count on too high a yield from the planting, unless you give close supervison and before it gets hot. Our Contender GB's are over afoot tall and blooming.The purple-hull peas are not quite that high yet. This is the first time in years that they both came-up on the first planting? I did have several tomatoes die ,from I guess Drowning..?

 

[Western]

Good to let those kids in the "prime" spot. they may take to gardening and grow up spending $100's of dollars, just because.

That is some of the nicest "quick grass" I have ever seen, nice job.

Careless weeds are the ones that I don't like, at least that's what they call them here.

I have almost always had a garden, but skipped this year. It only really makes economical sense if counted as therapy, mental and physical.

 

[JDgreen227]

Good to let those kids in the "prime" spot. they may take to gardening and grow up spending $100's of dollars, just because.

That is some of the nicest "quick grass" I have ever seen, nice job.

Careless weeds are the ones that I don't like, at least that's what they call them here.

I have almost always had a garden, but skipped this year. It only really makes economical sense if counted as therapy, mental and physical.

$100's of dollars, LOL, so far this year I have had $150 or tomatoes, potatoes, onions, etc rot away becuz of the rain in May (16 inches). A retired guy in the country HAS to have a garden, it's an unwritten rule. And as we all know, the stuff we "produce" tastes so much better than store veggies. Yeah, we tell us ourselves that to justify all the work and expense...:laughing:

 

[Chuck52]

So far I've tilled under two sets of bush beans, maybe due to the weather. They came up, but did poorly and then the weeds swamped them. I thought I was gonna lose all my tomatoes, too, after they got whacked by hail twice, but after I put in all my extra starts the original tomatoes decided to live. Now I have 50 tomato plants of 10 different varieties. Who knows, maybe they'll eventually bless me with some fruit.

Grandkids turn out to be useful for weeding. My 11 yo granddaughter weeded my peppers so nicely I should have taken some pictures. It sure was fun watching her. She crawled over under around and through the patch and took out everything that wasn't a pepper. About half way through she stood up and stretched her back just like grandpa....but unlike grandpa she then went back to work. That was last week and the weeds are back stronger than ever now, so I need to go fetch her for another round. I knew my kids would pay me back sometime, just didn't think it would take a whole new generation to get the job done!

Chuck

 

[MoKelly]

And my wife wonders why I come in late in the afternoon grumbling under my breath "Frickin garden is more bother than it's worth".[/QUOTE]

I feel your pain. But, for whatever reason, we come back every year.

I can live with th eweeds and four legged creatures ... I can manage to keep them out mostly. However, the BIRDS are killing me. They eat my watermellon.

MoKelly