Garden Update: Mid-July
This will probably be the last garden update for awhile since we’re moving to Floyd in a couple of weeks. I’ll post more about that later, but we’re set to close on our current home at the end of the month and are set to close on our new farm at the end of August. We’ll be staying in town for the month in-between. We’re excited!
The garden is doing fine. We have lots of pollinators. Biggest crops so far have been potatoes. The peas did well but are dying in the heat of summer. Zucchini is starting to come in at about one every other day, and I can see some little green tomatoes! The Japanese beetles have been around, but not too bad. They’ve hit the pole beans a little, but our bush beans are being overrun with Mexican bean beetles. The Colorado Potato beetles did their best to eat those plants, but I squashed them every day until my hands were red.
Why is it that all of our bugs came from other places? Why aren’t we under some kind of Virginia Vine Borer infestation? Anyway, here’s a picture of me with lotsa carrots, and you can see the garden is doing pretty well despite the bugs…
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Nice! I live in the city so I don’t have much garden space. My lettuce is about to bolt but was doing well since April. My green beans never really made it, I think because they were in containers and I just couldn’t take care of them properly in there. I have a pumpkin plant growing, cucumbers that are overtaking my yard, green pepper plants that are full and lush and celery that seems to be doing just fine. My only other vegetable right now is my carrots that are also in a bucket. I’m not sure how they are going to work out but so far they seem to be doing okay.
Looks wonderful! Good luck with the move and we look forward to the updates. Hope everyone is well.
We had a good crop of potatoes which need to be dug up now that the vines have died. The Squash and peppers have been scares but the cukes are plentiful and allusive. I like small ones but they seem to grow large overnight. Onions are pulled and in the garage in a mesh bag. Tomatoes are full of leaves, fruit is coming in slowly which is fine. we don’t want more than we can eat. Okra is starting to pod now.
My Aunt mentioned she had beetles of some sort on her roses but I’ve not seen any.
Mama Bear
I am soooo jealous that you’re moving to Floyd! Such a cool area! But I’m sure it will be difficult to leave the farm. If we were in the market for something in that area, I’d be snatching that place up in a heartbeat. Alas, we belong to the Air Force about three more years….
Thanks for the garden updates Mama Bear and Mzabs! I love to hear how other’s veggies are getting along. It’s funny how somethings do well in one place one year and poorly elsewhere, but then the next year it flips around.
Lani we’re doing great. You and Chris will have to pay a visit to the new place. And have you settled where you want up north of us a ways?
Shari three years can go by in a flash. Maybe we’ll be seeing you around town about then!
E.
God bless you whilst you are moving. The potatoes are doing well in England and the beans are prospering, but the carrots not so good!! A few green tomatoes as well.Keep writing,Janet M Stenner.
You guys are going to have so much fun being closer to Floyd…as I’m sure you’re fully aware. Speaking of infestations, just found out that the delicious wine berries we have on our property are actually invasive Asian berries. But it’s hard to dislike them when they taste so good!
Very nice and congrats on such root veggie success! Your not kidding about the beetles. I started a little planter of leaf lettuce on our porch and everyday have been picking beetles off. Any tips? Other than getting some chickens and Guineas in here to eat them up?
Michael,
Thanks for stopping by! It depends on what kind of beetles. Usually greens have a problem with flea beetles, which you can often fix with diatomacious earth (sp?). If they’re Japanese beetles you just have to pick them off. In an orchard setting you could use milky spore to kill them (it’s all natural and effective) but it wouldn’t work for just a potted plant or two.
Just pretend you’re Godzilla and you’re squishing a bunch of VW bugs. At least that’s what I’ll tell Waylon when I make him help me garden.
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