Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 27

Hi KT!
I’d like to say that I planned this and captured it due to photography skills. Truth is I got this with my iPad and it was sheer luck. The gladiolas are about done blooming, but this little guy found a good one for a nice snack. And yes, the railing needs work. I’ll get to it…eventually.
Duke Lowell

Hi, everybody! It's too hot to do much gardening here rignt now, and I don't remember where I got the photo of the gaillardia with the bumble bee below. But I appreciate that there are flowers like gaillardia that stay open for business during weather like this.

We have lots of baby lizards and a snake sighting. The lizards mostly stay in the shade unless we walk nearby.

How are things going in your garden and neighborhood? Harvesting anything? We have pomegranates sizing up.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

More photos of edibles as Moron Analyst tames the wilderness:

Aronia-Choke Berry

I guess these are supposed to be good for you.

Wild Raspberries

Wild raspberries are tasty.

More Raspberries

Wild Grapes and Mulberries

There's a limit to how many wild grapes and mulberries you can eat.

Baby Grapes

They're so cute when they're little.

Blueberry Bush

Mmmmm

Some ideas about food policy. Regulation is not always the answer to healthy food supplies. Especially in the case of family farmers and gardeners.

Topics I want to hear more about re: policy platforms:
-Decentralizing our food system.
-Making fresh food accessible through vertical farming (multi-trophic aquaculture as well), especially in urban areas.
-Protecting our water supply from foreign adversaries
-Decreasing the…
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) July 16, 2024

Puttering

rock balancing

Rock balancing

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2024

Adventure

The water is inviting in the current hot weather, but . . .

Gardens of The Horde

Normally petunias are not my thing, but this one, "Picasso in Purple" is such a prolific bloomer and the green fringed purple flowers are so unique and pretty that it gets a pot or two near the entrance of my house. They are hard to find in the garden centers, so ordering them online in the early spring is often the best way to get them. One plant will easy fill a 12" -14" diameter pot and cascade over the edge in no time. I usually end up cutting them back around mid-summer to control the size and make them fill in more at the center.
Here is a pot with a fairly young petunia plant and some agastache. The agastache is a pollenator plant that attracts butterflies and its chartruese leaves and delicate light purple flowers go wonderfully with the petunias. Given a sunny location these should grow in most zones in the summer. The agastache is also a pretty good self seeder.
I've also planted the petunia with a spikey, thin leaf, purple cordyline plant with good results.
Dirk Bohunk

Unusual! Nice growing tips, too. Thanks

Five yrs ago I planted 3 New Dawn roses along a fence in my back yard. They are now a 30 foot hedge. they would easily climb 20 feet. The leaves are dark and very shiny. The thorns are DEADLY. Liz953

Extraordinary!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 20

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:28 PM

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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:28 PM (fwDg9)

2 Willowed from the Prayer Thread:

The second mass that was found with my Mother-In-Law's second biopsy was not cancerous. But that mass and the cancerous ones are being removed on the 6th.

So thank you everyone for the support.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (5ZcrU)

3 Made chili yesterday with my little chili peppers ( they are hot) some rip and not so ripe Anaheim peppers, a small ripe sweet pepper, oregano and basil as well as bought ingredients.
Getting a cucumber or two every day and finally seeing a tomato turning red, will be 1st one if something doesn't get it first.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:32 PM (fwDg9)

4 Yay, Skip!

Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 01:33 PM (rrtZS)

5 I've been working on a Rose garden for the last 3 years

Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2024 01:34 PM (oI2Vm)

6 It was a Rose garden at a place that I go to very frequently and it had been send me abandoned for years. I've been planting about six roses every year and the garden is now almost up to full strength. The roses are in one line so it's easy to see where plants are missing and I've been feeling those spots in one by one

Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2024 01:35 PM (oI2Vm)

7 It's pretty amazing watching old plants from the '80s which were semi-abandoned come back to bloom with a little deep watering and food. And it's been very fun picking new roses to supplement every year. I've been buying 4 ft tall rose trees in bare root form. You have to order in October to get them in February.

Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2024 01:37 PM (oI2Vm)

8 But here we are in mid July and half of the roses are still bearing blooms

Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2024 01:38 PM (oI2Vm)

9 The rock balancing is impressive but looks like a great way to get smashed toes.
OSHA inspector *might* not approve.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2024 01:40 PM (dg+HA)

10 Good Morning good people! I mostly lurk on Saturday mornings...
Lovely photos...
I have a question:
I've been growing gardens here in the Rockies for decades - mostly veggies. This year I planned on putting in some flowers just to have some color. Unfortunately the chipmunks are kicking my butt.
Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this issue?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 01:42 PM (6JRrX)

11 8 But here we are in mid July and half of the roses are still bearing blooms
Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2024 01:38 PM (oI2Vm)

That sounds lovely!

Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2024 01:42 PM (Sf2cq)

12 My garden is still kicking ass.

The pepper named "Sweet Heat" turned out to hotter than the surface of Mercury, like a red habanero. A little bit went a long way in my chili.

My Brandywines, Delicious Hunts, and Aunt Rubys are growing HUGE.

The cherry varieties are taking over. When will I learn?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 27, 2024 01:44 PM (kpS4V)

13 That Tweet simply shows how much Americans take for granted. And, they are so spoiled, they simply turn stupid when it comes to food. This Chef Andrew Gruel would find famine to be an acceptable state of affairs if our "food system" weren't "centralized".

Logistics and distribution fail him. Thanks to our evil centralized food system, people have choices. I was surrounded by lots of fresh food at the supermarket. (I suspect he is also a snob who breaks out in hives at the thought of hitting a supermarket.) But thanks to this, people have (gasp!) OPTIONS. You can engage in your hobby of gardening and produce plenty of food for yourself, or, if you do not have the time or have a green thumb or the desire to garden, you can hit a supermarket's produce section and get veggies and fruit that way.

People really need to stop taking things for granted and spend more time counting their blessings. That "Chef" needs to back away from Twitter or X or whatever it is called and spend more time pondering the miracles that surround us, instead of whining and bellyaching like a spoiled brat. He should also read up on the Great Leap Forward's great experiment with decentralizing.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:44 PM (8sMut)

14 Somewhere awhile ago this rock balance cam up, mostly shocked they don't fall in a wind.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 01:44 PM (fwDg9)

15 2 Willowed from the Prayer Thread:

The second mass that was found with my Mother-In-Law's second biopsy was not cancerous. But that mass and the cancerous ones are being removed on the 6th.

So thank you everyone for the support.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2024 01:31 PM (5ZcrU)

Make Cancer Toe Jam.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:45 PM (8sMut)

16 13 That Tweet simply shows how much Americans take for granted. And, they are so spoiled, they simply turn stupid when it comes to food. This Chef Andrew Gruel would find famine to be an acceptable state of affairs if our "food system" weren't "centralized".

And another thing: another miracle of our times is the availability of food that I can't get otherwise. People get all hot and horny for food being LOCAL. That's nice, but I can assure you that no matter how much I try, this area will not allow me to grow bananas. Or oranges. Rice? Right out in a semi-arid area. And so on. (This was a wheat growing area until the price of wheat became so depressed that farmers began switching to other crops so they could make some money.)

(I ain't gonna lie. One of the reasons I hit this thread and mostly lurk here is a simple one: one day I'd like to try my hand at gardening, and if I do: it will be tomatoes, as I have gotten increasingly addicted to tomatoes over time.) But, off I go to get some fresh food from a produce department some assure me does not exist.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:49 PM (8sMut)

17 Ooh, I could go for some free zucchini.
I love it fried in a batter with bread crumbs.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 01:51 PM (MeG8a)

18 Lots of mulberries this year and they are still going. I love to watch the birds up in the trees. Still haven't replanted my berry bushes. I am having work done on the house and will have to move the bagged potting soil. So there's still hope I can get it done. I also have a few irises that I got from the HIPS sale. Will plant those probably Monday

Really happy that my African violet is thriving. I almost threw it out because it was down to one leaf. It has almost caught up to the other plant

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2024 01:51 PM (xjTDL)

19 Those New Dawn roses are such a lovely, delicate color.

Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 01:51 PM (rrtZS)

20 Gladiolus are some of the prettiest flowers.
But man, they don't do well in the wind.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 01:52 PM (UVjOB)

21 But man, they don't do well in the wind.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 01:52 PM (UVjOB)

Heh...and they sure don't last a long time! We have a bunch of them, and they are gorgeous for about a day.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2024 02:00 PM (d9fT1)

22 There's a guy I've seen a few videos on YouTube. He winters in FL, has a couple of yards completely as gardens, sells boxes of produce to the locals, $2k-$3k a week some weeks.
Late spring, covers it all over with mulch, plants sweet potatoes and black eyed peas, heads to Maine, does the vegetable gardening up there over the summer.
Fall, back to FL, harvest the sweet potatoes, starts again.

He's got life figured out, I say.
No heat, no freeze, gardening (farming, lol) year round.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 02:03 PM (UVjOB)

23 People get all hot and horny for food being LOCAL. That's nice, but I can assure you that no matter how much I try, this area will not allow me to grow bananas. Or oranges. Rice? Right out in a semi-arid area. And so on. (This was a wheat growing area until the price of wheat became so depressed that farmers began switching to other crops so they could make some money.)

Or coffee! I mean. Thank goodness for international food trade.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 01:49 PM (8sMut)

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2024 02:09 PM (OX9vb)

24 22 There's a guy I've seen a few videos on YouTube. He winters in FL, has a couple of yards completely as gardens, sells boxes of produce to the locals, $2k-$3k a week some weeks.
Late spring, covers it all over with mulch, plants sweet potatoes and black eyed peas, heads to Maine, does the vegetable gardening up there over the summer.
Fall, back to FL, harvest the sweet potatoes, starts again.

He's got life figured out, I say.
No heat, no freeze, gardening (farming, lol) year round.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 02:03 PM (UVjOB
Back in the 70s, when I was in the cropdusting/custom harvest business, my customers were bigtime truck farmers. They started out with citrus and vegetables in Florida and ended up in NY with fruit and vegetables. All on the Atlantic. I only followed as far as NC on the coast , but inland to Alabama with cotton and soybeans. Good times.

Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2024 02:12 PM (FuCE/)

25 My copy paste there was weird...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2024 02:12 PM (OX9vb)

26 My volunteer yellow squash is giving me squash, I got the first tomatoes out of my wildly overplanted tomato patch (I left the volunteer seedlings from last year when I planted the new ones this year, and they are all the small type, but they are tomatoes) and my wife's Shishito peppers are coming on strong.

My potatoes did very well this year, I dug two rows and I have more out of 1/5th of the potato patch as I had in the entire patch last year. Initial fertilizing and regular watering help a lot. Who knew?
I had fried potatoes for breakfast.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 02:13 PM (D7oie)

27 Went ahead and had a picnic table made and painted Sherwin Williams Cheerful yellow.

Everyone likes it. It looks really cool against all the greenery.

I'll send in pictures someday.

Posted by: Stateless at July 27, 2024 02:13 PM (jvJvP)

28 Moved into my first house long about the 2nd Reagan administration in the March timeframe in a location that is decidedly *not* in the Deep South.
A few months later these tall flowers have sprung up from bulbs planted by the previous owner. Clueless, I ask around and am told they're gladiolus.
I'm surprised I've never heard of them 'cuz my mother was a big-time plant and flower lady in Mobile with azaleas, camellias, ferns and you name it.
So, the next time we're on the phone I mention these big, tall gladiolus flowers. The line goes quiet and then in an icy voice she tells me that at her mother's funeral (before my time) the casket was COVERED with gladiolus blossoms, and I would NEVER see one in her yard.

Well, OK then. Touchy subject. Never mentioned them again. And out of respect to a fine southern lady I've never planted any.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2024 02:13 PM (dg+HA)

29 I made a cedar picnic table, large elongated hexagon shape

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 02:29 PM (fwDg9)

30 Good heavens, it wasn’t the gladiolus’ fault your grandmother died. At least I hope it wasn’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 02:37 PM (X4/Jm)

31
Back when my then wife and I lived in Waynesboro, VA in '86 to '88, our home was just outside of town on land that had been a farm previously. Along the fence lines there was a great abundance of wild Blackberry canes. We had them to ourselves and picked Blackberries b billr to our exhaustion. We had a lot of Blackberry Pie and Blackberry Cobbler during those summers.

It is sad to say that those canes are gone today and what once had been spacious and open country is now covered in housing tracts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 02:40 PM (xG4kz)

32 So, do you call wild black raspberries "black caps" or "wild raspberries"?

Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 02:41 PM (rrtZS)

33 30 Good heavens, it wasn’t the gladiolus’ fault your grandmother died. At least I hope it wasn’t.
Posted by: Tom Servo

"Day of the Gladiolus". Has a nice ring to it, but something isn't quite right...

Posted by: John Wyndham, who should be posting in the Book Thread at July 27, 2024 02:43 PM (VMoW4)

34 gone today and what once had been spacious and open country is now covered in housing tracts.

Ventura has entered the chat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 02:53 PM (p6kAw)

35 KT! Thank you for posting my garden pics last week - sorry I was away in Montauk NY and did not respond to your blog post but I saw it.

I love the garden thread - Mrs. Boswell spends so many hours in her garden, she's so precious and hardworking like that. It's almost as if she were a flower, herself!

Posted by: Boswell at July 27, 2024 02:54 PM (K+UlC)

36 Here's the whole tweet:
Topics I want to hear more about re: policy platforms:
-Decentralizing our food system.
-Making fresh food accessible through vertical farming (multi-trophic aquaculture as well), especially in urban areas.
-Protecting our water supply from foreign adversaries
-Decreasing the regulations that make it difficult to buy local meat (see PRIME Act)
-Establishing a US framework for sustainable open ocean aquaculture and stock fortification.
-Decreasing our reliance on foreign seafood (considering we have the most plentiful fisheries).
-Privatizing school food so kids aren't obese and sick (thereby reducing healthcare costs).
-Streamlining and restructuring the FDA.
-Eliminating farm subsidies for massive food corps.
-Incentivizing regenerative beef farming.
-Transfering power from USDA to states (cut the feds)
Dude sounds like someone who still has far more trust in feralgov than most here, but has noticed some of the issues around the 'one size fits all' approach of the FDA and USDA. There are many others who are *not* lefties who have raised similar concerns, and offered different solutions.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2024 02:56 PM (FnneF)

37 From Boise area: Last Sunday 108 F, today a mere 92, but it's going to go to triple digits again this coming week. Air quality alert continues due to smoke.

Zucchini getting going - 6 this week. Cucumbers going crazy - canned 12 pints of bread'n'butter pickles this week, and the veggie drawer is already full of cucumbers again... Some SunGold cherry tomatoes, a few green beans. Bean crop is poor, corn crop looks like it will be very poor. I checked our 2 pear, 1 peach trees, and see zero fruit set.

I've been weeding the asparagus bed, which had been overrun with crabgrass, purslane, and some spurge. Husband has just painted half of an isolated corner of the house.

The large red and gold daylily behind the garage had its last flower yesterday. The Johnny Jump-Ups are mostly burned out. I took a walk along the back property edge (along the canal) and found we had an amazing patch of Oenothera/evening primrose I didn't know about. Now I need to see if I can fit that into a Fair entry category! - I did find one for catnip.

Posted by: Pat* at July 27, 2024 02:57 PM (/k/ae)

38 So for one thing, no I am NOT giving up my coffee and chocolate, thanks, but I'd like not to have to jump through 6,398,523 state and federal regulatory hoops if I'd like to sell my neighbors some sort of 'agricultural' product.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2024 02:58 PM (FnneF)

39 Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this issue?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Try sprinkling blood meal around the plants.
I guess it works to drive away deer. Might be worth a try with the 'munks

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2024 02:59 PM (kvrZb)

40 like not to have to jump through 6,398,523 state and federal regulatory hoops if I'd like to sell my neighbors some sort of 'agricultural' product.

California weed stores don't seem to have to.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 03:00 PM (p6kAw)

41 Decreasing the regulations that make it difficult to buy local meat

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 03:03 PM (p6kAw)

42 I've got all the parts ... I think... for my irrigation project.

It only took driving around all morning and returning all the parts I'd already bought previously.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2024 03:08 PM (kvrZb)

43 CA (legal) weed stores have to jump thru voluminous regs and rules, which is why the independent dealers (re: illegal) are doing better than ever.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 03:10 PM (MeG8a)

44 We are picking blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, & green peppers. Blackberries will be ready soon.

Posted by: Muad'dib at July 27, 2024 03:14 PM (sjdRT)

45 The roses are so pretty and so many blooms!

I can never get good pics of the hummingbirds, great pic and the gladiolus are pretty.

I like the pictures of the wild berries. I have wild raspberries here but they never really fruit, they get little tiny, I'd call them nubs of fruit. I have a feeling the birds eat them or critters.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2024 03:14 PM (6IAhu)

46 43 CA (legal) weed stores have to jump thru voluminous regs and rules, which is why the independent dealers (re: illegal) are doing better than ever.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 27, 2024 03:10 PM (MeG8a)

The weed deal is over around here. They all are going broke.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 27, 2024 03:15 PM (6IAhu)

47 Decreasing the regulations that make it difficult to buy local meat

That must depend on your locality, because as far as I know, buying local meat involves finding the guy raising the meat, usually on Facebook for some reason, and buying a quarter or half of his animal.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 27, 2024 03:16 PM (kvrZb)

48 Taking a break from mowing the back yard to enjoy the beautiful photos. Duke Lowell, that is a brilliant shot!

Every time I mow I think, I should really have a little garden now that I have a bit of land. I'm deadly to anything green (except the damn kudzu), but maybe next year I'll try a few 'mater plants. And some zucchini. And okra...

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 27, 2024 03:16 PM (iZbyp)

49 Decreasing the regulations that make it difficult to buy local meat
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I'm sure we all know, but Upton Sinclair can rot in hell next to the Silent Spring C u next Tuesday.

Another commie liar that faked up a pack of lies to scare the public and eagerly embraced by government as it gave them more control. Your local butcher wasn't in need of regulation but got regulated out of business anyway.

PS: I learned today that Al Capone is responsible for expiry dates on milk due to his niece getting sick and almost dying from bad milk.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 03:18 PM (Kcg81)

50 Deer are still stopping by every few days nibbling off cucumber leaves that grow outside the fence, they don't touch grown cucumbers nor flowers

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 03:21 PM (fwDg9)

51 On the Gordon Ramsey "F Word" episode where he goes to see his pigs butchered.

Didn't show it all, but did show a lot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 27, 2024 03:22 PM (Kcg81)

52 Those gladiolus are pretty! I have some cannas on the side of the house that are of a similar color. Do the gladiolus take any particular type of soil, or can you just put them in well amended dirt and throw water at them?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2024 03:26 PM (YRsIm)

53
Ventura has entered the chat.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty

And that is the truth.
Same for up the coast all the avocado and citrus groves are gone. They used to surround our home in S.B.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 03:27 PM (MaIsZ)

54 The water is inviting in the current hot weather, but . . .
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Ah. You want adventure? I recommend a drift trip down the Chattooga.

Posted by: Ned Beatty at July 27, 2024 03:27 PM (XeU6L)

55 Dude sounds like someone who still has far more trust in feralgov than most here, but has noticed some of the issues around the 'one size fits all' approach of the FDA and USDA.

He could have left it at "Remove the federal government from this" and been OK.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2024 03:28 PM (mLOou)

56 PETS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 03:31 PM (fwDg9)

57 Love the progression of the Summer season from the delicious wild strawberries, incomparable in a shortcake to the profusion of fruits and berries as the season matures. This has been another great season for fruit, plus the sweet corn has been outstanding again, thats 3 years in a row. Fella could get spoiled.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 27, 2024 03:31 PM (hKoQL)

58 Nood Pets!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 03:31 PM (MaIsZ)

59 Thanks for cropping out the railing, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 27, 2024 03:33 PM (2UnvF)

60 BNO News @BNONews 12h
JUST IN: 3 members of American gospel group The Nelons among 7 killed in Wyoming plane crash

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 27, 2024 04:08 PM (wse2C)

61 He could have left it at "Remove the federal government from this" and been OK.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2024 03:28 PM (mLOou)

Insane how much the USDA has grown exponentially as the numbers of those engaged in agriculture has fallen, no?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 04:53 PM (8sMut)

62
My zucchini and cucumbers are happy and producing bigly, while the corn is kinda suspect, tomatoes are huge and requiring a lot of support efforts. Some tomatoes getting pink.

Lima beans I need to reevaluate.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 05:10 PM (RKVpM)

63 Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 05:10 PM

Don't know where you are, but in my experience lima beans (the big Fordhooks) are quite heat tolerant compared to regular beans, and may not be real well suited to cool weather.

They need water.

Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 05:58 PM (rrtZS)

64 Duke Lowell at July 27, 2024 03:33 PM

That little hummer is the star of the photo.

Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 06:00 PM (rrtZS)

65 Don't know where you are, but in my experience lima beans (the big Fordhooks) are quite heat tolerant compared to regular beans, and may not be real well suited to cool weather.
Posted by: KT at July 27, 2024 05:58 PM (rrtZS)

Lima beans must be eradicated totally.

Michigan sweet corn is peak right now; exceptional this year.

Posted by: Auspex at July 27, 2024 06:47 PM (j4U/Z)

66 Was in the garden and yard all day today. I am fighting tomato blight again - so I need to pick up some copper sulfate tomorrow. I've been staggering my onion planting and just put in my carrots using a method of continually working the soil where I will plant all spring and summer and then planting in July. We will see how it goes.

Cukes are coming strong - beans have been kind of eh so far. Don't know why.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 27, 2024 07:22 PM (9j0Kf)

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