Something has hit my beautiful strawberry plants in the last 10 days and it looks like I may lose them all. My corn is tasseling and silk is showing on 4 or 5 plants, early picking of raspberries is done and just a few blueberries left to pick. I have dug all the garlic and the Rust has reduced the size of the bulbs to less then half the normal size. I talked to a couple of Organic Growers at the Farmers Market Thursday and they say it is becoming prevalent and speculation is it came in on some Chinese garlic? Eating a few new potatoes and I dug and gave away the spuds from the volunteers that came up early in the spring. Lady Bender’s annual flowers have never looked better and the drip irrigation is worth it’s weight in gold in keeping them growing and healthy...
Oh no any idea what is wrong with the strawberries? My garlic was a big disappointment this year too. Almost all were undersized. We aren’t getting much berries this year. I guess it’s the after effect of last years extreme drought.