Posted on 06/27/2014 12:49:59 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Adorable means pictures required.LOL
Glad you are having a good year. The dew berries here are huge compared to the black berries. The dew berries and blackberries we have are mostly wild natives.
Whenever they spring up, we put a chicken wire circle around them so they don’t get mowed over till they get well established. Then we put a brick or rock circle around them.
The larger patches have metal hoops that we use to keep the netting from tangling in the bushes.
I’ll try to get some. She’s usually out in the morning, and sometimes in late afternoon.
We have no outdoor tomatoes that are ripe yet, so I am jealous of your tomato production. Hubby’s garden is doing well so far. Yesterday he bought a drip hose and now has water running through it into his garden from the swimming pool water collected from the roof top.
We had up to 3000 gallons when he started. I still have to lug buckets, so we need to figure out a better way for me too.
My San Marzano tomatoes are my best producers = good looking healthy plants with loads of tomatoes on each plant.
Nice pictures. Those have to be easier on the back than regular gardens, and they look so nifty too.
Dew berries were puny this year, just not enough water. I think we had only a bit over 2 inch YTD by June 1. Fortunately we have had a wet June (by our standards) but native stuff didn’t do well.
I will grind my first paprika of the season. Peppers were cut into pieces and dried on a pie plate in the sun. I recommend doing this out doors...
They’re much easier on my knees, too.
It’s my first year to grow them and I am impressed! Probably a good 60 or so on each plant. Will certainly be planting again as, in addition to sauce they also do well for salsa.
Looks like to much rain is doing in quite a few of my tomato plants. The landscape fabric and the mulch I have topped it with is keeping the soil a little to moist. I need a few days without the afternoon popcorn showers - some have been quite heavy. I will be putting up some shade cloth in the next few days as the temps are rising and the glaring sun and heat to a job on my tomatoes.
Great looking plants and harvest.
I hear they are real tasty too. Bought a seed packet of them a few weeks ago and have one seedling sprouted to be used as a backup and just for fun experimenting. Just may transplant it in early Sept and hope for some late Fall production if the temps cooperate.
Looks like your tomatoes are getting big. ;)
/johnny
Simple discoveries excite me! For many years to combat squash bugs I’d spray pyrethrum at the crack of dawn and go down the rows squishing the individual bugs. What I found this season to deal with the squash bugs is to do so at night. During the day they tend to want to hide from the sun so they hide on the under sides of the leaves making it quite the chore to turn the leaves to find them. I have found that by doing the search and destroy campaign at night with a good head lamp they are much more visible on the stems and tops of the leaves, and it seems the light ‘freezes’ them because they don’t run away either. This is a HUGE advantage for me since I am tending about 140-150 summer squash plants this year. Haven’t had to spray pyrethrum yet, though I do foliar feed.
Great going on the gardening. I am hearing thunder, so I think I’ll dash out and see if I can sneak in a planting before the drops start. Be back in a jiff.
Thanks for posting my garden pix.
—Eric
Beautiful!
We dont mulch over the fabric, so it probably helps evaporation. The garden is on a hill and is sandy soil, so soil too wet has not been a problem for us, plus, this part of Texas doesn’t get much rain in a normal year, less most years lately.
Our “window” in the tree canopy is closing up, I think, so we may not be able to garden much longer. If we don’t get better looking plants going in the next 2 seasons, we will probably shut it down.
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