[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[tubebender]

You’re right on time greeneyes...

[MtnClimber]

The cold weather plants, potatoes, turnips, mustard greens and collard greens are doing well. Night time temperatures are starting to be over 50F so beans and tomatoes are starting to grow. Hoping the chipmunks do not wipe out my beans this year. I planted more beans than I need hoping half make it with out being eaten.

[Black Agnes]

Picked our first winter squash this morning. 15lbs.

This one:

https://www.southernexposure.com/illinois-white-crookneck-pumpkin-winter-squash-4-g-p-1841.html

Blueberries are finally done. Lots of baby white crookneck and pumpkins setting every day. Rice looking good as are maters. Lots of baby romas setting and cherry tomatoes too. Liberty apples getting closer to ripe every day. Having to soaker hose more than I’d like but it is what it is.

[Psalm 73]

Thank you for the PING.
Who pours concrete in July? Unless it's what you do for a living, anyway (I used to when I was a kid - glad I kicked that habit).

Strawberries did well, even though we relocated them from another bed this spring.
Bumper crop of raspberries.
Everything else was pitiful small until this past week of upper 90's and scorching sun - amazing what one good week can do for veggies.

Today is the day when we move the new chickens in with old Goldie, now that they are almost her size (too big to get picked on).
Right now they are in temporary quarters (makeshift coop and an old run), right in the middle of my wood-splitting area. (Which will mean no more: "I can't split wood because...")

[left that other site]

Good Morning!

(((HUGS)))

Today is a break from an awful heat wave. Thank Goodness!

[Neoliberalnot]

I would like to know how people are dealing with the Jap Beetle invasion. They stripped the top 1/2 of my apple trees and are working on peaches. Sevin and permethrin will get rid of them for 4, maybe 5 days and they are back. The hormone attractants can attract other Jap beetles from half a mile away— you can collect thousands in soapy water buckets, but it does little to hinder their attacks.

[Augie]

Hot, hot, and more hot here in Central Missouri this past week. 4" rain the week before and I'm already running irrigation in the pumpkin patch and the kitchen garden.

I've been at war with the japanese beetles for the past couple weeks. The filthy, stinking vermin are shredding my orchard trees. Seven slows them down for a day or two, but that's about it. I mixed up a sprayer full of malathion/captan yesterday and got medieval with them. I don't like using that stuff, but I like losing an entire tree full of fruit even less.

I'm mostly caught up on shop projects and suchlike stuff, so I've had some time to get into the pond with Nanner. I think I'm about two weeks away from calling dirt guy to come out and close the dam. That will be a happy day.