- Don't put out tomatoes and heat loving ANYTHING until you have 10 consecutive nights at 60 degrees. Tip from Gail. One of my tomato heirlooms didn't make it. Virginia coldness was just too much for this foreign variety :) Also my cukes and melons croked.
- Bugs- with all of the rain we have gotten I have one zillion ants in the garden. I also had flea beetles devour my egglplant. SLUGS are also attacking my beans and tomas! So this year my approach MUST be different. Last year I shared with the bugs, this year they want more and I need to fight back.
- Don't go crazy with internet gardening advice.....I poured baking soda over my beans to keep the ants away. Instead I killed the beans....oops. Next batch going in today.
Overall everything looks good though. Progress includes:
- heaps of strawberries! Harvesting now!
- Peas are now coming in....they all go right into my belly!
- Corn getting taller by the day.
- Acorn squash in the hay bales looking great.
- Herbs slowly coming up.
- Next batch of melon seeds sprouting in the garden.
- Squash bed built and 'cooking'.
- New bed for pollinating flowers and squash is built, needs one more tilling.
- Potatoes I planted last year are growing.
- Cukes are up as well!
- Kitchen garden planted along front path - no more flowers, only veggies this year!
Below are some random pics: - Blooming peas
- Kitchen garden. Growing golden chard, kale, and mini broccoli
- Acorn squash on hay bale
- Baby squash plants growing!
1 comments:
Gorgeous peony, you are about 2 weeks ahead of us I think, mine are still tight petal clusters.
Did you water in your hay bales and let them cook first or just plant on them straight away?
Funny that you lost plants to the cold when all of mine are fine. Some were under cloches for a while there but that was when the temps were in the mid-high forties at night. Were all the plants you lost greenhouse grown? Just curious because I know mine went out too early.
We have changed some of landscaping to include more edibles this year too, more to come on that on my blog soon- you will be proud! Enjoy your harvest and rub the belly for me!
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