Post by raerae on Jun 17, 2018 11:48:43 GMT -5
The chickens have found my green beans, and crush them seeking grasshoppers.
I've found mites now on the zucchini, though they and the squash are still producing, the heat is getting to them too.
Cucumber is finally putting out a couple little fruits, new leaves look healthy, the cantaloupe that was also overrun with mites is growing new leaves, though the old ones look horrific and even the cantaloupe that was fine has no fruit yet.
The watermelon vines 4, have 3 watermelons on them, but they're small still. Argh. They showed up over a month ago, they should be ready soon, right?
The tomatoes have been wonderful! SOOOO good! But the blight is beginning to overtake the cherry tomatoes. It'll be lifeless soon. The big tomato was slow to produce, and isn't in a hurry to replace the fruit we already ate.
Out of 11 pepper plants, 3 are full grown. The rest are no taller than 8 inches. Idk why. They are now starting to show peppers on them, teeny, after the first crop was broken off at the flower or bud stage a few weeks ago. Grrr.
The lettuce and spinach are done for the season. It's far too hot for it now even in the shade, and i have trouble with chickens getting into it. I'll think about starting some indoors layer for fall plants.
But we ate well for the 4th, most of the veggies from the little container garden that was looking well that day, lol.
Not a total loss or waste of time, but it was a learning curve for sure. I'll do it a bit differently next year.
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My container garden bloomed beautifully.
Short battle with aphids on my peppers, found and crushed two adult squash bugs, and the bounty promised to be plentiful.
And then we have blight.
I've been treating with a copper fungicide, getting good cherry tomatoes, one yellow squash, 2 zucchini, green beans.
But the plants are suffering. All of them. Yellow, spotted, wilting leaves,
the cherry tomatoes are bare halfway up, beginning to show on my regular tomatoes (which look amazing but are still green) the green beans leaves go yellow before new ones grow in fully, and the zucchini and squash is rotting before maturity.
I can only cut off so many leaves.
Should i give up? Trash them all? Its far too late to start over.
I've found mites now on the zucchini, though they and the squash are still producing, the heat is getting to them too.
Cucumber is finally putting out a couple little fruits, new leaves look healthy, the cantaloupe that was also overrun with mites is growing new leaves, though the old ones look horrific and even the cantaloupe that was fine has no fruit yet.
The watermelon vines 4, have 3 watermelons on them, but they're small still. Argh. They showed up over a month ago, they should be ready soon, right?
The tomatoes have been wonderful! SOOOO good! But the blight is beginning to overtake the cherry tomatoes. It'll be lifeless soon. The big tomato was slow to produce, and isn't in a hurry to replace the fruit we already ate.
Out of 11 pepper plants, 3 are full grown. The rest are no taller than 8 inches. Idk why. They are now starting to show peppers on them, teeny, after the first crop was broken off at the flower or bud stage a few weeks ago. Grrr.
The lettuce and spinach are done for the season. It's far too hot for it now even in the shade, and i have trouble with chickens getting into it. I'll think about starting some indoors layer for fall plants.
But we ate well for the 4th, most of the veggies from the little container garden that was looking well that day, lol.
Not a total loss or waste of time, but it was a learning curve for sure. I'll do it a bit differently next year.
-
My container garden bloomed beautifully.
Short battle with aphids on my peppers, found and crushed two adult squash bugs, and the bounty promised to be plentiful.
And then we have blight.
I've been treating with a copper fungicide, getting good cherry tomatoes, one yellow squash, 2 zucchini, green beans.
But the plants are suffering. All of them. Yellow, spotted, wilting leaves,
the cherry tomatoes are bare halfway up, beginning to show on my regular tomatoes (which look amazing but are still green) the green beans leaves go yellow before new ones grow in fully, and the zucchini and squash is rotting before maturity.
I can only cut off so many leaves.
Should i give up? Trash them all? Its far too late to start over.
