July 9, 2018 | #91 |
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Looking good, as always! Clever idea on the removable trellis panel - are those bicycle racks?
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I had to get clever, my wife says I'm stating to get out of hand. Tool and Accessory hooks. |
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July 11, 2018 | #94 |
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July 10th
The 10 day is gonna be dry!
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July 11, 2018 | #95 |
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10 dry days? Spray, quick!
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July 11, 2018 | #96 |
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I'm down to half a barrel of rain water and water certain areas with the rain water, but most everything else in my yard is on drip irrigation and no drought yet so I bumped the watering to twice a day. I do go out every morning and wet the grass real good for the turtles. |
July 11, 2018 | #97 |
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I meant Daconil, Copper sulfate, DE, etc.
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July 11, 2018 | #98 |
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Last I saw was next Tuesday, tstorms. I hope it's not that hot here; nothing was shown out of the 80s. I watered some yesterday and some today. Dry is fine with me. My first corn is coming in, picked 8 cobs tonight, so I might water that tomorrow, but I'd just soon not have it get drenched like last week. I have a 100+ in that block.
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July 17, 2018 | #99 |
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July 11th
After work today I checked on my Table dainty "aphid problem", it don't look good, I put out a terro bait yesterday to get rid of the ants and will keep spraying for the aphids. It's a shame everything is shriveling up. This morning I checked and it seems the ant population has seriously declined. I got tired of looking at my Box Car Willie plant in the planter so I ripped that out, it had one tomato the size of a marble and all the flowers were just brown. I replaced the BCW with a volunteer I pulled from my Vertical tower, we will see if it takes.
I tasted one of the "Rutgers" last night and let me tell you it was the best tomato I have ever eaten in my life...EVER!!! But seriously the tomato was OK, sweet with a little acid/tart flavor, nothing to write home about but just a decent tomato, although I was impressed at how thin the skin was.
OK Back to the garden, I went out and sprayed a lot of the plants with some Neem Oil, and Bt on the Zucchini plants. I'm not winning the Aphid battle but I'm not loosing either, I'll know in a few days. I have also been battling some type of fungus/virus who knows what it is. Also powdery mildew has reared its ugly head already on my squash plants, I'm not too worried about the spaghetti squash because there's a good amount of squash set on the plant already. I picked a few tomatoes and trimmed the comfrey a bit
July 17th Sunday we got a good bit of rain, I filled up my rain barrels and played around a bit. Still waiting for my 90 gallon rain barrel to arrive so I can finish my Rain Barrel harvesting system this year. Sorry for the dizzying video!
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Table Dainty squash isn't looking good, I may throw in the towel if it dont look better by this weekend. My neighbor was out doing some yard work with his daughter and was thrilled at the spaghetti squash growing on his side. He said they were 30" long and 40 pounds, I laughed and thought he needs to clean off his glasses.
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July 17, 2018 | #100 |
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Good luck with the squash. After a couple weeks of eating, our summer squash was all killed last week by cucumber beetles, and the honey bear acorn bushes were killed by borers. Butternut is still alive but it is a trial to keep the squash bugs off.
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July 17, 2018 | #101 |
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That's not a Rutgers, and there's no way to know if it's a red zebra, either. It's one of the many red striped tomatoes.
Cool looking green spaghetti squash. Please let us know what it looks like inside- zucchini or spaghetti. Nan |
July 17, 2018 | #102 |
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Loved the tortoise butt scratch video, hilarious, but I didn't think they'd feel much through the shell, but maybe they feel a buzz?
Good luck finding a home though, they get huge! Does he interact at all with your box turtles?
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Yes I know its not a Rutgers but it was in the same seed packet, I contacted Baker Creek and they seem to thing a Tigerella or a Copia, I think its some weird cross. Maybe not sure. I have read that sometimes spaghetti squash grow like this and its normal, I'll update when It's harvested and cooked. |
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July 18, 2018 | #104 | |
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I'm pretty sure they can feel but not the same as their skin. The Boxers are a little leary of her/him, he/she stays on the deck for now, I'm praying we find him/her a good home, someone offered to drive it out to California on their yearly RV trip out there. There are places in CA that will take "Roomba" yes roomba like the robot vacuum lol. This thing has more personality than my 2 stupid dogs put together, I'm gonna miss it. |
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July 20, 2018 | #105 |
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July 17th
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