You can plant sweet alyssum as a companion plant. They attract insects that will destroy cabbage worms. Stop Cabbage Loopers in Your Garden
Here a few pics of this years garden. I didn't plant as much due to the fact that we are still looking to move.
From the GH Been eating ripe tomatoes for a while now Lots of cucs too Garden Good salads fixing, onions/ spinach/& lettuce/Brocc/radishes Should be getting some zucs to grill soon
Cucumbers and Zucchini are going... the last 1/2 week being out of the garden due to rain, caused a few to get too big...
This is our garden this year. The boards for these raised beds were milled out of Osage Orange by my father about 8 years ago. The three tomatoe plants in first photo were heavily damaged by tomato worms. I think I picked off 23 in two days. They are making a good come back.
This is just one of my wife's flower beds. The first picture is of the whole bed, then a closer picture of each end. She has more colors of irises than you can shake a stick at. She does very well with them, even if I say so myself.
Those are some huge tomato plants. I'm weeding the other day and a white moth lands on the broccoli and attempts to lay some eggs. This morning I ran out for less than a half hour and my wife sends me a pic of a woodchuck that scaled the garden fence. By the time I got home, he was out. It damaged the broccoli pretty bad. No fooling around at this point.
This morning I ran out for less than a half hour and my wife sends me a pic of a woodchuck that scaled the garden fence. View attachment 130525 Thank goodness the woodchuck did not attack your wood pile How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Mitch Newton found the magic beans! "Fee! Fi! Foe! Fum!" The Wood Wolverine what's the idea with the paper around the peppers? Chvymn99 nice haul!! Can't wait to start harvesting some stuff here! Actually we did have some of the lettuce. Cayenne peppers Sugar babies Early girls We've got romas and beefsteak too. Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and a couple squash. We had this guy volunteer in our compost bin too. Not quite sure what it is yet.
Pulled my Onions and Garlic yesterday along with digging up the rest of my Tators... now they are drying up in the barn...
Time to pull out the big guns- go to the zoo and get a surplus bucket of Tiger or Lion crap. Strategically place around garden and see if that little bugger comes back! I've heard it also works on door to door salesmen...
It looks like everyone's garden is doing good. What are your plans for putting up the harvest? As for me: Tomatoes: 24 plants of various varieties. Plan on canning stewed tomatoes, tomato juice and spaghetti sauce. Corn: 8 20' rows. Eat as much as I can fresh and then freeze the rest. Cucumbers: Not doing worth a crap. Was planning on making Bread & Butter pickles but it looks like we will just eat what we get fresh. Wax Peppers: 12 plants. Going to start tonight and can some up. Green Peppers: 12 plants They are coming along. We will probably eat what we can and freeze the rest. Cabbage: 6 plants. They were bought as broccoli but that isn't what they turned out to be. Will probably use fresh or try and make some kraut. Never made it before. Broccoli: 6 plants. Will use fresh and maybe freeze some if they get ahead of us. Green Beans: Going in tonight. 2 20' rows or until the seeds runs out. Looking to freeze it or maybe can some. Sweet Potatoes: 1 20' row. Will eat fresh and try to store them for later use. I have never grown them before and the plants are looking good. I saw on a previous post where someone said they were going to dry their white potatoes in the barn. Do I have to dry sweet potatoes and if so how? If I can find the seed, I may put in some red beets for a fall harvest.
