Well, here we are at June. Made a couple of small additions here and there. Some have really taken off... there’s no bullsh!t about horsesh!t. The stuff works.
I sprayed malathion in the back yard tonight (as recommended by the Pest and Control District here). Eerie and creepy as I was facing the wild fire smoke plum watching the fuel sources inching east and turning blacker. Anyway I'm wondering if it will make a dent on the mosquitoes here since we have a lake across the street and the lake's cove behind my yard. Getting late here, dragging my behind to the shower later since the wind changes put some of the spray towards me. Plenty of concentrate left to do the rest of the property but we are due for rain in a few days......I just want to tend my plants around the patio, you know? Volunteer arial spraying was tenative for soon after the 4th of July, but it seems the darn wild fire might delay or cancel the spray altogether Note to self, never order from Gurney's again. They do not ship to my growing area until it's "fail safe", but it appears they ship items that were packaged a month or two before, everything is dead when it arrives here in the last week of May or the first couple weeks of June. Grrrr.
I try to grow radishes. Usually bugs eat the tops, they don't bulb and/or the ones that do the bugs eat the bottom. Leaving very little for me. This year I'm getting some that actually look nice. The ones in the garden something eats some of the tops but they've been leaving the bulbs alone. I tried making pickle slices with them and radish relish two years ago and no one liked .
I have a pretty good garden going this year. First time I started all my squash inside. They are looking great. A few crook necks showing. Tomatoes are about on track. First Epsom salt spray a week ago. That really makes them perk up. Beets that I started inside and transplanted are having a hard time getting started. Raspberry patch really took off this year. Already above the top support wire. Blooming like crazy. Apples made it through the frost this year. Very few bees but looks like we get a few.....the ones the squirrels don't get. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” ― Audrey Hepburn
Sometimes things grow the way you plant them and plan for: Sometimes they flop over and grow helter skelter: So I plant some fast growing radishes in the empty spots. Having some luck with lettuce this year, other things not so much.
I won't do it again but there's shelling peas that the plant gets about two -three feet tall on one side of that fence/trellis and they are doing really good and on the other side are the snap peas that I've planted twice and there might be 4 plants there. Something ( I think slugs ) ate my carrot and beet seedlings 99% , and chewed up the mustard greens and cauliflower setting them back quite a bit and the greens bolted and so did my spinach. But I have lots and lots of romaine lettuce.
Picked these two up today. (not my kiddo, pic taken at the ladie's place that makes these darling creations)
Corn is knee-high or nehi. Hehe blood meal added. Great bunch of plants. I had to come here to escape the house do-do’s
What the heck is this? I found something online that mentioned spores in coco coir. It's bright green/yellow in person (vs camera pic)
