I purchased one of these from Home Depot last year. I love it! Get the weeds when they are small and it’s just like sweeping. You can rake the weeds up afterwards but they die once the root it cut.
Looks like my nitrogen level is ok. I always try to get ripe maters by the 4th of July. Looks like it may happen this year.
Wow, you've got green ones already. I might get the first cherries in late July, but August/September for the big ones.
I put them out too early and got lucky. If it had frozen I would’ve covered them with straw. Watch your stoop, red ones may show up.
I have a number of different types of scuffle hoes and a stirrup hoe sure has its uses. It's not an end-all and be-all tool though as some weeds will grow back from a cut off root and some have their roots on the surface and the tool just goes under them redepositing them right back where they were with just the soil under them disturbed. You also have to be careful with it as some plants also have a root system right at the surface . I don't use it near tomatoes or cucumbers.
Those are flavorful tomatoes, the New York Times says so: Giant Greenhouses Mean Flavorful Tomatoes All Year Don't you trust the elite's media to know what is best for you ?
Poor fellars. Had they grown up with a salt shaker in their pocket in a big boy patch they wouldn’t write such stuff.
In a couple more days some yellow pod snow peas to try. Reviews on taste aren't so good but something to try for the novelty. I only bought ten seeds.
I ordered a bottle of Crossbow I saw in one of your pictures. It was due at the store on Monday, Wednesday they said it was late. Well, it did arrive, it was not late, came in, errantly put out on the shelf, and was sold I finally located two other brands actually in stock on the shelf here (Murdoch's), I'll see which one comes home tonight with WWW. It's been a VERY wet, VERY late spring here, some rain still in the forecast, hopefully I can atleast make a dent in it this year.
Potato bed with a rogue yarrow plant (along with silver maple seeds from the neighbor's tree) One of my strawberry beds with a single asparagus plant Beets, peas, zinnia, and a couple giant sunflower My other strawberry bed with yarrow and cone flowers. Garlic is in the background. No scapes yet to cut, but soon. Once the strawberries come on I get two gallons a day for over a week, then a slow trickle down to a gallon for another 5 days or so, then a few here and there for eating since I have some ever bearing in the mix.
Black raspberries over 7' tall and loaded with flowers. Lupine, kale, carrots, onions and another sunflower, with chard, spinach, lettuces, collards in the background. rhubarb Summer lettuces and spinach that will soon be shaded from asparagus ferns which are over 6' tall now.
What to do with a few extra slicing cucumbers ? My trying hard to be appreciative sister needed someone to drive her to the hospital 45 minutes to visit her son last Saturday. During the drive I mentioned none of my cucumbers or winter squash seeds sprouted (yet), so maybe no cucumbers this year. So she went to a local nursery place and bought what she thought was 12 cucumber plants. Well it was 12 cells with about ten plants in each cell. So of course I had to pot them up. A few didn't make it. Looks like 108 will. It's the thought that counts, right ?
How sweet of her. Just try to remember that when you are swimming in cucumbers. Have you room in the garden for that many?
I go to Japan in August for two weeks . She'll have to pick them all. Ha-ha !! I would have to make more garden. I still have pickles and relish from a banner year last year in the basement pantry, I only wanted a few slicing cucumbers for daily use. I'll have to give the majority away somehow, but jeez every single one of the transplants is standing up straight this morning. Plus: Some of the starts I had given up on have started sprouting.
Morning, thank you for your expertice. He brought home one of each bottle. The patch in the Back yard (where I spend time outside and the stink really gets to me) is about 1000 sq ft. Front yard will be bigger, but that is a project for another day, or year.... bocefus78
