The garden's starting to come alive!

Sunflowers are head high and some about to pop flowers. Sprayed a little insecticidal soap to kill white flies that haven't infested but are present. Good to go on the offensive before they try to establish a base camp.

Hello Kitty has not shown any interest in helping me with the gopher attack on the rock garden. I think it's a union thing . . .

Ozarkgal -- Glad you got the catalogue. I knew you would like it. Lots of interesting information.
 

rkunsaw said:
Ozarkgal How far away are you taking the 'coons? They will travel a long way, so might come back.
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Rkunsaw...I've been taking them about 5 miles away, up the highway and down a gravel road back into an old cemetery. The other day we had a real nasty one in the trap. He wanted to kill me. Usually they get to the back of the cage and hide their face, never had an aggressive one like this. The funny thing about it was that the same thing happened the next day, another aggressive one. Two in a row...it makes me wonder.

I've been on a mission this week to weed the gardens....if I ever decide to plant seeds directly into the ground instead of starting them in pots, please everyone, collectively kick me hard in the butt.
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By the time the seeds started to come up where I could tell them from flowers, the weeds had completely taken over. It didn't help that I was gone for a week, then had company for a week and completely ignored the gardens.

I'm paying the price now as my back is screaming at me..don't know if I'll be able to finish the job, but I'll give 'er 'ell.
 
Ozarkgal said:
I'm paying the price now as my back is screaming at me..don't know if I'll be able to finish the job, but I'll give 'er 'ell.
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I work on a much smaller scale then you do, in my garden and yard ... but I find Tiger Balm pain relieving patches so good. I slap them on all over my body! :D
 
Hooray! Sunflowers are just beginning to open! Well, one little bloom so far...

Pass a couple of small farms on the way to work and their sunflowers are in full bloom. Darn those professionals...
 
Late crop of green beans are blooming. Fall cabbage and carrots are up.

We canned vegetable soup again with veggies from our garden.

Most crops did fairly well with some disappointments.
 
My garden is all but drowned out.. cherry tomato bushes are going down for the third time. The peppers are holding their own..the cucumbers are trying to hang on, but the newer plants are suffering, the sunflowers are beaten to the ground. Everything is about covered over in grass and weeds again...I give up!
 
rkunsaw said:
Late crop of green beans are blooming. Fall cabbage and carrots are up.

We canned vegetable soup again with veggies from our garden.

Most crops did fairly well with some disappointments.
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That soup sounds great. Crops faring well with some disappointments is why I'm better at flowers than food. Growing food just seems so serious and stressful. It's gotta succeed whereas flowers are just . . . pretty.
 
Gardens toast, except for cucumbers. Still waiting to plant fall green beans, until the plot dries out enough to do so. Tomatoes are all wilted; what the bugs didn't get, the rain did. Oh well, maybe next year. :p
 
Anne said:
Gardens toast, except for cucumbers. Still waiting to plant fall green beans, until the plot dries out enough to do so. Tomatoes are all wilted; what the bugs didn't get, the rain did. Oh well, maybe next year. :p
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After reading through the last few posts, I feel better . Apparently, my garden is not the only one gone to weeds and rain wrecked. Between the hot days, and the pouring rain days, we are barely keeping up with lawn mowing, let alone gardening.

I am going to replant mine again, and see if the fall planting does better. I still have plenty of beet, lettuce, and carrot seeds, and the onions and ramps will be coming back soon. The ramp seeds are ready to collect, and I am going to send some to my son, Michael, out n Washington state, so he can see if they will flourish out there.
I enjoyed the green tops from the ramps all winter, and the flowers turned out to be beautiful, as well.
 
Rainee, that picture is the flowers on my ramps. Ramps are a kind of wild onion/leek, and I have some growing outside the trailer. They get about two feet tall, and have a small bulb on the bottom, more like a leek than an onion. They go dormant in the heat, but grow happily all fall/winter/spring. I was cutting the tops and adding them to soups and stews all winter, like you would do with green onions. We also have little wild onions that come up all over in the grass all winter, but they are much smaller, like chives.
If you look up ramps online, there is some good information and pictures on ramps.
 
Now, that the garden came alive am watching things slowly turn toward fall. Some of you with vegetable gardens must be harvesting, if not now . . . soon.
 
Squash vines finally died. Onions and potatoes have been harvested and put away. Tomatoes are slowing down and getting smaller. Getting way too much okra but we have a neighbor who'll eat all we don't want. Canned a pint of tabasco peppers. pimento peppers are getting ripe too. Habanero peppers are still green. Sweet potatoes are blooming, Pulled all the early carrots, Have late crop of green beans,carrots and cabbage growing, Still getting a bit of Swiss chard.

Doughnut seeds haven't sprouted yet, darn it.
 
Watching sunflowers fade . . . Guess my neighborhood has gone "seedy". Looking forward to getting daffodils planted in a month or two. Want to get some Naked Ladies (belladonna amaryllis), too. Not because I like the flower but because it's so much fun to exclaim, "Look at the naked ladies!"
 
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