Use ‘’Modelo”.The green beans, pole, and bush are putting on beans, picked my first meal of yellow squash, and the zucchini are blooming like mad and I see one about 4 inches long. The cucumbers have "fruit" from 1 inch to 6 inches, the largest are about a quarter in diameter, I will be eating some cucumber salad very soon. The vines are loaded this year! Hopefully I will have time to make some pickles. Tomatoes are blooming, no fruit yet.
I have had a bumper crop of black and gray with orange fuzzy hair worms this year! The snails are under control after judicious use of slug and snail bait, I just could not make myself waste even bad beer as snail bait... LOL!
Take a pair of scissors, prune some of the limbs from the tomato plants, trim the leaves from the large stem and place about 8 inches into the ground. The little hairs will root, now you can start some backup, later season plants without having to buy more tomato plants. I had several hit by gophers, they ate most of the roots off, trimmed the leaves so I had about 8 inches of stalk left and planted. Watered well, they all survived and are now blooming.We got hammered with hail around midnight last night. I was wondering if my tomatoes would make it through the storm. So far, they look beat up but still alive. Hope they recover quickly
I enjoy your gardening stories.I dug up the earliest planted potato bed 20' L X 4' W X 15" D. There were 60 to 65 plants here and I filled 2 5-gallon buckets to being overfilled. And I lost that I am aware of 12 baseball size potatoes to the damn gophers, these were partially eaten. Overall I am happy with this planting, now I think I will plant half with corn and half with okra.
The bed had a mix of Yukon gold, russets, and red potatoes planted, each performed well for the number of plants of each variety.
Love to see pics….I dug up the earliest planted potato bed 20' L X 4' W X 15" D. There were 60 to 65 plants here and I filled 2 5-gallon buckets to being overfilled. And I lost that I am aware of 12 baseball size potatoes to the damn gophers, these were partially eaten. Overall I am happy with this planting, now I think I will plant half with corn and half with okra.
The bed had a mix of Yukon gold, russets, and red potatoes planted, each performed well for the number of plants of each variety.