Sooo it is August AFTER my boy's birthday and I have my First Tomatoes. Wow. I have some very nice peppers and onions and garlic. Granted that the tomatoes went in late - between the weather and invalided :-) foot....
... Stella's Gardens is the personal blog for our new home and gardens in NE Iowa.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Through the heatwave
Obviously my last post was before the heat hit the fan...
As with many others, the garden is green and lush but still waiting for the first red tomato. Quite a few cukes have been turned into pickles or traded with my friend for zucchini (mine were started late and are just starting to show female flowers.) The garlic was dug up and is fabulous. Onions are looking good and my late-planted watermelon and gourds up north are starting to set fruit.
But the cukes have wilt, the tomatoes have the worst case of whitefly I have ever gotten in my garden, and the heat put me behind on weeding and feeding down here. The northern garden is done, anyway...
And everything is late!
And I'm at work so I really should be working...
As with many others, the garden is green and lush but still waiting for the first red tomato. Quite a few cukes have been turned into pickles or traded with my friend for zucchini (mine were started late and are just starting to show female flowers.) The garlic was dug up and is fabulous. Onions are looking good and my late-planted watermelon and gourds up north are starting to set fruit.
But the cukes have wilt, the tomatoes have the worst case of whitefly I have ever gotten in my garden, and the heat put me behind on weeding and feeding down here. The northern garden is done, anyway...
And everything is late!
And I'm at work so I really should be working...
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