Well, I let my plain yogurt milk and water mixture sit for most of the afternoon. Sprayed in on the plants and sundown. was out there until almost too dark to see, and then....... It. Started. Raining! I mean DANG! We had a big fat ZERO chance of rain tonight, but the sky gods know when I'm trying to spray.... UGGGGGGGGGGGH!
Killed several squash bugs tonight on both the cukes and the squashes. The first I've seen in several weeks. The spray must have brought them up. I also saw several egg clusters that I hadn't seen earlier. I'm gonna have to be a little more vigilant in the use of neem.
The heavy storm we had the other night must have done several of the tomato plants in. Pink Caspian wilted. as did the remaining Green Zebra. I was trialing Pink Caspian, and I don't think I will continue it next year, We enjoyed Giant Pink Belgian much more. Pink Caspian gave slightly more fruit, but its dead now, and GPB is still producing.
Some of the more ruffled Not German Red Strawberry began to ripen. I picked them because there is a rogue caterpillar out there sampling all the tomatoes bite by bite. These things are really nice looking!
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Lindsaylew82
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Toxic1979
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Well said... I don't have many that share the same issues that I have in north eastern Canada, but I have learned so much on this forum, and most of the folks are so helpful here. So glad I found the forum when I did! lol
Lindsaylew.... yeah I don't get slugs anywhere near the size of that thing. It almost looks prehistoric to me... like there should have been fossils nearby! I won't even show my wife that pic... she'll quit gardening. lol
Lindsaylew.... yeah I don't get slugs anywhere near the size of that thing. It almost looks prehistoric to me... like there should have been fossils nearby! I won't even show my wife that pic... she'll quit gardening. lol
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Lindsaylew82
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Haha! That's the only one we've seen larger than a centimeter all year!
We had our family vacation last week! Stayed in Murrell's Inlet, SC. It was near perfect weather the entire time. It never rained. The beach was hot, but the breeze was cool. The water was fairly clear, but full of Jellies. We all had our fair share of stings... We had such a good week together! We all came back looking like 3 bronze goddesses! Resident Man got a sunburn, and came back looking splotchy.
We came back home yesterday. The garden has suffered from the obvious lack of my near constant doting. Tomatoes are nearly all wilted. Some boiled in their skins and they're just hanging on the vine. There are literally thousands of Squashbug eggs on lots of wilted plants. Cucumbers went down. The container garden pretty much dried up. It needs to be cleared away, but I have too many school assignments to take care of it today, it will have to be managed later.
The new garden around our shed looks really nice. I think I may have coyote tomatoes by the end of the week. They need to be staked badly... Maybe I will send out RM with instructions. I think we need new posts, I don't want to spread the garden funk to the newbs.
We have ground cherries! Tasted my first one, and I'm in love!
We had our family vacation last week! Stayed in Murrell's Inlet, SC. It was near perfect weather the entire time. It never rained. The beach was hot, but the breeze was cool. The water was fairly clear, but full of Jellies. We all had our fair share of stings... We had such a good week together! We all came back looking like 3 bronze goddesses! Resident Man got a sunburn, and came back looking splotchy.
We came back home yesterday. The garden has suffered from the obvious lack of my near constant doting. Tomatoes are nearly all wilted. Some boiled in their skins and they're just hanging on the vine. There are literally thousands of Squashbug eggs on lots of wilted plants. Cucumbers went down. The container garden pretty much dried up. It needs to be cleared away, but I have too many school assignments to take care of it today, it will have to be managed later.
The new garden around our shed looks really nice. I think I may have coyote tomatoes by the end of the week. They need to be staked badly... Maybe I will send out RM with instructions. I think we need new posts, I don't want to spread the garden funk to the newbs.
We have ground cherries! Tasted my first one, and I'm in love!
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Welcome home, Lindsay! And I second that KItchenGardener -- love reading Lindsay's posts 
I bet her plant will be bigger, but here's my Coyote -- it's a tomato variety with small (sometimes called "currant" size) "white" -- yellow with clear epi -- fruits. Originally a "wild" tomato from Mexico -- it tends to sprawl and grow tentacles of vines. I'm trussing mine up like a chicken and it still looks like this:
Unique sweet flavor that bursts in your mouth. Tendency to fall off the vine when ripe, splits when I put the ripe fruits in cold bucket of water to wash, NOT a good keeper due to high sugar content -- and I always recommend eating within a couple of days or freeze any that has split or lost skin at stem end right away.
I bet her plant will be bigger, but here's my Coyote -- it's a tomato variety with small (sometimes called "currant" size) "white" -- yellow with clear epi -- fruits. Originally a "wild" tomato from Mexico -- it tends to sprawl and grow tentacles of vines. I'm trussing mine up like a chicken and it still looks like this:
Unique sweet flavor that bursts in your mouth. Tendency to fall off the vine when ripe, splits when I put the ripe fruits in cold bucket of water to wash, NOT a good keeper due to high sugar content -- and I always recommend eating within a couple of days or freeze any that has split or lost skin at stem end right away.
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Lindsaylew82
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THANKS YALL!
Mine are about 2' right now, but they are viney and very leggy, for no apparent reason aside from that just being their habit? Idk, they are crawling all over the asparagus!
I picked 3 bucketfuls of tomatoes out in the garden. They were pretty eaten up, and I found several really large climbing cutworms that I assume are the culprits. I picked 4 zucchini the size of my leg, and about 20 pounds of cucumbers the size of my arms! Zesty Zucchini relish, Dill cucumber relish, and hopefully tomato sauce if I can keep the tomatoes from rotting. I may pop them in the fridge or freezer.
Peppers are really ramping up with the more frequent rains. I made 4 small jars of pickled banana peppers tonight!
Mine are about 2' right now, but they are viney and very leggy, for no apparent reason aside from that just being their habit? Idk, they are crawling all over the asparagus!
I picked 3 bucketfuls of tomatoes out in the garden. They were pretty eaten up, and I found several really large climbing cutworms that I assume are the culprits. I picked 4 zucchini the size of my leg, and about 20 pounds of cucumbers the size of my arms! Zesty Zucchini relish, Dill cucumber relish, and hopefully tomato sauce if I can keep the tomatoes from rotting. I may pop them in the fridge or freezer.
Peppers are really ramping up with the more frequent rains. I made 4 small jars of pickled banana peppers tonight!
