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Picked the first few strawberries over the weekend.

Planted two rows of bush beans.

Walrus,

When we know heavy rains are coming, we use gallon-size plastic milk carton containers with the bottom cut off, place one over every small plant. While it is labor intensive, it does protect them from being smashed into the mud....though when you are putting 25 or 30 on in the afternoon and then pulling each one off again the following morning, it can get a bit tedious!
 
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FreshFish said:
Picked the first few strawberries over the weekend.

Planted two rows of bush beans.

Walrus,

When we know heavy rains are coming, we use gallon-size plastic milk carton containers with the bottom cut off, place one over every small plant. While it is labor intensive, it does protect them from being smashed into the mud....though when you are putting 25 or 30 on in the afternoon and then pulling each one off again the following morning, it can get a bit tedious!
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I think the issue for wally is flooding and super wet soil
 
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Japanese beetles LOVE grape plants. Which is one of many reasons I think I'm going to kill my grape plant this summer.
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Haven't seen any of those around, but I have been checking regularly for more skeletonizers. Probably squashed about 15-20 so far. Picked a couple bunches of grapes this weekend. They are pretty small, but tasty. I'll have to look into how to get them larger. We did catch a couple birds that somehow found their way under the netting to try to get at the grapes, but we chased them off and tried to make it so the birds couldn't do that again.
 
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My wife picked the first batch of strawberries yesterday. A little over a pound. It sure has made a difference fencing and netting that patch.
 
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My strawberries are not even close yet. Still tiny and green. Farms around here say they are late this year.
 
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We've been getting a few grape bunches off the vines we planted last year. They're small but tasty. I'll have to do some research on how to get the grapes at least a little larger. Been enjoying the apples off our tree also, but they'll all be gone soon. Citrus on the trees, but they've got a ways to go to ripen. Tore out the tomato plants this morning, as they were pretty much toast from the hot weather. Mostly just maintaining the asparagus plants now in the garden. Potato plants faded the last couple weeks and we planted them late, so we only got a few small ones.
 
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Bob Gray said:
We've been getting a few grape bunches off the vines we planted last year.
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How old are your vines? You really shouldn't let any grapes grow, let alone harvest, on vines younger than 3 years old. If they are younger than 3 years old, or you have harvested grapes before the 3 year old mark, then I would suggest that you remove the blossoms next season and wait that season out. Let the vines concentrate on growing strong. This will help the quality and quantity of the grapes.

I should mention that I grow my grapes for wine making but the principle is still the same.
 
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MattS said:
How old are your vines? You really shouldn't let any grapes grow, let alone harvest, on vines younger than 3 years old. If they are younger than 3 years old, or you have harvested grapes before the 3 year old mark, then I would suggest that you remove the blossoms next season and wait that season out. Let the vines concentrate on growing strong. This will help the quality and quantity of the grapes.

I should mention that I grow my grapes for wine making but the principle is still the same.
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Thanks for the info. Our vines are a little over a year old. The guys at the nursery had said to not worry about it and go ahead and harvest the vines, but I wondered if they were on the young side to be getting fruit from them.
 
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My strawberries appear to have gray mold on them. So ready to dig them up and start over. They've done nothing in 3 years. I'm not sure it's a good spot for them. Although it might be too late for this season (they've ever-bearing, so they're not necessarily done, right?), will try fungicide more often, adding straw and using a soaker hose instead of watering from above. Any other ideas?
 
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My green beans didn't germinate for ****, tilled them under started 2 more rows
 
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walrus said:
My green beans didn't germinate for ****, tilled them under started 2 more rows
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Me either. The Soleil ones came up gangbusters. The Nickel ones failed miserably :(

The groundhogs ate my tomatoes to a stub wile we were gone a whole 4 days. :mad: Little buggers are bold. Ready to shoot them but need to get an implement to do so.
 
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My first attempt at growing zuchinni seems to be going well. No fruit yet, but the plants are overtaking my garden. I guess I wasn't ready for how big they'd get. I pulled two of them up and gave them to friends.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
My first attempt at growing zuchinni seems to be going well. No fruit yet, but the plants are overtaking my garden. I guess I wasn't ready for how big they'd get. I pulled two of them up and gave them to friends.
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Once they start to fruit, check them every day. They can grow from "just right" size to baseball bat size seemingly overnight.

My habaneros were looking a little ragged, but a shot of fertilizer seemed to do the trick. Three of my tomatillos are doing fine, a fourth seems healthy, but is smaller.
 
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Two types of pole beans; green and yellow. both have overtopped their trellis. Flowers, but no beans yet. Purple bush string beans - one plant out of 4 rows I planted have come up. No more purple beans for me.

Peas are doing great; 3 different varieties. The earliest variety has produced 1 meal so far.

Several peppers are showing; plants are still small. Potatoes are the best I've ever seen. Hoping for a huge crop.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
My first attempt at growing zuchinni seems to be going well. No fruit yet, but the plants are overtaking my garden. I guess I wasn't ready for how big they'd get. I pulled two of them up and gave them to friends.
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I plant all of my plants like zucchini, squash, pumpkins, etc. along the perimeter of my garden and "train" (move the vines) to grown towards the outside of my garden boundaries. It makes mowing around the garden a bit of a pain but that way they don't take over their area of the garden and I can let them get as big as they want.
 
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