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Well, no giant pumpkin for me this year:(. Just for the heck of it, I planted an Atlantic Giant and yesterday the leaves were pretty much stripped. I suspect a groundhog I've seen around, or maybe several rabbits, because I don't know of anything else that can do that much damage that quickly. Some blossoms bravely opened up this morning and I'll give it a shot of fertilizer, but I don't think there are enough leaves left to support the plant, and if the critters do that much damage to leaves, what will they do with a fruit?
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Ours learned how to scale the fence. Lil les caused the demise of one- I will not get into details- and now spends time with the upstairs window open, BB gun hanging out like some western, taking potshots at the ba5tards. THey are very, very tenacious.
 
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The great annual bean harvest has begun!! :)

Twice a week now, until September, we'll be picking beans. Already have two harvests in house, and that's just from one row! Planting the rows several weeks apart helps spread out the harvest longer, and the second row has tiny beans already forming and the third row should start to flower soon.


It's been a good year so far, at least $100 worth of produce between strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, peas, radishes, lettuce, spinach. Too hot right now for the latter two, will try some more in the early fall.

The conventional cucumbers have all succumbed to a blight but the English cucumbers (the long narrow kind) are thriving; there are plenty of tomatillos dangling, lots of green tomatoes.
 
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Gearing up to amend my soil over the next month or so and then get ready to start the fall plantings in September. We're going to try a local type of garlic, as the garlic we got at Sprouts and planted came up last year but wasn't very large in most cases. Hopefully the Sonoran garlic will do better. Lots of lemons, tangerines, oranges, and limes ripening on the trees. Our apple tree gave us a good harvest (for its size) in June, but the tree hasn't grown much in the 3+ years it's been in place.
 
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grocery bag 3/4 full, bulging, of wax and nickel beans. That after a different ba1/2, not so stuffed about 3 days before. We plant one time and are inundated with beans until frost. THis is all out of raised beds that in total have maybe 20 ft of beds that are 2.5 feet wide. THese things crank.

ANd lil les is amusing himself every day by sitting in the upstairs window BB gun at the ready and 'skulling' the groundhogs as they emerge from under the shed. His version of video games :rolleyes:
 
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leswp1 said:
grocery bag 3/4 full, bulging, of wax and nickel beans. That after a different ba1/2, not so stuffed about 3 days before. We plant one time and are inundated with beans until frost. THis is all out of raised beds that in total have maybe 20 ft of beds that are 2.5 feet wide. THese things crank.

ANd lil les is amusing himself every day by sitting in the upstairs window BB gun at the ready and 'skulling' the groundhogs as they emerge from under the shed. His version of video games :rolleyes:
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Remember, Shoot! Shovel! and Shut up. ;)
 
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Picked up three roof rat traps to deploy around our property, as we've become aware they have moved into our neighborhood and we even saw one high up in a eucalyptus tree the other night at dusk. Hopefully we can control them so they don't get our fruit.
 
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Saw a little orange on a habanero, some discoloration on the thai chile peppers, and have already picked a few tomatillos. "Reaping" the benefits of being more conscientious about fertilizing. Many more fruits on the habaneros, and my one sweet basil is a small tree. Already eaten a huge batch of bruschetta and trying to figure out other uses for basil.
 
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Saw a little orange on a habanero, some discoloration on the thai chile peppers, and have already picked a few tomatillos. "Reaping" the benefits of being more conscientious about fertilizing. Many more fruits on the habaneros, and my one sweet basil is a small tree. Already eaten a huge batch of bruschetta and trying to figure out other uses for basil.
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Just-about in the exact same situation... got a late start this year, too. I planted Habeneros for the first time this year, after much success with Jalapeños. Now I'm looking for ways to use those spicy little buggers!

As for uses for Basil... pesto, pesto, and more pesto! :0) Freezes well. I've also made a few tomato & basil pizzas... just garlic-oil, parmesan, tomato slices, basil, and lotsa cheese(s). Even made 'em on the grill when it was too hot to run the oven.

Enjoy, and Cheers!!!
~TTF
 
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Still waiting for tomatoes. My Summer squash is NOT producing. Lots of flowers but not the ones that bear fruit. More green bean than we know what to do with. a few cukes. THe only thing that is constant is the ability to harvest more GB than it seems possible to grow
 
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Harvested six pounds of tomatillos today. Spent the morning husking them (the downside of tomatillos). Will roast them and whip up a batch of salsa as soon as the habaneros are nice and orange. I love this time of year!:)
 
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Lots of cherry tomatoes are on, have been eating for a few weeks now. I ate 1 beefsteak a few weeks ago, finally some more are almost ready, as well as the romas. I'm doing an aggressive pruning plan on them, I do believe it's called Missouri pruning. At this point I think it's having a positive impact on production. The best part is no cages, just a stake in the middle with a cloth strip tying the stalk to the stakes. Right now the cherry tomatoes are 5 to 6 feet tall. Brussel sprouts are very short, the cukes are not producing much, the jalapenos and peppers are doing great. We've had a kinda cooler summer here (SE WI) with a dry spell right now.
 
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Cheever the groundhog wins. Denuded all the beans, summer squash plants and cukes. Only thing left is tomatoes and I am sure they are next
 
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leswp1 said:
Cheever the groundhog wins. Denuded all the beans, summer squash plants and cukes. Only thing left is tomatoes and I am sure they are next
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That sucks. We finally get some needed rain, hopefully my squash keeps going. Its about the only thing left besides tomatoes and peppers. Weeds are unreal
 
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I have a beautiful butternut squash coming out of the compost heap. Maybe I will reap something.....
 
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Rabbits ate everything but the tomatoes of which we have way too *ing many now. Mrs goldy bought some new pepper plants at the farmers market a few weeks back and I put cages around them to keep the rabbits out but the plants are doing NOTHING.:(
 
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planted some watermelon and pumpkins a couple days ago. And I've got an order in for some Sonoran and Ajo Rojo garlic that we will plant and hopefully reuse some in each future year to plant again and have a self-sustaining supply of garlic. It's that time in summer where many plants are looking rather stressed, but in a month or so the weather will break and at this point it looks like our new plantings from last winter should all survive their first summer.
 
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leswp1 said:
Cheever the groundhog wins. Denuded all the beans, summer squash plants and cukes. Only thing left is tomatoes and I am sure they are next
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:mad::( Wow, and you had an armed guard. What chance do the rest of us have?
 
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CLS said:
:mad::( Wow, and you had an armed guard. What chance do the rest of us have?
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The armed guard has to work sometimes. The little ba5tard (or actually I should say the big one because it is now the size of a sow!!) hears lil les' car go down the driveway and it pops right out like clockwork. Infuriating.
 
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leswp1 said:
The armed guard has to work sometimes. The little ba5tard (or actually I should say the big one because it is now the size of a sow!!) hears lil les' car go down the driveway and it pops right out like clockwork. Infuriating.
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So what you're saying is that you should have him all set up in a good sniper position, and then go take his car to the store to go get some milk while he takes out the Varmit-Cong?
 
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