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Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:27 pm

I've been watching one of the straightneck squash plants. It quit producing blooms and then no matter that it gets enough water and fertilizer, it's been turning yellow and I think I know why.

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So I dug it up today and my suspicions were confirmed. Nematodes. This is a different bed from the beans. Roots all knotted up.

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So now I have two young squash plants left. They were started June 28 and I saw the first flower on one of them this morning.

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I found an interesting comment about nematodes in an article I found today. It recommended the usual crop rotation to help knock them back but then added that rotation can be as small as just planting another susceptible plant a few feet away from the affected one. If that's true, maybe those two young ones will be ok. After all, the knotted up bean roots were only in an 8' section on one side of the bed. Time will tell. Meanwhile I outlined that section on my garden map.

Tired of eyesight being increasingly blurred, I'm finally doing something about it. I'll be having cataract surgery on one eye on the 19th and then the other eye three weeks later. Sometimes you just have to get tired of being tired about something to do something about it!

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Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:28 am

Hope the cataract surgery goes well for you @GoDawgs . Will be thinking all the best for you

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Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:12 am

Thank you, @Whwoz ! The doc said it should be an easy one to do. Yay!

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Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:28 am

GoDawgs wrote: Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:12 am Thank you, @Whwoz ! The doc said it should be an easy one to do. Yay!
I had it done and it is easy and so very worthwhile. It is amazing how quickly your world will change for the better after this procedure. :D
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Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:11 am

Yesterday I got the fall beans planted, 32' of Blue Lake and 32' of Providers as I am out of Contender seed. I also got next round of brassicas started; a couple collards and kale, some Green Magic broccoli and four more cauliflowers.

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Meanwhile, more tomatoes are finishing ripening up and the dill seed is ready for cleaning. The scallions and leeks in the background are coming along. They'll be ready to plant by October.

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Today's projects include starting small quantities of two new-to-me beans that I got from the MMMM. ' Blue Ribbon' and 'Jumbo' are both bush types. I think I'll do these in buckets to isolate them for seed saving.

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Then I'm going to transplant the two jalapenos and the parsley. The parsley is going in a window box and will do well on the porch all winter and into spring. The jalapenos will be racing Mr. Frosty to the finish.

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Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:19 pm

There are four Stone Mountain watermelons coming along as far as we've found. This is the largest one, maybe soccer ball size so far. Then Pickles found a Charleston Gray. I had thought that the vine had died but no, there's one about 18" long hiding in the grass. It too has a way to go.

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The second round cukes are doing well and are loaded with flowers. That one vine finally found the trellis and is climbing. So far we've gotten the first eight cucumbers this week.

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I found one small sweet potato pushing up out of the ground. The last time I had one push up there were some nice potatoes under there. We'll see come next month when I'll be digging them.

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And finally, the pigeon pea bushes keep getting bigger but no sign of any flowers. The tall one is 7' now, at least. These are grown in the Caribbean. Maybe they don't like it in Georgia. :D

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Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:17 pm

I am amazed at how productive your gardens are and how long your growing season is. Even with your heat, critters and nematodes things are doing great and now you get to have a second crop of everything. I am wondering if you planted a later crop of zucchini that then you might avoid the SVB.
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Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:01 pm

@MissS , this year has been the most frustrating gardening season I can ever remember. For all the work and planting we really haven't gotten much at all. No corn (squirrels), not enough tomatoes to put up (squirrels, heat), few cucumbers, some squash, nobby nematoded carrots. Things have looked good only to have gone to heck at just the wrong time. The spring beans were deer munched during 31 days of drought and then got hit with 100 degree temps. Then one bed funked up and nematodes started messing with the other. I couldn't spray for funk due to little piddly showers in the afternoons, just enough mess with the spray. Three of the pepper plants got some kind of virus. That has never happened before.

Those pretty cucumber plants are the second planting after the spring ones were destroyed by the heat wave. But they are now coming down with angular leaf spot in one bed and a touch of powdery mildew in the other. And, of course, we're getting those daily afternoon sprinkles and light rain again negating any spray. I need to get some copper down. We'll probably lose them after one nice week of producing.

Something's now wrong with the spring okra plants. I'm thinking nematodes again and I fertilized, then drenched them with molasses mix yesterday. We'll see. Thank goodness the second planting looks great and should start producing in a few weeks. And so it goes.

On the other hand, the early brassicas did well, we've been knee deep in eggplant, the watermelons are finally making, got enough pepper for the freezer and plenty of fresh scallions. The first time leeks did well and there's plenty of garlic harvested. The Irish potatoes were killed by a freeze but it looks like we'll get good sweet potatoes next month. The peas didn't do well but it was the first year ever without a single SVB so we had squash for fresh eating as we don;'t can or freeze it.. The squash plants I'm dousing are the third effort this year. So I am thankful for the good and will try to forget the bad. After all, fall and spring are coming! Time to plant more. :D

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Mon Aug 22, 2022 5:57 pm

It’s been a crazy year so far, that’s for sure.
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Mon Aug 22, 2022 11:00 pm

You always have to look at the bright sides! There are always some bad ones, especially with the heat. And that's incredible about the lack of SVB - usually if it's there, you're haunted for life! Back when I was trying everything, I planted some zukes on 9-1, just to see if later helped, and they still got it!

However, this year, I had something strange happen, where two pepper plants weren't what I had labeled - one jalapeño, and one Hanoi Market, both of which are notorious for getting pepper maggots here, unless I cover them. So I figured I'd be pulling and discarding all of the peppers, until August, when I can usually uncover everything. Yet not a single pepper has shown up with a single egg on it, and they would be covered, before I started putting agribon on the prone varieties. At least something good came out of it!
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Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:37 am

On the brighter side of things, there are still some good things going on in the garden.

The experimental Dragon's Claw Millet is starting to head up.

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I cut the first cucuzza squash yesterday and we'll try it with lunch today. In this young stage it's supposed to be a zucchini substitute. This one is 18" long and about an inch or so wide. I'm going to steam the slices to get the pure flavor without seasonings. We'll see. If good they might earn a spot on the big trellis where the snake beans are now.

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The Big Red Ripper field peas escaped deer munch and have netting over them now. I had to add the second level of twine to keep them from flopping into the walkway. They're starting to need that.

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I planted out two more jalapeno plants in former tomato buckets and they too will have a race to frost. The cages can be wrapped in plastic if necessary; mini greenhouses! In the bucket next to them are five Blue Ribbon bush beans, a trial of some from the MMMM. If they do well I'll plant the rest of the seed sample in the ground next spring for saving. @rxkeith , were those and Jumbo from you? I saw you mention them in a post yesterday.

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And finally, the second round of Jing Orange okra plants is doing well. They're all different sizes as you can expect from saved seed. I'll save a pod from that big one later on. There's another Chinese String eggplant (little babies starting already!) on the far end and the sweet potato trellis is to the left. The sweets will be dug maybe mid September.

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It's been real nice not having to water much this week. We got 2.3" yesterday with smaller amounts added earlier in the week. It's got the cukes all funked up but at this point, I'll take the rain. I can buy cukes but nobody is selling rain.

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Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:44 pm

yup, that was me that sent the beans in.
both are doing well for me. i also sent in cantare beans. if you have some of those,
give them a try. you can snack on them raw. productive as all get out, and early.
the only problem with the cantare is there is so darn many of them when they are ON that it take awhile to
pick them, and your back or at least my back gets sore.

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Sat Aug 27, 2022 7:02 am

rxkeith wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:44 pm yup, that was me that sent the beans in.
both are doing well for me. i also sent in cantere beans. if you have some of those,
give them a try. you can snack on them raw. productive as all get out, and early.


keith
I appreciate that! I didn't have space that was isolated from other beans this spring so am trying a small bit this fall. Those Jumbos look like they will fit your "tall" comment on the pack. :) I have a tomato cage around their pot to prevent fall over from wind or other.

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Sun Aug 28, 2022 7:21 am

Yesterday I cut the second Stone Mountain watermelon. The fire ants had built a huge mound all around it almost overnight so I had to douse that with soap water to safely get the melon. It's really sweet but a very seedy variety so will be looking for a different small melon with less seeds for next year. Any suggestions?

Otherwise I got the first eggplant off the new 'Millionaire' plant, the last of the cukes and what's probably the last few pods of okra from the spring planting. I think the nematodes have a hand in the okra plants' early demise.

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Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:59 am

The spring/summer garden is winding down. It's transition time. The spring planted okra never got tall and after a short while of producing they quit and started dropping leaves. I finally pulled them two days ago and it confirmed my suspicions of nematode damage. Roots all knotted up. At least the new plants under netting are recovering from the deer munch.

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I dismantled the 4x7 bed-end trellis that had some snake beans on it as I saw no new (and edible) ones coming on. Off to Mt. Brushmore! It was a fun toy to play with. I've saved seeds but the return of edible fruit for the space occupied means I won't be growing it again.

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The first round of broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower plants is out on the mostly bright but shaded front porch getting used to the heat. They'll be planted Sept 9.

Yesterday I potted up the four new micro tomatoes that should start producing cherries by Halloween. They are House, Hardin's Miniature, Red Robin and Pinocchio Orange. The first two are new to me. The other two are repeats because they do well for me and I like 'em.

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Somehow I tweaked my back yesterday and it wasn't even garden related. This is pretty much a first for me so I probably won't be doing any more garden destruction today. Well, I might pull up the second planting of cucumber plants that got all funked up and remove the big snake beans on the big trellis but the plants will stay a while longer. It's still putting out new ones and I don't need the trellis for anything else. Those will be easy tasks but no forking or digging today. The two brassica beds were prepped earlier in the week so that's out of the way.

I planted more bean seed in the big skips left by the deer munching. The seeds in both beds have popped up so it's off to the races, trying to finish producing before Mr. Frosty visits around mid October.

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Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:44 pm

It's only Sept 9th but as early as a week or so ago we were already starting to see signs of fall. I wonder if it means a colder than usual winter. Acorns are dropping from the oaks and I'm seeing the hint of a few leaves turning here and there in dogwoods, sweet gum, wild grapevines etc. The green foliage in the woods is looking tired after a long hot summer. No longer vibrant but dusty and disheveled, trees seem to be looking for a rest.

The garden is changing with the times. Open spaces are appearing. Gone are the yellow squash and the snake bean vines on the trellis with their strange fruits. Bye bye pole beans and cucumbers. Still standing is the Dragon's Claw millet whose heads are ripening.

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Some tomatoes have been removed and a few pruned up and saved so that the last greenies can ripen. The third tomato pic is Daniel Burson, started from seed June 1. It wouldn't set in the heat but it's now trying to catch up with a lot of little greenies.

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But with the summer garden becoming a memory it's time to turn to the fall garden. Today I forked up the bed where garlic will go come October but gave the volunteer sweet potato a reprieve until then.

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And today the first round of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale plants was set out in beds prepped last week.

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And so it begins all over again. :)

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Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:01 am

We have had so much rain here it looks like a jungle everywhere. About all I can keep going over August and early September are zinnias and a few other flowers. The bush beans were even a struggle. I’ve started more beans outside and cauliflower, etc under lights in the garage, just trying to will summer to back off. Can’t wait for the atmosphere to dry out a bit and a nice breeze to kick up.
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Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:25 am

There's still stuff hanging in there. The Chinese String eggplant is still going good while the Millionaire eggplant is done and gone. Pickles picked ten of them yesterday. More coming!

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The watermelons are finally getting ripe. The long ones are Charleston Grays and the roundies (top right corner and bottom left) are Stone Mountain. I thought there were a total of five but this morning I discovered another small Stone.

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Half of the peppers are gone but a few are still chugging along, especially the Pizza Pepper I planted in a bucket. Thank you,
@Acer rubrum!

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Peppers and bush beans in front, trellised sweet potatoes and Red Ripper field peas in the back are still growing. The newer okra plants are to the left of the sweet potato trellis. First flower yesterday and plenty of buds coming so okra soon.

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Two more hills of sweet potatoes are starting to push up. They're in the 120 day+ window for digging so that might happen this coming week when the rainy front moves out. Last year we dug on Sep 15th and they hadn't pushed up like this.

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And finally, the Jerusalem artichokes I replanted this spring are in full bloom. There must be hundreds of little chokes under all that!

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Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:24 pm

@GoDawgs what do you use the Jerusalem Artichokes for?
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Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:09 pm

So far, not much! I first planted some in Spring '20. They were just popping up when one morning I found them dug up and gone! No idea what did that. So I just wrote them off. Then, about mid summerI was clearing that area of weeks when I noticed something coming up where one of the JA's had been planted and I let it grow just in case. Yep! One had survived. I let it grow through '21 and in February of this year I dug them up, replanted the largest seven and briefly experimented with the rest.

I was amazed how many there were but they were pretty small. Some were roasted and they tasted rather bland. But with spring coming and plants to start, garden to prep etc they were forgotten. Now that they're a year older I imagine some have sized up so I will do some experimenting with them this winter.

I'm a prepper so they were originally planted as "emergency food" but I should have uses for them found ahead of time for when and/or if they are ever needed.

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