The Garden's Almost "In"
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 6:36 am
It's been a pretty busy couple of days. With the exception of several garden "toys", by Friday the garden will officially be "in".
We've had several high temps in the low 90's. Two afternoons ago I put the soil thermometer in one of the tomato buckets and it registered 93. Time to deploy the old sheets to shade the buckets. The next afternoon the temp was at 88, a lot better. I'm still working on a better way to deploy the shade cloth.
Yesterday morning I scouted for potato beetles after Pickles said something was making holes in the leaves.Yep, first ones of the year. I found one adult, some young ones of various sizes and lots of yellow egg clusters. They're gone now! Then the dead potato row got raked level and there are now two prepared holes for planting watermelon. By the time the vines reach the Yukon potato row, the potatoes will have been dug. I hope. At least that's the way it happened last year.
There's a row of Jerusalem artichokes and a bucket of russet potatoes on the right.
Meanwhile the Incredible corn is almost tall enough to remove the squirrel netting. The plugs I set into the skips are looking just fine.
The sweet potatoes have been planted and are getting daily waterings for a week. So far they look ok.
And the first planting of beans is popping up. Those are Contenders on the left, Providers on the right. A bed of Blue Lake Bush will go in Friday.
We've had several high temps in the low 90's. Two afternoons ago I put the soil thermometer in one of the tomato buckets and it registered 93. Time to deploy the old sheets to shade the buckets. The next afternoon the temp was at 88, a lot better. I'm still working on a better way to deploy the shade cloth.
Yesterday morning I scouted for potato beetles after Pickles said something was making holes in the leaves.Yep, first ones of the year. I found one adult, some young ones of various sizes and lots of yellow egg clusters. They're gone now! Then the dead potato row got raked level and there are now two prepared holes for planting watermelon. By the time the vines reach the Yukon potato row, the potatoes will have been dug. I hope. At least that's the way it happened last year.
There's a row of Jerusalem artichokes and a bucket of russet potatoes on the right. Meanwhile the Incredible corn is almost tall enough to remove the squirrel netting. The plugs I set into the skips are looking just fine.
The sweet potatoes have been planted and are getting daily waterings for a week. So far they look ok.
And the first planting of beans is popping up. Those are Contenders on the left, Providers on the right. A bed of Blue Lake Bush will go in Friday.