We’ve had two recent problems: powdery mildew on the one remaining squash vine, and what we think is a white-fly infection on the tomato plants. The powdery mildew does not seem to have slowed the squash vine down, even though I thought for sure it was a goner. No, the squash vine has somewhat ambitiously [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cucumbers’
17 Sep
Beautiful Strawberry, alien cucumbers, and powdery mildew
We have harvested exactly one strawberry this year. We’ve seen precious few strawberry flowers (I can count on one hand how many strawberry blooms we had) and so far only one of them has made it into berryhood. Why? I don’t know. I’ve heard that often strawberries will spend the first year sending out runners [...]
8 Sep
Lessons learned so far this year
Well, I’m back from India to find that my garden is in pretty decent shape. There’s an abundance of tomatoes, some of which I’ve frozen. The basil is also very healthy, and the carrot patch has exploded! It’s all very exciting and tasty. I made pesto yesterday, and Matthew made a delicious tomato sauce with [...]
10 Jun
Planting before I leave the continent
Today (6/10) I planted some more broccoli, some edamame, some more cucumbers, and a little patch of basil. I’m hoping that by planting late I’ll get a fall crop of at least some of that stuff. I couldn’t find any more pepper plants at the garden store, so I planted the three that Jessica brought [...]
27 May
Some planting dates to note
Corn:
planted around 5/21
4 rows
5 pairs of seeds in each row
Peas:
planted around 5/21
three double rows
still need to make trellis for peas to climb
Tomatoes:
planted out 8 seedlings around 5/21
planted all plants at least 3′ away from each other
varieties include brandywine and purple heirloom
Broccoli:
planted 4 seeds around 5/21; will plant remainder around 6/12
area is in shadiest part of [...]
