Beginnings and Endings

I'm very tardy posting this. So much work and no time to post..LOL. Plus, I had family here for a week.

July 20

Back from mini vacation and thankful for friends/garden neighbors who watered and for the mulch that kept things moist during the hot, rainless spell.

An advantage of being part of a community garden. Gardeners helping each other; sharing garden tips and reporting issues that might affect each other. 

Weeds at Wotton St. garden not deterred by heat and lack of water. Need old rugs to suffocate them. 

Butternut’s gotta ways to go. Not even a flower.     

 Ready soon are broccoli, showing small heads, and cabbage definitely forming nice heads. 

·       It’ll be a couple weeks before the first phase of corn ready. Can’t wait.  I hope to get to it before corn borers invade the ears.

·     W.F.Lewis garden holding its own.

·       While peas and potatoes are dying back, hot weather crops are developing fruit.

  Picking young, sweet carrots from small carrot crop. Misshapen. They may have hit a small stone as the roots grew downward.

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·       My big excitement was finding watermelons developing on the vines. The challenge, keep them coming.

July 20.

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  A vole eating up my potatoes is a downer. Gonna set mousetraps.

Rotary Club Park garden doing very well.
Apologies. I'm not able to rotate pictures. They are upright in my file. 

   Tomato and pepper plants thriving. Lots  of fruit

Aphids found my cucumber plant.  That invasion appears to quickly stopped with the application of borax (the laundry booster) like magic.

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·       The first sunflower to bloom. Gotta love sunflowers.