Seems the garden is petering out here already.
Except for 1 item.
Can you guess what that is?.....
4 more cukes the other night and I have 3 Hubs picked last night sitting on the patio table outside. Still on the vine I saw 6 more this morning, not counting the ones we missed along the way that have bloated up and gone bad.
And something is eating my tomatoes now.....not something bug-like, but something much larger. It's not the rabbits since these tomatoes are a good 3 foot off the ground(think higher than the top rung of a tomato cage). We've either got a deer in the yard at night or birds eating them. There is a large population of bats around so I am thinking maybe some bats?
Whatever it is, it is not good.
Due to some creaky old age knee issues I have, I have not been able to bend over to weed the beds. This is what happens to a garden when you can't convince anybody else in the family to weed anything....even for money......
And this is AFTER I tried pulling weeds yesterday and about became a lawn ornament due to not being able to get back up.
bleh.
And I must tell you that my "Left Brained Husband" has struck again.
He did the planting this Spring for me.
He even made a nice little diagram of "what got planted where" for me.
Wasn't that nice of him?
Here's that diagram....
The bottom bed notes that it was planted with "Greens, Greens, Tomatoes" on the back row and "Greens, Radishes, Tomatoes" on the front row.
I asked him what he meant by "Greens".
He had no clue.
Well fast forward 6 weeks and Radishes came up where noted. Since the Tomatoes where put in as seedlings, I knew those were correct according to the diagram. Greens must have meant salad greens since I had an empty Mesculun Mix seed packet, and that is what came up between the Radishes and the Tomatoes in the front, and again, over on the left in the front row. So we had mystery plants in the other 2 "Greens" areas, since they were definitely not "Greens" at this point, beyond being Green in color.
Fast forward another few weeks and these appeared where "Greens" were planted....
Hubs had planted a type of melon(outside like a watermelon/round and inside like a cantaloupe) in the side bed, not the back bed where these were growing. Silly me assumed these were those melons.
Then the melons changed....
Yes, they are Pie Pumpkins!lol
Well I now assume that these are Pie Pumpkins because I found an empty seed packet that held pie pumpkin seeds at one time.
And the way the vines are dying off this week, they should be ready to pick very soon.
Now over where he actually noted that he had planted pumpkins we have this....
Actual Pumpkins and a bumper crop of weeds.
I misspoke when I said all the pumpkin vines were dying off, Evidently 2 vines didn't get that memo....
This vine and another one just to the right of the photo are taking over the deck.
I think the pumpkin vines are envious of the cucumber vines.
We have full blown plant gang activity in my yard.
Jets and Sharks.
Bloods and Crips.
They got nuthin' on Cukes and Gourds.
I'm just glad neither is armed with weaponry.
Sluggy
Except for 1 item.
Can you guess what that is?.....
4 more cukes the other night and I have 3 Hubs picked last night sitting on the patio table outside. Still on the vine I saw 6 more this morning, not counting the ones we missed along the way that have bloated up and gone bad.
And something is eating my tomatoes now.....not something bug-like, but something much larger. It's not the rabbits since these tomatoes are a good 3 foot off the ground(think higher than the top rung of a tomato cage). We've either got a deer in the yard at night or birds eating them. There is a large population of bats around so I am thinking maybe some bats?
Whatever it is, it is not good.
Due to some creaky old age knee issues I have, I have not been able to bend over to weed the beds. This is what happens to a garden when you can't convince anybody else in the family to weed anything....even for money......
bleh.
And I must tell you that my "Left Brained Husband" has struck again.
He did the planting this Spring for me.
He even made a nice little diagram of "what got planted where" for me.
Wasn't that nice of him?
Here's that diagram....
I asked him what he meant by "Greens".
He had no clue.
Well fast forward 6 weeks and Radishes came up where noted. Since the Tomatoes where put in as seedlings, I knew those were correct according to the diagram. Greens must have meant salad greens since I had an empty Mesculun Mix seed packet, and that is what came up between the Radishes and the Tomatoes in the front, and again, over on the left in the front row. So we had mystery plants in the other 2 "Greens" areas, since they were definitely not "Greens" at this point, beyond being Green in color.
Fast forward another few weeks and these appeared where "Greens" were planted....
Then the melons changed....
Yes, they are Pie Pumpkins!lol
Well I now assume that these are Pie Pumpkins because I found an empty seed packet that held pie pumpkin seeds at one time.
And the way the vines are dying off this week, they should be ready to pick very soon.
Now over where he actually noted that he had planted pumpkins we have this....
I misspoke when I said all the pumpkin vines were dying off, Evidently 2 vines didn't get that memo....
I think the pumpkin vines are envious of the cucumber vines.
We have full blown plant gang activity in my yard.
Jets and Sharks.
Bloods and Crips.
They got nuthin' on Cukes and Gourds.
I'm just glad neither is armed with weaponry.
Sluggy
