Re: New England June 2014

CapeCoddess 6/16/2014, 12:47 pm

NHGardener wrote:Did I mention my squash plant has 2 baby squashes?

What?!?

Shoot, mine are still seedlings. I saw a hummingbird bee yesterday and it scared me. For a minute I thought it was the SVB moth. But it gave me the kick in the pants I needed to put the tulle over them SOON. What kind of squash is it that's growing?

And why don't you use DE for slugs? Does it bother the bees?

Our pine pollen is just about over. Yea! The stuff is nasty. We're mostly dealing with the invisible pollens like grass and stuff now.

CC

**camprn** 6/16/2014, 12:58 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:
NHGardener wrote:Did I mention my squash plant has 2 baby squashes?
What?!? Shoot, mine are still seedlings. I saw a hummingbird bee yesterday and it scared me. For a minute I thought it was the SVB moth. But it gave me the kick in the pants I needed to put the tulle over them SOON. What kind of squash is it that's growing?

And why don't you use DE for slugs? Does it bother the bees?

Our pine pollen is just about over. Yea! The stuff is nasty. We're mostly dealing with the invisible pollens like grass and stuff now.

CC

I have not planted my squash yet as I'm hoping to avoid the SVB. The pine pollen was awful yesterday. blargh!

NHGardener 6/16/2014, 1:56 pm

I never even heard of pine pollen till today.

Yup, those are yellow squash. For one thing, it's a new raised row bed and has a layer of chicken manure in it. I believe squashes love the compost pile, so that probably helps.

Yup, probably about time for row cover, but CC, what are you going to do about blossoms?

camprn, let us know how your experiment goes w/planting late. There's also that aluminum foil wrap I've seen on youtube.

And yup, I believe DE is bad for bees, since it kills small bugs. That's what I heard anyway.

I know I have to take pictures or you won't believe me. Smile

Hot out there! I was assembling bee boxes in the sun and almost had heat stroke.

mollyhespra 6/16/2014, 2:16 pm

Wow, you're lucky not to have many pines in your 'hood, NHG. EVERYTHING is covered in yellow pollen "dust" now up my way. I woke up with a seriously stuffy head this AM even though I took some Benadryl last night. We need a good rain now to wash it all away, but it looks like dry weather for a while. Bleh.

**sanderson** 6/16/2014, 2:43 pm

Pine pollen allergy. Yuck. Plus you have to wash the windshields.

**AtlantaMarie** 6/16/2014, 3:23 pm

Don't know about your pine pollen there, but here it's huge clouds of it when they bloom. You can crest a hill and see it for 100's of feet in the air literally coming in a cloud.

We seem to be done with it. Sorry it's your turn...!

NHGardener 6/16/2014, 3:38 pm

Okay! Found this cheap camera/camcorder thing that was an old Christmas present never opened for the kids. It'll do!
2 baby squashes:
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3/4 of this page is the new sheet mulched beds, with woodchip walkways, mostly vines are on the new beds. Some weeds in the back right and the hugel pile with asparagus is back left:
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4x8 potato bed:
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Sea of strawberry plants, you can't decipher what's what but take my word for it:
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4x8 garlic bed:
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4x8 potato onion bed:
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Single row pole bean bed with peas behind, as a representative:
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CapeCoddess 6/16/2014, 3:46 pm

Wow girl...you plant BIG! Looks like those strawberries have taken over da 'hood.

Great photos! I'm now a believer of the summer squash. Did you start with seed?

NHGardener 6/16/2014, 3:47 pm

But wait, there's more! Smile

Tomato row in back, lettuce row in front:
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Another tomato row in back, spinach in front, with renegade strawberry plants trying to take over the world:
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Potato piles along the fence just to see how they do:
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Pepper bed, couple eggplants, and the back long row is dried beans which are just sprouting but you can't see them:
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Macro view, complete with garden gnome:
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Mount Log Woodchips Pile:
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NHGardener 6/16/2014, 3:47 pm

Phew! This is not for the faint of heart.

CC, I started the vines indoors. I also seeded them in the rows, but they never appeared, not a single one of them, and I planted squash, zucchini, butternut squash, pumpkin, watermelon, and cucumber. I had to do them all indoors. Some of them twice.

P.S. My gardens are never, ever pretty. I don't know why. Beauty to me is just getting a vegetable to grow. Smile

**sanderson** 6/16/2014, 4:32 pm

Awesome!

CapeCoddess 6/16/2014, 4:36 pm

OMG...so much space, NHG! Looks like you have a farm there. I think it looks wonderful! I now have space and log envy. Do you chip those logs yourself?

NHGardener 6/16/2014, 5:08 pm

I was wracking my brain trying to come up with free woodchip sources. 3 times I asked Asplundh to drop chips off when they were doing work nearby last summer, but I never got any chips. One day this spring I realized that the pile of (pine) logs that has been sitting there ever since we moved in 7 yrs. ago and probably years before that is in various stages of decomposition. So I put on my gloves and just rip apart the decomposing spots. It's relaxing in an OCD kind of way. Smile

mollyhespra 6/16/2014, 10:46 pm

WOWZA! That's one HUGE garden! Well done, you! cheers

**AtlantaMarie** 6/17/2014, 8:27 am

What a wonderful amount of space! It looks great!

mollyhespra 6/18/2014, 8:36 am

First harvest of snow peas! DH ate them before I thought of taking a picture, but we got a good handful with many more in various stages of immaturity.

CapeCoddess 6/18/2014, 11:07 am

I'm right behind ya on the peas. Been eating small ones already.

What on earth is THIS little alien? Found them on my tomato & ground cherry leaves.
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Creep or keep?
CC

mollyhespra 6/18/2014, 11:22 am

Clavate Tortoise Beetle

I've found them in very limited numbers on my eggplants in the past. Look for their eggs on the underside of leaves. I think they like toms, eggplants & that kind of thing, so tomatillos & ground cherries would probably be in their diet, too. Cute little things, they remind me of teddy bears.

**camprn** 6/18/2014, 12:27 pm

THese critters just showed up in my garden about 5 days ago. They make a tell tale straight line (mostly) holes in leaves. I squish em when I find em, otherwise they turn the foliage into lace. BUT, they are cool beetles.

CapeCoddess 6/18/2014, 3:03 pm

I emailed the Extension Office before getting Molly's answer. Just got this:

The pictures are of a Tortoise Beetle. They generally do minimal damage and only have
one generation a year (so they won't keep recurring during the season). You can pick
them off and put them in a jar of soapy water to kill them or live with the minimal
damage they do.

Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod

NHGardener 6/18/2014, 7:30 pm

Wow. Minimal damage? I found several on my potato plant leaves last evening and killed them. Maybe I'll just let them be.

Still on slug duty every evening BUT a friend called today and her chick shipment is coming with 3 duckling package warmers, and did I want the ducklings. Shocked

How can you say no to slug warriors? I promised the husband they'd be gone by fall and that he wouldn't have to do one thing for them. Anyway, I'll believe it when they show up on my doorstep. Smile

lyndeeloo 6/19/2014, 8:23 am

NHGARDENER, your gardens are really wonderful! So glad you shared the photos. Very jealous of the space you have to work with! I think they are very beautiful!

Apparently I'm growing Starberries Very Happy

NHGardener 6/19/2014, 8:43 am

Strawberry art! I'd put that on eBay and sell it. Laughing

Actually, I don't think my garden is that big, it may look bigger in the photos because you can't see the fence too well and there's grass behind it, which is a tad overgrown at the moment. But when the husband fenced it in a year or so ago, I did double the size of the original for growing room, and also to save on mowing labor. If it were up to me, the whole yard would be edibles and no mowing. Smile

lyndeeloo 6/19/2014, 9:41 am

NHGardener wrote:If it were up to me, the whole yard would be edibles and no mowing.

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quiltbea 6/19/2014, 10:46 am

NHGardener.....I hope you get the ducklings. That would be great for slug hunting.

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