Re: Fourth Year SFG in Canada

**trolleydriver** 7/15/2018, 2:09 pm

Today I found two squash bugs on my cucumber plants. They were close to each other so I picked them off with one piece of duct tape and then squished them.

**trolleydriver** 7/16/2018, 12:22 pm

View of the SFG without comments.

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**trolleydriver** 7/16/2018, 12:32 pm

More views without comment. We are under another heat watch with current conditions being 31C/88F, 50% humidity, feels like 38C/101F.
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**sanderson** 7/17/2018, 3:17 am

**trolleydriver** 7/17/2018, 8:32 am

Still finding squash bug eggs. Also destroyed two more adults this morning. It's a never ending battle.

On the positive side I continue to find new Canada Crookneck Squash and the pollinators are out in numbers. I just noticed that there looks to be an unwanted visitor in the flower along with the bees.
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**trolleydriver** 7/17/2018, 9:33 am

First cucumber of the year. I used some of it in a green smoothie.
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**sanderson** 7/17/2018, 5:35 pm

I'm surprised it made it into the house. I can just picture you hiding around the side of the house, quietly munching down that cucumber. hiddenID

**trolleydriver** 7/17/2018, 7:44 pm

sanderson wrote:I'm surprised it made it into the house. I can just picture you hiding around the side of the house, quietly munching down that cucumber.

Actually I don't need to hide. Mrs TD is not a big fan of cukes and a few other things I grow.

**Scorpio Rising** 7/17/2018, 8:05 pm

trolleydriver wrote:First cucumber of the year. I used some of it in a green smoothie.

As sanderson said: “The first of anything of th year is amazing”! Truth! I had my first few cukes just a few days ago, like biting into water with a cool twist!

**Turan** 7/18/2018, 12:01 am

It looks like your garden is handling the heat and those early squash marauders well. It is lovely.

**trolleydriver** 7/18/2018, 3:34 pm

Thanks folks for the kind comments.

I tried spraying a couple of squash bugs with Dawn/water and it killed them. They were in an awkward location so the spray made it easier to get them.

Just brought in a Compari Tomato and two Yellow Plum Tomatoes. I devoured one of the yellow Tom's after the photo was taken. Yum.
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**trolleydriver** 7/18/2018, 5:41 pm

And now delicious yellow wax beans.
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**sanderson** 7/19/2018, 2:09 am

What do you do with the yellow wax beans?

**trolleydriver** 7/19/2018, 7:25 am

sanderson wrote:What do you do with the yellow wax beans?

Mrs TD preboiled them in water until they were tender. She then sautéd them in butter. They were delicious.

**trolleydriver** 7/19/2018, 1:01 pm

Little harvest of black vernissage, yellow plum and bonny best toms.
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**sanderson** 7/19/2018, 1:44 pm

**Turan** 7/23/2018, 2:20 pm

I love the color spectrum.

CapeCoddess 7/24/2018, 5:03 pm

Beautiful, TD! You garden is crankin'!

I don't have any maters or squashes yet. But I have cukes and beets, and still with lettuce...lots and lots of lettuce...
Shocked

CapeCoddess 7/26/2018, 1:01 pm

Happy Birthday, TD!!

**trolleydriver** 7/27/2018, 3:47 pm

Hi CC. Where have you been hiding? I'm going to be in your birth city tomorrow.

CapeCoddess 7/30/2018, 12:47 pm

trolleydriver wrote:Hi CC. Where have you been hiding? I'm going to be in your birth city tomorrow.

Are you heading there for fun, or for estate business?

I don't seem to post here as often as I used to. I do stop by and read more than post...and sometimes just HAVE to jump in. But my gardening skills seem to be waning lately...
thinking

**trolleydriver** 7/30/2018, 7:13 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:
trolleydriver wrote:Hi CC. Where have you been hiding? I'm going to be in your birth city tomorrow.
Are you heading there for fun, or for estate business?

I don't seem to post here as often as I used to. I do stop by and read more than post...and sometimes just HAVE to jump in. But my gardening skills seem to be waning lately...

I was there to do some preaching at a church we attended when we lived there.

Now come on CC ... pick it up, get going with that gardening.

**trolleydriver** 7/30/2018, 7:24 pm

Been away for ten and a half days. The garden has become a jungle. While we were away there was a lot of rain including a damaging rainfall on July 23rd that set a new record for rain for July 23rd in Ottawa. Here are photos of the SFG and other veggie gardens without comments.

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**sanderson** 7/31/2018, 2:23 am

Wow!! You should go out of town more often! I am, like, sooo jealous of your Canadian butternut.

**trolleydriver** 7/31/2018, 10:00 am

This morning was garlic harvest in my SFG. Planted forty cloves last October and have been rewarded with forty bulbs. Yum.

Ten squares available now to plant something else.

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