Aug. 17, 2009 - How does your garden grow?
Anyone put in a garden this year?
Our strawberry plants doubled this year and had a good yield. Unfortunately, the slugs found many of the berries before we did. Next year, I will set out shallow containers with beer in them. My mom always used that to keep down the slugs in her garden, though I'm not clear whether the slugs got drunk, got drowned or both.
Tomatoes haven't done well this year...too cold, I think. Puny plants and just starting to bear fruit.
Cukes have gone wild over the past week and I am wondering how to use four large cukes in feeding six folks dinner tonight.
Most of our apples got either a fungus or a worm, which happened last year too. I did get the proper spray from a local nursery to combat this for next year. We might save a few this season too. The pears, though, seem unaffected and we are just beginning to come into the ripe season for them.
Threw some old seeds at the side of the house and squash actually grew. We picked our first of that yesterday.
Our potato plants don't look very large, so we'll see what happens with the tubers. We won't pull those up til late September or whenever the plants die back for fall.
What's up in your yard?
Blessings, Holly
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Aug. 17, 2009 - Garden thoughts
Posted by Yer Sis, Amy
Cukes make a good sandwich alternative to lettuce. Stays crispy and doesn't slide out of the bread as much.
What do your cukes leaves and flowers look like? We are growing something in the compost pot that we toss our scraps in. The vines are quitre long and twiny, the flowers small and yellow, and a couple of bulbous green fruits are starting. They could be watermelon or cantaloupe, but jim is hoping on cukes!
