2024 gardens

[Dotch]

I'd say our garden here is about 3 weeks to a month behind last year roony. You always start your garden before we do...

[HD]

Can you plant radishes this late?

[mike89]

yes

[roony]

Yes, I might wait a bit.

[Dotch]

Yes, and I agree with roony especially when it comes to spring type radishes such as white globe, scarlet globe, cherry belle, etc. For the winter radishes such as red meat or watermelon radishes, let 'er buck. I'd like to get some in ahead of the forecast rain, along with some snap peas, lettuce & mesclun mix, etc. The bunny I shot last nite looked pretty skinny so they must need more to eat. 

[HD]

I was just wondering cuz I pulled my onions 🧅 and now I have some free real estate.

And since I pulled up the 🧅, I'm not impressed.... A little on the small side for what I expected. I don't think I'll grow those next year.

[mike89]

new mini onions!!   

Glenn asked me to say that by the way...   

[HD]

Another 5 quarts done 👍

[roony]

I picked 3 cukes off my Cross Country plant today. I'm calling it a win.

[Dotch]

Finished up planting 5 14' rows of snap peas (1 sugar snap, 2 Sugar Daddy, 2 Super Snappy) & 3 rows of watermelon radishes. Then I went purslane hunting in the rest of the garden with the hoe. Time for a water break & wait for it to cool down before thinking about seeding any more. Damn straight it's a win, roony. I ate a string bean while I was weeding. There's a zucchini set on one plant. I see 3 tomatoes I should bring in before something happens to them. Wasn't so sure we'd get anything the way things started out.   

[Dotch]

One corner of the garden from Saturday. Like I tell people it looks pretty good for the end of June. End of July? Not so much. Forgot Poppy photo bombed that pic. 3 maters tonite, 2 Jet Star & a Super Fantastic. Break out the cottage cheese! 

[LPS]

Our tomatoes only have 3 or 4 on each plant.  Hardly any branches on them too. ???

[glenn57]

LPS.....i got some like that too. its frustrating. i'm starting to think i got them planted to close to my black walnut tree???

but i have some plants that look like jungle plants and 4 ft away and those plants look like there dying!!!!!

[roony]

Your greenie beanies look good Dotch!

[KEN W]

My tomato plants are loaded with fruit. No ripe ones yet.

[Dotch]

Your greenie beanies look good Dotch!

They seem to like that spot. Was surprised the bunnies didn't find them. Too busy eating the sunflowers off I guess. Getting to be like glenn though. I watered the small garden the other nite & got a small amount of rain. I'll water the big garden tonite. Should get more rain that way...

[KEN W]

Bunnies here have had a second litter. Little ones running around again. 3 of them went on a vacation on Sunday.

[Leech~~]

Bunnies here have had a second litter. Little ones running around again. Shot 3 of them on Sunday.

Since this is a public forum and the season is not open.  We may want to use terms like.  Sent 3 on a long vacation or something like that!   

[glenn57]

I have a couple  mangy looking bunnies around here. They haven't messed with the garden even after I took the fence down.

Haven't seen youngins either. 

[Dotch]

Bunnies here have had a second litter. Little ones running around again. Shot 3 of them on Sunday.

Since this is a public forum and the season is not open.  We may want to use terms like.  Sent 3 on a long vacation or something like that!   

Actually think we're OK here, at least out in the land of rocks and cows...

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/livingwith_wildlife/rabbits/index.html#:~:text=Minnesota%20law%20allows%20landowners%20or,in%20a%20new%20browser%20tab.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/livingwith_wildlife/taking.html#:~:text=Squirrels%2C%20rabbits%20and%20hares%20can%20be%20taken,to%20be%20reported%20to%20a%20Conservation%20Officer.

[Steve-o]

Yep... those danged squirrels do serious damage to my bird food inventory. 

[roony]

Leech, it's ok to trap mice too.
I got a bat that was terrorizing my wife last night. It went to the promised land.

[roony]

I will dispatch pine squirrels on sight, fox squirrels get a pass.

[KEN W]

Ok.....will you modify to what I changed in the quote.

Going to start spraying repellent out again.

[Dotch]

Normally I leave the fox squirrels alone too. However, this group seems to be suffering from inbreeding depression. They've been eating the grape jelly & that irritates me. Never done that before here. The other thing this bunch does is to gnaw off ash and silver maple sticks about 12" - 18" long with the leaves still on them. Then they try to fashion a nest out of them. About half of the sticks don't stay in the tree so they litter the backyard with them. The twigs need to be picked up before mowing or they can make a nice hole in the vinyl siding if you're not careful. With 24 hp on a 48" deck, that zero turn flings stuff a long way. The thing that makes me think they're retarded is the fact that ash & silver maple leaves last about like kleenex before decomposing. The brighter squirrels use oak leaves that are like leather & last until spring.     

[KEN W]

Onions hanging till October

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[KEN W]

Melon Patch......the largest there is OrangeGlo oblong.
Orange, Yellow, and Red watermelons.

Tomato plant.....Saucey Paste tomato...also have....Celebrity, Siletz, Manitoba, and Sheyenne.

Also there are Cantalope, Galia, and Santa Claus Melons.


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[Leech~~]

Leech, it's ok to trap mice too.
I got a bat that was terrorizing my wife last night. It went to the promised land.

What's your point, did I say you couldn't. 

[Outdoors Junkie]

I built another raised garden box over the weekend and my wife planted three more rows of green beans for a fall harvest. We’ve been getting a lot of green beans the past 2-3 weeks but she wants more. Our raspberries are winding down. The zucchini are producing a lot. Our tomatoes are still green. My potato plants are growing like crazy. Our cucumbers are flowering and our pumpkins are taking off finally.

[glenn57]

Pulled my onions today also. I'm happy with their size!

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