re: The 2021 Garden Thread

I built a little semi-enclosed area for mine and planted around them.







I have sunflowers on one side, strawberries on the other, and blackberries in the front.

picked a dozen squash last night. daughter has been stealing the sungold tomatoes for a couple of weeks now.

I went 2 weeks without pruning my tomatoes and holy crap did they grow since then. Took me an hour to prune 12 plants. Btw, anyone ever grow Opalka Tomatoes? it's the only variety not doing well.

no flowers and looks lifeless. It's right next to my other paste tomatoes (Romas and San Marzano) which are thriving.

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daughter has been stealing the sungold tomatoes for a couple of weeks now.

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Those things are like crack. Half the ones I pick don’t make it to house.

Benjamin and squirrelanator not doing enough work. Putting netting around my tomatoes today.

My parent’s tomato plant got something, I’m assuming the plant had it already when bought from nursery (Costco).

What is it? I told them to spray daily with hydrogen peroxide.

I don’t think it’s end rot, since the leaves and stems are showing problems. Yea it looks pretty done, but told dad to try peroxide first maybe.

I’ve been rotating Mancozeb, Daconil and copper fungicide every 7 days since the week long rain storm here in BR. Raised bed plants doing fine, my onions and a few tomato varieties in ground went to shite pretty quick. Still getting some yellowing of some leaves on certain plants.

Picked my first batch of beans and blackberries yesterday, and most of the potatoes. Pretty sure my red, purple, and marconi peppers are goners. They took a big hit after all that rain a few weeks ago and looked terrible. Just started to recover and here we are with another solid week of rain. I still have one yellow and red bell plant doing alright. Cajun belles and keystone giants are doing great. I guess planting some cushion worked out

Pole beans are just starting to flower. Squash is blowing up, zucchini turned out to be yellow, sweet potatoes are getting vigorous, have a few eggplants setting, and carrots and corn are growing. Creole tomatoes are doing awesome. Big beefs are doing well, and San Marzano's are just starting to fruit. I'll try to get some pictures over the weekend after all this rain moves out.

I just pulled two Fred’s tie dye tomatoes. They were slowly turning red but I didn’t want them to crack with all the rain. We’ve been getting hammered by rain on the north shore for what feels like two weeks.