I'm jealous we had 4-5 inches of snow yesterday, still on the ground this morning. Nice gardens!

I like my tomatoes big, but I favor uniformity over size on my potatoes. Here is a half dozen where I got both.

have you ever grown potatoes using the stacked tire method?

I've heard of that but I think its a wives tale. The tops of some of mine are done.

yeah I'm not sure if i want to try it, I have 6 tires laying around but I can get a five pound bag for $2.

And, you can't tell the difference once they are cooked. I just get a kick out of growing tubers. I'm down to four rows. I could give all the vegetables up except home grown tomatoes.

Pulled our first squash this morning, this was the biggest

Two things worth repeating. (1) I always pick my first tomatoes at first blush to keep the varmints from eating them. (2) There is generally something wrong with the first ones to ripen. I threw a few away and ended up with a half dozen in my kitchen window.



It's BLTs, fresh garden salads, turkey/bacon clubs, and tomatoes on my cheeseburgers starting about the middle of the week.

One of these had a leak and I threw it out. Not to worry. I picked another hale dozen this morning.

There were drippings from a tomato horn worm and two chewed tomatoes this morning. I couldn't find the sucker.

Edit: Ta Da. It just took tenacity. This sucker in going in the pond for bluegill feed.

Bill, id bet there's more, there's always more.

Hate them things

The droppings are easy to spot.

Care package for my neighbor.

Is that real mud in them tatters or Fake Mud like on them Jeans?

Nice of you!

Takin good care of Sarah aint ya?

This one is for Kelly. Her husband in a farmer. He brings me sweet corn each year.

Leaf footed genocide is going to take place this year. The egg sack has 100-200 praying mantis. Should hatch in a week or so.

nice predators, are you going to get some lady bugs?

fig looks good

Lady bugs deliver tomorrow.

Counted my tomato blooms on 24 plants. 12 blooms. Bummer. Sprayed them with an epsom and water solution yesterday. We'll see.

I'd hit them with the miracle

I have a few times. I could again.

Like me some preying mantis, just released a box of lady bugs Monday, had to put them the wife's flowers since I had sprayed spinosid that morning in the garden. Been a tough fight so far with cuc beetles, they ate a whole row of squash down to nubs before they got 3" high, Have HB nematodes going in today.

Here's an interesting observation. I gave my neighbor half of my garden. He has this ant bed in his onions. You can see the mound just to the left of the onion on the left. You can also see some of the ants to the left of the mound. The onions are doing fine and there are no weeds within three to four feet each side of the ant bed.



Take a look where the ants stop working.



My side of the garden is doing fine. The bell peppers are ready.



Some of my tomatoes have grown through the top of their cages and are leaning over.

Bill in some of the vinyards here in Texas(and maybe other places) they like to have a fire ant bed at the end of each row of grapes.

My bottom crop tomatoes are in pretty good. I'm now sharing them with several neighbors.

Very nice Bill.