Cows kept tipping it off so I made another scarecrow in the grapevine. Deer & rabbits keep hitting the outer edge. Thinking about making a thunderdome over the soil...

Other than that it's been quite productive. The tomatoes are ready and should produce from here on out.

mmmm pickles.

My cucumbers failed completely. I'm planting some like the ones Payne planted next year.

I've taken down all my first tomatoes. I bought a late one called Whopper. It produced and still is producing my smallest tomatoes, plus they are cat faced.

These are Hot Hot!!!

I'm getting ready to cook Chinese bell pepper steak tonight. I pulled up a couple of one pound onions, and picked some turning bell peppers. My first yellow squash and zucchini plants went to see Jesus. I planted a couple of hills on the opposite end of the garden and they are doing fine.

I planted some corn for the first time this year. Recently one of the stalks fell over and this afternoon I tried to pull it and remove it from my garden. I was surprised to see a bunch of termites fall out of the base of the stalk where it broke a couple of inches above the ground. I know that I have termites in my garden soil and have not found anything organic or food safe to apply to the soil. I watch my foundation frequently so I am not really worried about them coming to the house. I have applied nematodes several times and feel that it was a colossal waste of money. Those powders are expensive!

So anyone else ever have termites in your corn stalks? I'm wondering if the other dozen or more will make it long enough to fill out the Cobb's.

T

I don't grow corn so take this as just a guess. I'd try some food grade diatomaceous earth or borax in your soil.

I tried corn for a couple of years. The squirrels just wouldn't leave it alone. A framer in my neighborhood gave me some today.

We picked a few green beans today.

nice haul Rabbit

Nice rabbit looks good real good

Salsa verda here I come.

I have a great trout recipe using salsa verda.

Sweet what is the recipe

its with specks. Pan fry fillets in hot butter, serve on a bed of lettuce topped with tomitillo sauce.

Simple enough I'll have to try it

Melons. Lots of them.
Pears are plentiful.
Figs are about to turn.
Squash and cucumber plants died. Weird.
Tomatoes have butt rot. Not happy about that.
Good times.

You can make a great dump cake by stewing up some sugared pears and figs for your bottom layer.

Lemon cucumbers are making finally

They had an article on growing cucumbers in the Houston Chronicle this morning. They mentioned lemon cucumbers.

Also, Sometimes you can get good tomatoes on a second crop after blossom end rot.

Jubilee

I tried that last year and got one watermelon from six hills.

nice haul