The beans are beginning to form true leaves.
The watermelons vines are really growing again with new flowers popping up all over. Hoping for a second crop.
I put up trellises for the cucumbers yesterday as they are getting a lot larger. With the warm weather comes summer bug infestations. You have to watch for worms or caterpillars especially on the tips of the vines. The caterpillar is on the leaf. Looks like a little yellow worm.
Still waiting on the butternut squash stem to turn brown as that is what I read shows it is ripe.
I found a small potato left over from my grocery store potato experiment. It was still in the soil I used so I am using it to grow another crop. It has sprouted after a couple weeks.
Going to try some carrots one row at a time to see if they will grow in the summer. I will plant a row about every two weeks and see what happens.
Pineapple are easy to grow. I found one in some yard waste someone was throwing out. All you need is the top. Peel back the bottom leaves until you see the root nubs. Place it in some water to sprout the roots. Or you could just plant it as we have done many times before. Once the roots sprout then plant it. They grow well in pots.
My project is trying to propagate the strawberries from the runners. Everywhere the runners have touched the ground they have put out roots in the bed. They even put out roots in the air so I filled some potting trays with organic soil mix and cut a small plant from the runners to put in each cell. I will keep them in a shaded area until they are well rooted. Hopefully this will work.
Lastly here is a sweet potato sticking out of the soil.
One more thing. Be careful where you stick your hands and fingers outside. Little nasties lurk everywhere. Here is an innocent toad house. But something else took up residence.
A black widow spider.
Nice progress. Last year, when I had cucumbers, I had to fight cucumber beetles. They lay eggs that hatch larva in the soil and attack the roots. No cucumbers this year. I did manage to kill the damn white butterfly that lays eggs on my cabbage today!
ReplyDeleteLookin Good! I just finished up one class, have another one ending in two weeks and then it's a whole month off! Putting together my materials list now. Getting really excited again
ReplyDeleteI plan on doing an update this weekend. Where I harvested cabbage I left the "stump" in the ground and another head is forming.
ReplyDeleteI want to pull up some of the sweet potatoes to see what we have. I pulled up two plants from the one bed that doesn't look too good two days ago. They weren't forming potatoes very well. The roots were chewed on a lot and I found a lot of grubs in the beds. I think they chewed on the roots. We did bake the small ones we got and they were real good but way too small.