The first week of June brought terrible temps and cloud cover. I really doubted that the corn would catch up, but it has. There is Hope! Last week, once all the corn stalks popped up, I added organic blood meal around each stalk, and this week, I added steer manure. I think we are back on track with growth.
Potatoes, I truly thought would be done by now. However, as you can see, the leaves are still bright green and simply not ready to dig out.
Last weekend, on Father's Day, we had a thunderstorm that knocked over one of the bell pepper plants. We have it staked up now, and I note that there is a nice sized bell pepper on it. We have taken them out of the green house due to the fact that it is getting too hot for them in there and they will blister/burn.
Strawberries are just about done. I keep them contained in a bucket on the deck to keep critters out (mostly).
I planted two cucumber plants, one each per bucket, and they are starting to look like real plants. I put the buckets side by side for pollination purposes when they start flowering. This keeps the slugs out.
Tomato plants are still in the green house for warmth purposes. The earliest one is called July 4th, and it has two cute little tomatoes. Even the cherry sized tomato plant is without tomatoes at this point. So yes, we may actually have some standard-size red tomatoes in July this year! Very Unusual for the Pacific NW!
Have cut the scapes off the garlic and they will be dug up the first week of July.
Have cut the scapes off the garlic and they will be dug up the first week of July.
The Rhode Island Pullets are almost 19 weeks of age. Getting pretty close to laying time for them. We need to replace the flooring in the coop with the nesting box so that they can start practicing with that, or they will end up laying them all over the place, which isn't very good when the rainy weather hits.
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