2024 07 28 - home again

I broke my hand cultivator (s.) The one on the right I have been using for years. I have a stump in the yard that is decaying and I took a whack at it with that cultivator and it sank in. The stump was mush there. So I swung and and it broke. :(

I really liked that one because I had started making holes for planting by pushing the one end in the ground up to the green. Then I'd drop in the seed and use the other end to cover the hole.

So I started using the red one. Less than a day using it and the handle fell off. Still using it but sometimes I have to put my fingers down by the tines.

Finally getting a couple of dozen blue berries. By what flowers and small berries we had we should have dozens of bowls of berries. These are all from one bush, one out of 14. It seems that whatever had been eating them has moved on. My neighbor has also found a few remaining berries since then.

The potato plats in both gardens have now turned yellow. If I was a full time gardener, I would try to get the right fertilizer on them, but it is close enough to the end of the season I will just let them go. I do need to find different fertilizer to use because of my soil test. I do plan on soil testing the other garden before fall.

Peas - my wife is done eating them so they are quickly getting too big. Same with the beans, she had one meal and that was enough. The rest are just going in the compost. I mostly planted them to help the soil where it was fenced.

The tomatoes we are picking about every other day. We also pick peppers and zucchini as they become ready. Right now we are back to only flowers on our zucchini.

Corn - I'm having one or two meals a day of corn. Usually about a half dozen ears per meal. I started when the corn was still small because I knew in a few days i would have more than I could eat. My wife will have one ear some days, the others in the house are not interested. Like usual, my corn is going to be ready when we are gone, but that is why I plant so much of it. So that some is ready when we are here.

The corn in my west garden is close to when it should have been ready. The first planting should have been ready 7/27 and I had actually picked some on 7/21. Very small but edible. Better than the 'full ears' that I got from the corn stand a week ago.

I wasn't real good on noting what I planted when so some of it is a guess. Down side is the east garden where those first plantings should have been ready by now and I had to replant them and those replants are only getting three feet high.