2024 08 18 - Late summer planting

This sunflower is too close to the fence and the top gets eaten off. This was the only sunflower in this area that has grown. There was room for about a dozen sunflowers in the corner of my corn garden. I have replanted the other sunflowers four times now and still nothing.

In other parts of this garden I planted sunflowers between the stalks of corn and a few of them grew. I have one that is about eight feet tall and is finally putting on a flower. My guess is about one third of the ones within the corn rows lived.

The deer also like corn. The day after I moved my fence from around the strawberries and put it around the corn, I found this. The corn was pulled out of the ground and dropped, not eaten. It doesn't show on this picture, but there were lots of deer tracks inside the fence.

This week I finished up all of the corn in the good garden. Up until the last couple of days there had only been two bad ears of corn. But when I just picked everything, the 2nd and 3rd ears off stalks, small ears, just to be done with it.

And I started picking from the bad garden, where the corn is three feet high. A couple of the ears were good, the others were still had small kernels. Another couple of days and there should be a few more ears ready.

I only realized I had one watermelon growing a few days ago, so I started to weed it. Then realized that if I could find it, so would something else be able to find it. I was right. I came out a couple of days ago and the vine was dead. Likely chewed off. So we'll see if this is editable or not.

And I did some late summer planting. I have been re-planting sunflowers where I had had corn in the good garden. Today I planted beans between the stalks of corn in the bad garden. Not planning on them producing anything, they are just supposed to be good for the soil. Did the garden.

Then I replanted all the pea area in the other garden. There were still a few vines producing peas but we hadn't kept up on them and they were a few days past prime. They say 70 days to mature. That will be pushing it. That will mean we need to make it to the end of October without a frost. Should have re-planted as soon as the first crop was done producing.

... and we got another 1-1/2 of rain while we were gone through Saturday AM so the ground is staying wet.