On 8/7/2017 9:41 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 1:48:17 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2017 12:19 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/7/2017 11:21 AM, Muggles wrote:
On 8/7/2017 10:39 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 8/7/2017 7:45 AM, George Shirley wrote:
Looks like we have been graced with the gardeners blessing of a gentle
rain and a little thunder and lightning.

I don't remember the last time it rained here but it is coming down
pretty good now. Maybe our water and electric bills will go down to
usual again.

Peeked out at the garden and the cantaloupes seem to have gotten
bigger overnight and the tomatoes are blooming again. Haven't looked
out front yet but I would bet that the pear tree is perking up and Our
Lady's flowers are too. Rain in August in Texas is a true blessing for
gardeners.

George

I guess Ma Nature thought I was trying to one-up her . I started
watering a couple of weeks ago and we're back in the pattern of rain
every 3 or 4 days again . Okra and cukes are going great guns , 'maters
have a lot of fruit on them but none ripe yet . Got a few of what I
think are butternut squash on the vines but no pumpkins or acorns yet .
And one lonely little straight neck summer squash ...

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Snag


I love squash, but can't seem to grow it because the squash bugs and
vine borers always seem to win.

We have some sort of tiny wasp here that plant their eggs in squash bugs
and vine borers eggs and the adults too. Doesn't mean the bad bugs don't
wreck havoc but the little wasps sure do a good job.

There's probably 30,000 homes around us but we still have some areas of
wilderness here and there. There's a pine forest behind us about two
hundred feet and our area for catching flood water is just behind our
house.

We have loads of Mocking birds and they peck a few tomatoes but they
also eat a lot of insects. Then there's the house sparrows, and, at
night the barn swallows and other such birds are circling eating
mosquitoes and anything else of bug nature.

It would really be nice if the state wasn't putting in two more traffic
lanes to the already four lanes three blocks from here. I hear traffic
most of the day and night but I thank the drivers for mushing bugs as
they go by. VBG

Just took apart a 20 year old office chair and turned the bottom part
into a roll around plant stand for the boss lady. She did let me buy
another chair too. I guess it's because I keep the household accounts
keep things clean.

Took a peek at the cantaloupes on the vine, seems the rain has helped
them get bigger and more juicier.

George

I've never had any fruit worth eating when I planted cantaloupes.
Maybe, I just haven't figured out the trick to growing them, yet? LOL



We've had a great year for cantaloupe; the first one weighted 10#11oz, with lots more ripening every few days. I think it's all the rain we've been getting lately.


I love fresh cantaloupe!

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Maggie