GardenBanter.co.uk - The harvest begins ...

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:26:12 -0500, Terry Coombs
wrote:

crossposted ...

* The garden is beginning to produce stuff now , just picked a couple
of yaller squarshes , cucumbers are producing nicely , as are all 3
varieties of beans/field peas . Tomato plants are all over the top of
the (five feet tall) cages with the exception of the Roma's . But IIRC
they never did get as big as the slicing varieties . No ripe tomatoes
yet , but all the plants are loaded , plus lots and lots of blossoms too
. Turns out that one of my Serrano pepper plants is a jalapeno ... not
sure how that happened , those seeds were clearly marked . That's OK
though , I was wishing for some jalapenos for salsa . I also found a
weakness in the Japanese beetles , they like morning sex ... and when
they're coupled it slows them down enough to squash them before they get
away .
I think this year I'll harvest enough produce to make it seem
worthwhile ... the wife has been kinda disappointed with the little I've
been getting for all the work involved . I don't think she's going to
feel that way this year ...

Why can't you refer to her as MY wife? Refering to her as THE wife
puts her on the same level as THE dog.... and perhaps not, I'll bet
you say MY dog.
Anyway my garden is finally picking up, finally some rain and a heat
wave is expected. I hope there's enough growing season for the
melons; cantaloupe/watermelon. My wife does most of the vegetable
gardening and I do most all other gardening; flowers, bulbs, trees.
mowing, and brush clearing which is substantial.
Some 7 years ago a disease has killed all the yellow pine around here.
I have a stand of about 100 large yellow pine alongside my back field
that have begun to fall. I don't care about those that fall into the
woods but those that fall into the open field need to be removed so I
can keep that area mowed. I've been sawing some up as firewood as I
can but it's tricky as I don't need a tree to fall on me. More will
fall over winter and soon there won't be any ready to fall where I
need to work. Those trees and other conifers were planted by the last
owner, probably more than fifty years ago. It's a shame they are all
dead but we can't see them from our house, we'll just need to be
patient. I invited my next door neighbor to help himself to the
firewood so he's been removing some too. Meanwhile with the yellow
pine no longer producing shade other saplings are growing, mostly ash
and shagbark hickory... critters are bringing seeds from the other
side of the field, I see squirrels planting the seeds.