2023 Gardening (outside)

[jjannie]

What is, "the sole", you mentioned above? Will spraying the eggs kill them or is smashing them them only way to kill them?

  LOL - should be soil not sole!  Saw no more bugs tonight - not even new hatches. Smashing the eggs  is best not sure just spraying them penetrates the egg very well.  Picked some cherry tomatoes and some Mex Sour Gherkins from the GH. Tomorrow morning I'll be picking more green beans.

OK, that makes sense. I hope this cooler weather gets our GB's producing again, it has been  how few we have been getting. Not effecting our squash and cucumber production.

our Armenian cukes in the GH are being slow to produce. The Mexican Sour Gherkins in the GH are producing like crazy they're so fun grow for snacking. I didn't get the green beans picked yet (life got in the way) so maybe when it's not raining today, I'll get them done. 

Having Radon mitigation install going on here today. Nice to get it taken care of as our testing levels were pretty high. It's just really noisy, but the guys are very polite, and very professional but it'll take about 8 hrs as we needed 2 systems installed. 

Pumpkins are doing well, we've planted them where they'll get a bit more sunshine on them. Stupid magpie birds had pulled out one of my seedlings, nasty birds that they are. 

Some of the early girl tomatoes are blushing but the big Parks Whopper tomatoes are still quite green still.

Sounds like your garden is really kicking into high gear. What makes one location high and one area low for radon gas? We checked ours years ago and the levels were normal. Is this system they are installing at your place covered by insurance?

 its weird, because they say one house can have it and their neighbors will not. So if you've had it tested and you're good you probably don't need to worry about it. Ours was a mid-high level so we figured we just needed to bite the bullet and get it fixed now. 

picked 175 green beans today... and that early girl tomato will be ready to pick in the next couple days.