(08-22-2023, 03:05 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: Wow Curt I can't believe you count your beans.... I can't even count fish I catch... I was going to post some pictures but since I have so many weeds didn't want to embarrass myself too bad... Plus I watered last night and between the water and wind everything tipped over this morning... I was hoping for the big corn crop this weekend, however the coons got in the patch night before last and ruined about 25% of the patch.. Put up the electric fence last night but I can't tell if it's working and I'm too chicken to touch it after the last time I did that... Anyone want to volunteer to try it out? Not sure if water running over night or the fence, but the coons didn't do further damage last night... I love August for everything being on in the garden at the same time, we have a pretty good selection of items for the farmers market now, if I had more time to harvest this week, we'd have a great variety, but I'm still trying to get the sides on the greenhouse so may not get a full harvest ready for the market again this week... Fun times, and congrats on the increasing harvest... Later J
Jeff - we always used long blade of grass laid on elec fencing to be sure it was still working properly. You'll get a little tingle but not shocked if it is working.
Yeah we're not having fun so we area hoping once we eradicate them after harvesting that next year, they will not be too bad. Must have done in over 50 of them yesterday with the soapy water sure beats smashing them like Jeff will do. Luckily they didn't get into pumpkin area yet. they are about a whole yard away from the zucchini that has them bad. The yellow squash doesn't even have them yet and its only 4ft away. Only going to have one pumpkin which is
. We'd pollinate if there were ever any male and female flowers at the same time. Oh well. Won't say where we got those zucchini plants but they were from a nursery so you'd think maybe they came in that dirt? all our plants have mixture of the same growing medium in them, but that zucchini is in poor shape.