Now what

Cool weather bring on white mold and rot in green beans and cabbage. Remove rot and space the plants so there is good air circulation.
Powdery mildew all over pumpkins and cucumbers.
Aphids attacking cole crops.

Let it sunshine

We have week of good sunshine.
Harvest crops: fall raspberries, blackberries; cole crops doing well. broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts all dong well; potatoes; beets; peas and beans still doing well.

Aphids

Aphids moving into the cole crops: broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprout.
Celery - bad year.
Tomatoes - slow at ripening.
Basil - excellent year.
Radish, beans, peas still doing well.

Now what

Fall raspberries tasting better now the rain has stopped.
Apples and pears OK.
Tomatoes - water splitting.
Grapes -with any versasion, splitting.
Cole crops still doing very good.

Now What

Tomatoes are splitting all over the county - tooo wet. Use them for sauce or salsam ,,,,ASAP.
Prune dead raspberries all the way to the ground. Leave green canes. After two or three cuts your know what I mean. Top the canes at about three feet.

Raspberries

Pick fall raspberries before they got too wet.
Cover tomatoes with a plastic greenhouse until the rain stops.
Prune June raspberries.
Keep up with chard, lettuce and cabbage harvest.

Sunday

Watch for splitting of grapes and tomatoes with the wet rain.
Weeds going crazy. Mow the weeds, cover them with mulch, cardboard or Roundup.
Cabbage, Brussels sprouts and chard are doing great in the cool weather.

Rain rain

So much for a nice Indian summer.
Rain is great for the lawns.
Grapes starting to change color.
If rain continues, pick the ripest tomatoes and store until ripe.
Pears ripening very quickly after they are picked.
PRUNES finally RIPE.

Weeds

Weeds are starting to show up. Take care of the weeds ASAP.
Turnips are growing well.
Lettuce and mixed musclins are growing well.Watch out for a weed called puncture vine. It have small multi thorned seeds.

Weather

This warm and wet weather is going to bring on blight and powdery mildew.
Powdery mildew on pumpkins, cucumbers, and grapes.
Cole crops still doing good.
Winter crops doing well also.

Fall berries

The fall golden raspberries, red raspberries and day neutral strawberries are doing well.
? Is anyone finding the spotted wing drosophia? Any finds in tomatoes?

Bugs

Watch out for chard lead miner - white trails in the leaf.
Sawfly - leaf slugs on cherries, asian pears.
Look out for voles - field mice eating tomatoes and other veges.

Grapes and crops

Powdery mildew showing up on grapes leaves, use wettable sulfur or thin out foliage.
Check tomatoes for internal jelly. If the toms have jelly, they will ripen. Or place a small plastic greenhouse over the tomatoes. Watch for blight - water soaked areas. Control with coppers.

Rain -- ++

Yeah rains, but watch out for tomato blight and powdery mildew on grapes and rust on blackberries.

Winter garden

Plant broccoli, cabbage, turnips, lettuce and radishes. The late planting will avoid the root maggots.
So far a fairly insect free year for many crops.
Grapes two to three weeks late.
Pears just ripening.

Great weather

The weather should be great for the next few day so get out and maximize the time you have in the garden or out in the fields.
Lots of ripe berries and tree fruits and veges.
Cole crops doing very well.
Tomatoes - still slow at ripening.
Watch out for the Spotted Wing Drosophila.

Grapes

Prune grape foliage to increase air circulation to help slow powdery mildew or sue sulfur spray.
Scab and codling moth - bad this year.
A lot of gray mold showing up on garlic. Clean gray mold off the scales. The thick roots on the bottom of the garlic also have the gray mold. Break apart the garlic head and clean each clove. If you plant the garlic clove with gray mold, the whole plant garlic bulb will become infected next year.