Tuesday, July 31, 2012

More good growing weather.
Cauliflower - taking off.
Lawns are starting to dry out.  Let them go
dormant in August or increase the watering a little. 
Use the Eugene Water and Electric
 Board Evaporation Transpiration information.
I read a good article on Lawns and
grass types by a Keith Howard.
http://www.lawncareservice.net/blog/2012/why-it-makes-a-difference-which-grass-seed-you-plant/

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Dill up three inches.
Seed basil - still slow, needs more heat.
Pruned tomatoes for third time.  They just
keep sending out massive side shoots.  Nice
4 inch, green tomatoes.  Zucchini - full production.
Hubbard squash - found one 5 inches diameter.
Chard, beets, and kohlrabi are 7  inches tall.
Wild black crop- massive.  Marions 1-2 inches long.
Blueberry - large crop.  Early corn. 
Broccoli going very crazy.  Cabbage
and cauliflower sizing nicely.Still a
 lot of cucumber beetles.


Friday, July 27, 2012

Repeat broccoli usage:cut the main head,
then as the side heads develop, thin
then off except for one or two.




Wednesday, July 25, 2012

More good growing weather.
Raspberries doing well.
Peas doing very well.
Chard, spinach, Mescaline
lettuces, nice and leafy.
Loosing some plums do to the abscission
layer forming 3 weeks early - due to
weather, ie - green plums are falling off early.

 Still seeing a lot of early blight on tomatoes; 
Cersopera leaf spot on egg plant, but most
due to the wet spring and cool AM's.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Garden Insects - from Daniel McGrath, OSU
INSECT                    AVERAGE   JULY
Black cutworms -      1                   0.2
Corn earworm           0.27              0.27
12 spot                       1.53              1.47
Cabbage looper         13.2              3.5
Var cutworms            3.4                0.03

So veggie insects are normal or below normal
right now.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Broccoli - 6-8 inch heads.
celery - 8 inches tall.
Zuchini - tons.
Peas - near bloom barring the deer -
munching the new vines.
Basil - pooping out.
Cucumbers - still doing poorly.
Weeds - oh well.
Blackberry - two hours, many bleeding
wounds, and then some well directed spray,
They will be back.  Prepared more soil.
Found some prunes, and two pears so far.


Friday, July 20, 2012

Mint near to harvest or harvesting.
Second alfalfa cutting coming along.
Cherries - near end.
Peaches - fairly good crop.
Strawberries - near end.
Raspberries - mediocre crop.
Blueberry - very nice crop.
Blackberry - looks huge.  More spotted
wing drosophila this year. - strawberries,
cherries, raspberries so far.
Veggies - doing well.  Early cole crops -
bolted due to hot and cool weather.
Codling moth - damage showing up, here and there.
High cucumber beetle populations.
Signs of flea beetle but population are down.
Apples  and pears - sizing.
First local farm corn due next week in farm stands.