Daily Archives: July 17, 2016

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07/17

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Hoop house progress

IMG_4915In the bare spot down the row, I removed the cauliflower which wasn’t doing much and planted lettuce, carrots, and beets.

IMG_4916This is the bottom of a bug of some sort caught in a web.  He was about an inch long and one I had not seen before.

IMG_4917A big job today was tying up the bell peppers.   I was waiting for someone to string the wire to tie them to, but that hasn’t happened, so I used what was there from tomatoes last year.

IMG_4918It looks like there will be many peppers this year.   I really like to freeze them so I’m not paying $4.00 a pound or more.

IMG_4919I thought these were pickling cukes, but they are fuzzy on the outside, so will wait and see what they become.

IMG_4920The sweet potatoes are doing their best to over run the place.   They are excellent competition for the tomatoes.  I had no idea, they would do that.

IMG_4922The tomatoes have hit the top, so maybe they will come back down now.   I’m picking a handful of cherry tomatoes nearly every day.   And volunteers are still springing up.  It’s so hard to treat them like the weeds they have become.IMG_4925IMG_4923IMG_4924

new planting of carrots                                                           new basil

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new parsley coming up

IMG_4927larger tomatoes getting color

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Will have to do another planting of kale soon

IMG_4929more lettuce and beets coming up – planted two weeks ago.

I spent the morning in the hoop house taking care of neglected weeds

and doing some replanting.   Then it was out to the front to pull more weeds

 

 

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It’s getting very shady here, but we came back from Lowe’s with some pretty petunias for a nice  spot of color, after which we took a break and then watered everything.