Well my friends, the garden is just beginning to get right! Deb went out this morning for a little while, and came back up with some squash, cucumbers and tomatoes. She’d picked some more peppers yesterday, and those guys have been coming in pretty regular for the last couple of weeks.
The squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes are just fixing to really start bearing. I took a whipping this year in terms of our tomatoes with the Fusarium wilt, as I’ve been sharing with you. I was in the raised beds yesterday, and dad-gum if I don’t believe it is going to get in every one of those tomato plants before it’s over!
This is really a shame because those plants have been doing so well growing off, and had just began bearing heavily when it first started showing up. We have two that it has killed, and we have about 4 more that it’s hitting pretty hard, but there’s another 4-5 that are just beginning to show symptoms of it. We had 16 total in those beds.
Dale has just left, and he told me that he has about three in his garden doing the same thing. I don’t know? He lives about 1-1/2 miles from us on a creek. His are planted in native ground, where as ours are planted in dirt we had brought in.
All of our tomatoes in the garden area though, look good. Those are all in native soil, but soil we have built up the last 2-1/2 years or so by using cow and chicken manure, hay, and even burned leaves and brush in this area too, all in the attempt of making the soil better.
All of this garden area is really doing well now, though we are really in need of some rainfall. We’re watering almost daily from a dry standpoint, but it is awful hot already too. About 1 this afternoon it was 94 degrees.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
