So what's going on in your vegetable garden right now?!

Thanks, Ric.

I would love to be able to brag that 'I got my own personal melons at a swap.'

Weeds still

BLIGHT
A reminder from last year and how to prevent it. Tomatoes/Potatos

Blight travels through the winds and comes from the south. Last year the weather started out warm and dry and then turned cooler and wet.

Buy locally - not from big box stores. Certified sellers are best. If your doing seeds try to get disease resistant.

Plant tomatoes with ample room between them, so the moisture can evaporate. Water them from under, not on the leaves and water them in the morning.

If you see a plant that you did not plant - pluck it and put it in a plastic bag and send it to the trash.

I cant tell you about potatoes as I never grew one.

Once the plant has Blight - its a gonner.

I lost 91 tomatoe plants last year. Lets hope this does not repeat.

sherri you need to spray that ortho stuff i told you about last year - chances are you did not get everything off the ground that died so the spores will be in the garden.

I dont belive so Bill or at least lets hope not! I take it VT is the same as NH

The good news about this disease is that is does not overwinter in Vermont. The pathogen can live only on live tissue, not on stakes, in seed, on cages or on greenhouse plastics. The only place the pathogen could overwinter in Vermont is on an infected plant kept alive throughout the winter in a greenhouse or on potato tubers that were infected last fall from spores washing into the soil from the leaves.

http://www.uvm.edu/mastergardener/help/Late%20Blightgardener3-1.pdf

there is no live tissue in my garden over the winter - i did not beat it until i started spraying - spray to be safe - do not want to say i told you s............................

We will see. If I disappear you will know why! I posted this once and got this.

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you should just spray them before you end up jumping off a cliff. you can lead a horse to water.....................:)

Ate the first asparagas from my garden last night. OMG, was it good!

Congrats!!!

Come to think of it I planted a couple last year and have not seen them. hummm

Germination on my peas was sporadic, I may have to replant some of them. I also need to cut the asparagus again. Lightly steamed and froze about 2# the other day. I also need to finish my potatoes and cole crops.Ric

Peas are looking great so far.

My peas are up, but I'm worried about the groundhog. Have a trap set for him/her but no luck yet. Asparagus hasn't popped yet. Rhubarb is doing wonders by leaps and bounds though.

This is a way to get rid of weeds. Dont rototill them in and then pluck them out.

Would like that, Sherrie! My carrots, beets, lettuce, & spring onions are up....have a few purple asparagus stalks, but not enough for a meal yet. My sweet peas are climbing on the trellises. My dahlias that I planted in a plastic fish bucket are huge & should be planted out, but still too early here.

Found volunteer potatoes in the bed where I planted them last year. I thought it was too cold for potatoes to over winter. Pulled out the rest of the potatoes I didn't eat and planted them in the bed and covered everything with leaves. I'm going to try fencing the sides of the bed and piling leaves and straw up all summer and see if I get more tomatoes this year. Eating purple asparagas.

Memory, an article from UCONN says to destroy all potato tubers from last year, as they harbor the late blight.

I didn't have any blight last year. If they don't make it - that's OK. I just have a really hard time killing anything that is growing. EXCEPT for dandelions - I can kill them and never look back!

LOL

They're great in salad!

I do love dandelion salad...I grew the cultivated kind in my veggie garden a few times....did they come back like the pesty ones? Nope.

So I have heard, Victor, but it tastes so bitter! Horseradish leaves are also good in salads but only when they are very small.

Whilst talking about eating weeds, Sunday I am taking a foraging tour in a local park with Wild Man Brill! (I am so excited!) I already eat Lamb's Quarters and wild Purslane and it will be great to learn about other things to eat that I don't have to plant and tend. I just get such a kick out of eating things that other people - at least the people I work with, have never heard of, let alone eaten. What could ever be better than free food!!!

Robindog - thanks for the heads up. I do appreciate knowing what UCONN says - even though I am not good about taking advice.

that does sound very interesting Memory!!

I mix it in with my salad.

The Bhut pepper is the hottest in the world but might not be for longer. A new one called the Infinity Pepper is hotter but not on the records yet. Good Grief heres the article.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/04/26/devilish-world-hot-peppers/?test=faces

Went out last night with a flashlight to pick asparagas for lunch today. :)

No one called the cops??!

In Bridgeport?

I can't believe it!!! I actually cut some asparagus today!!!! Never in April!!!! Should have some more in a couple of days!!!! Yeah!!!!

Yes, Cat. Usually in Bridgeport they break in during daylight hours so I figured people would be wondering what the flashlight was for. ^_^

I have a few more asparagus stalks popping up...stop picking on Bridgeport, the ferry's nice.

But only to get out of town with! (I like Bridgeport even if the neighbors park 2 dump trucks on the street, sometimes in front of my house.)

I ordered Georgia Jets sweet potatoes to plant this year and I'm going to try them in a cut off barrel planting around holes in the sides and on top like a strawberry jar in a mixture of straw and Promix. That's how I've done my potatoes successfully, no soil, just straw,compost, and some Promix. The one difference is I plan to set the drum for sweet potatoes up on a section of log about 20"s or so high to allow the vines to hang and keep them (hopefully) out of reach of the "wascally wabbits". Here's a shot of my potato containers. Ric

Love the camouflage on the barrels!

me too!!!

Just an attempt to make them the same. Some were blue, some black, and some gray. Hoping that as things grow they sort of disappear. Ric

looks like it's going to be a few weeks before I can set out the potatoes... still have a chance for frost

Thats the camoflage I was talking about with the bucket for the bird feeder. I mentioned olive drab. I belive the olive drab is for a desert camo though.

yes that would work Sherrie