Fall gardening

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Hard to believe it's already August. We picked our first tomatoes the end of May, so some of our plants have been producing for two full months. So have our zucchini and cucumber plants. We really hate to spray a lot of chemicals on our tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers, so the bugs have been having a time feasting on the plants. Most of our zucchini and cucumber plants that have been producing for two months have come close to dying, so Marge pulled all the cucumber plants out of one of our high tunnels. When we planted the cucumbers, there were close to 50 along both sides. They have produced a lot of 11- to 13-inch English style cucumbers.

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