WEEK 27: Garden Updates

One thing is for sure, we have never had this much rain here in Essex County since I can remember!  We easily had 6 inches of rain since we came home from vacation, and our vegetables are reacting and are growing like crazy!  We had our first cabbage this week, along with some peas and zucchini.  Ours roma tomatoes from Aaron's mom have tomatoes now as well.

 

Peas

 

Romas

 

Zucchinis

Sticky cards in our tomatoes

We also hung up some sticky cards in the gardens to see what they catch.  So far just the occasional thrips, leafhopper, aphids, and some unfortunate European Skippers.

Lettuce continues to grow, but the heat is making them taste quite bitter.  They don't go to waste however...the chickens love it!

With last week's heat and humidity, along with all the rain, our squash seems to be getting some angular leaf spot which is a bacteria disease that thrives in these conditions.  Aaron picked up some copper spray bactericide at Home Hardware to spray on the four plants that looked to be infected. 

We are very surprised we haven't seen much powdery mildew as it's in our weeds along the fence line.