What's Growing in the Garden

Mike Hill said:
Not saying that might work for rabbits, but the moles keep pushing the daffodils out of the ground.
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Just today I picked up some zink phosphide for the moles that are burrowing all over. The label does mention using it when planting bulbs. Just a thought...
 
Thought about it, but gotta be careful, have an indoor/outdoor cat that will munch on a mole if she comes across one. I have recently used MoleMax. It's a mixture of Castor Oil and Fullers Earth in granular form. Not going to say it's working for sure, but used it in a small patch of asparagus I planted this spring and it has not had any damage as of yet. Now it could be that they haven't ventured into that quadrant yet - but keeping my fingers crossed.
 
May have to give that a try, the little buggers have burrowed right down the tilled rows, and wreaked havoc. Doesn't help that those rows are covered in a thick layer of grass mulch and I didn't notice at first. Most of my Cole crops are stunted as all get out and I'll be lucky to get a decent crop of several things. I've gone up and down rows stamping down tunnels so they will hopefully put out more roots and recover. I'm also putting out about a pound of zink phosphide, one teaspoon at a time
 
They are after the earthworms I'm sure. Grubs are taken care of with systemic insecticide on much of the garden. Not applying it for grubs, but they are killed by what I'm using.
 
On a different note, it's interesting how preferences change for later emerging Japanese beetles. Early emerging beetles always go after cherry, apple and raspberry. Now that we are getting towards the end of the cycle, you can't find one on the apples or cherry, they are now going after the chestnut and the wild grapes. Still find a couple on raspberry, but not enough to spray.

Chestnut.

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trc65 said:
On a different note, it's interesting how preferences change for later emerging Japanese beetles. Early emerging beetles always go after cherry, apple and raspberry. Now that we are getting towards the end of the cycle, you can't find one on the apples or cherry, they are now going after the chestnut and the wild grapes. Still find a couple on raspberry, but not enough to spray.

Chestnut.

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They always go after my grapes that I think have gone wild. Supposed to be seedless, but not. Next year (Ha!) I'm going to clean them up, heavily prune them and then spray them as the bugs arrive.
 
Thinking of next year already, has anyone in IL planted a Fall crop of Sweet Potatoes? If so how early? I've got some Sweet Potatoes that are sprouting and I could make slips from. Don't think they'll survive until next Spring? I don't know. So I thought I'd plant them for a Fall Crop if that's viable.
 
I don't grow sweet potatoes, but they usually need 90- 120 days for a crop depending on variety. Might be able to get something before fall freeze with an early season variety.
 
I grew some sweet potatoes this year for the first time. Planted at the same time as my red potatoes. Just dug them yesterday. Planted slips from one potatoe and got 5 nice ones and about ten ugly ones. We usually get ours from up in N. LA. My wife’s uncle sends us two bushels every year. I stole one last year to make the slips. I wintered it in a closed cardboard box in my office. We’ll have a taste test soon...

Alan
 
The variety is "Patterson". They are a yellow globe variety that is one of the best long storage onions. I still have a few left from last year's crop.

I buy the seed and start them in 128 cell packs, then transplant.
 
trc65 said:
The variety is "Patterson". They are a yellow globe variety that is one of the best long storage onions. I still have a few left from last year's crop.

I buy the seed and start them in 128 cell packs, then transplant.
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We planted ours May 28th, they are 6 inches tall now.
 
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