In the last month 2 weekends have been spent traveling. This weekend was the weekend to get the garden ready for fall planting. It did not happen. The wet weather made the grass grow so fast that it needed cutting. I managed to cut down one of the Arbor Day trees that survived from spring. Now there are only 2. There is also a little crepe myrtle that survived transplanting from the back yard.
The tomatoes are coming along nicely again. They don’t come fast enough for canning though. The fig trees seem to be between crops. They are loaded with figs, but they are not ripe. The lima beans are the biggest disappointment. They have lush vines and almost no beans. The hot peppers are producing very heavy. We don’t eat them, we just give them away.
The squash bugs and spotted cucumber are eating the squash, cucumber and cantaloupe plants faster than they grow. They don’t seem to bother the watermelons. The rain washes the sulfur off of the plants almost as fast as it gets sprayed on. It takes about three sprayings to wipe out the cucumber beetles. One spraying seems to have destroyed the squash bugs.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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