Starting to get more tromboncinos pollinated and growing now.
Edit:Measured the big one at 30 inches today
Edit:Measured the big one at 30 inches today
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Had some fresh melon-Hales Best. I believe these are open-pollinated?..these things are awesome. No guessing when they are ready to pick, they almost roll themselves off the vine.
Gave some to the chickens, they were happy
Fermented some of the seeds
I also just got done fermenting some heirloom Brown Sugar seeds, my variegated one specifically.
Definitely open to sending some seeds out or trading!
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This nice straight tromboncino looks like if you took a regular butternut squash and screwed up taking a panoramic picture so it stretched the image lol.
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Roma Tomato Bush
How we catch our strawberry runners. It takes about 2 weeks to root. Going under the soil keeps the runner in place and makes it easier to catch multiple runners at once and replant. The rest of the runner we cull.
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Peach tree starting to bulk up for the summer
Queen of the night looking like next week bloom session
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My tomatoes have been plagued by these little bastards year after year:
Leaf footed bugs, as it the stink bugs weren’t bad enough. They poke holes in my tomatoes.
But I have something in store for them. Meet my new army:
Larry
Jerry
Barry
Harry
Mary
and Jeff
I’ve been capturing those damned leaf footed bugs and feeing them to my spider platoon every day for a week now. This will continue as long as necessary.
The real ivy supervised:
In a few short years, I will have created a spider army, fed only on tomato poking bugs, capable of reaching far beyond the confines of my garden. In less than a decade, we will dominate the entire world… but we won’t be dicks about it or anything.
I know the obvious question here… “Ivy, what are we going to do when they develop a taste for human blood?”
Have faith folks, I’ve already planned for that. I’m secretly breeding a new army to squash the inevitable spider mutiny.
It begins.
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Is that the Eastern Woodland Middle Finger Toad ? 
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Good eye sir. You are correct. He’s had it with your shit before it happens. That’s why he was chosen to lead the toad army.
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My money is on Jeff
Sounds like he stacks bodies
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Lmao,
We are Legion
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Gonna need cats to get rid of the frogs and dogs to get rid of the cats.
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We have paw paws! Stratified over the winter, planted seeds in April, came up last week… never give up
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Nice! We get a lot of native ones here by me in MO but I haven’t been able to get to any ripe fruit yet!
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2 cups warm water
1 cup vinegar
1/2 cup dish soap
Mix that and put in sprayer. Then go do some target shooting. They do not like it and after getting hit they run or try to run to the top of the plant. They are definitely stressing at that point. I use one of those Dep spray bottles and it’s pretty accurate. I admit to getting some small sense of satisfaction watching those fekkers die 
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Hell yeah man, you got 'em! Mine started popping up this week. I guess they just like to take their sweet ass time. 
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Thanks, I’ll give it a try. Most things so far don’t seem to work on them… pyrethrin will, but kills basically everything else except mites… then the mites go unchecked… and that ain’t good.
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I use a small hand-held vacuum and suck them up, then unload them into a bucket of soap water to drown them
Bastardos
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All 7 blooms actually fit into the photo this time and she’s on track for this weekend…prob Sunday if I had to guess. Trying to get a damn time lapse setup to really show her beauty from bud to full white dinner plate flower and then wilting away for another season.
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Man if you can that would be super cool! I know I would love to see it
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