Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

Oh Man!!.....I bet they are really Good!....we got our 1st cantaloupe 2days ago and it was good, but the 2nd one was better.....now, there are 3&4 on the counter to be cut up and put into the fridge. My mom would freeze watermelon and cantaloupe in freezer baggies and make smoothies with them all yr long.....just put in a blender or food processor and whip it up. The jubilees are still growing.....

 

[Devonviolet]

we did our entire peach harvest yesterday - a grand total of 3 peaches

Well, you harvested three more peaches than we did! We had blossoms this past spring, on our two apple trees, as well as our apricot and peach trees. But no fruit.

 

[Mike CHS]

Well, you harvested three more peaches than we did! We had blossoms this past spring, on our two apple trees, as well as our apricot and peach trees. But no fruit.

I'm not going to gripe since everything else has done so well. We can't keep up with the black berries and I pulled the netting off today since the vines have made enough holes in the netting that little blue birds of some kind get in and then can't get out. We have had our fill and have plenty in the freezer so they can have some now.

We do have plums starting to ripen and we have more melons than we can eat so I'll still give Thanks.

 

[Bruce]

I have some small flowers on my cantaloupe. Guess we are a bit behind TN
Actually, I've never tried them before. But it has been so wet this year, not much in the garden is doing well. Clay soil that doesn't drain is not beneficial in that regard. I can only "amend" so much but hopefully as the years go by it will improve.

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce - My best cantaloupe so far has come from a volunteer plant that came up in a bed I was going to leave fallow.

When we had the sheep in the dry lot we got 40-50 lbs of sheep manure every day that got composted on the garden beds.

 

[greybeard]

Bruce - My best cantaloupe so far has come from a volunteer plant that came up in a bed I was going to leave fallow.

Had watermelon do the same thing, but noticed yesterday, that we have had so much rainfall, that the melons grew too fast and all split open before ripening.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That is so annoying when that happens, GB....we haven't faced that yet this yr....except with a few tomatoes.

 

[Mike CHS]

When we had rains every day for awhile I have had cantaloupe literally rot and deflate.

I got another 300' of woven wire stretched and attachedsetting t-post clips for the last section we did. I went back and pulled a few T-posts and dug holes for wood posts and braces for two gates I wasn't planning on. Teresa made me quit so I'll go to town and pick up the unplanned for gates.

The gates aren't essential but they will make it easier to let the sheep in the alley to eat the grass there rather than cut it.

 

[Bruce]

I have a few flowers on my Sungold cherry tomatoes.

I guess that near heat stroke fixed your "I can finish this" mentality. Glad you listened to Teresa.

 

[greybeard]

When we had rains every day for awhile I have had cantaloupe literally rot and deflate.

I got another 300' of woven wire stretched and attachedsetting t-post clips for the last section we did. I went back and pulled a few T-posts and dug holes for wood posts and braces for two gates I wasn't planning on. Teresa made me quit so I'll go to town and pick up the unplanned for gates.

The gates aren't essential but they will make it easier to let the sheep in the alley to eat the grass there rather than cut it.

When my brother comes down, he loudly complains about having to go thru so many gates, but doesn't consider what a pain it would be to go way around.
You can never have too many gates, for animals or us.