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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,840
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I remember those days with joy
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,649
    potato plants getting infested with some sort of fly. Harvested some where plants looked dead, the rest i put some dioteacious earth on them to deter the pests. Will see. Might be getting close to harvest time anyway.

  • highlightshighlights Posts: 11
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,649
    ^interesting^^^

    I'm zone 6. Good deal on the dill. My garden at my house is overrun with arugula, so I ate a lot, gave away, now pulling out and mulching them out with white pine needles (just convenient because I have lots of those pine trees). Once I mulched I  saw other plants I want to keep that were being choked out.
    My gardening friend said she makes a cayenne pepper spray that helps with bugs.

    I may look into that beet soup with the greens. Would like to pickle some too. 

    Pulled up all my turnips, beets. Carrots in my community plot. Prepped the soil eith a pitchfork and planted seeds. Carrots, turnips, beets hopefully for a good fall harvest. 
    Don't want to rush the summer.

    Great season 


  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,649
    beet me senseless!
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,649

  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 41,305
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
    I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 41,305
    My cucumbers have sucked this year and my tomatoes are finally coming.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,649
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
    I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.
    Good thought. I'll do that with some of mine too. Cucumbers are slow to grow. Only have a few pretty good looking small plants with flowers. 1st round planted died/eaten by slugs. No cucs yet.
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