Our strawberries plants are loaded, can't wait until they get ready to pick. Everything else is doing good also. Really pleased with that raised bed. Lettuce is crazy. I've been picking it once a week, with a very high yield. The big garden is doing good also. With these last few hot days, things have been looking up. I've got flowers on over half of the tomatoe plants. Peppers look great and those brussel sprouts are doing just fine. Hot again today, so everyone's stuff should just keep growing. Was a rough start to May, but now it looks very conducive to what we're all shooting for. My only issue now is Big Lake fishing is about to jump off. 🎣🎣🐟🐟

Take care of yourself, Clint. Hope you feel better.

Oh man, that suxs. Nothing like hard work going down the drain, not to mention the food source. Thas terrible.

We are still working on them .
Probably finish everything close to midnight.
I'm grateful to have a good woman that will go to a concert until 1am last night to see a grateful dead cover band and then stay up until midnight the next day butchering chickens.

Lessons learned. To many birds in extreme heat.

Nowhere near bin comparison to the untimely demise of the chickens and the necessary rush to take care of the others before a similar fate occurred, I had an apple tree and a Redhaven peach tree be my latest fit on having to replace trees.

The apple tree, which was 4-years-old and just ready to really fruit for the first time (it was loaded with blossoms after the obligatory cold snap) was found pushed over, snapped off at the tap root, which was about 1.5 - 2 inches in diameter. The 4-foot high by 4-foot diameter deer fence was tossed aside from where the uprooted tree was found.

I have no idea what did this. It is far way from people access and I don’t think a deer could pull the fence out of the ground (held in landscape cloth and the ground with landscaping pins plus the points of the bottom row of fencing). I guessing a bear might have wondered into the fencing in the dark and freaked out, trashing everything. But I have nothing on the trail cameras in the surrounding areas (none are pointed specifically at the trees). In any case, I replanted the tree with what remains of the root system, but it doesn’t look like that will proved enough for the tree to survive.

The peach tree is more of a mystery. It is 5-years old and had great growth. Last year was a bust due to a 3-day late frost taking the blossoms, but the year before we had approximately 200 peaches off the tree.

This year, it never came out of being dormant for the winter. During the warm spell in February, it had some new growth and even the start of some buds, but so did the other peach trees. After the other trees got blossoms, then leafed out, this tree, which was the largest (about 10 feet tall) and up to this point the healthiest, remained dormant. I gave it a shot of my go to fertilizer, but got nothing.

In an act of desperation to get the tree going, I pruned it back 1/3 of the way all over. Nothing. If I scratch the limbs, there is still green growth under the bark, but nothing is showing. I’m perplexed. I really do not want 5 years of babying this tree to be for nothing and have to replace it.

My two pears trees seem to have alot of fruit this year, and my peaches appear to have some as well, but my apples and plum tree got hit by frost. So my question is, what is a good all around spray that I can use now since the plums and peaches fruit has set? I want to spray them to protect against bugs, but also scab and other issues like fungus and rot. 
 
Thanks

Yes the grey pipe is nasty. Like said, it's a temporary fix. I plan on running all new PVC lines with better access and a drains with shut off tees where they enter the pool.
Our pool is around 45 years old.

Great news Clint. Jealous of your diversity. My strawberries never took hold and blueberries eh..
Tomatoes are rocking and I put cages in last night before they got outta hand.
No cukes, beans, greens this season for me. Just basics to make sauce.
Starting to get back into the sunrise after dark routine again.

Just picked a handful of strawberries this AM for my son's cereal.  A couple had to be tossed due to partial "eatage" by some critter....We only have one plant in a pot...I need to make a small, raised bed to get a better patch going.  Will have to fight to keep the bunnies away though...
 
I guess I need to make my fence higher....my garden is long and narrow and on the backside of the end of my pool.......had the cousins over last Friday and Monday/Tuesday using the pool and well, some of my plants took a hit from errant basketball and football throws in the pool...lost several red cabbages and they were doing so well.........I put my cut off 3 gallon white buckets over them now to protect the ones that are left but only two remain.... lost some cilantro and a few cucumber plants....at least I over planted those mounds so they won't be a big deal on the loss....I guess I need to start spraying with Daconil too with all this rain/humidity.  Just stinks as it washes off so quickly with more rain...I hate the BLIGHT!

I always get nervous when they play kickball or volleyball back there. They know to risk life and limb to keep it out of the garden. 😉

What do you those HT? I have some also

We use them for basically anything we'd put garlic on or in. Chopped and diced, toss them right on a steak or potatoes. Sauteed in butter or soups.
These freeze well and have many uses.

Can't wait to try those out. How long should I wait before picking those off the tops?

You can only do what you can , Clint. As long as you feel well enough, go for it. If you don't, take a pass.

Guess I need to start planting garlic this fall now..........

4th batch of lettuce this morning. Guess 6 different kinds was a bit much. 😄. Pulled 2 rows and re-seeded. If those go as well as the first planting, we should be good all summer.