Looks fine to me, but I leave such matters to my wife. She made some raspberry jam a couple weeks ago.
Is this the first year you’ve got any stone fruit (plums, pluots, peaches)? Even though our peach trees got blasted by late freezes, there were still about 40-50 fruit spread out over 4 trees. But, it looks like tree rats pilfered just about all of them.
The only things we will get this year are various berries- mostly black and goose, still need to do something with all the gooseberries. May also get some apples, but they also seem to have gone missing, a smaller number have dropped.
Your corn looks good. How many ears will you get per stalk? We tried planting Ambrosia and Honey Select, but none of it came up, bad seed I guess. My wife picked up some Kandy Korn yesterday, and wants to plant some, but I’m afraid it’s too late, if it does come up, it may not make before October.
I do not know mine is late or early variety but it says 65 days harvest so looking on schedule I saw two baby corn today. We still have about month and half of hot weather left. These are about between 5 to 6 feet tall now.
@subdood_ky_z6b – usually get two ears on about 1/3 of them. Nice size too… ambrosia is bicolor … sweet but not too sweet… good mix of sweetness and corn flavor too.
I have tried the super sweets b4 and yes… very sweet but lacking in corn flavor.
Deerberry - I have lots of these around my field edges. This one is just past my muscadine vine… those berries are sizing up nicely. They ripen late July to mid August depending on how much sun they get.
Sixty five days means early variety. I am no expert in growing corn, but I suspect either you planted it late or they are not getting enough sun, water and/or nitrogen.
We first tried Ambrosia at a church gathering and thought it to be very good. We have tried it a couple years, but it never did well, along with some other varieties. Probably had poor soil, or didn’t weed enough. Yours looks good.
We tried Silver Queen before, it did alright, but had a narrow picking window. It had a decent corn flavor, but not really sweet enough for our liking.
You’re a little further south…I’m watching but haven’t gotten a ripe rabbiteye yet.
Am impressed with NHB “Hardyblue” as this is the first time it’s fruited for me.
Hey all… a few post back we were talking about Ginseng a little and Virginia Creeper…
I watched one of my old youtube vids the other day and noticed something… and found the old pic to go with it.
I have 2 older blueberry bushes I got from walmart - 5 years or so ago… best I remember they are Climax (a early rabbiteye variety) and they started ripening here at the end of May and produced ripe berries for almost a month. Large Berries, very good.
I have 2 Tiffblue, 4 Brightwell, 2 Powderblue — and they all started ripening fruit around 6/15…slowly at first- just a trickle, but all seem to be reaching peak production about now. My plants are quite young, and I can tell a big difference in production (this year) vs last year… much improved.
Hope you get some good ripe ones soon.
TNHunter
ps… to anyone that looked that patch of Virginia creeper over and was not sure where the Ginseng plant was…
Note when you hunt ginseng for hours, looking intently for that leaf pattern… after you get home, take a shower… for hours later that day, when you look up at the ceiling or blink your eyes, or just glance over at something… you will see that ginseng leaf pattern in my minds eye ???
It is a odd phenomenon that I experience almost every time I do a long ginseng hunt.
Other seng hunters report this also…
A friend of mine cleaned his barbecue grill with a wire brush and gave me the collected ashes. I went out at night when the Japanese beetles were decimating my English Morello cherry tree and scattered the ashes on them and watched in great satisfaction as the beetles fell off immediately, dying, I’m told because the ash got in their joints and broke them, but whatever, it worked. I went out the next night and did it again; there were far fewer of them to deal with. After that my cherry was left alone.
So then I tried that on a few leaves of my Comice pear. Bad mistake. The leaves I tried looked burned after that.
(Somehow this answer to your Japanese beetle problem seems to have shown up on the wrong thread. Not sure how I did that.)
Are you constantly picking off suckers from your main two tomato stems? I have two tomato plants and they are turning into a jungle. So I’m starting to like your neat tomato set up.
First nice sized bowl of Sungold and a Green Zebra grown in France. Due to the soil and sun and general temperature, they taste different then ours. The Sungold are ultra sweet, which is fun, as the French generally do not grow them, and the tomatoes in general taste very tomatoey! (Word?). They are wonderful. Its the heat. My first Marmande will be ready in two days. Cannot wait!!!
