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Blue-Jay
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So you've seen my offsite bean patch and how poorly it's done. Now I have the photos of my plantings in my backyard and in a flower bed by my house. What a total difference in the way these plants developed, and I had planted all this seed the same time I planted my big bean plot six miles away from here. The soil in my offsite bean patch in not poorly drained clay soil. It's beautiful dark black topsoil. You've seen it before in photos. The soil in my back yard gardens was brought in by a landscaper who I had remove an area of the grass sod and dug out about a foot of the clay soil and replaced it with what ever he had. It's very sandy, very well drained. With all the rain we had in the early part of June up until the middle of July. Everything I planted in it has developed wonderfully.
Hal will enjoy the look of my tomato plants again this year. This year the tomatoes look even healthier than last years condidering that it is now the middle of August when many tomato plants in this area is starting to show signs of Septoria leaf spot or other similar looking bacterial blights.
My Early Girl Descendants. Now in the fourth year after the Hybrid F1 generation.
Fowler snap beans. Row on the Right. I've been picking snap beans for over two weeks.
Three double rows of carrots. First two double rows are Atomic Red and then a double of row of orange
A row of Fort Portal Jade climbing all over my two foot high rabbit fencing.
The pole beans are doing just wonderfully in a narrow flower bed growing near the back of my house.
The Painted Lady Runner beans are just blooming and growing pods like crazy.
I visited my big offsite bean patch Friday, and the little plants are blooming like crazy. The deer keep them shaved down to less the a foot tall. All I have on those plants are lots of little tiny pods. The kind of pods you see after the blossom petals have dried up and withered, and pods are then just beginning to be noticable. I think this is due to the fact the deer are keeping the tops of the plants eated down all the time. Maybe better luck next year. I should just about have fully developed dry pods by now this time of the year.
Hal will enjoy the look of my tomato plants again this year. This year the tomatoes look even healthier than last years condidering that it is now the middle of August when many tomato plants in this area is starting to show signs of Septoria leaf spot or other similar looking bacterial blights.
Three double rows of carrots. First two double rows are Atomic Red and then a double of row of orange
A row of Fort Portal Jade climbing all over my two foot high rabbit fencing.
The pole beans are doing just wonderfully in a narrow flower bed growing near the back of my house.
The Painted Lady Runner beans are just blooming and growing pods like crazy.
I visited my big offsite bean patch Friday, and the little plants are blooming like crazy. The deer keep them shaved down to less the a foot tall. All I have on those plants are lots of little tiny pods. The kind of pods you see after the blossom petals have dried up and withered, and pods are then just beginning to be noticable. I think this is due to the fact the deer are keeping the tops of the plants eated down all the time. Maybe better luck next year. I should just about have fully developed dry pods by now this time of the year.
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