A Few Pics Around The House Today

The wifey's lillies are huge and fragrant, in the flower gardens.

the vegie garden has been less than expected. Very poor germination of pea, corn, carrot, and bean seed. Bedding plants, such as broccoli, califlower, and especially peppers have done poorly. We were inundated by hard shelled snails earlier, with all of the rain in June, and now the Jap beatles are here in hords. Can't win. We had beautiful huge strawberries developing in early June, but the excessive rain blighted them, and they all turned brown. The corn is small and very yellow inspite of a heavy shot of urea earlier, and we're keeping our fingers crossed on the Mator crop. Tators look good, as well as the onions.
the Sunflowers are the real highlite, about 13' high, but they don't fill the pantry and freezer. Beets are looking good and we have harvested and frozen enough spinich and chard for the coming winter. Got 3 pickings of peas, and reseeded for a second crop, but only about 10% germinated. I bought "Page Seed" this year, never again.
The Adirondack Redneck wood shed, has grown a bit and is now 74' long. Got room to get all my tractors and stuff under cover now?? My stash of used and leftover steel roofing material is about depleted and I am resorting to using peices and splicing them in.
Loren, the Acg.

Love the photos. Have a U35 Kubota excavator. One thing I will never be with out. Used tin... found a place tearing down three year old chicken houses, 24 ft 5 rib like new for $ 12.50 a sheet so I can cover a few more projects.. Keep the photos coming , not many case folks down here in Tennessee.

Loren, looks great! We've had the jap beetles here for quite a few years. I run jap beetle traps mounted on 30 gallon plastic drums, keep liquid sevin sprayed, and applied milky spore to keep them under control. Hate them devils.

Hi Loren, that bottom last pic dosent look like a house, looks like a case dealership store front! Lol, nice pics.

Loren, great pictures of tractors and lillies.
My wife's lillies are excellent this year as well. Right amount of sun and rain this year.

JimB

Interesting to hear about the garden, sorry to hear that its not doing as well as you would like. I think I did ok, like most years, but the big boy tomatoes will probably produce the least, jet star doing well, no signs of blight or any real problems, just the lower portion of the plants yellowed out a bit, not a lot of rapid growth, cherry tomatoes doing, well, I have seen better. I've never grown broccoli until this year, seems to be doing well, though I have some decay, pulled 1 or 2 plants, but I am getting nice regrowth, it sure is good, and a real easy side for most meals !

Bell peppers, one variety is 3' tall, but just starting to flower, well I have one big green one I am waiting to turn, never can figure out why they take so long, egg plant, the leaves look like they were hit with a shotgun with fine shot, never grew much, they got the same fertilizer as the peppers too. I think that June rain just washed too much of the nutrients out, I put in the same amount usually, nice layer of 5 year old decayed hay, fines from rotted sections of logs, a benefit of processing firewood, soil was marginal but improved over the years. I did see those snails, 10 miles east of here, loaded with them, japanese beatles were here, but now gone, but they left their mark, especially on the cucumbers, and some on the potatoes, but those should be fine.

Corn, one side needs nitrogen, 64 day looks ok, topped out, will see what I can do to help it along, did get a lot of grass underneath, did cultivate, but its in the rows, hard to get out, and it is shaded out too. Sweet corn is a pain to grow, I'll be mulching and using more fertilizer next year, the area thats doing ok was in sod for as long as I can remember, turned out to be nice soil under it, other side too many rocks and clay it seems. All in all, one can only try their best against stacked odds, weather, critters, blight, and what have you.

The shed and that dry area for the tractors and wood, I am envious, LOL, that ought to be a big improvement, I am sure you will enjoy the new amenities this winter !

Can't win 'em all, but that's not much consolation when you are trying to stock the pantry. Maybe not all, but some sunflower seeds are edible. I wondered where all the Japanese beetles were, we have not had any, yet. This is the first year that I remember that we haven't had any.

BTW, those are some beautiful flowers. Wish my yard had shrubbery that looks like a Case tractor! lol

Lorne ACG guy,
Great photos. Beautiful flowers! Especially the pink lilies with white border on the petals.

nice pictures, and tractors too i see a few more goodies in that shed got pics of those?