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Where getting hit with tent caterpillars here. Little pieces of leaves falling everywhere. Last year the west end of LI got clobbered.
Whoa.. I have to look that up. The other day I thought it was September, leaves were all over my yard and were falling from the trees, and small ones. Thanks!!
Started as one of the coldest first weeks of May on record and ended with one of the hottest last weeks of May on record. Ended up above normal with temps and above normal with rainfall.
Record number of cloudy days in the beginning. Only 3 days being in the 70s with full sun. It was either 50s/60s or 80s/90s.
My Highest Temp was 90.3 on the 28th
Lowest temp was 39.7 on the 16th
Total Rain: 5.21"
Was using wood stove everyday for heat 1st 7 days. A/C everyday to cool last 7 days.
Planted everything in ground 1 week later then usual
Potatoes looking awesome. No beetles around whatsoever.
Looks like my spray solution working? New leaves not being eaten
Maybe not. UGH! So I added dish soap into the Canola Oil-Water mix and sprayed again. If that doesn't work I have to buy something.
I think I found the culprit! WTF?
fava Beans flowering but do you see anything?
How about now, anything? No?
Seriously????? Some of the ants actually just died on the leaf. WTF!?
I don't even know if they died on the stem too or if that's a disease.
Not a good start this year. Too many challenges with bugs and pests. The Rabbit didn't even come back to use the hole she dug.
oh wow bad is right no bunnys this year either sad I hope things change I have had the worst case of blossom end rot this year I lost 3 tomatoes to it and I took the other tomatoes off the plant and have them in a bag to ripen thank god they were big enough to take and I destroyed the plant .I don't know what is going on this year with the diseases and all the rain we have had . I'm ready to pull my hair out , now my flowers are doing wonderful but my squash took a crap too .
I don't even know if they died on the stem too or if that's a disease.
Those black things on the main stem are aphids. They suck the sap from the plant, and the ants 'farm' and protect them for the syrup they produce. You need to get some ladybird larvae (which love to eat aphids), or spray them with an insect killer or soapy water. If you leave them they will eventually infest the plant, killing it and then spreading to other plants.
Do you know why I plant Radishes next to cucumbers?
They deter beetles. Worked very well last year. Crazy amount of Cukes.
See them?
Campari Tomato first to flower
But notice the Eggplants and Bell Peppers on the left. No real growth from them. here we go. Being the leaves are light in color I will add a nitrogen based fertilizer to green them up.
Peppers: This year on the left, last year on the right. Peppers were already on the plants last yr by now!
Bell Peppers. This year on left, last year on right and even earlier last year!
Cucumbers. This year on left, last year on right. EVERYTHING WAS MORE ADVANCED!
Case in point... even after a historic never experienced cold and snow last year February and March, May ended up above normal and warm and sunny which was better for the crops.
This year didn't matter we had a warm winter and March, May started out record cold, cloudy, no sun, rainy and even last week of May being record warm, it didn't matter.
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