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Category: Vegetable and Flower Gardens | Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:34 am

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We've had more rain here and I think my zucchini are suffering. Some of the little ones (2") are looking soggy and their flowers are knocked off from the rain. If anyone has had experience with this and has some advice (should I trim some leaves so that on sunny days (sparse) they get more sun and get more air to dry them out?) please send it my way!
Last week I picked green beans every other day and we had 2 huge meals. Beets are still making 6-8 2-3" beets every week. Lettuce is done. Snow peas are still producing! If it was a typical summer I think they would be done but it's cool and wet so they are happy as can be and huge. Tomatoes are coming, a handful of ripe cherries daily and one big one that will be ready on Wed. Our carrots are about the size of "baby carrots" from the store so maybe in Sept. they'll give us a good yield.
Here are my pickings from last week:

And here is what I got today:

I decided to have some fun and dug up the 2 potato plants that are in large pots in the yard. They were starting to look wilted, bloomed a while ago and I thought they might be finished. I got these potatoes (and I have already picked about 8-10 from them) and there were still more small ones so I put the soil back on them. If anyone can tell me if that is scab that I have (the skin looks like parched soil in the desert) especially noticeable on the one in the top right, that would be great. These are small to medium size. The littlest is about 2 1/2" long.



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playtime8978 wrote on Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:37 am:

I found a site with a couple of pics of Scab for you to compare to it doesn't look like it from here but might do when you can see the potatoes close up
http://www.potato.org.uk/department/sbeu/potato_diseases/factsheets.html

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Droopy wrote on Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:48 am:

Your harvest is looking good, congratulations. Wishing you lots more before autumn.

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gardenmama wrote on Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:27 am:

My zucchini were suffering like yours. i had several veg rot right off.

I cut back the leaves, and started to fertilize more regularly.

This past weekend i also took a look inside the plants and threw out any that looked soggy at the roots.

The cutting back seems to have worked on the leaves.

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gardengater wrote on Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:24 pm:

My Zucchini were not successful, no female blooms. Your other crops look great though. I love the beets and beans, esp. I'm sure they are as tasty as they look.
Gardengater

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Sjoerd wrote on Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:32 pm:

Hiyah...
Cutting-away spome of the leaves is perhaps a good idea(I havn't seen a pic), but not so much to let-in light as to allow air circulation. This will cut down on the chance of mould forming and it will help dry-out the soil surface somewhat.

If your little fruits are on the ground and turning yellow and going soft then you need to get them up and off the ground. Perhaps you could put them on a brick or something like that--something that does not hold water like wood or paper does. Remove those spoiled fruits and throw them away (not on the compost pile).

I am not sure what thet roughness on your spud skins is, I have never had that.
The first thing I think of is "Scurf" though. If that is the case, you are lucky because it is mostly a 'cosmetic' problem and you will still be able to eat the potatos...just peel them.

Anyway--great harvest. nice little trug you've got there, BTW.

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