The collard greens have surprised me and have kept growing even with the hot spring weather we have been having.
I trimmed them back, tossed them in the pot and made them for dinner. This is why I always wanted a garden. I love being able to make dinner out of what’s in the back yard.
The peppers are also still growing. The the early red, the acorn looking regular red and the jalapeños.
A few new grape tomatoes are showing up everyday and the Better Bush has a new baby tomato.
On the other hand my squash and cucumber experience continues to be difficult. The cucumbers don’t seem to be getting pollinated and in addition to the aphids in the squash that I’m still battling using the Dawn solution
the squash have developed mildew.
My cucumber plants developed it last year but much later in the humid hot summer. There are two types of cucumber/squash mildews, downy and powdery. I don’t know which I have but both cause the same outcome and it is not good. I recently I bought a fungicide called SERENADE Garden. Before spraying I trimmed off the overly infected leaves, which turned out to be most of the zucchini leaves. Those plants are now looking "puny" as boyfriend would say.
I do have a couple small yellow squash that are hanging in there under the mildly infected yellow squash leaves.
I’m hopefully that by the end of this week they will be large enough to be picked and eaten. Even if there is only enough for just me.
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