2 gal Guava Barbie Pink with blossom buds in sunlight!.
2 gal Guava Barbie Pink with blossom buds.
3gal Saccharum Officinarum ready to go.
3wks after Tent caterpillas had a spray of BTK.
75gal Piper nigrum & Coffea Arabica.
Apple Swaar. Heirloom.
Apple Wealthy. Heirloom.
Asian Oear Seuri-Li.
Asian Pear Mishirasu.
Asian Pear Ping-Guo-Li.
Calamondin Citrus Madurensis filling the air with sweet perfume.
Calamondin Citrus Madurensis from friut to blossom at the same time.
Carica TR Hovey nice 5gal double header with buds.
Citrus X Jambhiri Meyer one of the new 2 gal spring plants.
Crabapple Norland. Last of 16-2.5inch fruit.
Easy pickings at this height.
European Pear Luscious.
European Pear Maxine. Supposed to be golden skinned.
Garden Prince Almond same issue.
Grove of 2 & 5 gal Musa.
Halls Hardt Almond showing what a problem Japanese Beetle can be.
Hibiscus Kopper King.
Julgans Regia English Walnut.
Leeks maturing well. 2nd re-sow of peas (Grundy) next to 2nd sowing of bush beans. (BSC825 & Oakly) Carrots are Enterprise.
None are golden,so wrongly named time will tell.
Papaya Tainung-1 10gal 5 branches with blossom buds. What a specimen!
Papaya Tainung-1. 3gal 3 branches with blossom buds.
Starting to ripen only about 2wks now.
We start the month with a week without a drop of rain, as July here only had 1.7″ well under the norm of 3+”. So three months in a row of deficit, and with intense sun makes for a lot of watering.
2nd re-sow of peas are through and growing nicely. Beans we sowed two weeks earlier are now showing blossoms. Carrots are getting nice and long, Leeks are thickening.
Pole beans are this year not performing well. We brought in Algarve due to it being advertised as good in high tunnels, Aintree as better than Scarlet Runner. All have been defeated by the heat, good early but have faded quickly.
Spraying BTK as a preventative, is certainly worth it, trust the image of re-growth where a small patch of tent caterpillars had occurred shows this nicely.
Garden fruits are filling out with our addition of 1/2″ water per week. Biggest problem even with three JB traps are the beetles. Their favourite food as always starts with Prunus, Rubus, then Apple-Malus. We have been drowning about 3-4 quarts of beetles per week, but do not seem to have made a dent in their numbers. Yes there is a control spray of Beneficial Nematodes,but we do not have the lawn area, that acreage belongs to are neighbours.
Summer is a wonderful time, enjoy the tropical weather with the right plants around you to always have something to enjoy and eat.
