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bjrogg:
Our Navy Beans are looking really good to. Really they are looking to good. White mold is a nasty fungus we battle with in our climate. It thrives in cool damp conditions with lots of vegetative growth. These beans have great potential if they don’t develop white mold. The mold will rot the straw and stems. Sometimes the beans are even fine but the pods fall off the rotten straw. Rotten straw is all you are left with to harvest.

The same weather that is perfect for setting pods is perfect for white mold. To hard to guess what this crop will amount to, but it sure looks pretty now.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Speaking of weather. This field of Navy Beans got torn up pretty good by hail. It really shredded them. It should look like the other picture. Hard to say yet how this field will fair. It’s not looking as pretty right now though.
Bjrogg

Marc St Louis:
I have to say that is a lot of Pumpkin.  I only planted 2 vines which have set 3 fruit so far one of which is already starting to turn orange...the flowers are edible

Planted some Chard this year but I find I prefer Lambs Quarter, also planted a few Leeks





And of course some Turnips

Stoker:
Tomatoes are fruiting well. potatoes are flowering, sweet corn is 5' high, everything else is doing pretty good in this extreme heat wave. Pour the water to it

Eric Krewson:
I had some garden left over after I planted my normal stuff so I planted a 20x20 cantaloupe patch, I only had 5 seeds come up but they branched and spread out to completely cover the area.

I counted the cantaloupes yesterday and found I had 38 in this small patch, a couple were turning tan.



A critter had taken a bite out of one of the ones that was almost ready so I picked it even though it needed a few more days in the field.



I cut it up and found it was pretty good, last year I forgot to save seed, I am not making that mistake this year. This is an heirloom cantaloupe with a French name, I can't remember what it is and can't find the same in any of the heirloom seed catalogs.



I put up an extra low strand of electric fence to keep the crawling critters like coons and ground hogs out of my patch after I saw that one cantaloupe had been munched on.

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