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Abundance of rain .Things are growing leaps and bounds .I think the field corn is growing 6" a day .Tomatoes are starting up the trellis ,before they are done they'll be over 8 feet high if every thing goes well .I only put out half a dozen this year . In this part of the country being a lake...

Figures ,I water the garden and now it rains this afternoon .

I've got the hoses on right now .

I've got everything in the ground .Green beans,yellow squash and cucumbers from seed .Tomatoes,green peppers and banana peppers from starts .Two raised beds about 3 by 24 feet ,it's enough .

It's coming on strong .So many cucumbers ,green beans, squash I'm giving it away .The other night I picked a tomato that was larger than a softball .Georgia and myself couldn't eat it all . Those tomatoes are a hybrid type of beefsteak and they can get so huge they tear the vines .

I've had garden goods this year I haven't had in decades .One being fresh green beans .A few days ago fried crook neck yellow squash .It's been kind of nice .

Ice cream.When my dad found out he was diabetic he told my uncle Phil he had to give up beer and ice cream.Uncle Phil replied,well Bud you've already had more than your share.

I avoid kale,swiss chard and the like .In other news the tomatoes are about 7 feet tall and full of green with lots of blossums .Little squash on the plants,about two weeks on that .Another picking of green beans about weeks end .

Last year was so dry it didn't do good .This year I got the jump on it and laid out the soaker hoses .Figures,this year we've had ample rain .I gave every thing a shot of Miracle Grow last afternoon .I'll give it another in about a week .

Climate more than likely .The same reason we don't have gators .If we did it would be the northern fur bearing type .

Here's what happens with ground hogs .They of course hibernate but about late Feb,early March the males wake up and scout out where the females are then resume their nap .When the time is ripe the males go courting ,first come first served so to speak ,If they dilly dally some other gets the...

In a way old"Phil" kind of is a pet .He was like my adopted coon.just a little chit when he first showed up but like "Rocky" he grew .Phil has enough body weight the fence would not be fatal but it would knock him on his butt .

I've got this big fat ground hog that lives under my shed and likes to help himself to my garden .I've also got an electric fence around my raised bed which I forgot to plug in and damned if he didn't eat a half a row of green beans . Well I got one culprit today,a mouse ,grave yard dead .

When I was growing up with 5 kids in the family we always had a big garden .About 3/4 of a acre .Almost everything you could imagine .I hated working in it . Now with only about 50 feet of raised bed it's only a 15-20 minute job once a week to weed it etc .It's just fresh stuff while it's in...

My dad always said memorial day weekend is the best time to plant a garden in these parts .He must have been right because the green beans,crooked neck squash and cucumbers are sprouted and growing already .

I planted the tomatoes about 4 days ago and I swear they've grown 6 inches since then .It's finally gotten warm here in the giant corn field of the midwest .Fact today is the first I've used the AC.

I'm going to try and get tomato plants and cucumbers this week .I didn't take the time this year to plant starter plants from seed .

There's methods like wrapping green tomatoes in newspaper or hanging the vines with green tomatoes upside down where it won't freeze .You can still have some about Christmas time .

They will ripen if picked green but they certainly don't have the flavor of vine ripened .