Paula tried one of our Purple Beauty Peppers and found it to be not very sweet, more green bell pepper taste still, and after looking online I think I picked them too early. Needs to be fully, deeply purple. I was worried about sunscald though (see the big tan area on the top one). They’ll still be good to use though.The William’s Pride apple continues to get a flush of red. It’s hot out, me too!I thought this grasshopper was really pretty. Not sure I’ve seen one like it before. We have lots of predator insects and birds in the yard so a few grasshoppers are no harm and lots of food for our other wild friends!Zucchini begins.
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Have you thought about using shade cloth on the crops for which you fear scalding? It’s available in different amounts of light transmission – usually 30%, 50% and 70%.
I belong to a North Texas Veggie Gardeners group. A number of the members routinely shade parts of or their entire gardens in the summer and swear by it. I haven’t done it personally though.
Have you thought about using shade cloth on the crops for which you fear scalding? It’s available in different amounts of light transmission – usually 30%, 50% and 70%.
Oh interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. I always assumed the leaves would help but this makes sense, more controlled.
I belong to a North Texas Veggie Gardeners group. A number of the members routinely shade parts of or their entire gardens in the summer and swear by it. I haven’t done it personally though.
I’ll have to look into it!
Beautiful apple. Congrats
What an apple! Hope it will be 😋