Elk County Forum

My Tomatoes are really doing great. The vines are covered in Tomatoes.

Tomatoes are looking good wish mine was, but my weeds are growing great.

Dale, my Garden is small, it is a raised garden with all sterile soil, in 7 years I have not had 1 weed to pull. I have green peppers about ready to pick. I plant my garden April 1st ever year. I concrete reinforcing wire cages and I wrap them in clear plastic for about the first 2 months, it acts as a hothouse and protects the plants from late frost. The plants grow faster and bloom earlier. If you get down this way come by and see it.

 :D  Your gardens are always so beautiful!!!  I have harvested some cherry tomatoes but that's about it at this point.

How did you get your soil sterile? 

I bought the vegetable mix at Lowes.

Cat,  attached is a picture of Myrna's Flowers in the back. They will really be pretty in about a month or so when all are blooming. Come down and visit and we will take you to dinner.

Wow! I'm jealous.That looks beautiful and very professional.

Here is how I keep the Birds off of my Tomatoes. I am getting a few more ripe ones each day. Also getting a few Green , Red, Yellow Peppers. Anxious for the sweet Banana Peppers to get ripe.

 ;D ;D Frank, that is incredible.  I am so jealous!!!  I have been getting a few tomatoes and also a couple of cukes...Guess the weather needs to get hotter before the stuff will really start producing.

Great weather for tomatoes. Below is a picture of the last 3 days picked. I have already given my neighbors some also.

What's a Haboob, you ask?
Dust and sandstorms are common in the Middle East, where the Arabic term "haboob" comes from. Here, the word has come to mean a powerful dust storm, the kind with towering walls of dust. Some object to the use of the foreign term, but in any case, "dust storm" is just as accurate. The definition of a dust storm is blowing dust that reduces visibility between 5/8 and 5/16 of a mile; a heavy dust storm is one that reduces visibility to less than 5/16 of a mile. Anything else would simply be called blowing dust.

Enough of that... after Haboob blew thru... RAIN!  Blessed rain... after 122 days of NO rain, Monsoon is finally here!: