I was able to get the Yukon Gold potatoes hilled up and planted 4 more rows of corn this week. I also thinned out the first planting of corn. Everything looks good so far.
No sign of grasshoppers yet but the neighbours a block away have them. They are small in the nymph stage. At this stage the grasshoppers are easily killed by pesticides, but I would need to spray all of the fields for miles around to be affective. I sprayed the garden one time last year, mostly the corn and beans and killed hundreds of them. As soon as the farmer to the west cut his hay I was infested with more. It is not worth the cost and the biggest thing is that I do not want to use pesticides period. I will need to get pens for the turkeys set up in the garden in the next week or two.
Tomatoes on the right and peppers on the left.
The peas are doing well. The sugar snap peas are a pale green almost yellow but they should green up in the next week or two. The little marvels are the ones on the right and darker green.
Here you can see the corn after it was thinned out.
You can see in this picture how the brown soaker hose/dip lines will eventually fill up the furrows and do a good job just watering the plants. The beans are on the left, carrots in the center and beets to the right.
Here are the four new rows of corn. The drip lines are in place and will be the only source of water for the remaining plantings of corn, no overhead sprinklers.
