Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I just wanted to write a quick post about how the garden is coming along.

I wrote this post on Thursday evening and set the time to publish for Friday at 9 AM. Well, it didn’t work. Here it is 10:40 PM and I am just now checking… I saved it as a draft, so maybe that’s where I messed up… Any suggestions?

I decided to go ahead and make this a Six On Saturday post…

#1) The Sweet Corn ‘Incredible’ is looking great!

The pollination is coming along really well and the honeybees are hard at work collecting pollen.

 

I saw one collecting pollen, or trying to, where it has collected where the leaves come from the stalk… Those flying around the tassels had their legs full. One was so heavy it was having a hard time flying.

 

Some of the pollen is really packed…

 

OH, the carnage! Dead aphids were everywhere on the 2nd planting… I bought a new sprayer. Well, the Neem oil killed most of them when I just sprayed the tops of the stalks the day before. I sprayed Sevin the next day from top to bottom and under the leaves.

 

#2) The ‘Provider’ Bush Green Beans are still loaded with flowers on top of the plants.

 

I picked around 3 gallons early Friday evening. My neighbor helped pick them, so I gave him the whole bucket.

 

#3) The above photo is the biggest ‘Hale’s Best Jumbo’ Cantaloupe. NICE! Friday after the greens were picked, I found A LOT of aphids on the cantaloupe, so I retaliated with Sevin. GEEZ!

 

#4) One of the ‘Red Duce’ Tomatoes is almost ripe. One of the ‘Celebrity’ is next in line…

 

#5) I picked the first two ‘Black Zucchini’.

#6) I had to take a photo of the Amaranthus cruenthus ‘Red Spike’ on my way inside. It seems to get taller every day.

Pretty neat with all those tiny flowers.

That completes my Six on Saturday kindly hosted by Jim from Garden Ruminations. Be sure to check out the other Six on Saturday posts.

Well, that’s it for this post! Until next time, be safe, stay positive, always be thankful, and GET DIRTY! It will pay off!