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Our garden is doing well. I have canned some beets to give more room for others to grow, Last night hubby picked a bushel of yellow wax beans, I got 54 pints today. He picked another bushel tonight, for canning tomorrow, Planning to do corn on Wednesday. We've been eating new potatoes for a couple of weeks now.

Gee, I just found the bag of blue fingerling potatoes that I ordered from the Maine Potato Lady. Luckily they are short season potatoes so maybe I'll get something from them yet this year.

Is it a neighbor?

I lost a lot of plants to a fungus that was rotting them at soil level. Too much rain, I guess. Once i figured out what the fungus was I sprayed and things settled down. Unfortunately, I had lost half of the cauliflower and broccoli, some of the cabbage a few peppers and tomatoes. Cucumbers died to a plant. I've got tons of beans, more than enough summer squash and lettuce that is as tall as I am. We let it go to seed and every year we get volunteers that are ready very early. Winter squash and onions look good and I have some purple tomatillos. Waiting to see what will happen with the peppers and eggplant. Most of the corn rotted before it germinated.

Last spring Hubby built two raised beds for the garden. they're 4 x 10. I have to say that the raised beds do better than just planting in the ground. He thought about making more this spring, but I talked him out of it Maybe next year. I keep saying that we have to cut back! Everything seems to come in at the same time and it's hard to get everything done every day along with all of the regular ordinary things that have to be attended to. I have two bushels of picked peppers that need tended to and I don't know how I'm going to find the time, but I'm going to get them done! Oh and back to my green and wax beans that I've planted three times. I've felt from the beginning that it's rabbits. SO I've sprayed and sprayed the stinky Liquid Fence around the perimeter of the garden religiously and also around the beans. And we have an electric fence. I also made up rabbit sprays and used them. I sprinkled crushed egg shells around them. I was in that garden most of the day yesterday and the beans looked good for being the third round. I go up this morning and once again, most of them were eaten!!! ONLY the beans! The sweet peas and lettuce are in the next row and not touched, nothing but the beans. I'm done, let them eat them and enjoy them as long as they let the rest alone.