Gardening Thread- Show me your gardens!

Did the guy survived?

This is a kingsnake. Good little guy that will grow up to be 5, 6 feet long. Eats mice, chipmunks and other snakes, including copperheads. We've already killed a copperhead baby (8"-10" long) this year, so I was very happy to see the kingsnake today.

 

He did, just got to spend a couple days in the hospital. Said losing his political race was less painful than the copperhead bites, lol.

 

Eastern Kingsnake? non-venomous…

 

Alls I see upstate NY are common garter snakes - keeps the mice population in check…

 

Proof right there it’s a Battleground State.

 

Either that or a yellow speckled kingsnake. He was only about 18" long.

 

I had to put innertubes on my tiller the other day since the tires are going. When I ran it back to the woodshed I looked up to a 5’ black snake perched on the woodpile about shoulder high. That gave me a jolt but I left him be out there.

 

Some strawberries are starting to turn red!

 

Breakin’ out the chains til planting time. If weather holds out tomorrow the fun starts. Another game of inches.

 

Kinda self explanatory

 

Something is making a meal out of my rhubarb. I can’t find anything. I did find one little worm on it and I’m not sure what it was. I got rid of it and didn’t take a pic. I applied neem oil to it only once.



any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

 

Look under the leaf?

 

I did and nothing is standing out that appears to be obvious. I just don’t know

 

https://bw.meridianfarmersmarket.org/1898-common-diseases-and-pests-affecting-rhubarb.html

Maybe slugs

https://morningchores.com/rhubarb-problems/

 

More blueberries. Same 2 bushes.
I guess I will have to make more bluberry jam.
Getting tired of cobblers.
Anybody has a bluberry wine receipe?

 

WOW!! You can easily freeze them.

I have some honey berries that are turning blue. No blueberries, not close.

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Planted my corn seeds.

 

Some of the leaves on the PAF Blackberrys are enormous!

 

I may do that.
I had tried growing honey berries (look like long barrels, deep purple in color, red juice?) for 10 years in GA. Too hot, lost 6 bushes, took out the last one this spring.
If it is the same berry, they are loaded with anti-oxidants and leach heavy metals, including the radioactive ones, out of the body. They were/are used in Soviet and Russian space programs.

 

Same.
Birds like them more than any berry! And yeah don't need or take much heat

 

Do you use bird netting? I have to on some of the blueberries. One of the reasons we put so many bluberry bushes in. Birds cannot eat them all.