*&%X$%#@!)+ Critters: The Gotch

bummer, what kind of critters?


keith

Looks like you need to grab your .22 rifle and camp out by the garden Gotch.

rxkeith wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:21 pm bummer, what kind of critters?


keith

Methinks a groundhog/wood chuck; set up a livetrap baited with cantaloupe yesterday.

The Gotch

The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch with a never-ending Zuke Ribbon: Clockwise from top left: Carmen, Gyspy, and Purple Beauty; the latter (IMO) not a suitably good candidate for grilling. The Gotch

That poor Mrs Gotch. Soon she will be resembling a spider. With all of those huge zuc's you grew, she will be spinning for days.

can't imagine starting at one end and sucking it down like a spaghetti noodle.


keith

Danged critters! If they would at least eat the whole thing and leave a few that would be one thing, but they don't. They take a bite from this one and that one, so none are good! Squirrels are terrible, and raccoons are the worst! Yes, we have raccoons in the city. They are NOT cute little woodland creatures! They are mean and trash the garden worse than a woodchuck. For them, a 9mm. Unfortunately that's illegal in the city.

Love the zuke ribbon! So many zukes, so little time!

And the Honker Zukes continue apace... The Gotch

My cute-as-a-button curly cue Grand Niece hoisting one of her favorite Great Uncle Gotch's Big Zac Hybrid or Greenbush Italian Heirloom The Gotch

Now that's what it's all about. What a great picture.

The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch sliced up an Ananas Noire (left) and Green Giant for lunch today: Is mid August every Northern Hemisphere/North_Of_The_Mason-Dixon Line Tomato Ranchers' Paradise/Nirvana/Promised Land/Avalon, or what?

The Gotch

I got to try the English cucumber it was really good still waiting on sweet success!! Some day haha

AKgardener wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 12:19 pm I got to try the English cucumber it was really good still waiting on sweet success!! Some day haha

Good luck with the Sweet Success, they're worth all the waitin' waitin' anticipatin'!

I had to replant three (3) times.

Glass half full?

We should have fresh Cukes in September; a first!

The Gotch

Always half full wouldn’t have it any other way

Late, but starting to roll in, picked before the rain split 'em
Top half: Big Bubba, 3 Mountain Merit, Daniel Burson, Big Lou, Big Zac, middle Zapotec Oaxacan Clockwise from upper left: Red Sausage, 1 Super Sauce Hybrid, 4 Cornue des Andes, Italian Gold, smattering of Santa Maria & Uncle Steve's Italian, middle greenies Cherokee Carbon Left, the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch Fave Ananas Noire, and Black Brandywine The Gotch's fave sauce/paster Yaqui Hybrid On left Mushroom Basket, Lemon Boy Plus, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, VA Sweets The Ugliest of the Mushroom Baskets @Mark_Thompson, what does yer Rorschach Test say 'bout these here Butt Uglies...? The Gotch

I'm not Mark, but I say bumblebee! A flying panda, most welcome in the garden.

Hmmm the first one is definitely a dragon. The second one just really reminds me of the eternity of the cosmos, and how insignificant we all really are in the grand scheme of space and time.

I assume you see the same?

How are the super sauce tomatoes I have a pack I’ve been meaning to try it..

AKgardener wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:23 pm How are the super sauce tomatoes I have a pack I’ve been meaning to try it..

As advertised, they're good sized, I'll plant 'em next season.

That said, this has been a HORRIBLE Sauce/Paste Year in these here parts, Beefsteaks/Slicers not as bad, but Hell-n-Gone from last year's bounty.

Glass half full?

Beau coup Beefsteak/Slicers still greenin' on the vines; heck, it's only the Ides of August, am I right?

The Gotch