and do what with it...i'm guessin' carefully brush the inside of the bloom???

yes. do all of them ,, you will see the pollen . spread it around.

Also go check on your cucumbers every hour and see if you see any bees. Cukes will only have nectar available for a short window. like 10-noon or 1-3 for instance. The bees will learn this pattern and know when to show up. Last year bees would be in my garden at sun up and stay a couple hours and only worked the squash. They would be gone for a couple hours and show back up at about 11 and work on the cukes for a while.

Long garden is doing well. Dog got into it and screwed up all the fabric. Fuzzy picture. Fail.



Tomato garden coming along.



Jujube watermelon



3 of 6 heart of gold cantaloupes



Dereks H19 Little Leak cucumbers. I think 7 made it. 5 or 6 failed to grow.



White peach



Figs growing

My peach tree is loaded this year.I already knocked about 100 off trying to thin them. Probably still 100 on the tree. Three years ago when we had the warm winter it didn't produce a single peach. I think it's a high chill variety,maybe Ranger?

hey Derek, got my 3 new raised beds, but i'm not smart enuf 2 put'm 2gether...naa, nuthin' 2 it but what is the deal with those plastic rivits???...can't weight 2 play n the dirt...thanks for the idea...pikshurs after fulla dirt

lol. I never figured out what those where for. There are holes they fit in. But they don't do anything.

Gardens are looking good!

Question , I put some marigolds out and now I have huge wholes in the leaves, same with some couple inch tall sunflowers, and my cucumbers . My tomatoes dont show any chewing , nor my pepper plants, or sqiash. I go out there everyday and dont see anything on my plants . Iv been spraying bt , what else can I try?

Are you spraying Bt at dusk?

You can dust everything with diatomaceous earth. This is the easiest way to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkrK8LvQPa8

Yes I have been , i went and bought de today , il try that even if it dosent work it looks fun . I also have been noticing grubs, does de work on them as well? Was waiting as long as I can to spray neem since it kills good and bad insects. I also bought spinosad pellets

DE won't work on them since they are below ground. Benefical Nematodes work will for them. Below is a reference for which nematodes work for which pest. The main nematode for grubs is Hb. You can call around to local nurseries. A lot more nurseries are starting to carry them now. Neem is fine to spray now. But once it starts to get 90 degrees and above I'd stop using it. It will cause some plant damage when used in higher temps.

https://www.arbico-organics.com/category/nematode-selection-chart

I read about that and milky spores doing well for them, I called all around here and we dont have any, matter of fact they just had a ? Over their head, but we are out in the sticks. I tried all nursieres and they have one shelf for organic , both feed stores here laughed if they carried any non synthetic fertilizer or pesticides as trucks were lined up for a trailer of sythetics

Milky spore is more designed to work on Japanese beetle grubs which we don't have many of. Some claim that it does work somewhat on the June grubs we have and some say it doesn't work at all on them. It takes a long time to work too.

Thanks for the info , so what do our grubs evolve into here?

June bugs. The chances you see actual damage from grubs isn't real common. People freak out when they dig and find a grub worm. Dig a 1-2sq foot spot in a few spots around the property. If you have a couple in that digging 1-2 per no biggie. If you have say 10+ then you have an issue.