The last two days of garden harvest. I looked at the small melon bed today and found a ripe melon, then another, and another, and more... Picked all the fully red Marconi sweet peppers and all the paste tomatoes I could find that were ripe.
#squash
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Harvest for August 3rd and 4th.
Found a big crookneck squash today, fewer beans, a few zucchini, a couple of cucumbers, and some tomatoes.
Bush squash update.
The butternut is within the raised bed still. The acorn 'bush' is about 15-20 feet beyond the raised bed in two directions.
Recent harvested things from the garden.
Pulled a couple of eggplants out today, they were wilting from unknown, both on the north ends of their different beds so maybe just too wet or perfect conditions for whatever they have. They're on the burn pile now and I treated the area and other eggplants with Soil Blast.
Lots of beans but 5 times as many bean flowers.
Here’s my favorite #squash match of the season: Elias vs Farag. 
Perfect if you want to discover how intense and beautiful squash can be. Full match on YouTube – don’t miss it!
Today's harvest from the garden, minus any zucchini because I didn't spend much time looking. Picked the largest eggplants and a ones that were on a dying stalk, 2 cucumbers, 2 yellow crooknecks, and 580 grams / 20 ounces of runner beans.
Catching up on garden things. Skipped some days of picking and didn't take a photo of buckets full of tomatoes or eggplants. So here's Sunday, Saturday, Thursday, and Wednesday's harvest.
I picked all the Red Marconi peppers that were susceptible to sunburn plus they were as ripe as they'd get anyway. There were a couple of cucumbers too. Too busy/lazy Monday to pick anything.
If you need a way to use up a large zucchini I highly recommend this soup. #zucchini #cashews #basil #lemon #miso #garlic #soup #squash #cooking #food #blender https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024477-chilled-zucchini-soup-with-lemon-and-basil?unlocked_article_code=1.YE8.4GcM.Vb0Ur-3887MA&smid=share-url
My wife's butternut squash plant is massive! The dogs can barely avoid it when going out. I'd say it is 35-40 feet if stretched out and still growing. There's currently 6 good sized squash on it and 1 she already harvested. It apparently thrives in heat and humidity. 
I'm just glad work is over for a couple of days.
Happy Friday everyone! Have a good evening.
I've been testing a new way to protect zucchini from squash vine borers (Melittia curcurbitae). The larvae are already inside the vines because I can see frass coming out of holes, so I'm cutting off leaves at multiple locations, filling the hollow stumps with a Bacillus thuringiensis suspension, then using a thin rod to create a channel for the liquid to drip into the primary, sometimes hollow stem. #squash #zucchini #bt #caterpillar #moths #garden #gardening
Beans have slowed down, not many got pollinated when it was hot last week. Same for the squash and zucchini and I haven't been hand pollinating them for a week or so. A couple of orange Flamme tomatoes.
My #squash plants have been going crazy! And check out this weird little guy that fused two together!
I put up an electric fence around our raised garden beds. It works until a more resourceful critter figures out how to get past it.
I found the largest of our delicata squashes that was ripening on the vine half-eaten this morning.
Time for a backup strategy. I will try a deer and rabbit repellent.
Jaysus... had two hours of #squash this am in an effort to try get fit before the weekend..... sitting in the bath cramping in places I did not know I had.... playing in a tournament with my boy in the Lowveld Jock tournament next week. It's named after the 'Jock of thr Bushveld' story, not the macho attitude. Gotta get fit quick and lose maybe 10kgs quick... other than cutting off an arm, any advice?
Continued thread
There's lots of blooming and bees going on in the yellow squash, the tomatoes and tomatillo are taller than me, and the cucumber bed has no more beets.
The big leafy 'beets' had a big white root. Not sure what it is, maybe chard?
I picked the first eggplants this morning along with the usual things.
Yesterday and today's harvest.
Raspberry total is more than 2 liters now with a little bit I picked the other day when I also picked about a gallon of blueberries (not pictured). The first tomato picked yesterday and another today along with more zucchini/squash, beans, and some sweet Red Marconi peppers.
I pruned off the lower leaves of my zucchini plants today so that they could be trained to grow vertically. While I was down there I picked off the tiny brown eggs left by squash vine borer moths. Found about 10. #GrowYourOwn #garden #gardening #allotment #zucchini #squash
