Agriculture

I have gotten a lot of calls and leaf samples of tomatoes from people wanting to know what to spray for diseases, etc.  There haven’t been a lot of reports of most tomato diseases hitting just yet, but the leaves that many of you are talking about is actually 2-4D damage.

Sweet corn is a favorite among home vegetable gardeners.  Improved hybrid cultivars are easy to grow.  They yield well, taste sweeter, and store longer than old time cultivars.  Sweet corn is best adapted to larger gardens since only one or two ears are produced per plant and several rows are recommended to ensure adequate pollination.  However, even small plantings can be successful if planted in blocks rather than rows.

We recently noticed a hummingbird at our house, so we promptly went out and bought a feeder…well, actually two; one for the front and one for the back.  We wanted to keep them around and hoped to get more because, for some reason, we find them adorable!  This past weekend we had two males feeding at the same time and are just as happy as can be!  You can tell the males from the females because of the red markings on their breasts.  If you want hummingbirds you should start feeding now and plant accordingly. More on that later.