Early August In My Garden (8pics)

Greetings, friends
The last month of summer has begun. August. This is the most productive month of the year, or rather, in August, the main crop begins to ripen in my garden: tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peas, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, in the second half of the month, we start eating apples and pears, plums. And, I almost forgot to mention the onion and garlic.

At the end of July, the beginning of August, it's time to harvest onions. First of all, we remove the red onion from the garden. Thus, the onion is dried for about a week, thanks to the weather, which is hot, the thermometer shows + 30 degrees Celsius. Due to the danger of the start of rains, my wife and I put the onion in the hayloft today so that it would lie down even before the green part was completely dry, and then we would trim the dried feathers.

This year promises to be very rich in apples. Now we can say this with complete confidence. Apple trees, due to the hot weather and lack of moisture in the soil, begin to drop excess apples to the ground. We make delicious compotes from these apples.
I tried to prop up the branches of the apple trees so that they would not break under the weight of the apples. In July, the trunk of an old plum tree broke into 3 pieces due to strong winds. 6 years ago, a pear tree broke in the same way. There were a lot of fruits on it. It turns out that I did not draw a conclusion from the last lesson.

The pear also pleases with the abundance of fruits, but it upsets me with black spots on the leaves. What is it, and how to deal with it? How can I help the tree? Last year, 2 pears got sick in the spring. Which specialist can suggest the cause of the disease and its treatment?



20 years ago, you could hear about our region as the land of evergreen tomatoes. This means that the tomatoes did not turn red in the garden; the gardeners plucked them green, put them in a warm place, and there they turned red. But the taste of such tomatoes is not very tasty. The climate has changed in 20 years, and now we are not in a hurry to pick tomatoes green; we give them the opportunity to ripen in the greenhouse. Of course, closer to autumn, we no longer harvest tomatoes in red.

My cats also harvest in the garden throughout the spring and autumn period. When we leave the house, we often see mouse voles on the porch.
But today our Hinata brought an earth rat to the windowsill. In our garden, we have sandy, light soil, so it is easy for rodents to build their underground passages and live in them. These earth rats like to gnaw the roots of young trees. They've already destroyed more than one of my trees. I am fighting them, and my cats are helping me in this matter.

I forgot to mention the berries. The honeysuckle season ended back in June, and the strawberries also yielded their harvest. We are currently harvesting black currants, raspberries, and gooseberries.