Zone 4 is looking good so far

[longwinters]

Up here in zone 4 things have been quite warm lately....we'll see if it stays that way.  Everything is in except my tomato and pepper plants and they will go in tomorrow afternoon.  A few beans are sprouting, carrots are up, onions are going well.  I would imagine that my winter squash, cukes and more lettus should pop this week also.  It's been bone dry, but better to be too dry and add water than too wet and watch things get diseased.
 
Gotta love this time of year.
 
Long

[cjclemens]

Its been bone dry here in zone 5 as well - actually beyond bone dry. I dont mind watering, but the lack of rain has other consequences.  A little dry is not a bad thing, but we're way past that point now.  Everything is planted now and most of it us up and going.  Squash, melons, pumpkins, beans are all up and going.  Sweet corn is just starting to poke out of the ground, too.  All that's left are cucumber and zucchini, which were the last ones planted.  Next project is putting up a little rabbit fence to keep them out of my beans.  I dont know if I can do anything about deer - im actually thinking about putting up a hot wire, but im not convinced they wont just jump over it anyway.  I do, however, take comfort in the fact that I hunt over my garden plot during deer season.  A few guilty parties may or may not have ended up in the freezer over the years, but I digress.

[longwinters]

Well if they did end up feeding you and yours......those deer were well fed.  I would call that justice.
 
Long

[Bob Riebe]

I am in the middle of Minn. and have one garden in zone 3 and one in zone 4 both are doing pretty well except for Colorado Potato Beetles which as much as I dislike using insecticides I finally dowsed with Sevin and then proceeded to spend six hours squashing the ones I could see and smushing the egg clusters.


I found out that putting ashes in the garden too often is a good way to screw up growing corn and in areas in both gardens where someone has put ashes, thinking they were doing good for me, my corn germination rate dropped to well below twentyfive percent and this is in gardens where before I had to deal with volunteer corn.


I now either put the ashes on the lawn or into a garbage can for garden waste the city picks up.

[bilmac]

CJC  the new thought in deer fencing is to put up two fences parallel to each other. The deer supposedly not having good depth peception are then afraid to make the jump. Just a thought.
 
 I have fences around some fruit trees but the trees are getting too big for the fences to prevent browsing. I just put a single strand of rope around the outside of the fenced trees and the deer left them alone last winter. Don't know if the rope did anything or the deer just weren't hungry