[DonnaO]

If it is only a few plants that you are harvesting seeds from, you could do like I do and plant around them, especially if it is something that would benefit from or doesn’t care about a little shade. You would be pulling out the turnips long before that pace is needed for the new plants.

[DonnaO]

I had the same thing happen to me with an apple tree. Out of desperation, I trimmed the tips of each branch (just had 5 branches), and the tip off the top of the tree. I then fertilized with 13-13-13 with micro minerals. It finally budded out 2 weeks later. The other apple tree budded out 2 months before.

I don’t know if it was just a fluke or a legit treatment. My instincts told me to try this. I am just glad it worked.

[DonnaO]

When I start to feel overwhelmed, I head out to my garden. I ground myself by walking around and pulling weeds, plucking some destructive bugs off the plants and into soapy water, harvest a few things while mentally resetting my priorities. I have found myself doing this for most of my adult life. I would tell the kids that I was putting myself into “time out”. They learned to give me that time, lest, and I quote ” my head would start spinning around” per my daughter. 😂 They still tease me about that.

[DonnaO]

I am in East Texas zone 8a. This has been a very weird growing year. I have a bunch of new bugs that I have never seen before. Both good and bad bugs. I actually decided to embrace (cautiously) fire ant when I found them drilling into my southern peas to get to the bugs that bore into the bean seeds. These particular larva have decreased my yields for the last 3 years. I am hoping that between my picking and the fire ants eating, that we can finally break the pest cycle. Just have to be really careful when I pick and where I step, lol.