This is from my main crop harvest earlier in June! I started them late last year and didn't get much, but the general rule of planting potatoes on/around President's Day is nearly perfect for Central TX potato farming
Got a bunch of these bad boys coming in now, first time growing them!
They're all over some of my tomatoes too. Pretty sure they're an assassin or stink bug, but not entirely sure which. I also worry they may be contributing to the damage on my corn cobs and later tomato harvest, but I can't tell if they're just flocking to the plants to feast on other pests, or if they're eating the plants themselves.
Side note: how can I tell when a cob is ready to harvest?
Have any of y'all experimented with cover cropping over the summer to keep beds healthy during the worst of the heat? I've done a mix of black oil sunflower and amaranth in the past to mixed results, but we've also had a very wet and pleasant spring so it's hard to tell how long the growing season will last before things get fried until fall. I'm also getting ready to harvest and flip my potato beds in the next month or so and I don't expect to get much out of them again until fall so I figure a cover crop can't hurt there.
What summer cover crops have y'all tried? How have the results been? Is now a decent time to sow them, or might it already be too late?
Howdy y'all! I'm giving three sisters another try after getting off to a poor start last year. Are my corn plants too close together in their mounds, and thus pushing each other over? Or do they just need some time to figure themselves out?
There's roughly 10-20 corn plants per mound, I never went through and thinned them