Fourth Spraying

What I Did:
     Removed some leaves on concords, sprayed with Nova and Captan

Comments:
     It was a calm, dry morning and had been 10 days since the last spray.  I removed some leaves from the Concord to help with the drying, since we've had so much rain, and to enable better spray penetration.  I could have done the same with the Niagaras as well but will work on those in the coming week.

     The grapes are looking good.  These are probably the biggest on any of the plants.  I think this is Frontenac though  it could be the Reliance seedless.  Clusters on many of the vines seem to be pretty loose this year.  Even some of the other seedless varieties, which normally have pretty tight clusters, seem loose.

     The young plants are looking good.  The first above is the re-growth of a DeChaunac and it's looking healthy.  The one on the right is a second year Cayuga White.  They are really growing tall already.

          In other parts of the garden, the sunflowers are off to a good start.  The ones on the right of the door to the blueberry house are volunteers mostly with planted sunflowers on the left side.

     Blueberries are really filling out and it looks like we'll have a decent crop after all, though not as good as some years.  They certainly are behind, though.  We have picked ripe berries by this time other years.  If they hold on, we could have a good number of pecans our our tree this year, too, far more productive than our "crop" of 5 nuts last year.  The currants are looking good, too, and I really need to study to see when to determine ripeness with those.  Our sour cherries are not as plentiful, and we lost one tree.  There are quite a number of sweet cherries but they all seem to have been infested with worms and thus are not nearly as enticing.  I'll need to spray those next year I guess.