Nothing much

Not a whole lot going on.
I am still getting green beans. More than we can eat in a day. If we ate them every night we could probably keep up, but i have a backlog beginning. If i had room in my freezer, i'd be blanching, vac-packing and freezing them now.... but i need to rummage through the freezer and shift things first.
I was picking them when they were about pencil size, now they are getting much fatter before i can collect them off the plant. More like the size they are when you buy them in cans at the grocery store.  Fewer beans equal more poundage, so even though actual beans picked is going down, weight is staying about the same.

I did find out that i cannot can my beans yet because i need a pressure canner for them.... unless i want to brine or pickle them and i don't.  I planned to get a pressure canner anyway so i had been researching them and decided on the All-American 21.5 quart, model number should be 921.

It will be a while before i can order it though- even if i did have enough money  saved.  Somebody tried to steal my card number and rent a room at some hotel in another country. My bank called this morning to check on the legitimacy of the attempted transaction.  It had declined anyway because the attempted charge was well over the available funds in the account.  Joke's on them.  Next time try  and steal from someone who actually has money, you horse's backside.

 
I have been meaning to get the fall crop seeded in, but things always conspire against me.  Indecision is my enemy. While i have been trying to decide if i should start them in flats or direct sow them and watch them get eaten or mistakenly pluck them as weeds, the days are going by.  *sigh*

Finally got my hair sent off to Locks of Love. I sent two bunches, one from a number of years ago that was 10 inches long and the most recent bundle which was 16 inches long.  Ten inches is the minimum they can use, so i hope they are able to get all they can from it. My procrastinating about mailing them off is my example of how not unusual this indecision is for me. My indecision about cutting off all my hair as short as i could stand added about 4 inches to the 16  inch hank. But enough of that, its just that i have had the hair bundled up and in a bag for ever and only just got to mailing it to the charity.

Yanno what. I think i'll just go now and start some flats.

Later update-

I planted 6 more seed types.

Salt Wort
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Starbor Kale
Arugula
Calabrese Broccoli
and
Broccoli Raab which i guess is a form of early sprouting broccoli, but i don't quite understand the distinction-other than flavor.
Some of them should do well in at this time of planting, the others are experimental. I have never eaten salt wort before but the description sounds intriguing.
I am regretting not having planted parsley this year.  I did chit some seeds in a baggie with paper towel but i forgot about the seeds until it was too late and they got to be a mess. I had hoped to make tabouleh with fresh herbs, so i have plenty of mint but no parsley.  I think lovage can be used as parsley so i might go see if the plants i set at my parents' house many years ago have come up this year...  i should probably bring them home with me since nobody has ever actually used them.

I don't think i have ever seen a ladybug this small:

Koolickles, broccoli and midsummer pictures...

First, Koolickles.  Its another example of what those crazy southerners will do with pickles.  Its really not that crazy to me, though i never lived in the south i have seen odd foods from all over the place since i grew up watching cooking shows.... 
I think the first time i saw Koolickles was on an Alton Brown show not too long ago so for all my not-freaked-out-ishness, it is somewhat new to me.  The original recipe calls for dill pickles, sugar, and Kool Aid packets... red colors seem to be a must. Grape is reported to not work, lemon lime flavors are said to be nice, but are less preferred. Fruit punch, strawberry and cherry are the top choices.  Some recipes say to drain the juice and replace it with what is basically a double-sugar mix of Kool Aid.  The recipe i followed said i could add the Kool Aid to the pickle brine and add it back in. Some recipes say to slice the pickles lengthwise and some say leave them whole or buy a jar of spears.

I don't eat sugar, so i had to do some looking to see if this can be done with Sugar-free mix. It turns out that it might be possible.  So that is what i am trying.

The Victims.  A one gallon  jar of Mt. Olive kosher dills.  

The accomplice....

I'm taking the lazy way out. This may backfire. But if it backfires i'm out a jar of pickles...ho-hum.   I'm just going to dump 2 of the little cups of mix straight into the jar.   If it turns out to be too much flavoring i bet i could dump the juice out of the jar and refil with water and let it sit for a few days to purge the salt and flavoring a bit.

Ok, straight into the jar:

Looks sinister

Into the fridge for 1-3 weeks....

Ok, back to gardeny things...

I have Broccoli!  I noticed it the other day.  The plants that got shredded the least and that i left to recover have recovered.  The florets are understandably small

Polfast tomatoes are getting bigger.

All the tomatoes have been treated to prevent blights.

Cucumber!

FGS- Full garden shot

 Grapes...   the famous Marechal Foch....   this thing is so healthy looking.

Reliance...  i finally tied it up.

I tossed some flax seed into the garden in Spring. They had started to smeel like they might be going rancid.  Many of them sprouted...they don't take over much so its nice to have little blue flowers like this popping up here and there

I'm wondering what is up with my beets and rutabagas.  I need to take a closer look at them.  The beets are supposed to be 45 day and its right about that time now.  The packet said Spring planting was correct, but they seem to be late.  I think that area of soil isn't as yummy for them as it could be...though the beans just behind them are growing like mad.  The two rutabagas that i keep snipping the tops off of kept sending up flower stalks so i pulled them last night. Their roots looked woody and like they had tunnels through them....  they may have wireworms...  this would explain why my beets are slow... but i did pull a beet and the root of that one had no tunnels, but it wasn't any thicker than my thumb.  I managed to break it in half and it smelled sweet and had some juice to it.  It has been a long time since i have grown beets so i don't have much background to go on.  The rutabagas were 100 day type, so its too early to expect them to be getting ready....  but  i don't know if the reason the rutabagas were trying to go to seed was because of the attack on the roots...  they are the only ones that were trying to go to seed, so maybe they were the only ones affected?  This does not seem likely.  I noticed some green larvae on the rutabagas, so i'm going to apply some BT.  I have been picking cabbage butterfly eggs off the leaves of kale, collards et al, but the rutabagas have too many leaves to do this well and i noticed the butterflies are laying eggs on everything in the garden, not just the cole crops.

I had to pull back the birdhouse gourd quite a bit yesterday. It was laying hold of my rosemary and salsify plants in the next row over.  I almost have to say that planting them was a mistake.  My garden is simply too small.  They really need to be allowed to climb something, but i way underestimated what they would have needed to climb anyway. They are spreading in the rows like a large green glacier.... i had to rescue the watermelon vines from them as well.  They really would take over the entire garden if i let them.

The pumpkin plant that appeared in the walking row this Spring, and that hubby wanted me to keep is becoming a pest.  It has blocked my passage through that end of the walkway,  on the other side are my summer squash plants...it is a tight fit getting through.
I need to remember to plant squashes in the center of the row and at the end of the garden no matter what the garden planner says.  I planted 2 side-by-side and that is not enough room to keep them from coming out the side.
With my small garden, there wasn't enough root space for the Summer Squashes to grow this large, i had slightly dwarfed plants....  i don't now! lol

I have been able to pick about 2# of green beans every other day for the last week.  I may try and practice some small scale canning of them.  I have never canned solo before...  i borrowed Ball's Complete Canning book from the library the other day, so i'll do a quick read before i start trying.

Time to plant for fall?

Apparently. :o)

I have been getting little reminder emails from the assorted seed companies who have me on their mailing list.  Reminders that now is the time to plant cool season crops.  Because these seed companies are from various parts of the country i double checked with the most local company with a garden Blog:
Johnny's Selected Seeds

They have a monthly calendar with suggested gardening related activities,  according to July's calendar i should try to get fresh seeds in the garden (things like carrots, chard, broccoli,  radishes etc) by the middle of next week.  This meansi have to figure out where i am going to put what...  some of the plants the groundhogs ate have re-sprouted and some have simply croaked, so i can clear those.  But that leaves odd gaps, not clearly defined spots.  I also have a couple Job's Tears plants in there and they look a lot like weeds so i have to be careful to not crowd those so closely that i forget and pull them up later.  I'll figure it out.
I was going to start seeds in flats, but i might just direct sow if i don't find the time or energy to prep the 9packs and trays.

My Clove seedling arrived this morning. Its a cute little plant.  Looks similar to my bay laurel. Its growing point is dry looking, this may be from travel stress. i don't know how long the dead parts of this type of plant take to dry up... the leaves are a touch yellow which might also be from recent stress or normal color. Image searches of  "Syzygium aromaticum" show varying shades of yellow/green and dark green.   I think i'll pick up some weak fish fertilizer for it and see if it greens up.  It needs 80 degree temperatures but indirect light so i may keep it outside in a shady spot for the rest of the summer and set up a terrarium type housing for it later.  I plan on keeping it as small as i can. If it lives a long time and gets really big, i can use one of those mini greenhouses as a heat and steam tent for it.  I'm not 100% pleased with its appearance at arrival, but if it is healthy enough to survive with reasonable care it will be fine.  I was impressed with the packaging.... almost too sturdy to get the plant out without damage.

Looks a little pathetic right now...

I'll see how it goes i guess.

I have not been outside yet but its supposed to be a hot day.  The corn stalks reached the top of the hoop arches yesterday.  I'm leaving the hoops up so they can hopefully support the stalks later in the season when the breezes usually knock my stalks flat.

There will be more green beans to pick today i'm sure.  EDIT; later..

Picked just under 3# of green beans this evening.  I had sent the first 2# to my parents and they had them for supper tonight. They called to let me know they were very tasty.  We've been snacking on them raw here,. they are a bit more prickly than other types i have had, but the flavor is good.

Woodchuck #2 has been apprehended....

My sources say that a 10 mile ride is about right for relocation. We know of a few places where a woodchuck won't become someone else's problem, will be able to quickly make itself at home and have plenty of forage.

I used the Mantis as a weed-eater in the walking rows of the garden.  Well, most of them anyway... the vining plants are taking over too widely and were in the way too much. I got what i could.  It clogged up  the tines quite a bit!  I also snapped my wrist good and sharp with the handle of the starter cord. Right where i got a cortizone shot for tendinitis around this time last year. I really hope it won't inflame again!

I also carved out the rest of the area that needs weed fabric and will become home to the Beach Plums and whatever else i come up with.

We got about an inch of rain last night, we are now right about where we should be for average rainfall this year. I treated the tomatoes for blights since its a preventative thing. The alternative is for them to contract it themselves and be part of the spreading of it. I'd rather that not happen.
Almost all of the plants have a green fruit on them by now.

I just got back from the dentist, needed my one filling replaced,  it was loose.  They had to numb me to the eyebrow cause i kept feeling it. So i'm not feeling all that well.  Anxiety attacks are awful.

Bean picking and seed envelopes...

Went out to check the garden and the Havahart (which was empty of vermin) and i noticed that the Provider green beans are ready.  I picked 1 pound, 3.9 ounces in about 10 minutes or less. Not bad for the first picking. There's plenty more left to grow and still a number of flowers. They taste great and they release from the plant easily but don't fall off by themselves.  I remember picking beans when i was little and you had to be careful to not uproot the whole plant for one bean, they'd pull off so hard.  Jacob's Cattle can be like that sometimes, i have grown those most recently.  They make a great fresh bean and if i missed harvesting them, i'd fall back on them being a dried bean.

Oh, i came across this the other day,  Really easy to make seed packets:
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/wtrsow/con021447346105.html

You have to scroll down a ways to get to the picture instructions. I wanted to post them here but i didn't want to steal the OP's images, so i made my own real quick.  If the Gardenweb thread ever disappears i will still have the instructions here to remind myself.

1 sheet of regular or pretty paper.

Make it into a square

Damp air is not conducive to crisp torn edges.

Fold it into a triangle

Then fold the top down almost to the edge

Then bring the corners in to the middlle

Clear tape does not photo well so i used some old, ugly masking tape.

This makes a very secure seed pocket.

Tape to close

I really like these envelopes much better than plastic baggies.  If your seeds aren't quite finished drying when you store them, they are less likely to be ruined since they can continue curing in the paper packets. The other packet types i have made were the ones that looked just like the commercial types.  What i didn't like about those were that they had to be cut out with  scissors, folded precisely,  and either stapled, taped or glued in at least 3 places.  Like these,  they are really very nice looking and presentable, but time consuming.  I used to trade seeds a lot and i wish i had the simpler design back then!
The folded ones can be scaled up or down in size, The example is 3"x6" with the flap down.  If i want to make them more special or color-coded i can use Origami paper and pretty post card seals.

Now i have to go vacuum stuff.

Late Blight returns....

Link to Article.

I didn't garden last year so i missed it last year. This only gives me a slight advantage because my plants can't catch it from contaminated remnants of the previous season.    But since it can simply spread through the air, its really not much of an advantage.  Bonide Fung-o-Nil or Ortho's Garden Disease Control can work i understand. I'll ask hubby if he can grab me a bottle of one of them at Home Depot if he goes shopping during lunch.  He was planning to get some driveway sealer so he might be going there anyway.  I looked them up at Aubuchon, but all their concentrated garden fungicides are by order only and not in store.
I guess its been around for a while this year but i have not seen any reports of it reaching Maine yet... i did a search for articles but didn't find anything dated for this year.

Not much else going on. I haven't checked the Havahart trap yet and the weather is off and on sunny, not too hot but still quite humid.
I was going to start clearing out the flower boxes yesterday, but i wasn't able to find my big Fiskars pruning shears. I haven't seen hide or hair of them since last year. I hope they didn't get left outside to rust and then hubby had to throw them out.  I asked him if he's seen them and he hasn't.  I tried to do a little of it by hand but it was too much to do.  Pulling out the vines broke the stems off at the roots which will make it hard to locate and dig up the plants for their move. The thing is that i can't get into the mess without removing the vines first.
I've decided to use the Mantis on the walking rows in the garden. The weeds have come back too thickly to try and pull them. On the plus side, its more organic matter that will break down in the garden.

Plenty to do today and in the next few days.

Woodchuck....round 2.

Its wonderful how it feels to be complacent when something is not raiding your garden.  Taking a stroll through the rows and watching things get larger instead of smaller, watching the gaps between the leaves close in rather than become gaping and ragged....there is an Eden-like tranquility in the air.

Then while having your morning cup of coffee, you spy another brown beastie in the vicinity of the garden....
Now i'll be fair....  it was eating dandelions off the edge of the weed fabric between the Patriot blueberry and the Marechal Foch.   But he didn't stay there.  He had sampled a leaf tip off one of the horseradish. I saw the little scratch in the dirt from its paw and the indent where he plunked his little, furry rump.
A quick check up and down the rows showed no sign of its entry into the actual garden as the horse radish is on the outskirts.

I conducted a serious thinning/pruning of the Swiss chard yesterday and only selected the smallest and tenderest leaves  for eating. The bigger ones went into the compost bin....  i think the 'chuck was attracted by the scent of the freshly cut leaves in there. Its possible that it only just discovered my garden this morning- or hasn't discovered the interior yet.  I'd like to keep it that way.

So the havahart trap contains some nummy things like apples and pears.  I'll add peanut butter and an overripe banana when i rebait it tomorrow.  If its not bold to the extent of virtual rabidness like the last one was, it might not return to my yard until later today and bait will be wasted. At $.99 a pound, 2 apples a day for who knows how long, is not cheap.  They might as well eat my broccoli.

I need to come up with some sort of flag for the trap.  If you've ever been ice fishing you'll get what sort of flag thing i want.   Ice fishing traps have a bar that pivots when a fish takes the bait, on the end of the bar that pops up is a long, stiff wire with an orange flag on it. So while you are on a frozen lake with large distances between sets, you can see at once when a flag whips up into the air and you can begin your shambling penguin-like race to the trap to reel in your catch.
Where i have the Havahart set parallel to the row of Jerusalem Artichokes, my view to the contents from the side window of the house is blocked.  I won't quickly see if i catch anything.  I put it in the shade so anything captured won't suffer before discovery.  I can't keep going out and checking the trap or i'll scare the vermin away and reduce my chances.

Of course i have work to do out in that area, so the soonest caught the better.


I'm debating whether or not i'll bother growing Swiss Chard next year.  This year they turned out very muddy in flavor. They are usually quite earthy, but this time they smelled of mud in a not pleasant way.  Of course the difference could be because we have had an early heat wave.  The last time i grew chard i picked them around the time the woodchuck ate them this year.
I understand they begin to taste nice again when the weather gets cooler.  So i'll make my decision later this Fall.  I have "Bright Lights" and they truly are pretty enough that i'll consider using up my last seeds to plant them in the flower bed.  They might even draw woodchucks away from my veggie garden...hmmm....

I'll have to go out today and clear the fence wires. The grass and the birdhouse gourd really took off and are clogging the wire so i will have to take care of that before i can turn the fence back on. This woodchuck is much larger than the last and i don't think it will be able to fit under or between the wires.  If the zap truly is a deterrent i will find out with this one.


I spend the weekend reading up on some Heirloom seed sources. I joined the SSE messageboard/forum yesterday.  Its a nice place to read despite the recent drama in the organization itself. They have kept the actual forum clear of it.
Besides the SSE (which actually is more limited a seed source than i expected) i found a couple of interesting seed sellers that i bookmarked for future purchasing.
Bountiful Gardens  Has Sea Kale, mycorrhizal inoculant (by the ounce, yay!), land race veggies and various herbs- both  common culinary and more uncommon medicinal.
Seed S.E.A.R.C.H , fascinating Native American seed strains.

We had rain all weekend, much needed. Today is expected to be in the mid 80's, its already 80 degrees at 9:30 am.

Oh, i am all excited about a plant i just bought.  Its one i have been looking to get for years.  Its a Clove Tree.  The actual plant you get cloves from.  Syzygium aromaticum.  Its partially hard to find because looking up "clove tree" gets you results for carnations and pinks because they are clove scented.  Looking them up by "Syzygium aromaticum" only gives you links to dried herb resources or Spice Road history.  I did find one for sale at a citrus houseplant website, but they wanted $275 for it.  Uh, no!
There are seeds, but they are available rarely, shipping is expensive and they are reported to have low germination rates. And as i mentioned above, sifting through search results is tedious and time consuming.
I found it on eBay, from a seller with 100% positive feedback,  located in NJ, so its not too far from here. Shipping should be quick.
I have been looking for this plant for years.
There are a lot of plants i have been looking for on the order of years. Most of it is because i really started to be interested in more rare plants when the Hubby and i got our first apartment.  I couldn't do anything with the land the apartment was on, so i took over the window space.  
If i could find pictures i'd scan them and post them.  My living room was a virtual jungle. I had 2 types of Jasmine, one in a 5 gallon pot and one small one. The small one was a pink jasmine and i had a net draped across the corner of the window and the jasmine grew on it like a living curtain.  I also had Hoyas and Passiflora, like i still have now.  I had a little cavendish banana plant, a queen's tears, various cactus, a bunch of mini roses that were always getting aphids, a vanilla orchid, phalenopsis,  i even had plumeria and stephanotis floribunda....there were also lots of standard tropical foliage plants. I tried to grow every fruit seed from the grocery store. Avocado, cherimoya, blood orange, key lime, i'd even sprout potatoes.   Drove. Hubby. Nuts.  I lost a lot of plants due to sabotage.  But now he's learned that this is just the way i am and has realized that there are much worse things that i could be doing.  He's actually interested ( though mildly) in this stuff now.
But i swear i almost died being stuck in an apartment for so long, if it weren't for the houseplants....

Hopefully this Clove seedling will arrive safely and i will be able to provide decent conditions for it.

Nothing much to take pictures of today. Garden things have continued to grow rapidly, but that is the usual way of things.

I think i am going to try air layering the silky dogwood plant. I also decided to move the porcelainberry vines to the back yard on the outside of the fence so it can climb the 12-15' of the retaining wall and fence...  they won't be such a nuisance in a larger space with something to climb.  I might try to move them today.  At least i should be able to work on the dogwood today.
I'm going to do these things because rooting them in a bucket causes more clutter and more containers to keep watered.

I think i'm going to heavily prune the lilac bush in the back corner behind the shed. It will make it much easier  to move later on.  When the fence goes up it will get almost no sun being between the fence and the shed, so its move or die.
I will have a good place to plant fiddlehead ferns and maybe edible mushrooms though....  I still haven't started those fern spores yet.  I may wait a few more months. They take a long time, don't need much light.... they should be a good winter project.  If they grow, the seedlings should be just big enough to set out in the Spring.

I just got my ship notification for the Clove Tree...  USPS Priority....  should be here by Tomorrow i hope... or Wednesday.


I forget when i did it, ut it was at least 3 days ago....  i finally planted the two Temptation strawberries that actually sprouted. I also planted the Red Shiso out there with them.  They are between the rosemary.  I don't think i wrote it down that i did this. So just in case...there it is.

The plot thickens..

I know i'm going to regret wasting that title so early in the season. Ok, so maybe its not as catchy as i think it is.
But in any case, i went out and looked at my string beans.  Looks like "Provider" will turn out to be a well named bean.  My plants are covered with clusters of growing pods.  I only planted about a 4'x6' area but i'm going to be up to my ears in beans.  Which is fine because i like string beans.

I also planted those purple podded beans on July 4, and they are up now.  I planted them between the rows of corn that didn't germinate so well and are still way behind.

Tiny watermelon, this is a Pony Yellow

I think i have convinced myself that this is Swamp Milkweed and not hyssop like i was told.  That's ok because i prefer the milkweed to hyssop.

I like the idea that every plant in this year's garden came from seeds i planted.  It dawned on me last night that though i have spent plenty of time in hardware stores this year, i have not bought any vegetable seedlings. 
I think i can reasonably exclude the horseradish and JA tubers, grapes and berry plants- though i am trying to grow some of those from seed.  I'd like to start collecting my own vegetable seed and see if i can grow a totally independent garden some day, but from what i have read i don't have enough space to grow the number of plants to have a proper gene pool for each variety.  I am trying to use open pollinated types when i can, they are usually heirlooms and i am drawn to the history of these plants.  For now i can be happy to be a part of the financial support of the companies that offer these seeds.

^ Friday afternoon

Saturday morning:

So, i guess we are supposed to get some good rain today.  It has been over a week since we have had any and the heat was fierce for this time of year and area. I don't think we actually broke any records but we definitely met a number of them that had been set more than 30 years ago.

I watered the garden pretty deeply yesterday. I knew rain was in the forecast for today but where it was so warm overnight i wanted to have stuff watered deeply and early enough for the soil to warm back up.  I read in "Gardening When it Counts" that plants grow at night.  There is actually a bit of a  formula that can be used to estimate plant growth based on night time temperature.  Here is the excerpt from "Gardening When it Counts"

I don't know what i am going to do with my birdhouse gourd plant... well, i won't really be doing anything actually, but it is growing and spreading so rapidly.  It has already escaped its row and has made good headway into the next. I tried to train the vines to head out along the walkways, but the plant is so lush that its hard to walk in the paths without stepping on it.  I'm  thankful the leaves it grows are so soft and velvety.  I think if i grow it next year i will have to plant it against a trellis or i will have to put any defensive garden  fencing well away from it.  It invaded the electric fence wires about 3 days ago.  I haven't had the fence on lately anyway.  Last time i grew this plant was in my parent's garden when i was home from College.  My parent's garden is almost the size of the entire "New Yard" lot  we purchased.  A birdhouse gourd plant looks much smaller in a garden that size than it does in mine! :o)

I ordered some lawn edging from Ace Hardware yesterday. Its this stuff.  I was thinking of using landscape timbers or 4x4 posts like we did in the front flower beds. The drawback is that they need painting or staining most years. This terrace board stuff is ready to use, and its a nice brown shade. I usually only see lawn edging in black or what Thalassa Crusoe called "poison green".  I also didn't want wide edging since i will be literally standing in the mulch to do my work in the grape and berry row.  A wide board will probably get in the way and probably won't be easily secured.  The terrace board is just over 5" high and set in the ground a few inches and held with 10" spikes it should hold up pretty well.  Its also something i think i can handle installing on my own. Timbers or 4x4s would be too awkward and heavy and i'd have to borrow my dad's truck and rope hubby into helping me load and unload.  If it works out well i think we will nix the front boxes and install this stuff.
I do need to grab 4 of these so the ends won't pop up and i can get a nice neat shape.  The boards will be in next week.
I also used an Ortho product on the weeds where i will be extending the row. They are thick enough that it might be hard to get the landscape fabric to keep them at bay... even though i plan to till the area before i cover it.
Only issue with the Ortho product is that hubby bought it for me and i didn't read the label . It is a "season long" weed killer, which i guess means it is made to stick around longer. I did some research on the active ingredients to understand a little about how this works. The Glyphosate is the stuff that is a post emergent herbicide. Meaning that it damages stuff that has set its leaves.  The other ingredient is Oxyfluorfen, this is both a pre  and post emergent herbicide used mainly on annual weeds.  Glyphosate is generally used on perennials i guess.  Since it is billed as a "season long" product- the part i missed, i wasn't sure if i was even going to be able to plant there this summer!
I was kicking myself.  I always read labels.  I'm such a stickler for label reading that i get teased for it at times...  this time i didn't...  But when i did read the label it didn't answer my post treatment question, though the info on the label would have stopped me from using it there.  I emailed Scotts' customer service and they did reply with useful information:

If you used the Season Long ready to use formula:  (which i did)

TREES & SHRUBS - 2 Weeks
ANNUALS* - 4 Weeks
PERENNIALS - 2 Weeks

If you used the Season Long CONCENTRATE:
TREES & SHRUBS - 4 Weeks
ANNUALS* - 8 Weeks
PERENNIALS - 4 Weeks

*Sensitive annuals, such as be begonias and petunias, may NOT recover if transplanted into treated areas to soon.

If you wish to plant a sensitive annual, you may want to test your soil with a radish test. The radish seed is a very fast germinating seed, and when planted in a treated area, the seeds will germinate in 7 - 10 days if the area is clear of herbicide. If the radish germinates, it is safe to plant your sensitive plants. Do not eat radishes grown for these testing purposes.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in Scotts. Please feel free to contact our company anytime we may be of assistance.

Using radish seeds to test the soil is a great idea.  Only thing is that by the time they emerge, the area will be ready for me to plant anyway.  I used the stuff sparingly and i'll be tilling the area under, so i'm sure that will help.  The berry plants won't be yielding anything edible for another whole season at least so i'm not really worried about contamination.

I did a short crop walk of my own this morning before the rain came and i took some pictures.  I love having a blog to record all this stuff.  I get to compare growth photos from one year to the next and the blog setup allows me to easily recall the information by date or keyword.
Ok, so here are the pics:

One of the Aurora Mix French Marigolds

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I swear these weren't this big yesterday before i watered. I wish i had a yardstick to put in the pictures to independently gauge the daily and weekly growth.

Birdhouse gourd,  trying to take over the world. I tried to use a broken baby gate to see if i could direct its march, i think i only encouraged it.

Horseradish plants recovering in the absence of woodchucks.

I did it.... i pulled off the flowers of Marechal Foch....  here is the proof.

Here are the row-by-row pictures. Looking East

Tomato and corn (and now purple string beans) row.

Kale, cabbage, and stuff. A couple lettuces still hanging on.

Parsnips, onions, shallots, a couple swiss chard plants, fennel.

Carrots, beets, rutabagas and bush beans.

Cucumbers, winter squash, melons, watermelons and gourds.

Asparagus from seed look pretty good now.  But the weeds are totally taking over again!

Jerusalem artichokes are behind the horseradish.

From the other direction...

The corn end of the Tomato and Corn row

Peppers and eggplant at the end of the cabbage, broccoli, kale etc. row.

Burdock, globe artichokes and summer squash.  Beyond is the fennel, onions & shallots and parsnips.

Salsify, rosemary, whats left of the Brussels sprouts and purple cauliflower, then string beans, rutabagas, beets and then carrots.

I never did write down the name or company the purple string beans were from, so i remembered now.

 Rhubarb.  Never did move it to the perennial corner of the garden.

Just picked these before the rain gets them muddy.  First of the summer squash today. :o)

I did end up digging out the Suffolk Red grape and i put it in a 5 gallon bucket. I'll try it as a container plant this winter.

I think that's pretty much it for now.