What did YOU do in your garden today :P

Since it has been so nice and cool here the last few days, I have a chore list that I am trying to get accomplished. Today I got the last of the cabbage cleaned out and planted some mixed greens. Cleaned out a few flower beds. Planning on cutting the grapes tomorrow. Need to make kraut soon.

Let's see, I'm trying to do some tying ... building more layers of string trellis in the flowers.

The wind was hard on things that should have been fine with something less than hurricane force. Now, there will be more growth and they really will need more support.

Today, I was in the sheltered dahlia garden, however. Maybe I can get some string out in the windswept flower corner, tomorrow. I'm ahead of the dahlias because they haven't been in danger of being blown flat! They are just growing up and up!

It's a slow process because I'm still trying to get the weeds out of the beds. A weed that was the size of birdshot 3 weeks ago, is now opening flowers to set seed and cause me trouble next year! A weed in flower just makes me come to a stop. I do the best I can but they hide behind those big dahlias.

Tie a string, pull a weed, repeat. It was 94° when I was out there but hit 101° a little later.

Steve

pulled probably 200 garlic bulbs of various sizes-some nice, some really too small to be useful for anything other than replanting to get them bigger for next year. i left the scapes on mine so i had to cut off the bulbils and stored them in paper bags till i'm ready to either sell or start them. got the bulbs hanging on the porch attached to a pallet leaning against the house. here's hoping the weather will finally get dryer the next few weeks so they will dry too. tomorrow they are calling for rain though i'll till that patch and get my last batch of radishes and carrots going.

it's been a nice vacation so far being able to get some summer chores in the garden done and more trees taken down for firewood and expanding the gardens and fruit tree areas.

edited because from the looks of all the scape/stems i think it was much more than 100, maybe closer to 200 bulbs harvested!

digitS' said:

Those seeds are your table stakes for a new season in a new garden, @baymule .



Take a healthy gamble and the Best of Luck!

Steve

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Thanks Steve!!

Started picking tomato worms. didnt look yesterday but they were decimating plants. several plants had 3 worms. they were healthy about 3" long. threw more than i count to hens. bantams not big on them. Rest will go into bucket for fish in creek.

Wife and daughter helped. We found 66 on 30 plants. Smallest was 2". Largest about 4". Fish in creek even refused to eat them after a while.

I have friendly cardinals and mockingbirds that keep the hornworms cleaned up for me. I pick the tomatoes before they get real ripe and there is no bird damage. I watched a cardinal tug one off a stem yesterday! Also have red wasps, and they will eat them too!

baymule said:

I have friendly cardinals and mockingbirds that keep the hornworms cleaned up for me. I pick the tomatoes before they get real ripe and there is no bird damage. I watched a cardinal tug one off a stem yesterday! Also have red wasps, and they will eat them too!

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No mockingbirds. Guess our cardinals aren't friendly.

BAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
EVERYTHING is growing SO SLOW!! I finally sent my family on vacation, and my first day to work in the yard UNinterrupted and I hit a stump with my push mower and bent the blade. =/ I've only OWNED this mower for two months and this is the 2nd blade I've bent. THEN, I couldn't get it off. Guess I tightened it too hard. **sigh**
So...I was already going to Harbor Freight to buy a chainsaw tomorrow. Guess I'm also gonna buy the cheapest push mower I can get--this one is middle of road and has a bag--so I can keep up with the grass and weeds. Still need to call my mower guy bc the riding mower has a fuel pump problem. There is SO MUCH grass and so many weeds--we have to mow 1 acre, the other 4 acres are horse pasture--and I'm concerned about mosquitos. I keep seeing mushrooms growing in my vegetable beds. We haven't gone a full two weeks this year without a shower.
Think I'll hand pull weeds and scream at the stumps around my house perimeter as I cut them out with my reciprocating saw, and then burn the WHOLE LOT OF THEM!!!!!!! Should burn well bc when I wanted to take off the blade I just unscrewed the gas cap and took off the oil dip stick and let them drain on my burn pile.
Wish me luck.

Forgot to mention--a Monarch butterfuly flew right by my nose today. I guess they aren't all gone. Happy thought, indeed.

Well, got a new lawn mower, a cheap one, but it mulches. Also, I got a new chain saw, but I had to promise my family that I'd wait to saw until they get home from CO. Transplanted some of my new clearance plants--3 are red tuberous begonias, which are going to the porch soon--very potbound. Two are mini roses and that makes an equal number on both sides of my sidewalk to the street, as well as an equal number of mums.