What Did You Do In The Garden?

Trish Stretton said:

Its been busy, pick up new fridge, pick up work equipment from its yearly service, spend two hours trying to get hold of someone who says they are from the Ministry of Primary Industries and needs to inspect my hive....only to call MPI who have nothing on file and dont know anything. grrrrrr. That was today.

Yesterday, I got the timber delivered- nice strapping young man hauled both up to the garden and didnt even need my help with them.
So, now the timber edges are in place, the subsoil spread back out across the whole bed and the top soil bucketed back over the whole thing.
I had another go at putting up a photo, but it didnt happen, so on Monday, I think I will go down to our local computer store and beg for help. They will charge me for it but it shouldnt be too much.
I can now up load to emails, just not forum posts.....yet....getting there.

Cos our winter is so Warm this year, I have decided to do a cover crop using cereal Rye. Its cold hardy and should be able to handle it if the weather does go cold...er.
It took me a while to remember where I had some metal hoops that hold frost or shade clothe in place.
So tomorrow after work, I'll set them up broadcast the seed and cover it all up, mainly to stop the birds from eating the seeds and the local cats from pooping in the bed.....and Jack from lying in it all.

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Forums operate by different rules. IF you have the photo on your computer, to attach to this forum, use the “green Upload a File” button below where you add posts. Then go to photo library on your computer, select photo(s), hit done, it will down load here. After you do it once, easy. Until then, not so much.

( @Gardening with Rabbits )

One problem I have with uploading a picture is finding it. If there are various folders, I don't often know which one to check. Also, the image may not be immediately available since the computer is operating with memory. I can shut the computer off and start it again, now - it's in memory.

Then, what to click ... playing is how children learn on their own. It's a useful habit into olde age .

Steve

Home. Yesterday I replaced 5 tomatoes that didn't survive transplanting a few weeks ago, from my "2019 indoor starting tomatoes stash." I now have 25 in the ground, mostly beefsteak, but a few Romas. On to other tasks, so if the new ones grow like the the other 20 have, I will only pay them attention when they need tying up to the fencing.
NOT a good year for my cherries. TOO WET!! Harvested 1/2 gallon yesterday, cleaned/put in 1/2 gallon Ball jar and in the fridge to process with the rest that I harvest this weekend, but no processing until I have all inside, and that will be next week.
Gotta run into town this morning to shop---friend's office moved and they have a Bunch of big cardboard boxes from office furniture for me!

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Steve

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I should make one! It would be fun. I kind of have them paying attention to me now. They do not like the sprinkler, so they leave and I have a broken hoe handle and I beat it on a metal fence post and they leave. I was kind of surprised they left to that sound.

almost three inches of rain Thursday. it was a good day to run errands and have lunch out and visit with my brother and my nephews showed up for lunch too.

Friday was sunny and too wet for much digging but with the many areas of the crushed limestone mulch that can usually use some weeding that's not a problem. this year a lot of the limestone has algae growing on it. i spent a few hours weeding some large areas so that those weeds won't spread more seeds around (and into the downhill garden's pathways and rocks).

with the UFO (aka the sun) still being out and unshaded for a change during the midday i spent a nice siesta and even took a bit of a nap. i can get used to this schedule...

the morning i spent partially picking strawberries and a few other tasks. so later on in the early evening i cleaned those up and smushed 'em so we have enough for strawberry shortcake - i've decided that Mom's shortbread cookies are a much better start than the biscuits i was making... that was dinner along with a salad...

Gardening with Rabbits said:

I should make one! It would be fun. ..

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I have noticed that those gardeners who seem to know what they are about with scarecrows, leave the forearms dangling in the breeze.

Moving them about, maybe a change of shirts, is still likely to be a good idea. Perhaps if their support could be wired to different posts in the garden ...

Steve

flowerbug said:

almost three inches of rain Thursday.

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It amazes me that strawberries are possible.

I'm not an experienced strawberry grower but slugs would be sooo happy with such wet conditions ... and a strawberry to eat.

Steve

after this many years i have the drainage on this clay pretty well set up to clear off most of the heavy rains pretty well inside the fenced gardens. the lower gardens themselves are raised up or have edges enough to hold most of the water until it can sink in. the higher up gardens flow to the sides and the pathways are then the way to move the water to some drains.

we don't have many slugs around. the snakes like them. also i think having the crushed limestone pathways around that patch does discourage them. [aside: i redid that patch again last year so it is not there long enough to build up bugs or slugs yet. it did have a very healthy weed population springing up that i went through last week and got it back under control. we have a tiny oxalis species which is a real pest - every flower seed capsule has a lot of very tiny seeds in it. i know i kept it well weeded last year and there was no good reason for it to have so many seeds this year, but the mulch i moved to use as humus in there must have had a nice reservoir of seeds in it. took me three days to weed it (a few hours a sesssion as i can't go that long each spell - have to give the body a rest between). compared to the large area i weeded yesterday (about 10 times larger) in just a few hours. it is much easier to weed when you don't have to work around strawberry plants or carefully find a new place to sit or bend over from...]

yet, in the other strawberry patches of old which are mixed in other areas without the crushed limestone around them also don't have many slugs in them. we do have a lot of birds around many of them are ground feeding birds so perhaps they are eating a lot of the slugs.

our weather is finally starting to turn towards summer, more sunshine and heat. mid-80s by the end of the week.

I finished my Friday with picking up 3 skid buckets of horse manure from a local riding school . I plan to spread it in the former cornfield, which I am restoring to a prairie, and top dress it in our garden

It took about two hours to shovel it all out of the trailer once I got home, but it's one less thing I don't have to do today



The was a lot of grubs in it. Our chickens enjoyed that. Here's an early on pic. The tray ended up being pretty full

digitS' said:

I have noticed that those gardeners who seem to know what they are about with scarecrows, leave the forearms dangling in the breeze.

Moving them about, maybe a change of shirts, is still likely to be a good idea. Perhaps if their support could be wired to different posts in the garden ...

Steve

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You could rig fishing line to the arms and make them wave crazily when the birds show up. Like a real gardener.