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@Blue-Jay thanks, yes, that's a lot of work for hot days, glad you are taking care of yourself and not overdoing it. gardens look great and seeing such wonderful garden soil always makes me envious, that you leave footprints when you walk on it even... :)

i was hoping to get out mowing by now but the dew is heavy on the grass and i'm in no hurry. if i have to take a few breaks to cool off then that's just how it goes... so until then i'm killing time doing nothing and enjoying it. i turned off the AC because my feet were so cold and now the...

current and future obligations prevent me from doing anything other than giggling. :) have a nice day! sorry for the above repetitive posts. up late, my editor (common sense isn't always) shut down, glad i didn't bleep, bleep. :)

a few hours for a few hundred square feet once every few months is pretty low maintenance... if you don't have trees and want to do mulches on pathways you can get by with even less work but it still does end up needing work once in a while because organic mulches will decay and turn into humus...

once every few months? that's not much at all considering the area covered and how much time it would take to mow it or do anything else with it. i would rather weed than mow any time even if it takes me longer to weed, but the other good aspects why i have that preference is that it is...

yes it will smell, and it will smell when you use it on the plants, but a mole in a barrel or half barrel of water isn't likely to be a problem other than the smell. what may help it smell less (besides what i write at the end) would be to mix some straw and some dirt in the water, that will...

and this afternoon since i could get back outside again i made more progress on getting my last bean garden weeded so perhaps i can get it planted this week depending upon what the weather and other things are up to...

@Blue-Jay how do you manage to keep up with watering your bean patches when it gets so hot out?

adzuki bean domestication :) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads2871

i feel your pain. this place was designed as an artist studio (the room i'm in most of the time) and gallery there was no consideration for southern exposure in the northern climate or what i'd consider common sense. then to make it worse they planted some trees which now block the morning...

we used to see bobwhites here and also the pheasants but once they started farming the field to the south of us again and also hunting reduced them to a once in a while visitor. now i don't hear them calling at all any more. i'm hoping once the field to the south of us fills in some more that...

beautiful morning for getting caught up on some weeding of pathways and gravel areas, in between rocks, bricks, pavers, etc. better to get them when they are just starting out as then i have a chance of getting the weed removed without having to actually move the rocks, etc. to get at the roots...

sounds good to me bawko.

i think i have all the network beans up and growing. :) and then the many other beans i planted. i did not keep a list of the various out crosses i planted because there were a few dozen selections and almost none of them have even tentative names. as usual my main bulk bean planting were...

by the picture it looks like you already have an area mostly bare of weeds. so my recommendation if you want to keep that as garden space and not lawns is to keep weeding it (a stirrup hoe or tilling) until you get the replacement plants established. it's much easier to keep an area clear than...

the tomato cages here are mainly to help keep the plants from putting all their tomatoes on the ground, we don't have the gardens mulched so if on the ground they are sitting in the dirt and it takes more time to wash them off after harvesting. it doesn't keep them all off the ground, but it helps.

edges under control vs. edges bordering grassy areas or open areas that allow weeds to invade. the edges which are near gravel or other well defined borders along cement or gravel areas will not get many weeds and then can be weeded manually quite quickly, but it does require effort to...

it is up to the queen, if you've been getting rid of her workers and disrupting them enough she may move, but more likely you may have just killed off enough of the workers that she's just started more up and they will be back once they are old enough to start foraging again. if you'd dumped...

no shortage of rains. mud pies for sure...

i'm pretty sure that the dog was entirely unconcerned about "his dignity"...