What Did You Do In The Garden?

[thistlebloom]

It's so dang hot my post just evaporated! What I was saying is that I worked in the sun (and a little bit of shade sometimes) and there's a lake right.there. and I didn't jump in.
I should have my little head checked.

 

[digitS']

Every place is a little different, @seedcorn . It's like you telling us how things were different for you in Indiana after having lived in Illinois. I would not have really expected it to be so.

Washington and Montana were supposed to share a border. The story is that the Olympia politicians felt their destiny was in Puget Sound and Pacific trade. They did not want to have administrative responsibilities for the west slope of the Rockies. Montana was to be a huge state but things here are more like western Montana than western Washington.

The northern panhandle was attached to Idaho by default. It's ok ... if we can find common ground with Sun Valley, Ketchum and Stanley .

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Steve, your temps are on route to South-est, central-est Wisconsin. This weekend we have predictions of 90's with upper 90's possible for Sunday.

I found several chickens in my garden -- digging up plants and eating strawberries. Visitors last evening must have left the gate slightly ajar.

Walking with Spouse, I found a butternut. HUH? My last butternut tree died out in a blaze of mushrooms almost 10 years ago. Could the nut casings still be laying around after all this time?

Now I suspect I have one of the few butternut trees (as yet) unaffected by blight in South-est, central-est Wisconsin -- a volunteer sapling from the original trees that's now big enough to be setting fruit. Yea! I love butternuts.

And all this time I've thought the tree was an ash from the Arbor Day Foundation.

I also found that two of the three mountain laurels I'd purchased for Spouse -- during my plant buying bus tour when the Eskimo Maple was obtained -- are still alive and one is blooming! For some reason I thought they had all died. Happy dance!

I got my last fuchsia planted in a hanging basket and I made a planter of begonia tubers I'd purchased earlier this spring. Baby steps, but steps forward indeed.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well it is cooler now. We had 90s like digitS said and now it is 75 and have had some rain on and off and storm coming with highs in the 60s coming. SOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY. I planted some more pole beans and got them weeded. Weeded the squash and cucumbers. I planted a row of beets and Swiss Chard and planted a few pan patty squash, weeded the onions, and starting on weeding the tomatoes so I can start mulching. Blanched and froze mustard.

 

[ducks4you]

The only gardening I did was weed, mow Weeds...and, oh, yeah, I dug up the very nice mums that I planted last Fall south of the garage for DD's. I put them in a bucket at their house and filled it with water because the bed isn't ready for them yet.
I DID cut down saplings and burned them on top of a LOT of paper and cardboard garbage. All of the green leaves went right up--REALLY hot fire.

 

[canesisters]

I got all the rest of the little starts planted in the straw bale garden! WHOOT! I am really excited to see how this goes this year. Eggplant, tomatoes, 2 kinds of cucumbers, yellow squash, some herbs, and a couple of other things my foggy-morning brain can't remember.
I would have taken pictures but I was working by flashlight by the time I was done..

 

[digitS']

Flashlight!! No, Debbie!

I'm having to hide away from the daylight when I go to bed, post-9pm. It's 4:30 and easy enuf to see outdoors. In 30 minutes, sunshine will be shooting through my North window!

There below the 35th parallel, you must be gardening season, daylight-deprived. Does @seedcorn know about this ... and sympathize?

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Fried my brain...yesterdays Kids Class in the afternoon...10 kids aged 4 to 11....last week of school...need I say more?

We got tomatoes, potatoes and strawberries in their bales, ran out of time for seeds, so that will be next week. It was one on one with each kid starting with youngest to oldest, and the 2 oldest boys jumped in after watching me and did their own. They did a good job! The tomatoes were in quarts, so I hope they forgive the root tearing and squishing it took to get them in the bales.

 

[canesisters]

TEN!?!?! Wow. That is a LOT of kids to keep together and interested and busy.
You must be a wonderful teacher.

 

[thistlebloom]

TEN!?!?! Wow. That is a LOT of kids to keep together and interested and busy.
You must be a wonderful teacher.

Shucks...there just isn't a lot of other garden class competition to compare me to, that's all.

But thanks Cane. That was sweet.