What Did You Do In The Garden?

[ducks4you]

Btw, yesterday I poured 2 pitchers of water into the whiskey barrel planter with the peppers out front.
I also used my cistern water hose to water the tomatoes and peppers in the leaky 100 gallon water tank south side of the house AND I "watered" my compost bin which has dried out--thoroughly soaked it and I noticed that there wasn't any leaking and runoff, so it needed it.

 

[ducks4you]

FINALLY, my left leg bones are set!!
Yesterday I felt comfortable using my God Mower, where you depress the clutch with your Left foot, so I "mowed the areas around the house, like we "care" yesterday. I also hand weeded more of the wildflower garden, and mowed/blew the grasses AWAY from the bed. You remove as many weed seeds as Possible that way.
It is dry as a bone. They were mostly quackgrass--pretty funny, quack, quack (for Ducks) --and goosegrass--THat's funny, too.
I have cut the boys off of the 3 acre North Pasture. It needs recovery. They can go back on it on October 12th, the day After my Salsa Party, which is always the Saturday before Columbus Day, so that my guests get 2 days to recover.
I plan to mow the edges of the pasture today with my God Mower.
I will report back on any other outside work. I need to confer with my PT this week about what I should NOT be doing, and I only have 2 more appointments until I am set free.

 

[digitS']

Yay, @ducks4you !

My 30 minutes of Sunday exercise was digging out and covering melon vines, kitchen scraps and finished compost for more "composting in place." It wasn't much work but there's no more spent garden plants and only so much finished compost. It's nice to have that on top of the others to encourage decomposition.

I'm getting the compost under the greenhouse deck more wet than necessary but it seems okay for the worms. I'm not deliberately watering it, just that it's in range of the sprinklers watering the lawn. Without that abundance of organic material to absorb the water, the vegetable garden looks only just okay for moisture. I dug out a spot about a month ago and was not pleased with how deep the irrigation was NOT reaching. It was right near the sloping south wall of the greenhouse so any rain ... oh, who am I kidding ..?

Some more compost to go and then lots of plants can fit into the stealth compost bins. Winter-killed plants seem a little better to bury in garden beds but I will have some choice. I'm back to limited compost without the grass material. It's okay, I think. Right now it looks as tho I will just have to be thoughtful about where the soil will best benefit from the frost-killed material once it becomes available.

Fresh zucchini bread for the gardeners' lunchtime dessert!

 

[ducks4you]

I DID mow the edges of the pasture today with my God Mower yesterday!!
This weekend I spent close to 5 hours mowing.
I also found a bucket that had some kind of vegetation sitting in it with some rain water, therefore "compost tea," and emptied that in one of my outside pots.

 

[flowerbug]

picked some dry beans, a few tomatoes that were not split too bad and then some cosmo seeds.

i'm trying to get a more yellow selection of the cosmos instead of the mix with the oranges and reds in there. Mom doesn't like orange flowers that much so we'll see if we can nudge them in the right direction. it is still very nice to have that patch out there flowering and the bees continue to be all over it every time i look. there haven't been any frosts yet to take them out. i also like that the seeds are very easy to harvest you don't have to bend over and the chaff is mostly gone if you let them open up all the way and dry.

we also have a different kind of cosmo flower that i didn't know Mom had planted, so i snapped a few pictures of one of them.

 

[ducks4you]

Cleared two of the 12 ft tomato fences of weeds and harvested--pictures later on my thread. Also tied up sprawling tomatoes. We have 3-4 weeks left for tomatoes to ripen before the 1st possible frost.
I also potted up the clearance mums and threw in some seeds in planters for a lst shot.
ALL of the mums have too shallow roots. I plant to move them first into the front porch (windows, NOT heated,) and then overwinter in the basement to transplant next Spring.
I bought 2 purple, 1 yellow and 1 rusty orange mums. When I weeded the front walk beds I discovered a single small mum that had survived EVERYTHING!! including my neglect! THAT one is burgandy red.

 

[ducks4you]

This is what I harvested yesterday from 2/3 of the tomato fencing. Didn't get out today, BUT we have had a 2 hr soaking rain this afternoon!!!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Trimming trimming trimming.. trees shrubs and flowerbed clean up.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Still clipping , trimming and hauling tree limbs , overgrown shrubs and whatever else needs taken out. My garden needs plant editing. First I’m starting with the small stuff …then the big stuff..soon will be eliminating 60’-80’ trees that have bettle kill, diseased and others that have grown way to big.

 

[flowerbug]

picked peppers yesterday and will be cleaning them up, sorting and some will get prepped for freezer this morning.