What did you do in the garden today?

Iluveggers said:

If their aphids (no idea) see if you can get ladybugs, they’ll take care of them!

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Sorry should have clarified, these are at my office. No access to a hose that will reach or I would spray them off. And being its at work I'm not going to bring in beneficials.

I agree with @Wee Farmer Sarah - a spray bottle with dish soap.

Yep little sprayer with water and a little dish soap.
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Cloudy and only 61 this morning.
Transplanted tomatoes are looking good, happy.
I'll finish up the transplants today, and be glad to have that in the rearview.
I went to Menards and was reminded that LAST year, I swore I wasn't going to make my own mix anymore after finding ProMix last year. It was a better price.
I was out anyway this year, and bought two cubes and brought them home.
NEXT year I'll remember, especially after the salted coir incident of this year that put me 3 weeks behind.
Get out and get dirty.
Happy Friday.

Sally PB said:

Ideally, the bone meal and worm castings should have been mixed in with the dirt you filled the holes with, but don't worry about that. File that away for next year!

Sprinkle that stuff on the soil around the plants now. Mix the fish emulsion with the water, and water the plants. Any time you water or it rains, it'll soak the bone meal and worm castings down in.

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I did put the worm castings in when planting!
We got storms coming tomorrow so I'll try to get some bone meal around em tonight before the storms.
Need to get some fish emulsion though!

WthrLady said:

No idea what was in that dust in the dust storm, but now I have a sore throat, and oh my, my sinus'.

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Saw the Midwest (Iowa, Nebraska, SD) duststorms on the national news. Looks just like an Arizona haboob during our seasonal monsoons.

You're right to wonder what's in that dust... there's a regional fungal disease called Valley Fever HERE in AZ in the ground that gets stirred up by the haboobs. If one is affected by Valley Fever (including dogs) a lot of people I know go to Mexico for medicine since it's so expensive.

3 yr old helped me get 6 cantaloupe seeded while 1 yr old slept! Now to rest...man it's hot!

chickengr said:

I would love some of those. I tried to grow them but they didn't survive the heat.

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Yeah it was rare for us this time to actually grow some cherries!

CaroleW said:

If one is affected by Valley Fever (including dogs) a lot of people I know go to Mexico for medicine since it's so expensive.

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There's so much wrong with this statement. It's painful and infuriating to see such a reality in our country today. This is NOT what America stands for.

TJAnonymous said:

There's so much wrong with this statement. It's painful and infuriating to see such a reality in our country today. This is NOT what America stands for.

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Part of the reason it's so expensive is because of the regionality of the disease - it's only in the Sonoran desert or closeby SW areas so big pharma has no incentive to make a lot of it since (realitively) small market. Also not everybody gets it here and it's not easy to diagnose.

Med tourism is big in Mexico. You could find a catholic nun leading a bus tour from Phoenix every month (or week?) in years past. And folks without insurance (including my pastors who used to do missions work there monthly) will go there for medical or dental work. The Mexican medical folks take very good care of their patients even in emergencies (maybe better & more personal care than US).

Wee Farmer Sarah said:

I would try a little dish soap and water mixture and spray them with that.

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Yup, those are aphids. The rhubarb plants I brought home had a bunch of the green kind of aphids. I filled a spray bottle with water, a couple drops of dish soap, and let 'em have it. Soak those little blighters. Come back in an hour, and soak any that survived. I did that 4 times and then didn't see any more.

Gammas Bearded Babies said:

I did put the worm castings in when planting!

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Good!