What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

4 hours later and the 'yard' is mowed. I'm burned and beat up. Biting flies are miserable this year. New sunscreen doesn't feel like it came off even in the shower with soap, which I'm not ok with.

Did nothing else while I was out there, so I need to still prune and feed tomatoes. DH said he would collect grass for me tonight, then I'll have mulch for around the plants, so maybe tomorrow I'll just deal with the garden.

 

[Elyrian1]

4 hours later and the 'yard' is mowed. I'm burned and beat up. Biting flies are miserable this year. New sunscreen doesn't feel like it came off even in the shower with soap, which I'm not ok with.

Did nothing else while I was out there, so I need to still prune and feed tomatoes. DH said he would collect grass for me tonight, then I'll have mulch for around the plants, so maybe tomorrow I'll just deal with the garden.

Do dryer sheets work on your biting flies? I know they work on gnats, but haven't tried them with the accursed, flesh-eating flies. I may have strong feelings about them though...

Got the sprouts outside in the shade. They're looking all right for the moment. Bought some cheap, flowering annuals at the store today too. I'll see about getting those planted this evening or tomorrow morning when it's cool out. For now, I call siesta. Toddler is napping, or will be momentarily. My turn!

 

[WthrLady]

NOTHING works on these flies except this really stinky perfumey baby powder I found at our local grocery. LOL.

But I'm out.

These flies will literally stay on you and chew WHILE you are banging on them to get off. They're insane!

 

[turkey girl 0964]

NOTHING works on these flies except this really stinky perfumey baby powder I found at our local grocery. LOL.

But I'm out.

These flies will literally stay on you and chew WHILE you are banging on them to get off. They're insane!

I don't think we have them where we live but they seem awful! They should be called Devil's Fly! LOL!

 

[Silviaschicks]

My nasturtium crosses, which were supposed to be light yellow, finally flowered! Some were light yellow, while others were white

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners. Best fertilizer is Alaska fish fertilizer.

We are getting a big soaker coming at us next 2 days so
nothing will be done in the garden

 

[Sueby]

Thank you @penny1960 - I ordered some, it sure does get good reviews!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Garden Update:

So, I planted 8 melon types - LOL. We really enjoyed them last year, so we planted our two favorites and added 6 more. We really liked the Cherokee M&S from Sandhill, and saw that Territorial Seeds also had some seeds, so we planted both sources of the Cherokee M&S watermelon. Sugar Salmon Muskmelon was the other favorite. We planted 2 hills this year - but I forgot a pic today, so I added one from 2020.

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Usually mix up the beds to have a few types of produce. Here is my typical tomato bed: Some carrots, some onion, marigolds, and tomatoes of course. So, this will be the first year adding in onions to this bed. Onions don't like a ton of water, so it will be interesting to see if they fare OK here - it is well drained.
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Tomato bed in back, and pepper bed in front.
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Squash! Finally, a male flower. I tried to hand pollinate the females. Their blossoms opened yesterday, so not likely to work, but figured I'd give it a try!
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First Eggplant flower - so pretty!
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Potato bed looking good. Only one type has open flowers at this stage.
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Gourd bed for chicken run shade. Growing well!
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Look at this boy!! He's only 9 months old (an early September hatch), but SOOO tall. I was trying to get the pic at his level. Look how "small" the HEN on his right looks. He is a Black Langshan and his name is "Thorin Oakenshield" for any Hobbit/LOTR fans.
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everything is looking so great!! nice job, you really did make it all look so good!

 

[Sally PB]

The humidity broke this afternoon. It was 73% at 11 am, and is now down to 38%. It didn't fall out of the sky, though. I'll have to water again soon.

Tomorrow is lots of laundry, weeding, and puttering around.

I'm a garden putterer. Today I saw a caterpillar on a blueberry bush, out of reach. So I went inside the fence and squished it. I thought I'd "pull a few weeds" while I was there. I ended up on my hands and knees, pulling out the grass that has grown under the fence. It looks a lot better!

Weeding the blueberries was not on my list. So when I came in, I wrote it on the list and then crossed it off.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Tell ya the rain has started in spades went in the garden to set a better way to the rat death bucket .. I have great rubber boots to the knee and a carhart ladies raincoat past my tail end but even so never been one to play in the rain