What did you do in the garden today?

[Phaedra Geiermann]

morning everyone, today is again flower harvesting day~my little flower stand is very quickly filled.

Lily is such a good investment, now i have casa blanca and asiatic white blossoming, another several varieties are also waiting

Queen Annes Lace is also amazing.

 

[WthrLady]

Everybody ok?

 

[Sally PB]

We're fine here. Got some rain, but NONE of the 60-70 mph winds they talked about. Very grateful for that.

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

 

[Swiss]

We're fine here. Got some rain, but NONE of the 60-70 mph winds they talked about. Very grateful for that.

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

Good to know (you're a little south of me, so we could have had different weather, but I doubt it was much different)! I slept like a rock last night, so had no idea. I also think our house is more soundproofed than anywhere else we've lived.

 

[Sueby]

@BReeder! you can slice the vine open with a razor blade, remove the borer & the plant will be fine! Here, I googled a vid for you:

 

[WthrLady]

Good to hear. A lot of people weren't as lucky.
Reports are still coming in this morning.
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Already feels like 83 degrees at 8am.
Garden watered, walk had.

Pressure canner coming today instead of September. Interesting, but no complaints.
I have tomatoes that need processed and I may as well test it out.

 

[oldhen2345]

Today I’m gonna clean out the corn stalks and plant bush beans. There should be time to mature before a frost. decided cut down some crepe myrtle that grow along the fence. Think I will move my small garden tool shed there. It is a plastic one (read cheap) and is light enough for a couple of people to move it.

 

[jerryse]

Raining here . Not sure if tonights storms will get this far south in IL .

 

[BReeder!]

Fine here so far. I haven't gone outside yet, but I slept like a rock last night. I sure was tired after being woke up at 4am yesterday morning by the surprise storm we had. Whatever happened last night, I slept through it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

@BReeder! you can slice the vine open with a razor blade, remove the borer & the plant will be fine! Here, I googled a vid for you:

I noticed this morning that the vb has attacked my pumpkins. At least 1 vine looks pretty decimated and infested. I will need to go over it more closely this evening and try to exorcise the little demons. Grrr.....

It's going to be HOT today....and even HOTTER tomorrow. I have some cold watermelon ready for the girls which I will give them this afternoon when it gets really bad. I'll put some ice in their water too...

Luckily I had a TON of giant shade trees which helps. I also have fans in every coop but being dual purpose birds, they don't tend to tolerate the heat really well. I tried giving them a very shallow swimming pool one year. Didn't work. They drank out of it but wouldn't walk in it. Oh well.... I always daydream about things I'd do to improve my property if money were no obstacle.... One of them would be to put in a shallow little creek with a small pool at the end (for the ducks). I'd put in a pump to push water back up to the top of the hill where it would "wash" back down via the creek. Probably wouldn't be expensive to put in....maybe a couple hundred bucks, but not money I want to spend right now when I have other things that are higher priority. Maybe one day....