What did you do in the garden today?

[MrLeeHo]

Lived within a few hours of here most of my life and never seen a rattle snake. Copperheads, cottonmouths, yes. I know we have them but ive never crossed em in nearly 40 yrs.

Soooo...idk if it is irony, karma, or what you wanna call it but the day after I posted this my wife was on a bike ride on the island and rode past a dead eastern diamondback on the side of the road. Absolutely insane how the world reminds us of things when we dismiss them.

 

[Elyrian1]

I felt we all needed a good giggle this morning, even I found it funny.

I'll add one so you don't feel all alone. Last week, DH and I were sitting watching a movie, about 10 at night, when we pause it because we hear something. At the same instant I say check the toilet, he jumps up and runs for it. DH is NEVER in a hurry, but this got him moving.

Sure enough, he had left the pump/water filter with a bad seal running under the kitchen sink, which filled up the black tank, and it was overflowing back up the toilet and into the hallway.

Yay.

Half an hour later we had drained the tank, turned off the pump, and mopped the floor multiple times with my strongest cleaner (which ain't that strong but good enough don't worry), and finally got to sit back down to the movie after I backtracked and cleaned everything he used or touched in the heat of the emergency. Door handles, walls, trash cans, counters, etc. It was a flurry of activity.

In the middle of all that fun, his work called since he was on-call and he legit told the guy on speaker that the black tank was blowing up back into the rv. There was a beat of silence from the other guy, vehement swearing, and then a hurried "I'll call you back later, man!"

Good times!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I have used rugs ,many years ago and grew great crops with few weeds. However, slugs, mice, snakes and other things loved the rugs as well. That was not the biggest problem ,however! After several years the rugs began to deteriorate and finally, the roots and weeds caused the rug to be very difficult to remove and it came apart. In fact strands of the synthetic fibers still tangle my tiller or rakes, 25 years later. I have spent hours and hours over years removing the fibers from one of my gardens. That was my fault, for not discarding the rug after the first season or two! Best wishes for your gardens!

I move my rugs off every spring to clean and till, since they are picked up every year and moved I haven't had any problems for the last 8 years.
Also we have tons of cats and ducks. I haven't seen a snake in our yard for literal years. I've never had mice in my garden.

 

[Wolfie2]

Not gardening but this is a chicken site so, I was here and thought I would pass this on. First time to have been presented (gifted?) with an egg. Was puttin up the chickens just a few minutes ago. They are all scratchin away @ their scratch, and All the birds are accounted for so I go too close the door to the pen, Got it closed and turn around and there is a wet, warm egg layin on the ground right beside me, almost stepped on it. Wasn't there a few seconds ago!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Not gardening but this is a chicken site so, I was here and thought I would pass this on. First time to have been presented (gifted?) with an egg. Was puttin up the chickens just a few minutes ago. They are all scratchin away @ their scratch, and All the birds are accounted for so I go too close the door to the pen, Got it closed and turn around and there is a wet, warm egg layin on the ground right beside me, almost stepped on it. Wasn't there a few seconds ago!

Congratulations on your first egg.

 

[BReeder!]

Mother nature is on a rampage. Thunderstorms rolling through with gusts up to 70 mph and possibility of quarter sized hail. It's ugly out there right now. Hoping the trees stay up and the garden pulls through.

 

[oldhen2345]

Not gardening but this is a chicken site so, I was here and thought I would pass this on. First time to have been presented (gifted?) with an egg. Was puttin up the chickens just a few minutes ago. They are all scratchin away @ their scratch, and All the birds are accounted for so I go too close the door to the pen, Got it closed and turn around and there is a wet, warm egg layin on the ground right beside me, almost stepped on it. Wasn't there a few seconds ago!

dontcha just love it??

 

[oldhen2345]

I woke up late so it was too hot to do much more than water the garden this morning. This afternoon, I cleared off all the grass and dirt from edging the sitting area And cleared the weeds out of the big planters on it and in the fire pit. I didn’t plant anything in them this year, but think I will put carrots in them. Next year we’ll see - maybe moss rose or marigold.

 

[Acre4Me]

Busy and hot!

between the last 2 days, dug up the white potatoes. Ok harvest, not bad-not great. The purple potatoes appear to have done better. I dug up 2 plants bc they were in the same area of the bed as the white ones, and it was easier to dig it all up. The purple potatoes are not yet ready to dig up, so most remain in the ground.

in the now empty portion of the potato bed I planted green beans, beets, carrots.

I removed most of the cabbage in another bed and planted mustard greens.

The melons have done generally poorly this year. Looks like we might get a few muskmelons. But, I planted 8 -yes, eight, melon varieties. Do we are going to get one type it looks like. Maybe we get another, but not likely.

okra is gr and producing a bit.

pulled soybeans for edamame -yum!

awash in tomatoes.

bush beans (for drying) are done -decent haul.

 

[Swiss]

So here I am with 15 pounds of simmering grapes on the stove (it's a timed thing) and a sink about two inches deep in water, and I have to take the underside apart and clear it. grrrrr.

Then I take it apart only to find the 6qt bowl I've put under the plumbing isn't enough. SO NOW I'm sitting on the floor, with grapes simmering on the stove, a bowl filled to the brim dripping black chicken water onto the old towel I DID have the brains to put under the bowl, and using the flat of my hand to block the pipe from the garbage disposal. OK, NOW WHAT?! (Can you picture this?? It's funny as hell.)

My brain briefly pondered dumping the bowl in the sink. DUH, I can't lift it with one hand while my finger is in the dyke. and oh ya, that water would be going into the broken sink. OK NOW WHAT??? OK need another bowl, pot, anything. Hmmm... So now I'm holding back sludge with the flat of my right hand and turning my body around like some kind of sadistic version of Welcome to Adulting Twister, so that I can reach the pot cabinet opposite the sink on my left, you know the cabinet that holds all my CAST IRON POTS.

I can reach the knob to open the cabinet no problem, but I cannot reach the top of the slide out drawer to pull the 30 pound drawer of iron pots towards me to grab a 6 qt pot. So keeping my hand on the drain hole, I twist more and send my left foot around and up to the lip of the drawer. (God, I'm glad I'm still bendy.)The whole time the timer on the microwave is counting down to turn off the gas for the jelly juice. I snag the drawer, grab the big dutch oven and twist myself and it towards the sink again. Now where to put the damn thing? The other bowl is taking up the room I need and the garbage disposal is in the way. I have to hold the bowl with one hand long enough to get the other away from the hole, then I can two hand it. Geesh, what a smelly mess.get the whole thing drained, and the grey water (literally) dumped down the utility sink in the laundry, and clean the pipes, the cabinet and put the whole thing back together and sanitized. The timer on the jelly juice had 40 seconds to spare. I swept and mopped the floors and dealt with the juice. But for crap sake! Maybe I'll can pizza sauce and salsa tomorrow instead.

Very descriptive! It was like I was there!

Knowing me, I would have dumped the bowl in the sink. Then said, "Why'd you do that, dummy?"