Pigweed is evil. Gallant soldier may reproduce like gangbusters, dock may be impossible to pull, and purslane may not know how to die, but nothing tries to take over a garden like pigweed. (There's nothing quite so annoying as pulling weeds for a couple hours and then coming back to find that half of them have re-rooted, and are sending out fresh shoots.)
For those (or the one person. Frankly, it's been a while, and I'm not reading back through to figure it out) who wanted gooseberry info: Hinnomaki Red gave me about fifteen berries this year. A few were like sweet, flavorless mush. A few were still underripe. And a few tasted very good. Sort of like a cross between apple juice and blueberries? It's hard to describe flavors. I'm not sure if the difference in taste was a watering thing.
The feathered rats (bantams) then came in under my netting and ate all the remaining berries. They did not eat the blackberries, so I suppose that's a chicken vote of approval. I'm not too annoyed. I got the intelligence I wanted, and I have a fence for next year.
Not strictly garden-related, but there was a half-dead baby skunk in the chicken run today. Apparently, the dogs were going nuts last night (I work nights, so I have no idea) but they were all penned, so I'm not sure what did it? Perhaps the neighbours' dog was visiting?
And I had two kittens with warbles. So that's fun. (They're not even my cat's.)
I still have no water in the sink tho, DH has to rework the plumbing.
for some rain tonight/tomorrow. We need it so bad, the perennial flowers & the bushes are getting damage. The forsythia are looking pretty sad & the morning glory may not make it much longer. & we're supposed to have another heat wave next week.
