What did you do in the garden today?

Good morning gardeners. Garden is doing well. My peas are loaded with blooms and small pods now. Both plantings are in bloom.I harvested my first radishes this morning. The leaves are really big and will mix well with some more salad greens. I covered the lima bean plants with bug netting. Hopefully this will discourage whatever has been nibbling their leaves. My pear tree is doing quite well and putting out a lot of leaves. The temperatures have been a lot more comfortable and will even get a little cooler this weekend. I still have a couple of baby bok choy growing so I'm hoping it gets a little bigger before the heat comes back. The rain is coming back this evening and will be with us over most of the weekend. I'm trying to get finished up on mulching the path and mowing the slope before the end of the day. Fingers crossed. I didn't make it over to the south side of the back this morning so hopefully all is well. I'll check that out later. Warm thoughts and best wishes for those of you who may have been affected by this latest tornado outbreak in the south.
 
FYI your arrow staples will be rusted through and broken off in a month. And you'd be amazed and the stresses a trellis undergoes.

Thank you for the feedback. I'll keep a good eye on those Arrow staples. If they start to fail like you said, then I'll replace them with the much stronger fence post staples. I honestly had not considered that the Arrow staples would rust out and fail in such a short time. I have used Arrow staples to hold down my twine line for the raised bed square foot garden lines. They have not rusted out in a number of years on the wood. However, they are not under any kind of stress like a trellis might have. I do have a bagful of heavy duty fence post staples in the garage if needed.
 
FYI your arrow staples will be rusted through and broken off in a month. And you'd be amazed and the stresses a trellis undergoes.

FYI, another member on the forum mentioned that a person can buy stainless-steel Arrow staples. I did not know that, either, so I will be checking into that option as well.

What staples/nails/etc... do you use for your trellis? Thanks.
 
I'm leaving the chickens locked in the run this morning while I take a trip to Home Depot to get a 7' x 100' piece of deer mesh, and when the garden is protected I'll let the chickens out.

Edited to add:

I opened up the mesh and it's so thin and flimsy that I'm afraid that a chicken would get tangled up in it if it got spooked and flew into it, and maybe die if I wasn't nearby. Gonna return it.
 
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Update from Thursday

Summer squash experiment (staking):
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Watermelons! (volunteer plants):
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German Johnson (heirloom) tomatoes:
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And plum tomatoes:
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Heavy rain last night had the squash plants leaning over.

Emergency surgery and support was performed:
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The leaf on the left appears to just be leaning. If it doesn't straighten itself I'll just prune it.

Replanted beans where they didn't sprout or something ate them:
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Peppers!
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I saw on YouTube that fresh cut grass clippings, about 1-2 inches thick, make an excellent top mulch for the gardens. So, I mulched up a couple raised beds the other day with grass clippings.

Eggplants and peppers in this pallet wood raised bed I made last year...

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Tomato plants here in my newly designed pallet wood raised bed I built this year...

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I like the looks of the green grass clippings. Another option I was considering was using unfinished compost from the chicken run. Anybody got some thoughts or suggestions on top mulch options that work for them? Thanks.
 
FYI, another member on the forum mentioned that a person can buy stainless-steel Arrow staples. I did not know that, either, so I will be checking into that option as well.

What staples/nails/etc... do you use for your trellis? Thanks.
The staples I originally used on a smaller project were standard arrow staples, what a pokey, sharp disaster.

My current trellis system is held up with 1 3/4" barbed,bull fence staples, because I have a 5# bucket of them from building the bull fencing. I DARE the cucumbers to pull it off the posts this year. LOL.
 
I saw on YouTube that fresh cut grass clippings, about 1-2 inches thick, make an excellent top mulch for the gardens. So, I mulched up a couple raised beds the other day with grass clippings.

Eggplants and peppers in this pallet wood raised bed I made last year...

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Tomato plants here in my newly designed pallet wood raised bed I built this year...

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I like the looks of the green grass clippings. Another option I was considering was using unfinished compost from the chicken run. Anybody got some thoughts or suggestions on top mulch options that work for them? Thanks.
I've done the mower clippings mulch, works well.
 
Well, the weeds are getting away from me a bit. It's kind of a choice, not entirely me being lazy. They aren't allowed to go to seed or crowd out my actual plants, and they are welcome to be a living mulch.

We got another .1" of rain yesterday, and today, I noticed my plants all seem to be happy about it! It's crazy the different speeds they can grow at!
 

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