What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

A fresh peach or a fresh strawberry... that's a difficult decision...

 

[Sueby]

So I got DH to pluck me some rhubarb. The plants were all transplanted last year so not a huge harvest, but I foresee that rhubarita happening tonight!

My cukes only have female flowers, that's always sad to see them go to waste:

Lots of blueberries! I've already eaten all the ripe ones

Butterfly weed in full bloom, but no butterflies yet

This is the 'critter waterer' my friend made me from a giant hosta leaf (don't mind the weeds, y'all know I can't bend)

 

[jerryse]

Due to the drought I have not mowed in 6 weeks. Does not need mowed. There are some buckhorn plantain seed stalks sticking up. Caught a coon. Rain possible next 4 days. We need the rain. I need to rest from my vacation.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Due to the drought I have not mowed in 6 weeks. Does not need mowed. There are some buckhorn plantain seed stalks sticking up. Caught a coon. Rain possible next 4 days. We need the rain. I need to rest from my vacation.

Did you get your swarm hived? Does it look strong?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Just picked the last of the cherries for the year, they are starting to go bad. Lots of waste unfortunately. I'm getting sheep soon and I read that all parts of cherries including leaves are poisonous for them. Now I'm wondering if other animals would have problems so I'm not wanting to take a chance.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. We are finally getting some sunny and dry weather today. I totally lost track of how much rain we got. It all seems like one big wet blur now. I picked more peas this morning, planted more cucumber seeds and put the tacky straw on the two tomato beds in the big garden. That was enough before breakfast. Tomorrow I'll be planting the green beans and summer squash in the corn patch. My little Max has been begging me to bathe him. This little guy loves getting a bath. I'm just happy Chloe is over the jumping out of the sink once she gets all soaped up "phase." I'm not sure if I'll get any more gardening in today. If the dogs don't wear me out, perhaps I can do something.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I forgot to post these photos from this morning.

Butternut squash and dill.

Freshly mulched tomato beds

Yesterday's peas

 

[littledog]

Amazing, after 72 hours sInce our first chick hatched, the last one that we thought was dead in the egg, is still alive.
Coming home from work last night, it was 48 hours since there was any activity in the incubator, so I assumed the last few eggs were all dead and shut it off...but two hours later, I was hearing loud chirping, thought it was from the 7 babies in their brooder, checked on them and they looked at me like I was crazy. Then I realized the chirping was coming from the incubator!
The last tiny chick was still trying hard to hatch - kicking its legs to get out of the sheIl. I know we're not supposed to help them, but by this time the shell and membrane was dried-out and stuck to the chick, so I gently broke the shell into pieces and took a washcloth with warm water to rinse off all the stuck membrane. I figured, if we do nothing at all, it will die for sure, but if I gently try, at least it might have a small chance.
I had to rinse it in warm water to detach all the sticky shells and membrane, then gave it few cc's of chick booster from a syringe (and it was able to drink) then put it back in the incubator with some food and water. It was really weak, could barely hold its head up or get its legs under it to walk.
Tonight (24 hours later) the chick was able to stand up and stagger around, though still weak and not very active. So I took it out of the incubator and put it in a small container with chick-booster water and food, next to the healthy chicks' brooder, with a heat-mat and able to share the big chicks' heat lamp. It's still not very strong, but able to walk better, eat food and drink chick-booster water, and starting to hold its head up while staggering around.
Still not sure if it will survive, but we hope it does and we're doing our best.

 

[gtaus]

So I got DH to pluck me some rhubarb. The plants were all transplanted last year so not a huge harvest, but I foresee that rhubarita happening tonight!

What do you do with the rhubarb leaves?

A couple ladies at my cooking class recommended to use the rhubarb leaves as top mulch/weed block for the garden. Just cut off the leaves and leave them in the garden. I'm sure it would block the weeds, but I wonder if it would block the rain as well. All the top mulch I have ever used (wood chips, dried grass clippings, leaves, unfinished compost) always had easy drainage. I just don't see that possible with large rhubarb leaves, but maybe it works OK.

 

[TJAnonymous]

OK, lesson learned. DON'T grow corn inside the hoop house.

The main issue is that my corn was probably 8 ft tall... Inside a 7 ft hoop house. So the stalks got caught up inside the netting so I don't think it was pollinated properly... I did collect 4 ears this morning. We'll see tonight at dinner how filled out or edible it is...

Collected some tomatoes, beans, onions, and broccoli too. Cauliflower is also ready but I didn't have room in the basket to take it. I'll get it tonight.

Indeterminate tomatoes in the buckets are definitely stunted. Very small and not producing well. The determinate tomatoes are doing awesome because they were planted in the ground.