What did you do in the garden today?

[CNJ]

I bought some Everglade tomato seeds from Amazon and it took over a month to sprout, anyway I bought another packet of seeds from someone on ebay and it sprouted before the first batch from the other supplier. Now I have too many of them.............

 

[Smokerbill]

Are your tomato and squash beds close to the clippings? I've used them as mulch in the past. This year they wind up in the chicken run.

Actually, yes. Good idea. I might rake them up and use them for garden mulch today.

 

[fuzzi]

Today when I went outside to top off my wildbird feeders I noticed that the "house" hopper was still full of safflower seeds. I thought perhaps some were molding so I took my trowel and started scraping hulls off of the feeding area. Immediately fire ants started pouring out of the feeder, which is suspended on a tall feeder pole. The ants were all over the feeders and the pole. In 35 years of feeding birds in the Carolinas I have never run into this issue before. Ever.

Then I checked my seed storage, a large galvanized trash can. They'd made a nest in my 20lb sack of sunflower seeds!

Fortunately it was only half full, but $till...

I dumped all the infested seeds under the feeders, the squirrels are going to have a feast.

 

[fuzzi]

Today when I went outside to top off my wildbird feeders I noticed that the "house" hopper was still full of safflower seeds. I thought perhaps some were molding so I took my trowel and started scraping hulls off of the feeding area. Immediately fire ants started pouring out of the feeder, which is suspended on a tall feeder pole. The ants were all over the feeders and the pole. In 35 years of feeding birds in the Carolinas I have never run into this issue before. Ever.

Then I checked my seed storage, a large galvanized trash can. They'd made a nest in my 20lb sack of sunflower seeds!

Fortunately it was only half full, but $till...

I dumped all the infested seeds under the feeders, the squirrels are going to have a feast.

Proof.

 

[WthrLady]

Serious smoke out here, like a fog, and ridiculous heat and humidity.
We did almost all of the drain yesterday, but the tractor wouldn't start, even with a light jump. It's been on the trickle charger all night, so we'll see if I can start it and get the rest of the rock moved. I'm not happy with the sump on it, so I might replace that before I bury that one in.
If the tractor wont start, I'll pick up a new battery in town tomorrow. It's due anyway. Better to find that now than during hay season.

A few more tomatoes and a bowl of blackberries gathered.
Another .7 of rain over night.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We got 2.5 inches of rain on Friday! So happy for it...

Now I gotta figure out why my irrigation system is using 170 gallons/day. DH is having a conniption fit over it.

 

[jerryse]

Picked 2 large cherry tomatoes. First of the season. Female zuke flower bloomed. I only have 2 plants which is enough.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Gardeners. I have two yellow crook neck, 1 zucchini.
2 early girl, 2 roma.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

remember I wrote about how the wind tore off 2/3 of my dahlias?! I stuck them into the earth again and watered them each day, it seems they are recovering and sprouting tiny new leaves. I have never read about this ( I googled it after the wind had had his way with them) I am curious, will they create new roots, or even bulbs? I will find out in autumn, when I dig up the rest of the bulbs
The rest of the plants are doing fine
Another thing which is bugging me, I have a very large tomato plant, it is flowering, but...no tomatoes, are there plants which just produce "duds" ? All my other tomatoes have green tomatoes hanging

 

[TJAnonymous]

Between my own stockpile and what I recovered from my late mother's she-she'd, I'm set on amendments & fertilizer for a long, long time.