What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I got the rest of the tomato plants in the ground except for one chocolate cherry tomato plant. That is for the grandkids garden. I started on cleaning up the front porch brooder. So much dust. I’m hoping the grass in the backyard is dry enough to mow tomorrow. That plus laundry and starting the peppers and okra indoors. It got up to 71F today. Just a little humid but bearable.

 

[jerryse]

I am wore out. Mowed, planted tomato plants and green bean seed. Two rounds of rain tomorrow and 2 more rainy days. So tired of all the rain. Squash transplants look sad. They were hardened off and dark green when planted. All the rain has them turning yellow.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Strawberry, bush green beans and herbs.

 

[Jenbirdee]

weed whacked a couple of raised beds and then dug a bit and made four short rows into them for planting things tomorrow…

 

[Sally PB]

PEE-U….GAG! Farmer is fling cow shtuff in the field behind us. Now THAT is a powerful smell.

Oh, we know that smell very well!

 

[Sally PB]

I'm working on cutting the sod out around my heavy soil garden, about 12-15" or so. I'll cover it with "slices" pulled off an old hay bale.

I'm using the sod to fill in low spots in the two-track path through the field. One spot is uphill from the garden, the other is downhill. I took 3 cart loads to the uphill one first. Dang, clay sod is heavy. I took 4 loads to the downhill spot. That sod wasn't as heavy, for some reason.

 

[Smokerbill]

@pennyJo1960 , what in the heck is this stuff growing in the pot? The leaves remind me of thyme, but it seems too short to be that.



I didn't do anything in the garden today other than look at it from afar. I did put my tomato plants outside for a couple of hours to start hardening them off. Guess that counts.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I am wore out. Mowed, planted tomato plants and green bean seed. Two rounds of rain tomorrow and 2 more rainy days. So tired of all the rain. Squash transplants look sad. They were hardened off and dark green when planted. All the rain has them turning yellow.

How does the saying go “ones man nightingale is another man’s owl” We would love to have more rain

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Frost damaged walnut tree is putting out new leaves, it will cost it a lot of energy, I fear no walnuts this year

My clematis in full bloom, I love the color
I planted my dahlias in pots, I hope no more frost
Also put my aloe outside, they have to winter inside ..
Watered my newly planted black currants with nettle brew, what a smell

 

[Acre4Me]

we’ve been having more issues with bugs. Not surprising since bugs go where the food is, and gardens have lots of food and great environments.

So, decided to buy beneficial nematodes this year. I’ve bought them one other time and applied them 1x. This time I’ve ordered a subscription for 1x per month, ending in Sept (or cancel anytime). Hopefully we can knock back the population and then only get them 1x next year.

The hardest part is keeping everything moist.

I don’t see grasshoppers on this list, so I’ll need to try to see what I can do to manage those. There is a bacterium for controlling grasshoppers: NOLO bait, but apparently only 3 companies ever produced it, now the only one still considered to be in production hasn’t made any for a couple of years due to contamination issues.

Overall, just trying to knock back the populations to be minor, vs easily noticeable and problematic.

One pest problem I cannot control is the one my neighbor creates. He tosses out a pumpkin to rot in a corner of his garden. This grows random pumpkins..unchecked, not sprayed, and teeming with squash bugs, so much that you can see movement from a distance. This is also a host spot for SVB. So, no doubt there are lots of SVB pupae in his ground. I did start my trap crops this year, and I plan to put them into large containers that I can move. So, hopefully this will help to keep SVB away from my main squash.