What did you do in the garden today?

[chicken opey]

I put large rocks over my roosters' burial sites.

We thought a pallet would deter them from digging up last cat that died. Nope. Dug under it!!

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday

I mowed part of the yard around the coop, and the clippings were greatly appreciated by the flock.

Pruned, wrapped, and secured my Summer squash, I had neglected it recently.

The plants will straighten up, and I'll tie them up some more.

First squash:

Weeded my melons a couple days ago, looking better!

Hydrangea in bloom!

 

[Jojosine]

What did you do in your garden today?

I picked a bunch of Rattlesnake green beans and Cherokee wax beans, a few tomatoes, three eggplants, some broccoli shoots, and jalapenos. Pretty happy with today's harvest!

Not much, worked all day.
But when home just pulled out a couple of weeds (and cleaned the chicken coop)

 

[Smokerbill]

Yesterday

I mowed part of the yard around the coop, and the clippings were greatly appreciated by the flock.

Pruned, wrapped, and secured my Summer squash, I had neglected it recently.
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The plants will straighten up, and I'll tie them up some more.

First squash:
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Weeded my melons a couple days ago, looking better!
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Hydrangea in bloom!
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About pruning and tying your squash to posts, do you think it's hard on the plants losing so many of the big leaves? Seems like it would lower the amount of energy the plants would produce from the sun/photosynthesis.

Also, I wonder how one of those elastic Ace bandage wraps would work for tying the plants to the stake?

I think you mentioned that the main reason you grow summer squash that way is because of the vine borer problem. I don't have any of those bugs here (so far, anyway), so maybe it would be OK just let mine grow without all the extra care. Thanks! Your garden is looking good!

 

[fuzzi]

About pruning and tying your squash to posts, do you think it's hard on the plants losing so many of the big leaves? Seems like it would lower the amount of energy the plants would produce from the sun/photosynthesis.

Also, I wonder how one of those elastic Ace bandage wraps would work for tying the plants to the stake?

I think you mentioned that the main reason you grow summer squash that way is because of the vine borer problem. I don't have any of those bugs here (so far, anyway), so maybe it would be OK just let mine grow without all the extra care. Thanks! Your garden is looking good!

Thanks!

I did this procedure last year, and had more squash for a longer season than in the prior 35 years!

I had to take out leaves because they were interfering with the staking. I often take off extra tomato branches, too. It opens them up for air circulation, and I have less fungal issues.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

So I planted the okra seeds in containers and cut the bindweed off my azalea in the front yard. When I let the chickens out to stretch their legs and do some digging I worked on one of the herb gardens. A lot more work than expected. Showers and cooler temps in the forecast tomorrow. I’m making bread but hoping to get the herb garden replanted as well.

 

[WthrLady]

grass pollen and tree pollen is driving me insane today.
My eyes and sinus are on FIRE, and I've navaged 3 times already today.
I need to go out and water, but my last trip out for 10 minutes and my skin started to itch.
OMG.
The numbers in the city, where the count is taken aren't that high, but out here in the country where all the grass is hip high and in seed and the clover is blooming and so are other weeds, AND they're starting to cut hay...ugh.
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MUST water though.

 

[Sueby]

The pollen is so bad here, I walked outside yesterday to collect eggs & started choking, my throat felt like it was closing up. It was super windy yesterday, better today so not as bad.

I went to get some flowers to fill in for the bolted spinach & they gave me a couple jalapenos for free.

What type are those cute shrubs. I'm researching chicken safe shrubs right now.

I have no clue, lol. They were here when we bought the house. I probably should have checked to make sure I didn't kill my chickens, but eh, they're fine.

I buried dud pigeon eggs one year. Literally the next morning I look out there & couldn't believe it...some critter dug up every single one & left huge craters! Whatever I planted was either laying there to the side or just gone. I do not bury eggs, I will use egg shells but no whole eggs ever again. It drew Raccoons & Opossums for weeks afterwards, too.

Some other critter digs up my pepper plants. I haven't figured out who...but even when I replanted the peppers into pots, they were dug up by morning. Only the peppers, too. It's a real mystery...who does that?

I could never bury anything here in the garden, they'd tear the whole place apart. Fox, bobcats, coyote, raccoons - any one of them would have a field day.

That's it!
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I have that stuff all over!

About pruning and tying your squash to posts, do you think it's hard on the plants losing so many of the big leaves? Seems like it would lower the amount of energy the plants would produce from the sun/photosynthesis.

Also, I wonder how one of those elastic Ace bandage wraps would work for tying the plants to the stake?

I think you mentioned that the main reason you grow summer squash that way is because of the vine borer problem. I don't have any of those bugs here (so far, anyway), so maybe it would be OK just let mine grow without all the extra care. Thanks! Your garden is looking good!

I always grow my squash on a trellis of some sort & trim them up to the lowest fruit/flowers, it helps with the bugs (I get squash bugs & SVB) but it also helps with the powdery mildew. Also saves space, I need to grow vertically here as I don't have room for sprawling plants. I had one a couple years ago on a cattle panel trellis that had to be 8 feet tall with no leaves except the top few feet. Trimming the leaves doesn't hinder them in my experience.

 

[swampfox440]

Pulled weeds!

 

[lagrange chicks]

Watching the ground dry, over 7" of rain this month. Things are growing good and now chance of frost tonight.