What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

PERFECT weather today. Lots of garden chores to take care of before the heat wave begins Wednesday.

I’ve already done the foliar feeding this morning. In a little while I’ll turn on the sprinklers. I need to re-seed (AGAIN!) the melons and the beans. It’s a tough start to the year - I never have this much trouble!!

 

[TillyPeeps]

PERFECT weather today. Lots of garden chores to take care of before the heat wave begins Wednesday.

I’ve already done the foliar feeding this morning. In a little while I’ll turn on the sprinklers. I need to re-seed (AGAIN!) the melons and the beans. It’s a tough start to the year - I never have this much trouble!!

I'm re-seed beans too. I'm losing my battle with raccoons. Neem oil stopped them from digging my gardens for several days until they got used to it. Deer repellent, peppermint oil, castor oil, etc. never worked. Now I'm trying cayenne pepper. Only had two plants dug out this morning, so it's not too bad.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I'm re-seed beans too. I'm losing my battle with raccoons. Neem oil stopped them from digging my gardens for several days until they got used to it. Deer repellent, peppermint oil, castor oil, etc. never worked. Now I'm trying cayenne pepper. Only had two plants dug out this morning, so it's not too bad.

I have big fat groundhogs partying in the garden, those brats. They dug holes under sheds & are living under the 12x24. I got some cayenne pepper at the Dollar General & I'm going to sprinkle around the garden. Will it do anything? I don't know.

 

[LBL]

Is the house included in the garden ?

Yesterday I bought a pair of tap-dancing shoes, and started working on a song, "Rap is Crap, unless you Tap" ... in honor of a former officemate that said "Rap is Crap" about once a day.

I never thought much about Rap as a medium of self-expression until I was watching MIT Chemistry Professor Robert Field, teaching his class that focussed especially on Hydrogen bonds. A whole semester on Hydrogen bonds.

He is intently focussed on describing the atoms' perceived behavior, with heavy emphasis on words like "Translation", "Rotation", "oscillation", "location", "radiation", "transformation", "orientation".

It is in his class "Small-Molecule Spectroscopy And Dynamics".

Around about the 26th lecture, the words just fall into place.

At one point I think he realized that he was rhyming and just laughed and kept trying to teach chemistry.

Anyway, at that point I went on Google and did a web search for "top 5 rappers". I had to say, Prof. Field's lecture presented better Rapping than the conventional rappers.

He was Rapping without trying to rap, which I think makes it more beautiful.

Anyway, I was in the middle of making transcripts of his most rhyming intensive lectures, when St. Patrick's Day and the fire in my dining room came along.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/5-80-small-molecule-spectroscopy-and-dynamics-fall-2008/

OK now admittedly most of this occurred in the office.

But I figure the Office is SORT OF an extension of the Garden.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Hey, this photo just reminded me of this toy in the 70s...Whizzers weird how some stuff from decades ago can just pop into your brain.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Is the house included in the garden ?

Yesterday I bought a pair of tap-dancing shoes, and started working on a song, "Rap is Crap, unless you Tap" ... in honor of a former officemate that said "Rap is Crap" about once a day.

But I figure the Office is SORT OF an extension of the Garden.

Hey, if we're thinking about the garden, it doesn't matter where we are...it counts!

 

[aimee750]

Planted 4 white cherry trees in the orchard yesterday. Along with weeding one of the gardens and picking a quart of strawberries. I love spending time in the gardens and with the birds.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Planted 4 white cherry trees in the orchard yesterday. Along with weeding one of the gardens and picking a quart of strawberries. I love spending time in the gardens and with the birds.

Me too, it is my absolute fav

 

[PopoMyers]

I watered Lettuce yesterday.

In the old days we used to grow Pot in the woods, and vegetables on our porch. Now we grow Cannabis on the porch - and Vegetables in the woods (though not sure lettuce is a vegetable).

And they even came up with a trendy name ... "Wild-crafting".

If I ever go back to Silicon Valley - I can put that on my resume. ("oh, yeah, I do WILD-CRAFTING." "YOU'RE HIRED ! ! !")

Anyway, my property is about 1900 feet long with about a 600 foot rise. Seems I got some of the steepest land in the county.

For half of the garden spots I added ropes to the path, after falling one too many times.

The one time I tried to encourage the chickens to come look at the apple trees on the hillside etc. ... the hawks attacked them.

Love that, Wild Crafting.

 

[PopoMyers]

This is odd, too. Lack of rain? Or crap they sprayed?
My evergreen is suddenly brown?

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Someone here had that happen to ones in their driveway. Possibility that soil or driveway treatment for weeds or moss may have leached into the soil or drifted spray is killing your tree.