What did you do in the garden today?

[Sammster]

James the adult Son is finished weeding thew garden for me.

Good kid . ♡ Thank you, James

 

[Sammster]

Morning. Nice out today, so far anyway. Got my first harvest, handful of beans for dinner & 2 male squash flowers to save for pollination if I need them. I closed them up & put them in the freezer.

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I've done manual pollinating - but never thought to do it this way! TYFS!

 

[chicken opey]

Love the scarecrow!

Gs helped design face - can u tell

 

[Sammster]

My mom was an organic gardener, recruited me to help at an early age. I was given a glass jar with lid, an inch of turpentine or something like that in the bottom, and sent outside to gather pests. I got a penny for each Japanese beetle I captured so I liked seeing them coupled $$. I liked finding tomato hornworms, too as they were worth ten cents, woo!

Smart mom!

 

[Acre4Me]

Japanese beetles have arrived, wish I could find something that works better than neem oil.

I went to Sevin this year. Should not harm the bees bc the trees have no flowers in them. I have 2 plum trees. One if them has been stunted by the JBs for 2 years -new growth buds eaten up by JBs so it remains small. But they attack the raspberries and other fruit trees. I decided the fruit trees should win the battle, not the JBs. Last year I was hand picking into a soapy water bucket. 3-5x per day. Every day. And still, the plum tree was damaged, as were the raspberries, and other fruit trees. I tried to avoid using pesticides on the JBs for several years, however, my goal is to feed my family, and the trees need to grow and develop in order to do that.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

No seeums were wicked this morning. Got everything watered before work despite those buggers. DH helps with the 5 gallon jug chicken waterers. I heard we may get rain over the weekend. I will believe it when I see it. It's very hot & dry here these days.

Hey remember those Brussel sprout seeds I started back in...was it March? They withered shortly after sprouting. I've kept these last 2 alive but look...I have Never had something sprout & then just Stop as if frozen in time before. They're as little as they were when they 1st sprouted! It's just very bizarre to me. Think I'm going to send an email to the company, not they really care, but they should know. I sincerely doubt this was their only dud packet.

Photo taken this morning



Well, just emailed them photos of these 2 frozen in time from March, the rest died & a pic of the packet with sku. They may send me more seeds Lol. I will let you know.

 

[chicken opey]

No seeums were wicked this morning. Got everything watered before work despite those buggers. DH helps with the 5 gallon jug chicken waterers. I heard we may get rain over the weekend. I will believe it when I see it. It's very hot & dry here these days.

Hey remember those Brussel sprout seeds I started back in...was it March? They withered shortly after sprouting. I've kept these last 2 alive but look...I have Never had something sprout & then just Stop as if frozen in time before. They're as little as they were when they 1st sprouted! It's just very bizarre to me. Think I'm going to send an email to the company, not they really care, but they should know. I sincerely doubt this was their only dud packet.

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The only ones I had stunted were eggplants last year and I had mosaic virus. Here’s hoping it’s the heat.
Wild

 

[igorsMistress]

Don't even get me really started on the med commercials. Ridiculous
Be sure to tell your doctor if you've recently had or plan to have an organ transplant. OH ya, doc, I was planning on going into a back alley on our next trip to Miami and handing a guy named bubba a kidney. Thoughts?
Wouldn't your DOCTOR KNOW if you had or were planning an organ transplant?
These commercials cater to pill popping people and the doctors that will try anything thrown at them by the pharm reps.
It's insane.
If I went into my doc and said 'hey, I saw this on a commercial for purple talking toe fungus - can we try it?' The side effects being death, collapsed lungs, and full loss of hair. He'd laugh me out of the office.

You would think the doc would know, but they often have no damn clue.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

You would think the doc would know, but they often have no damn clue.

Oh doctors...they go to school to learn a manipulated curriculum that teaches them to push drugs & rarely use their brains to learn more or question what methods they were taught. The rare doctor does exist, they're not easy to find, but they're the ones that at least seek more knowledge & many methods of healing, even those the system can't patent & make big money on. It's a shame but just about Everything revolves around money. Big pharma makes big money & they're not giving that up.

 

[igorsMistress]

I planted nine baby corn stalks (last year's corn from seeds didn't survive past the baby ears point), today, did some more weeding in our garden, and took my two trellises out from behind some roses and put them to use in the veggie garden for our cucumbers. I'm sure I'm doing this wrong, but I haven't found any trellises in local stores, so I'm trying to work with what I've got.
We also got four rosebushes transplanted from pots, so they can finally have a home and fill out! Looks kinda sad, atm, but I'll add hostas & mums, soon.

There’s really no right way, do with what you’ve got. Everyone in this thread does what works for them and we share those ideas. I think it’s great that you’re reusing stuff!