What did you do in the garden today?

[Lazy Farmer]

Thanks chickmom and Capricorn! Yeah, I guess I am lucky my hens aren't more destructive, like my ducks. They dig holes with their bills, destroyed a hosta and a beautiful blue spruce sedum plant.

We have been contemplating on starting with ducks recently. But we keep reading about them always digging as deep as their bill is long.. Another chore for us maybe? Still I am ready but hubby is the consciousness objector as always!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Dea

we have no ducks for that reason, chickens are enough with the dogs thrown in for good measure

Jinks 12345!

 

[Pensmaster]

We have been contemplating on starting with ducks recently. But we keep reading about them always digging as deep as their bill is long.. Another chore for us maybe? Still I am ready but hubby is the consciousness objector as always!

Yea I thought about ducks once. After seeing what they did to my friends pond I quickly changed my mind. So your hubby has my vote.

On the dog eating the house part, bitter apple spray works wonders.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

OMG! Just found this but it's not garden related, but had to share with my friends..,..

 

[karenerwin]

See if any of these pics match your ghost bugs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=squ....69i57j0l3.18411j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Those pictures (top right corner 3) totally match what I have been finding and smooshing! Pesky things are doing a number on my cucumber plants.

I would vote for squirrel or rat for the tomato disembowelment.
I going to say squirrels then. We have a lot of them and a few chipmunks. We also have an occasional mouse and some voles & moles, but in 10 years I have never seen a rat. And I hope to keep it that way!! The dog and the 2 cats are pretty good at catching mice, voles, moles and an occasional baby rabbit.

Could you plant them, and then put a poly tunnel over them. Agreed, July is the time to start new plants for fall garden... but we're still only a couple weeks past that. I need to get my greens started for the green house.

Yes, may try that.

Today I used my new wood chipper to take care of some branches. I'm using the wood chips in the garden with the goal being a "Back to Eden garden". I still need a LOT MORE wood chips. But, you have to start somewhere.

Picked more peaches in Illinois today. Tied up tomato plants more and watered the garden after putting down newspaper and what wood chips I had. Also killed more of those bugs and caught about 20 Japanese beetles and fed those to the chickens.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

OMG! Just found this but it's not garden related, but had to share with my friends..,..

You can only guess my next thing too do!!!

 

[karenerwin]

After supper i went out and picked up the tools. Every day, all day, this dog wants to play fetch the stick . But she really doesn't want you to take it from her. After a while, she gives in and sort of throws it at you , near your feet or on one of my freshly painted boards. Every day i throw it until she is panting. When husband is home he takes her for long walks and plays with her, so i don't have to do it by myself. After two weeks of it, i am getting tired of it. I was in the garden trying to plant the watermelon plants. I got two in and she comes over and throws a big stick right on top of one of the plants! Really? I about lost it. I closed the garden gate with her outside and picked beans. I will be really happy when husband gets back. I think she may be in the dog yard tomorrow.

Or the dog house!

 

[NanaKat]

Tied up tomatoes today, pulled a few weeds, watered by moving the sprinkler every three hours, two loads of laundry.
Put the ducks up tonight. They have grown so much. The youngest group was born in late May. They waddle from the garden, across the backyard, up three steps into the bonus room and wait for me to lift them into their brooder (a 2 X 2 X 6' ) water tank. Each morning they take themselves to their garden pen. The April ducks are in heir permanent pen. The parent ducks are in their own pen.
We are having a break in the temperatures this week so I hope to finish the pens.
Might get some rain Tuesday...we need the pasture rain... pastures are getting yellow.

 

[chickmom3941]

@CapricornFarm

Today I went to the zoo. I did not work on the garden. But the zoo was pretty great. Our zoo is free on mondays.

Lol, our dog is just like that! He chases the ball zealously, comes back all excited for you to throw it again, but when you try to take it, he gives you the "friendly growl" while wildly wagging his tail. Either you have to play tug of war with him to get it out of his mouth, or what I sometimes do is just ignore him and he'll drop the ball at your feet. When you go to pick it up, you better be fast because as soon as he sees you're going for the ball, he tries to beat you to it so you can play tug of war again - go figure! I don't know which he likes more - chasing the ball, or playing tug of war with it. I try to be patient and play along, since he obviously gets so much pleasure out of the whole game!

 

[Beer can]

OMG! Just found this but it's not garden related, but had to share with my friends..,..

Did you see this one? I just looked it up and watched it.
14yr old DD watching her younger siblings for awhile last week sent me this message so I had to check it out.