What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

posting this here so you can check your shelves
recalled hand sanitizer list just keeps growing....

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-methanol

 

[Sueby]

I'm so dumb. Hottest, most humid day of the year & I decide I'm gonna put the soaker hose out in the garden. It didn't take too long but I finished & was calling the dog to come in & I almost passed out. Still feeling weird. Def not the smartest of the bunch here.

Anyway, so glad I have the soaker hose out! Now I only have to water half the garden by hand. I picked another cuke today, looks like I'll have a couple more before the plants all die.

 

[sourland]

Watered the tomatoes - and sweated a lot.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I already talked about losing our little Maltese dog last Friday. This past Tuesday we lost our big Border Collie/Heeler as well. Call me an anthropormorphizing crazy person, but we believe Big Dog was trying to tell us he was ready to go.
Big dog didn't come with us to the vet when little dog went, but he sniffed Little Dog's burial box in detail, and was with us when we buried little dog under the new willow tree.

Big Dog had been doing well on medication for heart disease for about 18 months, then this past April he grew a lump on his leg, which was diagnosed as cancer. He was 14 years old, so we decided to not subject him to any surgery, just keep him happy and comfortable for whatever time he had left.
Still, we expected a few more months with him, not to lose him just four days after losing our little dog.
Every time Big Dog went outside, he either stared at Little Dog's gravesite, or just looked around at his outdoor environment, or laid down in the field. Finally, he quit eating - not even his favorite treats - then he collapsed in the yard.
Call me crazy, but we believe he was telling us that he understood Little Dog was gone and not experiencing anxiety or pain any more, and was trying to find a way to tell us that he wanted us to do the same for him as well.
So we did.
At the vet, he seemed to understand everything. He was not scared at all. What a brave boy.
Here's our little weeping willow tree, that they're both buried under.

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I am so sorry

 

[sourland]

I already talked about losing our little Maltese dog last Friday. This past Tuesday we lost our big Border Collie/Heeler as well. Call me an anthropormorphizing crazy person, but we believe Big Dog was trying to tell us he was ready to go.
Big dog didn't come with us to the vet when little dog went, but he sniffed Little Dog's burial box in detail, and was with us when we buried little dog under the new willow tree.

Big Dog had been doing well on medication for heart disease for about 18 months, then this past April he grew a lump on his leg, which was diagnosed as cancer. He was 14 years old, so we decided to not subject him to any surgery, just keep him happy and comfortable for whatever time he had left.
Still, we expected a few more months with him, not to lose him just four days after losing our little dog.
Every time Big Dog went outside, he either stared at Little Dog's gravesite, or just looked around at his outdoor environment, or laid down in the field. Finally, he quit eating - not even his favorite treats - then he collapsed in the yard.
Call me crazy, but we believe he was telling us that he understood Little Dog was gone and not experiencing anxiety or pain any more, and was trying to find a way to tell us that he wanted us to do the same for him as well.
So we did.
At the vet, he seemed to understand everything. He was not scared at all. What a brave boy.
Here's our little weeping willow tree, that they're both buried under.

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Sorry for the double loss. I truly think that they know/sense so much more than we are aware of.

 

[NightingaleJen]

OUR CHICKS JUST SHIPPED OUR CHICKS JUST SHIPPED! Finally! I am so excited!

Lucy appreciates your admiration, @penny1960! Also, I have occasionally used fish fertilizer on my tomatoes and
tomatillos with no ill effect; they seem to like it. Worm castings too. No cat problems, but we had a collie roaming around leaving collie tumbleweeds all over including in the garden.

Your harvest looks wonderful, @Birdielee! Also, just in case you aren't sure...deer tastes delicious. Just saying.

@littledog, I am so sorry about *both* of your dogs, and sorry I missed your losing the first. :'( Losing one of our canine buddies is just...it's awful. I'm so sorry.

You should have plenty of time for those rutabaga, @Sueby. Last year I planted some in late September (zone 6a), mulched well, and we had a winter cover stretched over PVC pipe and tucked everything in once the temperatures really began dropping. Even granting that we had late first frost...I pulled the last 2019 rutabaga out of the garden in April. (You can see the winter cover behind our beloved and dearly missed Ben here.) Barring winter cover, you can mulch the living daylights out of them, too, with straw. Happy growing! Glad you survived your soaker hose installation...stay out of the heat, my goodness!!!

Great gourd setup, @Acre4Me! What kind(s) did you plant?

Very sorry to hear about your hive, @WthrLady. Glad your birds were safe from the fox.

Way to go with the Sad Plant Rack scores, @igorsMistress! It is one of the only reasons I go to Lowe's any more (Ace really is full of friendlier folks so that's what we prefer). I promise not to squeal about your mint abuse.

That is a royal-looking meal, @MrLeeHo! Yum. Can't remember the last time I had wahoo. It is appropriately named.

Beautiful nasturtium and squash, @Wee Farmer Sarah!

It was miserably hot and humid yesterday, and having done lots of seed sowing and watering Saturday, I felt justified in ignoring the garden other than looking at it. We had a wild windy thunderstorm dump about a half-inch of rain last night; it also threw a tree onto the drive (it's okay, we were planning on cutting that one down anyhow) and half-yanked a limb off one of my Paul Robeson tomatoes. The latter was tied up; we'll see if it makes it. There are a bunch of tomatoes on it, so I'm hoping it does! Will probably throw some fast-growing flower and mustard seeds into the garden tonight once it cools off. It's going to be another hot, muggy week.

Did I mention...our chicks shipped this afternoon!

 

[TropicalBabies]

@littledog I too am so sorry for your losses. Wow, double whammy... ouch. I love that you placed your fuzzy babies to rest under a beautiful tree, a very loving thing to do. Be good to yourself, our thoughts are with you

 

[pennyJo1960]

So glad your have chicks shipping today Jen it is so exciting I have eggs on the way also

 

[TropicalBabies]

Aloha garden gang, happy Monday.
I spent yesterday with the neighbor kids and sent them home with Jazz and some chicks. Together we got all the coops and brooders cleaned and ready for the newcomers and had a nice time doing it. We all kept our masks on and we all lived .

I then got on the phone with my hanai mom/best friend/sister who recently lost her husband to kidney disease. What a pleasure it is to "be there" for her, just to listen and help her work things out instead of staying stuck inside of her. Such a fantastic lady going through another one of life's transitions. I wish I could have flown to Maui last eve, booked a room at the Pionier Inn for us and walked the streets of Lahaina, just holding hands, laughing and crying... maybe some good food. Instead, her phone battery died after about an hour and a half and I threw kabobs on the grill. So grateful for today, food and friends and of course chickens.

My step daughter is in the hospital giving birth to her first. We may solve the age old question of what came first, The Chicken (her nickname) or the egg. I got pipping this morning so it is going to be close.

Shredder got out of quarantine early, hope I don't regret it but it is just too hot to not be able to wander and feel the coolness under the feet. It seems a great match and all, even pullets are grooving just fine. Oh, I sent the JG back because she was heat stressing and I did not want to lose her.

I tossed out brown rice and chopped papaya w/ probios on it for them because I had wormed them the other day... then DH started counting chickens... ooops! Won't do that again while he is around. Even I quit counting awhile back, don't want to know the number... maybe flock size should be gauged more by the noise level. If too much noise, too much chickens...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Lost a sex-link this morning she was a hatchery bird have 4 bought the same time