What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. It only reached 88F yesterday but heading to 91F today. I've got way too much to do today. DD has begged me to put the window AC's in, ok altogether maybe an hours work. I'm firing up the new smoker today to smoke a pork butt. The down side is I have to condition the smoker before using it so that's 2 hours of low heat. The garden is doing ok. The corn is growing taller, the butternut squash plants are getting their secondary leaves. The potatoes are doing quite well. At least two of the plants are developing flower buds. I side dressed some fertilizer on nearly all the vegetable plants. I put shade cloth over my romaine lettuce yesterday and it appears to have worked. I'll be watering everything after I finish my coffee to give it a cool start before the heat gets really bad. After I get the AC's installed we will be bringing the littles inside from the porch. It got up to 93F out there yesterday. I hate having to bring them inside but it's only for a few hours. I personally think it's just a squash thing @Acre4Me. I'm on my second round of summer squash and the latest ones along with some other plants are just growing slow. I was reading up on it and the way the temps got warm, then cool (I had to turn the pellet stove on for the last 3 days of May) then hot again can have that type of impact on some plants. I'm hoping things get more stabilized after the heat wave is over. In addition to the potatoes starting to bloom, I have a BES unfurling in the front cutting garden. The lily bulbs I planted are also developing flower buds. It's the little things....

 

[Elyrian1]

@WthrLady I wear glasses too, but thankfully I have a lot more fudge room with my ever changing astigmatism. That said, I had my new glasses for only a year when I got covid, and I'm one of those lucky people that had a change in eyesight after. *grumble*

I do also wear a wide brim hat when I'm out. Ordered a uv protective shrug to wear, supposedly be here Thursday. Amazon doesn't ship anything 2 day anymore, starting to wonder what I'm paying for...

Got my bare root raspberries planted yesterday evening in pots. My pots are, eh, too small lol. I'm betting I'll need to get some large pots shortly, but we'll see.

@Acre4Me was it your compost or did you bring in compost?

 

[Acre4Me]

doesn't ship anything 2 day anymore

I wonder what I’m paying for too…they haven’t shipped 2-day for quite some time.

was it your compost or did you bring in compost?

Our own compost

 

[Acre4Me]

Will try again! Pickling cucumber plants. And seeds…many indicated disease resistant to one thing or another. No, not likely to plant all varieties. But, can try some next year.

FWIW, I only bought 1/2 or less of the cucumber seed varieties still in the stores.

 

[WthrLady]

@WthrLady I wear glasses too, but thankfully I have a lot more fudge room with my ever changing astigmatism. That said, I had my new glasses for only a year when I got covid, and I'm one of those lucky people that had a change in eyesight after. *grumble*

I do also wear a wide brim hat when I'm out. Ordered a uv protective shrug to wear, supposedly be here Thursday. Amazon doesn't ship anything 2 day anymore, starting to wonder what I'm paying for...

Got my bare root raspberries planted yesterday evening in pots. My pots are, eh, too small lol. I'm betting I'll need to get some large pots shortly, but we'll see.

@Acre4Me was it your compost or did you bring in compost?

Me too. My near vision, TANKED post-covid.
AND I AGREE with Amazon Prime. It's infuriating. We cannot get all the things they tacked on to make Prime inviting, the food service, pantry, videos, music. We are too far out and the bandwidth is screwy.
All we could use was the 2 day shipping, which has become 2 days after whenever we decide to put it in the mail shipping. Prime for us is usually 4-8 days. DS in town can get prime same day sometimes.

 

[Silviaschicks]

I harvested some peas from seeds I got from a friend which were called tom thumb peas. They're so sweet! they're a great crop because they fruit fast, don't grow too tall, and make a lot of pods. The peas are the same size as an average pea plant. They're also not very finicky about spacing and temperature

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I rarely wear sunscreen. Usually only if I’m going swimming or fishing. When I’m in the garden I wear a straw hat that covers my head, neck, and most of my shoulders and a oversized fishing shirt of T-shirt. I’m going to plant the paste tomatoes today and just let them sprawl. I can’t find the trellis pieces and I’m like 2 months late getting them in the ground.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners wet here 58 gardening in rubber boots if at all maybe a salad..
Do not like sunscreen usually allergic the perfume in it ..

 

[Wolfie2]

It's wet here too! In a little over 3 weeks my rain guage says we have had 15". Lot's of places here in S,E, TX had even more. Feelin sorry for them.
Picked corn, beans and tomatoes yesterday and got them in the freezer. Ground is so wet Can't do much else. Beans are suffering from it, tomatos aren't producing as much, guessing they're not getting good pollination. Asparagus doing its summertime thing now. Corn's done but thinkin about tryin another crop as corn does pretty good in the heat and the first crop didn't do too well. When it dries up some, will be planting some cover crops. Probably some black eyed peas but want to try some alfalfa too. Need to get seeds for that ordered though. Happy trails Folks!

 

[Sueby]

I get most things from Amazon in 2 days, sometimes 1, but we have a big warehouse in CT & another HUGE one going in. It's taking forever for it to be built cuz someone keeps hanging nooses all over & then they shut construction down for days. Probably grown adults behind it too.

Is the lawn treated with chemicals? I'd only be concerned then. Otherwise, eh, mine eats Junebugs. She says they taste like peanut butter.

No we don't put anything on the lawn. & he's still alive so I guess it's ok!

@Acre4Me that's what my cukes looked like last year but I don't know what it was from since I had both squash & cuke beetles sucking the life out of everything. I can't wait to hear what you think of the nematodes!

Cooking my $5 a lb chicken for dinner - spatchcocked on the grill. Can't wait to taste it, it better be good for that price.

I can't keep the stupid carpenter bees from destroying the coop, it looks like swiss cheese. I hate killing bees but these guys are out of control. Anyone have any idea how to keep them away? DH shakes his head, I'm out there swearing at them but planting a bee garden at the same time.