What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

We plan to redo the garden fence this year. Straighten the lines, put in a no-dig apron. So I measured it. It is 25' wide on one end, and 18' wide on the other. And 146' long.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

So sorry to hear about your Dad @Sueby. Best wishes and hugs.

 

[igorsMistress]

I have port feeders here & the squirrels don't touch them. I bet you'll be happy with them. I only bring them in in heavy snow or monsoon rains.

I hope you get some relief. I think I said it before, I did shots for years & finally gave up because I kept having severe reactions to the shots & got sick of taking Prednisone all the time from them. Good luck.

My Dad had a massive heart attack last night, he's hanging on by a thread. So I'm at the hospital & they only let 1 family member in a day for 2 hrs. But they let my sister go with Mom since she is deaf. I'll get to go in tomorrow. I'm sitting here catching up.

I’m sorry about your dad Sueby, hoping he’s ok!

 

[Iluveggers]

@Sueby Your father and you & your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Thanks. @igorsMistress
No pineapple juice in the pantry, so will figure out something else.
NO wind today at all at the moment. Tied up the tomatoes in the hoophouse, baby tomatoes are appearing in there. Stable flies in there, just a couple were relentless. Ode de'Off is this morning's scent. Icky, but necessary. These flies are crazy. They can be biting you and you can be directly slapping their heads, and they just say, '\"yes, please, may I have some more!"
Once they find blood, they bring friends.

I've been struggling with flies too. They bombard your face.... I haven't been able to clean the poop boards for the past 2 days because they are so bad. I did put up one of those "Trap N Toss" fly traps.....made with "putrescent egg solids."

 

[igorsMistress]

I’m off early today, but it’s too hot to go outside. I might crank up the Aerogarden

 

[TJAnonymous]

My Dad had a massive heart attack last night, he's hanging on by a thread. So I'm at the hospital & they only let 1 family member in a day for 2 hrs. But they let my sister go with Mom since she is deaf. I'll get to go in tomorrow. I'm sitting here catching up.

I'm so sorry to hear about your dad! Your family is in my thoughts and prayers!

 

[WIchickMama]

I will be absent while at the lake cabin . I have to go to town to get wifi connection . So not very often .

have a fun and safe trip

I have never in my entire life ever seen eggs for 99cents a dozen

they were down to 79 cents here last fall


So sorry to hear about your dad @Sueby

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ok fellow gardeners who like to experiment.....I have a challenge for you! I was thinking yesterday about building a self-watering strawberry tower. I started doing some YouTube searches today and came across this kid building a strawberry tower from an old rain barrel.

Anyway, his use of compost got me thinking. A self-watering tower could be difficult in a vertical space because of gravity in this type of arrangement because the strawberries at the bottom will be wetter than those at the top so I was racking my brain trying to figure out a way to have uniform moisture from top to bottom. My answer? Hügelkultur.... The idea behind this gardening technique is that the logs/wood acts like a sponge. The soil wicks the water from the wood. Soooo.....I was wondering if maybe I could build it like this....

Use an old plastic rain barrel like the boy did to stagger holes all the way around for the strawberry plants. Inside the barrel, I'd place a circular "basket" of hardware cloth. Inside the basket, I'd fill it with logs, wood chips, etc. The basket serves to hold the wood in place in the center of the barrel. Then I'd put soil/compost in the "donut" area. Watering the tower would consist of wetting down the wood in the inner basket really well.

Thoughts? Opinions? Did I explain it well enough? I just have to figure out where to get an old plastic barrel like that....

 

[WthrLady]

@Sueby Thinking of you and your whole family.