What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Me too please!

It does not work.

 

[TJAnonymous]

The Dill I planted last year grew fabulously... It was over 3 ft tall and very bushy. (Not planted near squash so I can't confirm that....)

By comparison, the Dill I planted this year has not even topped 18".

 

[WthrLady]

Everyone was busy today.
Got up at dawn and got chores done, then DH and I loaded this year's hay into the curing shed.

100 bales ready in the barn from last year. 22 bales in the curing shed from last year, and 48 bales this year.
The field is 2/3 empty this year, the other 1/3 is being allowed to rest and reseed itself. The smell of the clover and the alfalfa is heavenly up there.

Beat up by thetractor again, but bruises go away. Real beauties though. LOL

Garden needs watered, I'm not trusting the rain to make it. and the second shade cloth installed, but I need a wind free half hour.

 

[CNJ]

Oooh, I am so sorry! I have scars on both fore arms from a nasty tempered rooster. I kept thinking ( mistakenly) that he’d settle down and quit being such a little s*** until he went for my face. That did it. Rocky went to freezer camp to become chicken broth.

I wear gloves if I don't trust the rooster for his own protection. I don't trust myself..........

 

[SheaLoner]

Everyone was busy today.
Got up at dawn and got chores done, then DH and I loaded this year's hay into the curing shed.View attachment 3169718
100 bales ready in the barn from last year. 22 bales in the curing shed from last year, and 48 bales this year.
The field is 2/3 empty this year, the other 1/3 is being allowed to rest and reseed itself. The smell of the clover and the alfalfa is heavenly up there.View attachment 3169720

Beat up by thetractor again, but bruises go away. Real beauties though. LOLView attachment 3169722View attachment 3169723
Garden needs watered, I'm not trusting the rain to make it. and the second shade cloth installed, but I need a wind free half hour.

Do you use a mini round bailer? I've seen them recently and thought that would be a benefit to getting the hay cured and dry properly.

 

[WthrLady]

It does not work.

I plant a small sacrificial patch near the tomatoes, but not WITH the tomatoes. I let them and the swallowtails go to town on them. I love them so much.

 

[WthrLady]

Do you use a mini round bailer? I've seen them recently and thought that would be a benefit to getting the hay cured and dry properly.

I do. We have a whole three piece system for our Cat 1 compact tractor. I love it, but it does have a learning curve, and it would be far easier if my property was flat, which it is NOT. It's a deep three sided bowl and can be scary to cut and bale.

 

[CNJ]

A small flying type insect cuts a ring around the young shoots of my tomato plants, I call them cutters. I really hate them. I have officially declared war on them, I hope my tomato plants can handle the after shock of this war.

 

[Sally PB]

Hot today, but at least there was a breeze. I was working on the anti-dig apron around the garden. I'd say it's over half, maybe 2/3 done. I've used up all the scraps of metal we had lying around. Next I'll be using some chicken wire that is too messed up to use as any kind of fencing. If I run out of that, I'll start cutting strips of the old welded wire fence that was the around the garden. Man, some of that stuff is pretty junky! When deer run into it, panicked that they can't get out, they really mess it up.

I've been putting up a string of flags about a foot above the fence. I have about 50 feet left on the first level. Then I go up another foot and make another level, and then a third. The flags are cut from chicken feed bags. I knew I had a use for them!

 

[igorsMistress]

Took my 4 banty to their tractor for the day .. This is the first time they got to play in it. Might be harder to see two they are dark a frizzle and one we call shift nob she has a pom on her head.View attachment 3169614

That’s quite a name lol. Pretty babies Penny.