What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

I love Suyo Longs! Just wash them in the bathroom sink, first one end, then the other

Exactly what I did!

Counter was installed! & I love it. I still have no water in the sink tho, DH has to rework the plumbing.

Just a quick walk thru the garden, I have to go into the office today. for some rain tonight/tomorrow. We need it so bad, the perennial flowers & the bushes are getting damage. The forsythia are looking pretty sad & the morning glory may not make it much longer. & we're supposed to have another heat wave next week.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Congratulations on your new countertops @Sueby. Hope you get your water hooked up soon.

 

[Iluveggers]

I’ve read they get a little better after frost. But, it’s my first year growing them.

I’m trying them for the first time, also, and was told to wait until after frost to sweeten them.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Tree frogs are singing at night . About time for katydids and cicadas to sing . I like the singing . So quiet at the lake at night . Forecast for next week is 90s all week . Good weather to jump in the lake or at least get your toes in the water . Bought blue paint and tanglefoot to make a hardhat deer fly trap . I could only find tanglefoot at a real garden store . So eBay may be a option for some of you .

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Morning . Tree frogs are singing at night . About time for katydids and cicadas to sing . I like the singing . So quiet at the lake at night . Forecast for next week is 90s all week . Good weather to jump in the lake or at least get your toes in the water . Bought blue paint and tanglefoot to make a hardhat deer fly trap . I could only find tanglefoot at a real garden store . So eBay may be a option for some of you .

How's your heart doin?!
Spent all day long yesterday with my mom ...she's back in afib and pulmonary edema.
Hospital was like day 30 of covid all over again (not day 1 cuz everything was closed). They wouldn't let me in at ER so then we got separated and I had her phone.
She was triaged n returned to the ER waiting area off and on between tests for over 8 hours waiting for a bed just in the ER.
Hadn't talked to her this morning to see if she got a room yet or not.
Crazy days we are living in yall!

 

[jerryse]

How's your heart doin?!
Spent all day long yesterday with my mom ...she's back in afib and pulmonary edema.
Hospital was like day 30 of covid all over again (not day 1 cuz everything was closed). They wouldn't let me in at ER so then we got separated and I had her phone.
She was triaged n returned to the ER waiting area off and on between tests for over 8 hours waiting for a bed just in the ER.
Hadn't talked to her this morning to see if she got a room yet or not.
Crazy days we are living in yall!

Doing good . Ablation seems to have helped . I can walk longer and do outdoor stuff longer . They say it can take 3 months for leisions to fully heal . So I hope to see slow improvement . I can tolerate more salt now . Which is a big plus . 1500 mg was hard to do .

 

[ChicksnMore]

Pigweed is evil. Gallant soldier may reproduce like gangbusters, dock may be impossible to pull, and purslane may not know how to die, but nothing tries to take over a garden like pigweed. (There's nothing quite so annoying as pulling weeds for a couple hours and then coming back to find that half of them have re-rooted, and are sending out fresh shoots.)

For those (or the one person. Frankly, it's been a while, and I'm not reading back through to figure it out) who wanted gooseberry info: Hinnomaki Red gave me about fifteen berries this year. A few were like sweet, flavorless mush. A few were still underripe. And a few tasted very good. Sort of like a cross between apple juice and blueberries? It's hard to describe flavors. I'm not sure if the difference in taste was a watering thing.

The feathered rats (bantams) then came in under my netting and ate all the remaining berries. They did not eat the blackberries, so I suppose that's a chicken vote of approval. I'm not too annoyed. I got the intelligence I wanted, and I have a fence for next year.

Not strictly garden-related, but there was a half-dead baby skunk in the chicken run today. Apparently, the dogs were going nuts last night (I work nights, so I have no idea) but they were all penned, so I'm not sure what did it? Perhaps the neighbours' dog was visiting?

And I had two kittens with warbles. So that's fun. (They're not even my cat's.)

We eat the leaves on pigweed and feed the stems to the chickens and tortoise

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm not in Zone 5 but I have Concords and Catawba grapes. I make grape jelly (of course) but we also started growing them because DH wanted to make wine. This spring he came down with pancreatitis so he isn't supposed to have alcohol anymore. Not sure what to do with the grapes now....

If you don't want them your chickens would love to have a healthy treat!

 

[WthrLady]

I'm surrounded by vineyards and I grow Catawba table grapes, and concord for jelly. Grapes grow gangbusters here if you can get them alive to year 3.

Still have the wobbles a bit today. Part of my problem is the super dry air in the house. But when I go outside to breathe, the pollen does me in too. I ran a humidifier in the bedroom last night so at least my nasal passages would catch a break.

Slow but sure.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Everyone is napping this morning but me...

We are supposed to get decent rain starting today for the first in 2 months but so far everything has missed us. Hopefully SOMETHING will start falling this afternoon. The goobermint has upgraded my county to a severe drought. No (bleep) Sherlock. Everything is dead - grass, weeds, and now trees are starting to die too.... We need rain. Badly.