What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Everyone is napping this morning but me...
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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.

I’ll keep my you get rain!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good afternoon gardeners. I did some more weeding this morning. Just need to do a bit more cleaning up around the chard. I picked my first 2 green beans. There’s a couple more that need to grow a bit more. I’ll be picking chard and kale tomorrow then planting turnips and more carrots. I have a few errands next week so I need to carve out some time to dig up some potatoes. We just got a 5 minute downpour that freshened the grass then made it super muggy. Finally getting a slight breeze. The radar shows we should get some more substantial rain later this evening. I’m so glad I watered yesterday. I have a Monarch butterfly visiting the butterfly bush near the chicken yard. I can’t seemed to get a good photo of it. I did get a good shot of one last year.View attachment 3203212
Pictures of the big garden from yesterday
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Everything looks great Sarah!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I’ll keep my you get rain!

I'd go do a rain dance but it would definitely scare the clouds away...


Still no rain.

 

[Sally PB]

I didn't get much done today, garden or otherwise. We went to Menards to get some stuff for building shelves in our closets, and that ate up the prime time of the afternoon. By the time we got back, I had other stuff that had to be done today, so garden work will be hot and heavy tomorrow.

Another grape question: is there much difference between seeded and seedless grapes, besides the seeds?

 

[WthrLady]

Seeds mean extra work eating and processing.

 

[Wolfie2]

Still not much in the garden. We have had a little rain the past 2 days, <1/4" ea/day, and the ground felt pretty good So I let the hoses and well rest. I'm up to 25 peanut plants now, which is not much considering I put over 200 seeds in the ground with 2 plantings. Not much ground cover nor N2 benefit but at least I'll get a few nuts outta them. Will probably fill in the bare spots with some alfalfa and hope it grows.
Y'all have a good evening!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Decided to turn on the TV because I was bored. Nothing really on TV either so I clicked on the Andy Griffith show. (Nice to reminisce a time when the world was sane.) Anyway it's the episode where Aunt Bea is "seeing" the butter and egg man. I'm sitting here watching a scene where a young teenage boy is candling recently collected eggs. I know candling eggs has been around forever but it caught my eye and made me smile.

 

[WthrLady]

I LOVE Bea's Beau!
Tony Dow has died. Sigh.
Managed to get a nice dinner and baked a cake. I can't taste any of it, and it made me dizzy to be up and moving so long, but doing is better than not doing.
Also got the roll away nest box up today. That made me spacey too.
I am not good at being still or sick. But I am paying attention with this one.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I LOVE Bea's Beau!
Tony Dow has died. Sigh.
Managed to get a nice dinner and baked a cake. I can't taste any of it, and it made me dizzy to be up and moving so long, but doing is better than not doing.
Also got the roll away nest box up today. That made me spacey too.
I am not good at being still or sick. But I am paying attention with this one.

Yeah, I can't help it... You work in IT right? You can understand when I say I wish we could restore society to a previously saved recovery point. Looking at the world today is horribly depressing.

Anyway I'm sorry you are still dealing with the crud. The first time I had Covid (Delta variant) it lingered for a couple of months before I got fully recovered. (Side note - got Omicron just a month after I fully recovered from Delta but that's another story...)

 

[WthrLady]

Yeah, I can't help it... You work in IT right? You can understand when I say I wish we could restore society to a previously saved recovery point. Looking at the world today is horribly depressing.

Anyway I'm sorry you are still dealing with the crud. The first time I had Covid (Delta variant) it lingered for a couple of months before I got fully recovered. (Side note - got Omicron just a month after I fully recovered from Delta but that's another story...)

Atmospheric Physicist. But the good ole days weren't really good either.

I've done cv19 back in March 2020 and that took weeks to get over too. The breathless thing is for the birds. Delta was quick and would have gone un-noticed if not for all the coughing and breathless days.
Omicron too, but came and went faster this past November.
Now this BA5 version is back to square one. UGH.