What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Wow, I had no idea THW made a noise! Crazy!

And really, really glad it wasn't a snake...

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Sure wish I had gotten a pic of my 3yr old grandson getting the huge cantaloupe from the compost pile where they have just grown insane!
It's in the frige now...larger than a gallon jug of milk for comparison! The last one from the compost tasted amazing...this one is BIG so we'll see if it tastes as delish!

 

[WthrLady]

Finished trimming down the tomatoes in the hoophouse this morning. If it was over 4ft, and didn't have blooms on it, whack. This gives more sunlight for the clones later season cloned tomatoes coming up behind them.
Then I ran the shuffle hoe around and took care of the weeds sneaking back in.
Last night I trimmed the more wild bits of the grapevine and those leaves I'll give to the alpacas. Taste like bubblegum, they love them.

 

[Elyrian1]

The chicken coop is a muddy, mucky, stinky mess, but today looks like our last really good chance of rain in the 14 day forecast. I'll see about picking up a thing of pine shavings from TSC today or tomorrow and likely throw the whole dang bag in. I also need to rake out all the sodden straw from the nest boxes and put in fresh. Need to do that in between baking biscuits (which I need to get my butt in gear and do now) and taking a trip to town for tomorrow's dinner ingredients and odds and ends.

The garden is inundated with grass, so that's on my list as well. We ordered a mosquito trap/killer, and it's getting here today. I need it to work. I can't get out and weed until the mosquitoes are at least reduced. It's that bad.

 

[vall]

Does anyone have one of these trimmer mowers? Do they work pretty well? This one has a saw blade too for saplings. Eventually I'll have a tractor and bush hog but I need something now to cut paths and clear smaller areas for planting. Included photo of what I'd be cutting. Dogfennel is probably the toughest plant I have.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Went down to the garden this morning to check the situation more closely. There are DEFINITELY spider mites all over the Roma tomatoes which are within a few feet of the green bean seedlings. So yeah... That's definitely the problem. I didn't get to spray them because it started sprinkling. We didn't get much. Barely enough to wet the ground but they are calling for 40%+ chance of rain every day for the next week so it probably won't do any good to spray this week.

 

[sourland]

Talked to the tomatoes. More need to start ripening. I took a bunch to the beagle club last weekend and used my last ripe one for lunch today.

 

[drinkoj]

does it have to be night time? they hide during the day or something? or just too hard to see them?

Aaron

Must be at night for the black light to work. The hornworm's green color is fluorescent and the color POPS! against the green color of the tomato stems & leaves. Little suckers love to hide under leaves so you kind of need to look at things at different angles.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Talked to the tomatoes. More need to start ripening. I took a bunch to the beagle club last weekend and used my last ripe one for lunch today.

Did you wag your finger at them too?

 

[Ascholten]

Hey now !!
Talking to plants works.. it HAS to, ... because it sure as heck don't do a thing when you try talking to a chicken!!

Aaron