What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I'm living in a dust bowl. All the grass is dead. Again. Weeds are dead. Trees starting to droop and leaves are dying. Not because of fall but lack of rain...

 

[WthrLady]

I'm living in a dust bowl. All the grass is dead. Again. Weeds are dead. Trees starting to droop and leaves are dying. Not because of fall but lack of rain...

Here too. Been doing water reports for local farmers and their crop insurance claims.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Managed to dig a 2 foot deep hole and get a 10 foot cedar post in the ground for the shade cloth next spring. I did have an 8 foot in, but it was just too short.

I worked a little too late and was out when the pirate bugs came out. Mean little turds.
Very smokey, very dusty out. Hoping for a rain tonight. This is sad.

On this note... I think I'm going to make a little tomato trellis under a shade cloth for my tomatoes next year and leave it outside the hoop house. I always plant a tomato outside the hoop house to act as a trap crop. For the past 2 years, that trap tomato has performed better than the ones in the hoop house! So we are going to try something different. I will do cukes in the hoop house and tomatoes in the open.

 

[Birdsong 82]

I would be laughing hysterically while trying to reach up and grab all the high ones off the tree without having to climb.

I’m only 5 ft tall ( rounding up) so sometimes ones on the trellis can be challenge

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I have the trailing type wedding train , rose something and a green and white . The last 2 I added this year . Trailing types are often hard to find . That is why I save them .

Oh that sounds beautiful!
Would LUV to see a pic of it!

 

[TJAnonymous]

My injured hen is standing and drinking this evening. I think she is going to make it through.... She got lucky. I had another hen last year that flew into the run netting and got stuck upside down. She only could have been there a couple of hours at the most but it killed her.

Anyway, I'm going to keep this hen inside overnight. I will let her back in the coop tomorrow morning if she shows interest in food and doesn't seem to be limping.

 

[chickengr]

No, the ones I planted never grew.

it was too hot when you planted them. try to get them now. when I planted them in winter they did well. but they were in a planter facing south so they didn't last. I will try to plant raspberries in my new place but I will choose a cooler place without afternoon sun. that might help.

 

[chickengr]

hot and dry here. I had to water lemon trees and rosemary. never happened at this time of the year in previous 7 years.

 

[karenerwin]

I’ve got that problem. Possible 1st frost coming next weekend ( 39 other morning but luffas aren’t at the dry stage I usually pick them. But some are monsters! Can they be hung to dry inside instead. Do you know?

I have no idea. But that’s what I’m trying to do.

 

[karenerwin]

Do you eat yours? Or use them as sponges?

Just wondering why you are worried about weather? I use my loofah for sponges and just let them dry and turn brown on the vine?

Someone on here had said to be sure I brought them in before the frost got to the because it would ruin them. So that’s what I was basing my decision on.
I’ve never grown them before. I plan to use them as sponges.
So, it will be okay for them to freeze or at least get frosted on the vine?