What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Good morning all. I’m finally getting around to changing the strawberry water today and I noticed lettuce sprouts already popped up. Our weather is beautiful today, cloudy with a breeze and only 81 for our projected high. Tomorrow will be watering to prep for warm temps over the weekend though. I can’t complain about our weather at all, we’re about to have the second 100+ day this year but then it drops back into the 90’s. I’m going to have to enlist the teenager and hubs for yard work help over the weekend, primarily the chickens. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep them, guess I’ll have to wait and see how this vertigo crap works out. Anyway, that’s it for me, have a good day all.

 

[Sueby]

@igorsMistress is your vertigo getting any better? I still have mine but it's sooo much better. I only feel it rolling over at night or looking at the ground.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

The Balkan whip snake (mouse eater, non toxic) and vipers so far. in my old place I did not have to deal with snakes. there are a lot of snakes all over greece but I am not familiar with them. I think that vipers are the most dangerous here.

I'm curious about - EVERYthing. LOL

Viper is another word for venomous snake, so I looked up what you have there. You might be interested in it - or not. LOL

You might have seen a Common European Adder, or Milos, Ottoman, Nose-horned, or Meadow vipers. The Eastern Montpellier is mildly venomous, but the fangs in back make it not much of a threat.

https://travelsnippet.com/europe/greece/venomous-snakes-in-greece/

 

[WthrLady]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE????

No more chain wrapping with my jack!

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[WthrLady]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE????

No more chain wrapping with my jack!

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https://gemplers.com/products/metal-t-post-puller-tool

There's actually one made for this purpose. It's less than $50, and it's its only job. So no need to find an old fashioned tall jack, nor can you loose the plate attachment. Also, I have found a piece of 3/4 inch or a good chunk of 1x6 decking to put under the jack a must. It keeps the jack from sinking in soft ground as you jack.

Lately I've been having to use the tractor as the posts I'm jacking are less than 3 feet tall. Originally 8, but between resetting and ground rise....that's all that's left. Cattle look at a 3 foot fence and say , "Challenge accepted!"

 

[WthrLady]

Just set out a mini shade cloth and a hidey hole for the old queen chicken in the garden. SHe has permission to wander and do whatever she wants in there. I did block off the butterfly garden as there are too many newly sprouted seeds coming up. She prefers digging for grubs in the mulch better anyways. (She does have a dish of water.) It's walled and she's safe in there from the other hens.
Besides finishing the irrigation repairs in the garden (still waiting on the deep drips), watering in the greenhouse, and watering the air root balls, I'm done out there for the day. It's all about water atm.
Have a great day all.

 

[gtaus]

If your plants are doing well, don't worry.

Sure, ideally, dumping out extra water after fully soaked would be great, but most of us don't have the luxury of being next to our plants 24/7.

If their roots are used to this way you've been doing it, they will grow to conform to it. Water roots are different than soil roots. When transplanted, they will need more water until they adjust.

A quarter inch of water at the bottom is not that much. I sure wouldn't worry about it.

Thanks. You addressed a number of my concerns. I don't have the luxury of being next to my plants 24/7 either, and if they needed that much attention, then I would be better off just buying the plants from the nursery when I need them.

I was aware that plants have both water roots and air roots. That's why I was thinking the net cups, with all those slits, would still not drown out the plants if left in water for awhile. Having said that, in the past, I have overwatered plants in solid wall pots and drowned them out. I don't want to make that mistake again.

Like others have said, leaving the net cups in a 1/4 inch of water after they have soaked up as much water as they need was the routine for them. Then, over the next few days, they wait until the net cups start to dry out on top, wait a few more days, then bottom water again. It seems to be working for me with the net cups.

 

[gtaus]

That was the final straw, he's moving.

I'm not at that point, by any means. This is supposed to be the last home for Dear Wife and myself. My concern is not the Air B'n'B guests themselves, but rather the increased traffic in our small neighborhood and just not knowing who should be here, or not. It's a change I was unprepared for and have not welcomed, regarding all the increased traffic of unknown people in our small neighborhood.

 

[gtaus]

We know that well, we had a lake cabin & we'd occasionally get squatters try to move in. They'd break in & light a fire but get smoked out because they were never smart enough to open the chimney flue.

Living in northern Minnesota, I have always had a natural physical barrier of unplowed snow in the driveway to prevent others from driving down to the cabins on the lake. Unfortunately, with the Air B'n'B open in the winter for visitors who might want to go skiing, they now come and plow out that road and open it up to anyone. Essentially, I have lost control of who uses that road even in the winter.

I have owned this property for 35 years and have always looked out for my neighbors who winter over in Arizona or Florida, but I had to tell them that I am no longer able to watch their property as I did before because of the open road in the winter. They understand. Fortunately, there have been no incidents yet.

 

[igorsMistress]

@igorsMistress is your vertigo getting any better? I still have mine but it's sooo much better. I only feel it rolling over at night or looking at the ground.

I’m so glad you’re feeling better! I feel it in the shower a lot, but so far this morning feel like it could start anytime now. I have dizziness/ I’m unsteady on my feet all the time it seems, so I walk with a cane if I leave the house. Not for support but to steady myself if I get dizzy and don’t have a wall or something to hang on to.