What did you do in the garden today?

[Charlie Wooster]

just watering. we expect brutal heat today.

Where are you located and what are your temperatures for brutal heat?

 

[Charlie Wooster]

Brutal is brutal

 

[fuzzi]

x2. after london, rome and athens I bought a place where I don't have neighbors. I can see a village on the opposite hill but hear nothing. the village my place belong to is about 5 minutes walk from here but I don't see it and hear nothing as well. perfect for me.

Part of me craves being away from people, but it's not practical at this time. We've been blessed with our location, last house on a dead end street. It's an older housing development, most lots are 1/3 acre with at least two driveway widths between structures. The majority of the properties have fences and older tree growth. The lot next to me is covered with hardwood trees and undergrowth, it was never built upon. It's wet, sloped, and would take a lot of site work before building would be possible. It's why I don't free range: we get foxes, opossums, coyotes, and raccoons.

Most everyone on our street is considerate and usually quiet. Their dogs bark, my roosters crow, a nice balance.

Now if the neighbor behind me would quit burning all the time...

 

[fuzzi]

Brutal is brutal

What is your humidity?

I can tolerate heat, have been living in the Carolinas for 35 years, but the humidity is what really makes me ill.

Humidity right now is 87%.

Later in the summer it doesn't cool down at night, lows in the mid 80s with high humidity. AC is a must, central air conditioning is a blessing.

 

[Acre4Me]

Rain last night. Cool overcast morning, so I sprayed foliar vitamins on fruit trees and plants. Supposed to get more rain later today or tonight.

Garden looks good. Everything is growing well at the moment.

 

[fuzzi]

The squash and tomatoes are getting very tall!

Bees!

At least the chickens enjoyed some of the watermelon. Whatever they leave will go into the compost pile.

Lastly, a Copperhead snake tried to get into the coop. The flock let me know of it, and it was dispatched quickly.

 

[Sally PB]

I think I'll get a watermelon when I go to the store this week, and put it in the fridge. I like it, and it'll be a good treat for the chickens on the hot days coming up.

 

[Smokerbill]

It seems that my garden was untouched by deer last night. The 3D electric fence I set up must have worked. This is where I got the idea, and it gives a good explanation of the system.

https://www.ncat.org/electric-deer-fence-tips-and-resources/

I did notice that two of my pepper plants were nipped off this morning. I don't remember even looking at the peppers yesterday morning, so I'm sure I just missed it.

Here's a diagram of how the fence is set up, followed by pictures of my setup. My inside fence has an extra hot strand above the 24" line, and on three sides there's a yellow rope strung above that. Don't know if the extra strands help or hurt, or make no difference.

 

[WthrLady]

The trick is, mowing. You have to keep grass and weeds off that bottom line.
Although there is no growth here this year due to drought, weeds are still managing it.

We scrapped our electric deer fence due to mowing reasons. It was also 400 yards of fencing.

I wish you the best of luck though.

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Humid as all get out this morning.
Not a breath of wind.
Sun blazing, already 77' at 1030am.

Spent the whole day working on the pantry. This morning I'm painting the actual shelves.
I think I might still put contact paper on the top of the shelves to protect from sliding jars. Ya, probably. Easy enough.

I will walk the garden and see if anything needs tending, otherwise it can wait until their morning calcium feed and tie up on Tuesday.

 

[Smokerbill]

The trick is, mowing. You have to keep grass and weeds off that bottom line.
Although there is no growth here this year due to drought, weeds are still managing it.

We scrapped our electric deer fence due to mowing reasons. It was also 400 yards of fencing.

I wish you the best of luck though.

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Humid as all get out this morning.
Not a breath of wind.
Sun blazing, already 77' at 1030am.

Spent the whole day working on the pantry. This morning I'm painting the actual shelves.
I think I might still put contact paper on the top of the shelves to protect from sliding jars. Ya, probably. Easy enough.

I will walk the garden and see if anything needs tending, otherwise it can wait until their morning calcium feed and tie up on Tuesday.

Since it's only about 150' around my garden I can trim under the entire fence with my weed trimmer in 5 minutes. That's what I did yesterday.

Today I have a lot of cleanup to do, mainly removing all the rigged up fences I built when I was trying to contain my chickens in the back yard. And I need to plan out how I'm going to build an additional run for the chickens so they have access to sunshine during the day.

It's supposed to get into the 80's today, so I better get out there now while it's cool and get the hard work done.