What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Not legal to dump them somewhere else here. You can't release them further than 100 yards from where they're caught here. LOL. So they're caught and dispatched.

Sounds like a law passed by tree hugging earth muffins. What possible use would 100 yards serve?

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Planted my Trail of Tears beans and my snow peas today! Sometime this weekend I need to move a box out of the shady area into the sunny area and maybe just maybe get everything that isn’t melons, squash or cucumbers into the ground in the next week. We’re still due for some almost-freezing weather in there though so I might have to settle for getting the seeds in.

 

[WthrLady]

Sounds like a law passed by tree hugging earth muffins. What possible use would 100 yards serve?

BINGO

 

[FunnyFowlLady]

Planted some hops rhizomes in a raised box that is around the base of a small windmill. Dug up a 4 X 4 plot and put 2 dozen lily of the valley pips in the ground. Dug up a few small volunteer elm trees. Made sure my drip line works. This is in my perennial flower spot.........Now to wait at least 3 weeks to start putting in vegetables! I did put raspberries bushes in the ground today.......hope I am not too early!

 

[akroberts1085]

Had to have a guy come down and fix the pump so that I could get the garden watered.

 

[Minanora]

I haven't watered at all because we've had over 13-14" of rain in the past few months. Nothing overhead. No condensation dripping in those areas either. No fertilizer. The ground is solidly moist but not sopping... This, however, is part of the area that flash flooded a few weeks ago. The area was very very wet for several days. Just weird that some plants were affected but not all in the same area.

I would say they just drowned or were to wet in general. I would think the ones that lived have a more robust root system.

Think about when you start a whole tray of seeds that are the same variety. Some of them are all-stars and others are bench warmers.

 

[Minanora]

That turned out great!

I just finished mowing my yard. Glad he's coming home.

I did some more work to the deer fence today. Got the bean trellis figured out and put up, and the posts for the "gate" in place. I'll be able to walk under the angled part of the trellis and pick beans from underneath.

I'll add extensions to the corner posts so they're eight feet high and run string/rope around the top to stop deer from hopping over.

I'm going to put boards between the posts, 6 inches above ground level. Then chicken wire above those. That way I can use the weed eater around the fence without getting it caught in the chicken wire.

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[Minanora]

They can travel up to 10 miles in one night. Once they have been in a box trap they are next to impossible to catch in one again. I have town folk dropping them off by me all the time. People say they don't see the no trespassing sign they are parked in front of when I catch the person. have had over 140 racoons since covid
Also most die a slow death when released
https://www.thinkwildco.org/why-we-do-not-recommend-trapping-and-relocating-wildlife/

All of the things I catch die before being released, but it's quick and painless. Then they fertilize my trees.

Except the cat I caught, I let that one go. Despite the poop it leaves in my garden.

Some day I'll trap a skunk. Then I'll have to get creative.

I don't enjoy killing the critters, but my plot is small and I feed my family from it. Not the urban scavengers.

I tried to critter proof the garden once, the city wrote me a letter... I argued, and lost. Didn't get a fine though. Still want to know who told the city.... Or maybe not. So, I use the critters as fertilizer.

 

[Minanora]

BINGO

Imagine. Just imagine. What it's like here.

 

[Minanora]

Today I worked out in a commercial blueberry field replacing a cellular modem on the monitoring system for their solar array.

I am getting to the point that I try to ignore everything I don't like about big sites like these. The plastic, the trash, the chemical fertilizers and amendments, and the pesticides. It makes it very difficult to purchase things in the store. DS loves berries, so on occasion I buy them out of season when our plants aren't producing. I cherish the fruit, but I cringe a bit when I buy it. So much hard work, so much impact... It's a double edged sword and I know so many people buy fruit and just let it mold and pitch it.

Anyway, I watered a little today. Thinking about where to plant strawberries. I'm worried I may need to reclaim some of my lawn to do this. Maybe lose two feet of lawn for a long berry planter.