What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

yesterday.

 

[chicken opey]

I just watered today. Thought about playing some music for my temperamental beefsteak tomatoes. DD said I talked too nasty to them.

The beans which sprouted after the cucumbers have now passed the cucumbers.

My chicks are getting feathers and growing out of that cute phase. I have the urge to hatch more - perpetual cuteness or until hubby take incubator away

 

[chicken opey]

I also found pumpkins growing around the chicken run.
That one looks so raggedy but yet it still lives.
Another is in an ant bed. I expect that one to die. I hate ants.

 

[chickengr]

too hot. I found volunteer carrots. going to put stones around trees in my big garden. trees are too small to make shade for veggies. should transplant most of tomatoes soon. my mother (81 yo) is a great help.

 

[jerryse]

Another mulberry tree. Birds love this one. A bit tart but I never get to try a fully ripe one. Birds. My black raspberries are still green.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Expecting another 3-4 inches of rain this weekend. I will definitely need to respray the kaolin clay on the squash. Still finding SVB eggs each morning but only a couple each time. They only lay them on stems where the kaolin clay didn't adhere well. I am going to see if the feed store has that Spreader Sticker to help it stay on better.

Despite all this rain, summer is definitely here. Going to be in the mid-90s next week. Lows in the 70s at night. Ugh... I hate it.

DH and I are also edging closer to selling this place and moving further out in the country. It really breaks my heart. I've put so much effort into growing fruit trees and other plants, only to likely have to start all over somewhere else. However, my A-hole ex-neighbor is insisting on putting in a subdivision on the empty 4 acres right behind my house. That property used to belong to my plot but the ex-neighbor swindled it from the previous homeowner (an elderly man who was being swindled in a romance scam. She sold the plot to the neighbor and ran off with the money, among other things.). Anyway, DH and I don't want neighbors THAT close.... So time to start making plans to get out, even though we are at least a year from being able to move.

 

[WthrLady]

We let the 6 week old chicks out of their garden playpen safety zone this morning to roam a little with the big girls. May, one of my 4 year old hens wandered into the open chick zone, eyeballing the chick feeder and met up with Ruth, the 5 week old, I think-pullet. Ruth stood straight up, looked May in the eyes, flapped her wings and chest bumped her! May looked down at Ruth, then at me, as if to say WTH?, gently poked Ruth in the head and walked away.
LOL.
Now they both have stories to tell.

 

[Backroadlogic]

Pawpaws

 

[TJAnonymous]

Pawpaws


View attachment 4142318

Ugh... I'm so jealous! Mine are still years away from producing any fruit.

 

[Smokerbill]

Just about have my deer fence finished. All that's left is securing the bottom of the deer mesh with zip ties. No more climbing on the ladder! Bottom 4 feet is chicken wire, the next 4+ feet is plastic deer mesh. I can sleep now without worrying about deer eating my beans. The round fence posts and 2x4s on the ground around the bottom are there for stopping rabbits, hopefully.



Butternut squash are coming up in the compost pile, zucchinis are sprouting and the cucumbers are looking good but I might have to thin them out a little.