What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

I bought a bag of peat moss to use in the chickens' dust bath and to mix into my homemade potting soil. I went to dump it in the dust bath, and it was soaking wet and looked like mud.

I dumped it into an open tote in the green house to dry. It looks like potting soil. Rather wet potting soil, too.

 

[chickengr]

You are good the Moschata will not cross. Now it depends on what neighbors are growing. The C pepo will have to be hand pollinated for seed saving.

thank you. luckily I don't have neighbors near.

 

[Smokerbill]

I thinned out the two rows of rattlesnake beans and spread mulch around the tomatoes I planted yesterday. They handled the heat and bright sun yesterday afternoon surprisingly well and barely wilted. The chickens got the bean leaves to eat.

Cut a lot more oregano and some lemon balm, hung them out to dry on the back porch.

 

[Backroadlogic]

Started up 10 gallons of compost tea, put flour on my tomato plants bugs not being cool. It's supposed to be 90 today.

 

[Smokerbill]

Started up 10 gallons of compost tea, put flour on my tomato plants bugs not being cool. It's supposed to be 90 today.

Flour on your tomato plants? What does that do?

 

[Backroadlogic]

aphid control

Flour on your tomato plants? What does that do?

 

[cj2024]

The expensive Standard White Cornish hatching eggs that I got were duds. I checked them last night on the 5th day, they looked scrambled under the light. I conclude that the sellers who send their eggs by priority mail are more reliable than those that send them by ground. I received eggs within a week with priority mail, and it took up to 2 weeks to 26 days by ground. Also, if it passes through San Francisco, it will be dead on arrival. The San Fransico postal service has issues; it always gets stuck in transit.

 

[cj2024]

My experiment with air layering mango trees with 50% peat and 50% perlite has come to a close. I conclude that this mix works well with large size air layering pods and results were based on using Hormex Rooting Powder number 8 and the pods were watered weekly. The pods have a lip on the top for watering.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Started up 10 gallons of compost tea, put flour on my tomato plants bugs not being cool. It's supposed to be 90 today.

Nice to know never heard of that.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Finally a nice break in our weather. The last two days have been crazy rainy. We got nearly another 2 inches. When I checked on the grapevines on Thursday I found brown spots on one of my grapevines. I got copper to treat it but today was the first clear day I could apply it. I did notice a couple of little grub like worms on one of the leaves so I’m guessing I should spray a little neem oil on them in a day or two. I did manage to get some weeding done this morning. The shallots are growing like crazy. I noticed another potato plant coming up. The tomato plants are all doing well. I find this amazing with the weather being so inconsistent and crappy. There’s still so much to do and I’m hoping for the weather to cooperate so I can get caught up on the garden work. The grass is growing so fast with all the rain. It's so hard to keep up with it. I should have some time to do some weed whacking tomorrow. Fingers crossed.