What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

My great grandaughters.

 

[Rick589]

Today emptied out the compost pile and spread over a portion of the garden in preparation for fall pea planting….just in time for a soft rain to start. Transferred in-progress compost to another bin to turn it over and cleaned out the coop using that litter to start a new compost pile. Once the rain started I decided to clean the house. Tomorrow we have a company coming to do something about ants…..we have a horrible ant problem. Hopefully they’ll be able to get this under control. New chicks are out and about with mom eating just about everything mom offers them in addition to the chick starter. Watching the new peeps with the rest of the flock it’s as if they’ve always been there, and we’re only going into week two.

 

[Molpet]

Today I harvested zucchini, pruned tomatoes, clipped up the tomatoes, watered the clover, played with the chickens, and used the hedge trimmer to cut the grass that was growing over the sprinklers.

My corn is starting to tassel! I can see the beginnings of the ear nodes now as well. Not as many ears as I would have hoped for but anything is better than nothing. I didn't give it enough nitrogen on the last feeding before VT phase.

I also put the cover back on the pool today, cleaned the chlorine generator plates for the pool, picked up dog doo in the yard, pruned the grape vines to feed the leaves to the chickens, smashed two black widows, cleaned up our decorative water fountain that was pretty much just a spiderweb tree. Got the fountain at Costco last year; its the one with the brass colored cups. PITA to clean, but DS and I made quick work of it. Helps that I've only ever used soft water in it.

I played guitar out on the patio for a little bit, went inside and oiled the fretboards on my electric guitar and dear sons electric guitar. Ordered the solar fly trap from Arbico Organics finally today. Been wanting to pull the trigger on that for months. Today is my birthday, so I finally pulled the trigger.

Happy birthday

 

[WthrLady]

We got over an inch of rain! The weather forecast for the second time in a row never forecasted a drop of rain when we've gotten it. Grateful for it in July. We are usually dry, hot and humid!

We need the dry hot and humid, it's HAY season!

 

[TJAnonymous]

It was supposed to rain today, but so far everything has completely missed us... Guess that means I should probably go out and water the container plants before they get any more crispy....

Brought in 2 very small sugar pie pumpkins and a cushaw squash whose vines had been killed by SVB. Does cushaw ripen off the vine? I've never grown it before. The bottom part has turned green but the top 3/4 is still yellow. Is that normal?

 

[Smokerbill]

This is the weird garlic I found. There was one normal size clove and the rest of it was a single giant onion-like clove. Bigger around than a quarter! Very strange. I sliced it and put it into some boiling kale but I guess I should have saved it and planted it to see what would grow.

 

[WthrLady]

It was supposed to rain today, but so far everything has completely missed us... Guess that means I should probably go out and water the container plants before they get any more crispy....

Brought in 2 very small sugar pie pumpkins and a cushaw squash whose vines had been killed by SVB. Does cushaw ripen off the vine? I've never grown it before. The bottom part has turned green but the top 3/4 is still yellow. Is that normal?

mine have never ripened off the vine

 

[Sally PB]

Love the attitude! I'm in my 70s, 5'2 and almost 100# and I still say the same things, lol. My house is located on a hill, about a 30* slope in the front yard and a 40 degree slope in the back. Gardens and coops at the bottom. I'm either hauling things up or hauling things down all the time. And I swear its the I can do anything attitude that makes it possible. Keep it up!

I'm in the same situation... our house is on a hill. I have one garden down the hill (sandy soil garden) and the other one is farther out in the field, which is up another hill.

Hubby and I have been working out on our elliptical for over a year now. I'm 63 and I feel like I'm in better shape than I was in my 30s.

It does catch up with me, and I'm tired by the end of the day. That's ok... I get a good night's sleep.

 

[WthrLady]

Here too, except I bike 12 miles a day and wrestle livestock and hay bales.
We're on top of the hill and everything is far below us.
We did buy a gator, not because I can't do the hills, but because it's faster and that means I can cram MORE into a day if I'm not walking up and down the dang hill because I forgot a drill bit.

Major sinus allergy headache today that involved my ears. Still managed to get to my allergy appointment and other errands. First planting corn is starting to tassel and I am VERY allergic to corn.

 

[Minanora]

I'm so glad I have such good company here in this thread. I appreciate you all. <3 Internet hugs.

Today the chickens were loose in the garden. They did minimal damage somehow. At least as far as I can tell. They did set off a rat trap; I'm glad they didn't get hurt. Sheesh. I forgot to close the gate from the orchard to the garden last night. Also forgot to turn the filter back on the pool when I cleaned the chlorine generator plates.... All of that happened on the same trek out there... dang ADHD.

Standby for the most epic birthday gift I've ever gotten. Gotta get on my phone to upload the photo.