What did you do in the garden today?

[Nym]

30mm of rain o'nite so it's a knitting day for me. I might fork around in the Birdies beds later to stir in all the flat leaf parsley.

 

[Rick589]

I’m like 80% sure it will be the first one

Come on now, be a glass half full gardener

 

[Rick589]

Took our first watermelon today, never sure about ripeness sooooooo I guess we have a mystery on our hands. In the fridge cooling for the big reveal tomorrow.

 

[Smokerbill]

I picked some more dry beans today View attachment 4186259

More dry beans??? I haven't even picked my first green beans of the year. I think some will be ready in a day or two.

 

[Rick589]

My neighbor says all her purchased tomato plants are cherry toms, not canning. She said this happened last year too. Marked as a beefsteak, but obviously not.

Quality of everything is diminishing it seems. Two years ago I picked up some bell pepper seeds at HD. I did get some bell peppers BUT those banana peppers were certainly a surprise

 

[Rick589]

Since I don't have any spare garden soil laying around, this was my solution for preventing the newly planted cucumber "hill" from collapsing. It will prevent evaporation too. Not fancy but it'll work.

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Any port in a storm.

 

[Smokerbill]

That is actually really smart. I might have to steal that at some point

It's yours to use!

If it works, it's beautiful, in my opinion.

That's how my entire garden area is. Built to be temporary for as little cost as possible. When it all rots and falls apart in a few years I'll fix it back up again. LOL

 

[Rick589]

I had a big beefsteak tomato on the vine that wouldn't ripen and when I finally got into the garden enough to get it, it had fallen off the vine and rotted. I was not happy.

I think vegetables do that just to keep gardeners from getting too haughty.

 

[Rick589]

Built to be temporary for as little cost as possible.

My approach is a bit like yours. In my case I call my technique ‘Permanent Temporary’

 

[Panamom]

Watered the plants up by the house... Stuff in the garden probably desperately needs watered... It's been too hot to go down there. Everything might even be dead for all I know. I know it's terribly overgrown. So far, local meteorologists are saying that the heat dome is likely to persist around here until early August, at a minimum. Triple digits every day.

To make things even more fun for my poor birds, a pair of Hawks has decided to stick around and harass everyone. I've been setting off bottle rockets which deters them for a few hours and then they just come back. Grass is starting to die off from lack of rain which means burn bans are imminent. Can't set off bottle rockets under a burn ban. *sigh*

I'm ready for fall.

so ready for fall. But i am ready by june 31st. Every year here in Florida.I have rain barrels and stay fit by moving buckets of water to water the plants.