What did you do in the garden today?

[dirkandlorie]

Countless Cherry tomatoes picked. Still need to build the cold frames. Did end up losing my job, but was offered a new position same pay.

Hope you enjoy the new job, always better when you like what you're doing.

 

[Molpet]

Countless Cherry tomatoes picked. Still need to build the cold frames. Did end up losing my job, but was offered a new position same pay.

Hope you enjoy the new position if you choose to take it.

 

[jerryse]

90 predicted today. AC turned on. Due to drought conditions humidity is not bad. I have been watering.

 

[Minanora]

Today I dug out more than half of the soil from one of my garden beds and spread it out on the patio so I can hit it with the weed torch to kill nematodes. Yup, that's the level of infestation I'm at.

I'll pile it up once it's done to make room for more from that bed. Once it's empty I'm scoring the inside of the bed, the hardware cloth bottom, and then using the soil drench, adding neem oil, and adding crab meal before I put the soil back in after two soil drenches.

I'll add new Earthworms, microbes, and compost. I will... Defeat the root knot nematodes... I will!

After this bed, only 5 to go.

So, my work boots are in the camper at the property. I decided to torch the soil while in flip flops. A piece of molten hot perlite blew under my foot in my flip flop and zapped me pretty good.



It took me three hours to torch two cart loads of soil so I decided not to torch any more. I'm going to do a soil drench on the remaining beds and solarize. Then drench again. After that I'll add beneficial nematodes. If next season there's no significant improvement I'll probably remove all of the soil and start over.

Yesterday I pulled a bunch of plants out of the garden. All of them were no longer producing because of RKN. I'm over it. I have a few tomatoes still standing with green fruit that have a chance to start ripening. But I'm not making any bets. One of my tomato plants was over 6' tall.

Today I'll pull out all of the tomatillos for a final harvest and get to resetting beds for garlic next month.

I have a ton of grapes ready to harvest. Trying to decide what to do with them.

 

[Minanora]

I might actually have the parts to make this! Thank you.

I'll look into them, thanks! I have something similar to yours from Sam's Club. It's pretty good, but just doesn't seem to last very long before getting gunked up. Maybe it's my water.

You can give yours a vinegar soak to help. We have really really hard water here. I have to use brass or stainless hose tools and fittings if I don't want them to corrode or get stuck on the spigot or hose. My favorite watering wand is a Dramm, but it leaks and gets gunked up a lot. I have to soak the head and valve in vinegar water every few weeks.

I mean I should soak it that often. I often just get dripped on and live with it until I am on the verge of buying a new one. But if you do regular soaks it's much better than trying to remove a bunch of scale. Last time I waited so long that I had to use CLR.

 

[thecatumbrella]

I mean I should soak it that often. I often just get dripped on and live with it until I am on the verge of buying a new one.

I feel this. Half the water's dribbling down my arm, the other half sputtering onto my tomatoes. We don't have hard water, but the iron content seems to gunk things up just as bad. I do vinegar soak my faucet heads in the house from time to time. Don't know why I never thought to do it on the sprayer! Thanks for the idea.

 

[jerryse]

Hollyhock starts and wild sunchokes are blooming.

 

[WthrLady]

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Great! I'll see you in a few months...

Better wait a bit. If you don't pass through Omaha by the first week in June, but after the early may flooding, you'll never make it through the plains and the first heavy snows in the Rockies. Too late to start now. Sigh.

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[WthrLady]

New steel on the old asphalt side of the chicken house. I was going to just put it on top of the asphalt, but discoveries found, plans changed. Taking forever due to breaks with the heat. but this is a large, high pitched roof and it will take two of us to move steel panels in the wind. Rain tomorrow night, so needs must. The RUN roof I can do on my own later this week.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon Gardeners, weed all the garden.
Plant next year.