Went out and got the 2 pumpkins I picked last week and brought them in the house. Got to hang out with the grandkids and see the way they were looking at the ducks. They started laughing when they seen them in the pool splashing around. Jaxson was amazed by the eggs that Cheeks has been laying. He's now obsessed with chickens, ducks, eggs and fishing.
I dug up the last of my potatoes; 1/2 pound from the whole pot. Which I grant those were the nickel and dime sized seed potatoes, but wow I hope the potash I got helps for next year.
I would be so sore I would have to be in bed with a heating pad after the hot shower and icy hot. I feel your pain as well. Hope you feel better tomorrow
Rain ended. Not sure how much we got. Squirrels found my buckets of walnuts. Fried squirrel sounds good. Need to plant the last of my hollyhock starts. Ground should be soft after the rain. Most of the in ground transplants made it. I had to water them often. I pushed their growth with fertilizer. Some got larger than others.
Made that mistake one year when, based on a lab soil analysis, I inadvertently adjusted my pH to 7.1. It didn’t ruin the potato crop but it did stunt it somewhat. I should have just let things be.
I will have to add some powdered sulfur to my soil. My soil is naturally slightly acidic. I'll have some hills that yield several big potatoes, some that yield several small-medium ones. And then there are the hills that have one or two small taters and that's it.
We are getting a good soaking today. About 2" in the bucket rain gauge so far, and it's still coming down. They forecast an "all day rain event," and it sure looks like it could be one.
Made that mistake one year when, based on a lab soil analysis, I inadvertently adjusted my pH to 7.1. It didn’t ruin the potato crop but it did stunt it somewhat. I should have just let things be.
I hesitate about sulfur because I don’t want to screw over my peas and beans. Maybe if I just reserve a couple big pots for potatoes? How long does it last in the soil?
But I did one of those soil tests with the capsules and yeah, my soil is neutral and it came back so low on nitrogen and potassium that they didn’t show up on the scale. Potash is going out on the beds this weekend, might do blood meal too. I think I’m going to run out of energy before I can top the boxes with compost.
On that note, I got most of my basil up-potted (the lemon basil was suffering - rootbound and maybe a little root rot), got the frost cloths off the melons and squash and am finding out if they’re machine washable presently.
Here is what passes for my melon harvest:
From smallest to largest: 2.9 oz, 9.2 oz, 1lbs 8.0 oz, 2 lbs 0.1 oz.
I’m kind of tempted to cut into the biggest one; it sounds hollow, but it doesn’t smell like melon.
How long does it last in the soil?
