Your 2024 Garden

[fuzzi]

At the auction, doesn't start for another half hour.

Lots of stuff for sale, including a tom turkey!

 

[Nomadicus]

After making a Walmart and Lowes run I have to thin the okra and sweet corn. Then finish mowing. Put a good half day in already mowing and restocking all the cooks with feed. I may not mow and plant more okra before it rains again in a few more days. Hopefully.

 

[fuzzi]

Two boys sold for $6 each, two others for $3 each. That works for me.

Picked last night:

 

[Nomadicus]

After making a Walmart and Lowes run I have to thin the okra and sweet corn. Then finish mowing. Put a good half day in already mowing and restocking all the cooks with feed. I may not mow and plant more okra before it rains again in a few more days. Hopefully.

Cancel this. Feeding chickens and getting inside in the AC.

 

[NanaK]

I picked some zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers and a couple tomatoes this morning. Watered some potted plants and then decided to do some laundry. Inside chores in the a/c.

 

[fuzzi]

I got home from the auction, checked the flock, and dozed off in my recliner...I never do that during the day. The auction house is a huge metal building with lots of fans, but by midday you can feel the warmth. I think it wore me out.

So, no garden work this afternoon.

The coop is quieter.

 

[Nomadicus]

Got to water as soon as the sun lowers. The heat is about as hot as I've ever seen it in a lot time. This was normal in the summer out in NW MO but not so much down this way. I was way younger then (half a century) and could take it in stride but not now.

 

[Sally PB]

I have something eating my: bush bean plants and chard. Those are short plants. Something has also eaten the the dill (8-10" tall), sunflowers (12-14"), and climbing peas (18-24"). Those things have the tops chomped off. Conceivably, a deer could reach over the fence on the peas and sunflowers, but it couldn't reach the dill over the fence.

Something gnawed the kale to stems, and also a flowering plant I haven't identified. We're talking just stems left!

I have not seen any deer hoof prints, so it's not deer inside the garden. I have not seen any other prints, but they might not show in the sandy soil.

I've been cussing a blue streak, but that hasn't helped. So today, I set a live trap. I suspect a young wood chuck...? Would squirrels do this? What ever is eating all this greenery is eating a LOT of food, in one night.

 

[Sally PB]

I'd love to feed them a lead pill.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have something eating my: bush bean plants and chard. Those are short plants. Something has also eaten the the dill (8-10" tall), sunflowers (12-14"), and climbing peas (18-24"). Those things have the tops chomped off. Conceivably, a deer could reach over the fence on the peas and sunflowers, but it couldn't reach the dill over the fence.

Something gnawed the kale to stems, and also a flowering plant I haven't identified. We're talking just stems left!

I have not seen any deer hoof prints, so it's not deer inside the garden. I have not seen any other prints, but they might not show in the sandy soil.

I've been cussing a blue streak, but that hasn't helped. So today, I set a live trap. I suspect a young wood chuck...? Would squirrels do this? What ever is eating all this greenery is eating a LOT of food, in one night.