Carol Dee
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Today we tilled between rows of peas, beans and potatoes to knock down the weeds. weeded other beds, picked kale and peas. Looks like strawberries are ripening potatoes and beans are about to bloom. :
What did YOU do in your garden today :P
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DS and DH put up some of the poles for pole beans. I planted squash plants in with what is left of the squash with 1 leaf. DS and I took the deer netting and put stakes in the ground and draped the netting. This is covering the squash. We tied strips of white trash bags to the netting so the birds would see it and not get tangled up. Then, we decided to tie whole bags onto fence posts and stakes. I am hoping this might scare birds away or the squirrel. I started to get the strawberries covered and will finish tomorrow. I will not have any strawberries to eat if this does not get covered. There was less damage this morning and less birds. I think the young ones are learning to fly and I am wondering if the young birds were the ones tearing the plants up. DS and I put more string up for the peas. Cut rhubarb and the dehydrator is full.
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It was misty raining most of the day so I didn't do much. Deadheaded a knockout rose thanks to another thread on here. I needed that reminder and the info in the thread helped too. Put some parsley in the dehydrator and some real late broccoli florets and some kale in the freezer in preparation to soon can soup.
digitS'
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I didn't get much done.
Pinched the 2nd 1/3rd of the snapdragons. I'll stop with the pinching now. It was planned to slow some plants so that all the flowers don't come at once.
Since the purslane, especially, had grown enough to be weeded out, I turned around and pulled them in 1/3rd of the snaps . I had "planned" on pulling 3/3rds of the weeds but it was hot and windy. Went home.
But, not before a 2nd sowing of sweet corn seed!
Oh, and I also got some cages around the yellow tomato plants (the slicers). Hopefully, that will keep the slugs from feasting on their favorite beefsteaks. Once again, I have those plants awfully close to the grass - prime slug habitat, apparently.
Around here, about the only grass that grows without irrigation is cheat grass. The red seed heads of the cheat are turning our landscape red at the moment. Since the sprinkler hits the grass around the garden, it seems to be out-competed. Extra water keeps the slugs happy and maybe they eat the cheat . . . ignore the quack, and move in on the yellow beefsteaks. Run!!!
Steve
Pinched the 2nd 1/3rd of the snapdragons. I'll stop with the pinching now. It was planned to slow some plants so that all the flowers don't come at once.
Since the purslane, especially, had grown enough to be weeded out, I turned around and pulled them in 1/3rd of the snaps . I had "planned" on pulling 3/3rds of the weeds but it was hot and windy. Went home.
But, not before a 2nd sowing of sweet corn seed!
Oh, and I also got some cages around the yellow tomato plants (the slicers). Hopefully, that will keep the slugs from feasting on their favorite beefsteaks. Once again, I have those plants awfully close to the grass - prime slug habitat, apparently.
Around here, about the only grass that grows without irrigation is cheat grass. The red seed heads of the cheat are turning our landscape red at the moment. Since the sprinkler hits the grass around the garden, it seems to be out-competed. Extra water keeps the slugs happy and maybe they eat the cheat . . . ignore the quack, and move in on the yellow beefsteaks. Run!!!
Steve
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Yesterday my little helper and I thinned the cukes, pulled a few weeds, planted poppies and mulched up around the peppers and sweet potatoes.
Today I hoed a little, worked in the roses and planted pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, gourds and winter squash, and weeded in the flower bed around front.
There was a storm blowing in, so I ran around battening down the hatches and sat on the porch swing to watch it come. Of course, it wasn't until it hit that I remembered that I had left my seed basket on the front porch. :/
Today I hoed a little, worked in the roses and planted pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, gourds and winter squash, and weeded in the flower bed around front.
There was a storm blowing in, so I ran around battening down the hatches and sat on the porch swing to watch it come. Of course, it wasn't until it hit that I remembered that I had left my seed basket on the front porch. :/
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Planted 4 eggplant, 7 tomatoes, 3 peppers, several basil, several cucumbers and cucumber seeds, weeded the cucumbers, put netting on the cucumbers and netting on the strawberries. Picked a handful of cherries off of Stella the cherry tree who is 5 years old now.
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Weeded dahlias and the carrot bed.
Oh boy, can those feathery carrots hide a lot of weeds![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
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I weeded the shallots, yesterday. They weren't hiding the weeds very well . . . I hope it isn't too late to benefit the shallots. They won't be in the ground too much longer. At least, the weeds weren't going to seed or anything!
The paths in the little veggie garden will need attention. The little tiller can go in there on Saturday, I hope. It will be a second time for that. I'm tempted to use the big tiller and do a decent job of it but it will be a fight with the thing from one end to the other with some veggies as collateral damage along the way! Maybe I can get into the big veggie garden extension with the apparatus on Sunday or Monday. There, I've got 30" or 60" between rows.
Steve
Oh boy, can those feathery carrots hide a lot of weeds
!I weeded the shallots, yesterday. They weren't hiding the weeds very well . . . I hope it isn't too late to benefit the shallots. They won't be in the ground too much longer. At least, the weeds weren't going to seed or anything!
The paths in the little veggie garden will need attention. The little tiller can go in there on Saturday, I hope. It will be a second time for that. I'm tempted to use the big tiller and do a decent job of it but it will be a fight with the thing from one end to the other with some veggies as collateral damage along the way! Maybe I can get into the big veggie garden extension with the apparatus on Sunday or Monday. There, I've got 30" or 60" between rows.
Steve
