What did you do in your garden today?

[FarmerJamie]

Picked enough greens for having salad tonight with dinner. Radishes are done for now.

Fingers crossed the wife's body will tolerate the lettuce and spinach

 

[FarmerJamie]

Tomatoes staked, two peppers transplanted.

Gently found a test russet and a Yukon gold potato. Coming along nicely, were yummy with a dash of salt

 

[Mini Horses]

stew?

Only if buzzards cook.

So far no more in traps and no fruit samples gone. Maybe there was only the 3 groundhogs here.

 

[CrealCritter]

Our garden is really rough this year, way to much rain. I burned up a belt and threw a rod in the tiller, had to replace the motor and belt. It's still to wet to till in-between the rows, but I'm going to try again tomorrow.

In the meantime, Mmmm... fresh pasture dumplings

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Picked enough greens for having salad tonight with dinner. Radishes are done for now.

Fingers crossed the wife's body will tolerate the lettuce and spinach

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Good clean food

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Mini Horses]

Frequent rains here really put things off timing. Fortunately, not a mud hole. But, places unplanted now have enough grass to mow!! Need to get that reworked & under control!! Lot of extra work and "late" planting. Now, 2 weeks of NO rain

Thankfully I have a long grown season -- well, usually. Who knows this year! strange weather everywhere.

 

[CrealCritter]

And... it was high humidity, pretty warm, sweatbath kind of weather outside. Tank and I, didn't do much of anything significant outside, but I still sweated my butt off.

Then surprise thunderstorms rolled through. According to the radar, the thunderstorms came from Mississippi. Coming from the south, means it cooled off just a little. I suspect it'll be foggy overnight.

I'm still wondering why I'm not growing mushrooms?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[flowerbug]

started in on weeding the last garden i'm planting, wow the soil is really hard from lack of rain. some spots i can jump up into the air to come down on the shovel and it might go in a quarter inch, once i bust through the surface it will go down further so i can pry out some of the roots of the weeds i'm after.

at the same time i'm picking stones and trying to fix the edging and then i also decided to transplant some of the really low growing creeping thyme that will go along the edging but i'm thinking that once it gets established i may end up just removing the edging if it gets frost heaved yet again. it's not very effective if it won't stay down. so that means yet more watering and weeding but the good part is that it is growing and green and much easier to weed than the cement low spot area it's been put over. so then, yet even more work to move some of that hardpacked dirt to fill in the low spot some more to slope it all down to the groundcover. since it is blooming i also had to be careful when digging up and transplanting it with bees all around and on it. moving slow and not trying to step on any bees. everyone cooperated.

there's a really good chance i'm not going to be able to finish planting this garden on the time schedule i was hoping but oh well, it has to be weeded anyways and if i'm doing that i might as well put in a cover crop of the shorter season beans that would have a chance of finishing... Purple Dove fits that bill really well. that's what i put back there last year and they usually don't get eaten up too much.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Yep!! Yesterday at my house -- visitors now gone!

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So Friday night, the trap got a young raccoon. I let it go. Last night, the trap got something, but the trap was on its side and the critter was gone. It had not been tripped. Strange.

 

[R2elk]

So Friday night, the trap got a young raccoon. I let it go. Last night, the trap got something, but the trap was on its side and the critter was gone. It had not been tripped. Strange.

I have had raccoons turn live traps upside down to dump the bait out without tripping the trap.