What did you do in your garden today?

[Mini Horses]

Walked out there.....

On positive side (!!) Found the gal I got those free canning jars from has a tractor tiller sitting in a shed -- unused! . Hasn't been for few yrs and she'll sell to me pretty cheap. Until we cross that bridge, I can borrow it all summer!!! How cool is that!!?? DS will bring it home one day this week. I am so, so thrilled! Like my wanted list is almost complete. Once we're sure it's in good working order and size I want -- 5' but this my be only a 4' ? -- then can talk price. Definitely will be way less than new! Their tractor died, left sitting, and neither she or bro wants it or to use it. Parents passed and they're just tossing stuff! they got 3 houses and land, all pd off. No interest in all else. Just clearing out. I'm in the " got stuff. I'll help" mode!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Woo Hoo - SCORE! Congrats!

 

[flowerbug]

Walked out there.....

On positive side (!!) Found the gal I got those free canning jars from has a tractor tiller sitting in a shed -- unused! . Hasn't been for few yrs and she'll sell to me pretty cheap. Until we cross that bridge, I can borrow it all summer!!! How cool is that!!?? DS will bring it home one day this week. I am so, so thrilled! Like my wanted list is almost complete. Once we're sure it's in good working order and size I want -- 5' but this my be only a 4' ? -- then can talk price. Definitely will be way less than new! Their tractor died, left sitting, and neither she or bro wants it or to use it. Parents passed and they're just tossing stuff! they got 3 houses and land, all pd off. No interest in all else. Just clearing out. I'm in the " got stuff. I'll help" mode!

wow that's great!

 

[flowerbug]

yesterday's rains made for a perfect time today where we weeded gardens and Mom helped so we've got most of the gardens inside the fence in reasonable condition (i.e ready for planting). i still have plenty of work in there (digging out horsetail should be a riot in the tulip patch). considering the square footage involved the number of hours spent weeding is not really that bad at all and most of the weeds come out easy. other than the grasses and a few specific weeds i don't want to come back no matter what everything else was returned (buried deeply enough they should not be a problem) to the garden where it was picked. the horsetail will not be one of those returned weeds.

i only have one more large garden outside the fence to finish going through for weeding and it will take a few days to do but that's all ok - if i didn't enjoy weeding i'd not be into gardening. this is the first time weeding most of these gardens since last year. the soil looks pretty good, always happy to see my worm buddies.

 

[CrealCritter]

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Mini Horses]

If the largest, southern most, doesn't get you...probably sorta, kinda, wettish, ok. That sounds like I gave a pro weather report, to me. . Future job hunting??

 

[farmerjan]

The sun is brutal but tilled in-between rows anyways. Amazing the tiller is still throwing up mud balls. Very wet spring it was, no doubt about that. My wild black cherry trees are dropping their leaves. I'm thinking it's a case of brown spot fungal disease probably brought on by the wet spring followed by heat wave this week. Some of my orchard trees are showing the same. I bought a bottle of orchard spray, I'll hit all the fruit trees after it rains and dries up.

here's what a wild black cherry leaf looks like. I won't be sparying the wild black cherry trees. There are too many of them and I would need a something to get me up very high off the ground.
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Jesus is Lord and Christ

Please do not spray or do anything to the wild cherry trees. And if at all possible, cut them down this winter if they are anywhere near the cattle. They are VERY TOXIC to the cattle. They can eat the leaves green off the live plant, but if a limb comes down and they wilt, it will kill the cows. We cut them down during the winter off all the fencerows... and have had to move cattle out of fields where there has been big branches or trees come down.
Believe me, you will not miss the da#@ed things. The cherries are not edible and they are a nusiance tree at best and a dangerous one at worst.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I got one trellis up. One, lol! I need more! Watered and pulled a few weeds. Now that I'm finished canning for a while I can get back to the garden. It's been neglected for a few days.

 

[flowerbug]

I got one trellis up. One, lol! I need more! Watered and pulled a few weeds. Now that I'm finished canning for a while I can get back to the garden. It's been neglected for a few days.

one thing i like about rain when it does come along is that it gives me a break for a bit until it passes and things dry out enough again. my body will be happy with tomorrow off for indoor frogging around and recess (that's what we call it ).

 

[CrealCritter]

Please do not spray or do anything to the wild cherry trees. And if at all possible, cut them down this winter if they are anywhere near the cattle. They are VERY TOXIC to the cattle. They can eat the leaves green off the live plant, but if a limb comes down and they wilt, it will kill the cows. We cut them down during the winter off all the fencerows... and have had to move cattle out of fields where there has been big branches or trees come down.
Believe me, you will not miss the da#@ed things. The cherries are not edible and they are a nusiance tree at best and a dangerous one at worst.

Thank You

I have none growing around the cattle. As I just put up fencing and cleared (bushogged) low for the fence rows.

But I guess nuisance is in the eye of the beholder. Wild black cherry (WBC) lumber is one of the most if not the most valuable species of lumber there is in north America. WBC cherries also feeds wildlife (mainly birds). Plus we also use it pretty much exclusively to smoke meats -

Jesus is Lord and Christ