A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs What Did You do in the Garden Today #4

Today I mostly raked and picked up my piles and toted them down to the road for pick up. I pulled a few weeds on the way and collected rocks. I did it all as the sun rose at 5:30 so as not to overheat. It is to be 103* today. I was done in by 8:30 am.

Today I dead headed some flowers..it was hot here also 97*, well hot for us.

Today I took a photo of the sunflowers an tomato row for an update.

and picked beans . 30 quarts now.

didn't even go out to the garden today. Too hot then it rained. Looking good dodge.

I did as Sheri did...not a thing outside

great minds...JunieGirl.

Well it looks like it might rain today, it is nice and cloudy. So I didn't want to take out any of the electrical equipment. So I picked up all the dead weeds in front of the shed and weeded the morning glory flower box. It needs bloom boost. It is all vines and no flowers. Then I raked all the leftover leaves from the tree I cut up into the second tier of the future veggy bed. Once I get enough leaf mulch there I'll put the weed barrier over it and let it sit until spring. I'm hoping that the mulch and grass clipping will soften the ground enough that I'll be able to till it next spring and add the compost. Right now it is solid clay and rocks.

Then I weeded the foundation beds, sidewalk, and sidewalk beds.

Throw down some black plastic to kill the grass for fall digging.
Makes life easier.
I picked more beans.

And first haul of cukes today.

dodge

I've already got the weed barrier but when I run out I'll definitely use the black plastic.

Even black garbage bags work. Just hold it with stones.
Cheap way to work.

b

Get em tiger.

I brought in some cukes, green beans, bell peppers and tomatoes. I think my squash is done due to squash bugs. I'm happy to say I've got 1 tiny birdhouse gourd on the vine. Hope it makes it.

dodge, you're sunflowers look healthy.

I raked up a lot of tree litter and got it out onto road for pick up. And water, water, water.....

My garden is doing worse than last year, this year we had unbelievable heat but the heavy rains seem to have done more damage than good. Well that and the late frost didn't help.

I deadheaded some plants last night, that's it.

Welcom to the club.
I cant keep mine weeded.. Pouring right now.
Glad I gathered cukes yesterday.
Cuke an beans an tomatoes is the only good things right now.

Sunflowers.LOL

Corn isnt well either.

dodge

hopefully i get some weeding done in my little (and I do mean tiny) veggie patch. Maybe there will be some beans ready to pick too.

yesterday some of my tomatoes were split. It was so unbelievably hot then it poured rain for several days so the tomatoes split. Wouldn't it be nice if things would even out once in a while.

WELL , YOU CAN HAVE SPLIT 2NDS..

Well i have been mowing for hours...still not done, but I need a break for a few minutes. If I ever move...my next house won't have a ditch that needs mowing..I guarantee it

I have a ditch also.
I mow
Hate it too.

b

I mowed and weed wacked the whole yard..

Today I dead headed roses and zinnia. Then I watered the last of my fruit trees. Then I cut all the seed pods off of the blackberry lilies. I don't need anymore of those seeds I have hundreds. I got the dead leaves off of the chives.

I'm not sure why but if I leave them around the plant it dies completely, but if I take them away then the plant comes back for me. I still need to get out there and give it a hair cut especially because I love it and want some for cooking. I'm thinking top romin. Yummy.

Strange TK..

Yesterday I weeded everything from one end to the other..

Today I am watching the rain..hoping to 'dead head' flowers later.

Today I raked. I raked some more. Then I raked again. Then I picked up all of those piles and moved them to the roadside for easier removal to the green waste dump. I am watering but that is a 24/7 job.

Well Tina..i've been wishing some of my rain your way..guess I'm not wishing hard enough.

Move closer to the ocean an siphon off the.

lol

All I've done lately is pick tomatoes or beans or cukes. I need to pull some weeds but it's way tooooooo hot.

I need to do all the above.
Just did beans
canned 5 more qts of pickles
now going to pick more.

Broke my mower
No large reds to pick yet. Just small ones.

I go out for a few minutes, then run in again.

d

I just went out and took a pic of my little garden..too wet to dig out there.

wish I had tomatoes to pick
I do however have green ones. so I guess they will ripen eventually
Good news is my dad just gave me quite a few, so I am good to go.

I walked along and fertilized everything in the backyard, then took count of my cucumbers. Looks like 14 so far, the biggest is about 2.5 inches.

Your lucky Shani, I am just getting flowers now on my cuke plants..today I dead headed some, need to finish later.

LOL

I could never count mine . Did you see the rows?

dodge

Canned 11.5 so far.
Picked some for supper .

I'm watering the flowers and blueberry bushes.

I added a bag of decomposted peat moss to the blueberries.

I got the cut up branches added to the firewood pile.

I weeded the blueberry patch.

And I got soaken wet lol.

What was the purpose of peat moss on blue berrrys. Mine bear like crazy , an make the robins fattttttttttttt.

Well they aren't growing so I thought they might like some acidic compost.

pulled a few, very few, weeds. It's too hot to pull weeds that seem to love the heat. Dug some potatoes, brought in some tomatoes and green beans. Next year I'm putting out more potatoes.

Today I prepared my very first soil sample. There was a whole lot more to it than I expected.

First was having to clean up my bucket so the sample wouldn't be contaminated. Then rinsing it well for the same reason. Once it and my spade were cleaned I needed to wet the bed where I wanted to take the samples from. It's been completely dry lately and the soil needed to me slightly damp. After that I needed a 6 to 8 inch deep hole. Once I had that I needed to take a 1 inch by 2 inch ribbon of soil from the edge of the hole. My ribbons were all half peat compost and the other half clay.

Once I had them they needed to be mixed up, the clay of course did not want to cooperate. So I screened it and ended up with barely enough soil to fill the sample box. I was really suprised by that. But at least it's done now.

Then came the information soil test sheet. I had to look up soil maps and find my area and then copy the soil codes onto the sheet. That was interesting. I had of course no idea what it all ment but hopefully I'll find out when the test comes back.

So then I put out the newly oiled sprinkler and of course it began to rain. I hope it is enough rain to do some good.

Today I mowed and weed wacked..and deadheaded a whole 5 gallon pail of stuff. What a shame that I can't send seeds over the border.

I took some photos
I really NEED to dead head. if it would cool off or NOT rain once...

Whoohoo, I've got a tomato..the size of my thumb Poor little guy, one tomato growing with 10 plants out there. Why do I garden again?