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

Carol, I left them in but we are getting frosts already..what a year.

Thanks Dodge, I bought apple trees that never took so I just went up into the cows orchard and dug out a two foot tall tree..took a long while to bare but it was worth the wait..it's the same apples that are on my large apple tree at the road that is so old that it is breaking and will need to be cut down in a few years.

I weeded yesterday..and watered this morning.

Least ways the apple will take frost.

All I did was pick tomaotes.

that's what I did too dodge. Picked tomatoes. I probably have green beans out there but it's too hot to look.

To day not in garden, almost in the flower bed.
Submersilble pump quit we had to dig very close to my house an flower bed.
Got the lid off.

Now pull.

dodge
not a good dayy

That sucks, Dodge!
How deep is your well?

I am sorry, Dodge.

Oh thats too bad, at least you didn't have to go in through the gardens.

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Hope it's an easy fix Dodge..

here is how were doing it ..
got the pump out an hd went for a new one.
Not easy.




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We've seen that a lot around here Dodge..so now they leave the well casings a foot above ground. It is impossible to move all the snow and dig down where we are when problems arise in winter.

Sorry you had to buy another pump but am glad it happened before the frozen ground arrived...

Thanks tamara.

You sound like us>lol

To day I trimmed hedges, but then it rained, but I think I'll go back out in the rain to finish the last one. Its too stuffy in here.

Today it was rake and water, rake and water, Water, water, water.

All I did was froze corn in the am.

Haley came calling an played all afternoon .Hated to go home.
Sun went in an we enjoyed the yard day.

dodge

So glad you had a nice day with Haley, Dodge

I tried to weed but the flies took over..

Thanks Tamara. :ding:

Our lil angel.

Now you have one too..

dodge

Today Rod helped me cut down the last 3 sunflowers that I had.
Then I weeded, and weeded, & weeded. After the 1 & 9/10 inches of rain we had it was so easy.

*I was weeding my asperagus bed, and under where the sunflowers were.*
The weather was wonderful!!!!!

The only thing I did outdoors today was water. All day, all night. It was too hot to work out there.

That is what I told Rod yesterday as I was weeding my asperagus. Well the too hot part.....

he says to me---(after all they years I have had asperagus beds) what is that (referring to the tall Asperagus fronds) & is it supposed to be there.

so I patiently explain yes it was but said the weeds were not & if it had not of been so hot or wet all summer they would not have been.

sadly I think I have lost a whole row of plants to the weeds--- I will wait until I am mulcking the bed this fall to knmow for sure.

Carol

Dont feel too bad .. weed 4 foot tall took over my gardens . Veggies
All I can see is corn or sunflowers.

Its the weather .

dodge

Thanks Dodge :ding:

It has been an especially hard year I think. Or maybe it's just that I'm getting older. But don't tell anyone that lol.

Yesterday Mandy's husband brought over some of veggies that hadn't been used. She wanted the jars and I wanted what was in them so it was a good deal all the way around. I wasn't feeling good enough to turn them into the compost yesterday but I got to it this morning. Three of my piles are going to be ready for the veggie garden come spring and that is fantastic. I'm so looking forward to those fresh vegtables and having tomatoes. I refuse to pay 2.50 for a pound of tomatoes. So I haven't had any tomatoes. But next year I'm going to have them all summer long. I have roma seeds and I'm looking forward to planting them.

I walked around in the garden yesterday and got a few tomatoes. It's been a horribly, hot, dry year and I just haven't kept things up. I could probably salvage a few plants if I babied them but I'm not in the mood.

TK, you would be so ashamed of me. The morning glories have taken over the compost pile.

lol, not enough greens or turning. I understand completely. The blackberries and locus trees are trying to encroach on mine. I've been painting the eraser on them when they show up.

So no I'm not ashamed of you at all. It happens to me to. I just can't do everything I would like to when it is really hot.

I decided to water today so I've got the soaker hose going. No rain in sight for the entire week.

I should be doing that but today I put on socks and a sweater for the first time so you know I can't convince myself to go outside.

yesterday I trimmed the grass aound my bayberry bush, and my 2 rose of Sharon. Then I weeded a ll around the back yard.--Not that I got to spend any time there today...But hopefully my company appreciated my work.

and oh I watered a few potted things.

Today I played a while with my new pole saw to add a bit more light to the gardens

Today I picked an watered my cukes.
2nd run.

dodge

I'm watering the fruit today. Or at least half of it. I also weeded the side foundation bed and admired the impatience. I wish they were perennial. Then I weeded half of the sidewalk bed and sidewalk and about 1/3 of the front foundation bed. I so wanted to get more done but it was just to hot.

112 posts...someone better close up and open another

Today I managed to dig out a bucket of dirt from the future root cellar. And get the compost out that I'm going to add to it but my drill was out of power so combining it will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm going to use it for my fall lettuce. Yummy.

And then I'm watering the fruit trees. I'm on the last one right now.

Then I pruned the zinnia bushes. I was worried that it would look strange but it still look wonderful. I'm loving those...even if they are pink lol.

I got yesterdays bucket of soil mixed and layed down and then shoveled up another and mixed it up and put it in the veggie bed. One more and I'm ready to plant lettuce. I'm starting with the black seeded simpson since it's suppose to be morer heat tolerant.

And today the blueberries and areas where there is now drip lines will get watered. At least as many as I can before midday.

I mixed up another bucket and realized that I need one or two more to complete the row. But I went ahead and planted some of the black seeded simpson and some butter crunch lettuce just because I couldn't resist.

I'm working on the watering. wish me luck on that one ok?

I'm going to write closed on this one so I'm not confused about where to post.
Old age you know.






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