What have you done today in the Garden?

Not today it's going to rain again, should be better tomorrow.

 

I see it is flooded across the road this morning. Flood watch until Tuesday here.

 

I wish! Drought here is in the severe level says the weatherlady this morning. So I have been watering. Everything. Took peppers out of the garden. Bells, cow horn and banana peppers. I ate a cownhorn and regretted it.

 

I am visiting relatives in Wisconsin this weekend (cousin's 50th anniversary!). It has been COLD here...50's and this is in June! Cloudy and windy as well (we are a stone's throw from Great Lake Michigan). Their spring is even further behind New England's.

@carolyn, why are you putting basil between the tomatoes? Convenience or do they serve another purpose (ie, combating bugs or disease).

 

@Cayuga Morning I plant like this because the tomatoes taste better. It will also keep away some insects probably. They both grow well together.

 

Cleaning and storing garlic today. The humidity has been down for several days, so it finally dried. Rain predicted for tonight and tomorrow, so I'm preparing for not getting into the gardens for a couple of days. Phooey!
Cayuga, like Carolyn, I plant basil between tomatoes. According to Louise Riotte in Carrots Love Tomatoes (a companion planting guide) basil helps repel insects and diseases, and enhances tomato growth and flavor. I can't attest to either since I've planted together for years and have no standard to measure against. I'd take Odif's word for the better taste!

 

Snipped some herbs for today's menu, checked nearly half of my garden for opportunities to prune/tie/stake/feed (the other half will be done tonight.), watered a with Epsom salts for the first time this season.

Now, onto some quality television! Lol

 

Just as a lark I planted crooked neck squash in between my tomatoes in addition to a squash only row. The squash between the tomatoes easily outpaced the row squash coming up, and still are more vigorous and physically larger. All the seed came from the same bag.

 

both. I have oodles of herbs and I also have oodles of water running through the garden. I am trying to use as many plants as I can to soak it all up. it rains and rains and rains

 

and rains and rains and rains. we were flooded this morning when we got up. spent the whole day cleaning up from it and more rain is on its way.... so far in the last couple days we have had 5" of rain.

 

Our weather people keep making promises for rain and breaking them!

 

Mowed the paths and strimmed the edges and other places on the lottie.
Took nets off the broccoli and sprouts as the voles have eaten them all up. What a shame.
Harvested more spuds. This is the second sort that we have sampled from under.
We will go back to the lottie this evening and work some more and thern order pizza's with a lottie neighbour lady. I am looking forward to that. I am happy that the pizza dudes will deliver to the lottie complex.

 

a shame about the voles. the older I get and the harder it is to get a nice crop of anything the less I like wildlife.

This was us Yesterday. this is a couple miles straight down the road for me.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/06...after-floodwaters-consume-city-more-rain-way/

I spent the day cleaning up from flooding again but at least my mud wasn't this thick.

 

Each time I'm tempted to complain about our weather, I see something like Carolyn's post. My heavens, how those people cope with mud/flood! Offering sympathy is about all I can do, but I do offer it most sincerely.
Sjoerd, if you have access to a mole/vole repellent that contains castor oil it may help. We have voles, but no damage because the coyotes love the taste of voles. Unfortunately, I can't ship you a couple of our coyotes to help out in the allotment. We have lots of coyotes, but no permit for transporting!

 

This is the farm about a mile from my mom and dads house. I grew up here and my sister actually milked cows at this farm when she was a started 5th or 6th grade? she was 11.https://fox8.com/2019/06/18/animals-evacuated-from-rittman-farm-during-flooding/https://fox8.com/2019/06/18/animals-evacuated-from-rittman-farm-during-flooding/