What have you done today in the Garden?

We will start harvesting potatoes this evening. With the extremely hot weather we have had this summer, lack of rain and bugs our main garden is toast. Too early for potatoes so they will be small. Peas, beans,squash and cucumbers and tomatoes same story. We have a smaller garden also and the potatoes are doing okay so far. Really bug attacked, but thriving. Second year in a row with not much yield. Seriously thinking about not planting next year.

 

That's a bummer Chrisle! A garden is a crapshoot every year. This year the birds have destroyed 3 patches of our corn the white fly just doesn't stop, the cucumber beetles are ferocious again this year. And it has hardly rained all summer .I run water everyday almost.

 

Not been in the garden for a few days, currently nursing a very sore knee that needs surgery for a new knee. Three sleepless nights does’t help. I was gardening and putting in new plants, moving odd ones that were too near it’s neighbour.

Yesterday I bought what I hope will become a massive Zantedeschia 'White Giant' .

K

 

Planted up more herb gardens and watered the plants. thats it.

 

Everyday is sweeping the back garden as the birds love making a mess of our pea gravel and bird baths re-filled daily.

 

I've done nothing today as bird baths was ok and we've had nothing but rain constant.

 

Watered this am in anticipation of 95° heat. Did a bit of pruning on my tomatoes also. Normally I water with about 2 hours of daylight left each evening, but I have stretched out watering times from 24 to 36 hours.

 

We've had some hot weather here in the uk way to hot but now it's cooling but my plants was being done regular every two days either by hose pipe or sprinkler

 

Just picked my first habanero peppers of the season! It's only 2 but at least 20 more are ripening as I type.

Sorry for the poor pic quality. My phone takes bad pics...

 

Your pic's ok mate as I can see it and I wear spec's ….we've always got peppers here as my hubby loves them but they hate me, they do make me bad

 

Picked up a bunch of seedlings! Very young and not even close to ready for transplanting.

I have 24 beets, 12 collards, 6 romanescu broccoli, 6 flat head cabbage and 4 giant radish.

While the plants mature I will have time to prepare the soil and containers to use.

 

I was putting my fall garden seedlings outside on my deck this am which I have done this week in order to 'harden' them for permanent transplantation in a week or two. I noticed one of my two six packs of collards was looking very weak and laying over on the soil. I watered a bit and hope to pull them thru but am preparing for the worst. All the others look pretty strong though.

 

Hopefully with your care they'll pick up

 

Done nothing today, only had two hours sleep, wide awake after two hours. So struggles from 1am till 6am, should have got up.

Too wacked to go for a paper let alone garden.
K