What have you done today in the Garden?

I installed a resize app and I resize them and then upload them from my phone.

 

Which app? I do not want to get one of those that has hidden abuse vectors built in so I shy away from most apps. I have sent myself a txt pic because the phone servers can handle cellphone pics. But that is miserable when you have more than one.

 

@Dirtmechanic The app is called image size. Alternatively I email the pictures to myself and download them onto my computer and use the gimp to prepare my images for uploading to gardenstew.

 

I only use my phone so my pathway is different

 

When i take a pic on my phone, then go into the photo app to view it. There's 4 icons down the bottom, one is for resizing the pics.
On my phone it's a drawing of a pencil, it's different for every phone. Also there's the icon for the bin, icon for sharing and a drawing of an eye, but i don't know what that's for.

 

Crimson sweet watermelons climbing their trellis. Celebrity tomato and some yellow squash behind them.
Cucumber climbing.

Okra coming up and peppers and cherry tomato.

Blackberries have started coming in this week. Blueberries are next.


I resized with a photo resizer app so hopefully the pics translate well.

 

They look great @Dirtmechanic and the pics are ok.
My blackberries are in flower and the blueberries have just set fruit.

 

Watered some plants, the wallflowers are nearly over so on Monday going to pull them up.

 

Wow your blackberries are not like ours here, we only get fruits in August really, sometimes in late July.

 

Thank you. Those are Kiowa, and are naturally large. We have a long season here. When the berries pass, I will cut them to the ground and apply a half cup of calcium nitrate to promote new canes by the end of the season and they will berry next year. In winter before growth they get 12-12-12 or something like it.

 

A little bit of everything... Watered the plants and fed the animals, bottled a batch of beer, pruned some plants and, oh yeah, planted about 30 seedlings of which 90% are peppers! A dozen habaneros, 4 Hot Sunset hybrids and 6 Karma hybrids (red bell pepper).

Did I mention that it hit 90° at 11:00am?! We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave...!!

 

Yes indeed. I have been deep watering for a week already.

 

Ever had asparagus crowns grow a couple years and then not want to come up the third year? or is it that they mature somehow and change their ways a little bit?

 

@Dirtmechanic no but I have only planted my asparagus 4 years ago. I managed to plant 50 more crowns in place. I have sandy soil and asparagus seems to grow well here. That is why I planted lots more.
Today I planted giant pole beans and transplanted courgettes and melons and parsley. I planted pumpkins and basil. I harvested a bowl of strawberries and ruccola. I collected seven sacks of well composted woodchips which I use to mulch with.

 

Combating of the voles in the greenhouse continues. We netted the strawbs and have eaten the first ones. Weeded the beetroot plantlets. Dug up the spinach...after harvesting three times the black aphids have heavily infested the plants. The broad beans have been sprayed with the soap and spirits mix twice and finally we topped the plants off now. More weeding around the flower patches. I mowed the grass paths and strimmed the edges.

I have been planting some flowering plants and making other ones smaller.

I looked into the bees again and I have been making a new queen. 11 days ago I placed a frame with eggs and larvae on it into a hive full of house bees, one frame of honey and one frame of pollen and the rest were empty frames. I shook off those house bees from another colony that has too many bees in it. I am happy to announce the birth of a new queen. She will need to look for a nice day so that she can fly off and mate. I will not look back in on her for three weeks. by then there ought to be eggs and larvae present. Fingers crossed--these are uncertain days.

The corn is looking better.