What have you done today in the Garden?

Today I put a 1/2 cup Epsom salt around each tomato plant, scratched it into soil with my garden fork. Then after 4:30 P.M., I watered around each plant.

Also sprayed garlic water on all the Brassicas. That is what Sjoerd calls cabbage family plants, right? I find it actually kills the Cabbage worms.

Of course I cannot venture near the garden without pulling Bindweed.

I watched a video, "Back To Eden" and found some things I want to try come fall. If only we had a wood chipper. ??? Perhaps we could rent one.

 

I picked and ate my first ripe tomato.

 

FOR sure, rent one. They are a lot of maintenance. The blades need changing, the motor needs to be tuned up every Spring, the whole thing needs to be stored somewhere while not in use...and you don't bear the burden of the whole expense of one. I would love to own one, too, but the maintenance, the tune ups, the storage.. cheaper to rent one for a few hours or days then to buy one, unless you are a handyman and can keep up the thing running, and have room to store it, too, for the rest of the year.

 

I haven't had a chance to even look at my garden all week.
I caught a glimpse of it yesterday and intended to get in there and do some weeding. By the time I got home, I was so exhausted, I just had a bite to eat and went to bed. I actually went to bed around 7:30 and slept right through the night. Oops. Maybe I can do the weeding today. I also want to write out some plans for this autumn and prep for next season. Hopefully, if I can get my plans organized and on paper, I will actually get it done and next year will have a better start to it.

 

Beeker, I suppose you have done the weeding by now.

All I did today was walk about and whine. I'm concerned about pollination, among others things.

I'm almost ready to toss in the towel because of Bindweed. No matter how hard I fight it always seems to win. Oh well, as Scarlet said, "I'll worry about that tomorrow".

 

I picked my first 2 eggplant. Then I fought the war of the Japanese beetles.

 

Not much...Had a market.

Picked 20 bunches of beets, 12 cabbages, 1/2 pint of black raspberries..sold everything we picked in the last couple of days, what I baked yesterday and all that we picked this morning. I brought nothing home from my market and neither did Kevin.

today I am pretty much resting.

 

Yes, I actually did the weeding yesterday, as I've been quite ill. I'm still suffering, but I got out there anyway and got about 75% of the weeding done. I will have to make a call to the company that made the alfalfa pellets I spread in there. It looks like it wasn't alfalfa at all, but crabgrass. It took over the whole garden. Fortunately, it didn't harm my veggies. I was very careful pulling it out, and only have about another hour left of weeding to do.
All I have left to do is transplant some volunteer tomatoes to my mom's garden and see how they do.

 

Beeker, what a thought! I suppose that "alfalfa" isn't grown in pure alfalfa fields like I would have though. I wonder what the rabbits "think" everytime I get a bag of pellets. gross! or yum! That is a real bummer if your garden is filled with weeds from the pellets.

This morning DH got up early and started spraying the whole garden with fungicide. We have had so much rain it is ridiculous...as of last measure...8.91" for the month of June. !

For the afternoon and evening....
I weeded the potatoes and hilled and strawed them. TIRED!

planted up some of the leftover flowers from my greenhouse that I haven't sold...
made supper and off to the corn patch...I weeded corn for 2 hours. I will be so glad when I am done with that job. 1/2 acre of corn to weed is a lot of corn.

 

Carolyn, yeah, I'm considering calling the company. I'm extremely irritated over that. I'm sure they didn't think that a gardener might want to spread the pellets as a fertilizer. It is quite obvious that the pellets are all crabgrass. I should have taken a picture. The crabgrass was in a perfect square.

I didn't get out to finish the weeding. Too sick. Maybe today.

 

I picked all I could find before the hurricane come in. We will probably get heavy rain and wind but not the worst of the storm. So hoping the plants survive.

 

Today, We went and bought a tractor. It was a trade-in on an RV listed on craigslist. Whoo whee...what a deal for us. It is a little diesel New Holland. I baked bread for tomorrows farmers market, went and bought pea seeds for a Fall planting, puller beets, cut cabbage, picked 32 quarts of tomatoes out of the greenhouse, pulled a little elephant garlic for tomorrow and a few other things. I am ready to go top bed. Maybe I will get some pictures up soon.

 

Way to go, C. I always find it so interesting to hear what you are up to and how your growing is going.

Any hope of seeing some market pics one of these days? I find that interesting as well, as it is not so common here as there.

 

S, As crazy busy as I am I keep forgetting to take my camera...then I have a time issue loading pics, but I am trying. I do have a few pics of the garden, though. I am on my way to pick up the neighbor and she is helping me pick raspberries today....