What have you done today in the Garden?

Nothing, its poured rain all day and evening.

It gave me a chance to rip wet cardboard boxes I had stored outside.

Now for the big cleaup when it stops raining.

K

 

Just watched it rain some more.

 

At 9:30 a.m. I am hot, sticky, dirty, and smell of garlic! I cleaned the garlic hanging in the barn after pruning back some shrubs in the back yard. Definitely a good day so far!

 

Today. Picked some yellow squash and zucchini, some pickling cukes, one red tomato, watered selectively, and best of all, dug into one potato hill and got about 2 to 3 pounds. One potato was huge. I scrubbed, boiled and mashed them, placed them in containers for freezing. Upon thawing in winter, they taste like just dug up from the garden.

 

After the worst summer wind storm in 100 years, I popped out to the lottie to have a looksy. No damage there, with the exception of a few hollyhocks that had gone horizontal.
Picked masses of three bean sorts, cues and beetroots.
Today I also picked toms, and this evening we had the first BLT's of the season. It was a celebration.

I had placed bee outlets on a couple of hives two days ago and today before the rains returned, I removed some honey supers.

The rains returned as intermittent sprinkles at a certain moment, and so I made a dash for home as there was laundry drying on the lines. I just made it too and the heavens opened up and dumped out tons of water not 15 minutes after all was safely inside.

 

Thankfully you made it inside. Although summer rain is delightful if there is no lightning.

We also had our first BLT today with fresh garden tomatoes. YAY

 

I will have to go out in this weather eventually to give water to the plants in the greenhouse. All this rain, and the cues, toms and peppers can't get any. It is the downside of planting in a greenhouse.

 

97 degrees here and humid. I went out early to avoid as much heat as possible.
I mixed Epsom salt in a huge bottle with rain water, poured it into a gallon
sprayer and did tomatoes, peppers, cukes and Brassicas. Also set out 3 tomato
plants which I rooted from suckers. I accidentally broke one,but unwilling to
admit defeat, I wet a piece of newspaper and gently wrapped the stem and
carefully placed it in the ground.
I poured huge bottles of water at the base of several plants as the soil is quite dry,
Plucked our first cabbage, hoping there will be n0 Cabbage Loopers inside.
I picked a few beans and enough lettuce to create a bed beneath the Tabbouleh.
Enough for one day.

 

Hiya GP--I do not know if you do it, but when using foliar feeding with a sprayer some folks say that the technique works better if you spray the topside AND the underside.
I am not entirely sure if that is necessary as I have not tested it, but at any rate I just thought that I would let you know.

I get the feeling that you are going to have a good season this year.

 

Hi.
Harvested three types of beans today and tied-up some windblown plants.
Made an onion string for the already harvested and dried red onions.....now the white ones. They are falling over on their own now and are of a very decent size. Getting them, to dry properly will be a challenge. Hmmmmmm....perhaps I will arrange a simple line system on the rafters of the lottie garden house. We shall see.
Going out later to remove honey from my hive out in the country and get rid of the colony. They are so mean that they can only be used for pollinating. I have worked with changing queens, but apparently the aggressive trait sits too deeply in the genes.
Garden veg to eat for supper tonight. Scrummy!

 

I did some much-needed weeding yesterday. I havent done much cause its just been so darn hot and humid lately. And Im just lazy xD

 

Just got in from an very exciting evening with the bees. There was a chap who wanted to have the colony and so we transferred them to his hives. He has his own way of doing things, so he said how he wanted to proceed so I helped him. I took my honey supers off and then we split the hive into two of his hives--one with frames of brood and no bees and the other one with just bees. He treated the queenless bees with a diluted oxalic acid misting (to kill varroa mites) and then later gave the queen back to them and eased some honey-wet frames in for them to inhabit. He will use the closed brood frames to begin another colony.

I had never seen anyone operate like this so it was educational for me.