Humid and thunderstorms yesterday, cooler today, breezy 80º
There are tiny tomatoes and snow peas! The birds have taken all the strawberries, we got one. I'm trying to work up a plan for a row cover using PVC and some black mesh I have in the garage. I'll build it and cover the beans, too. Stupid birds.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
June 10, 2007
Hazy, buggy, 8oº very slight breeze
Cut all the grass today. Picked up a new (clearance!) mower at Sears today, so even the edges got done. Need to do the back area behind the trees, Matt skipped it this time, probably because of the line and marker Scott left.
Mulched the strawberries, need to get out and pick the ready ones. Rhubarb too. Raspberries are happy now, with the dead trimmed out. Beans are coming up, corn's about 3". Peppers and tomatoes seem slow, though one tomato already has flowers. Onions are coming, 3rd sowing of carrots is up. Spinach starting to bolt, I need to get out and cut more.
All 3 columbines are blooming, buds in the Lady's Mantle. Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder) continues to bloom, I'll cut it back when it's done. Daff foliage is yellowing, time to cut that too.
Got the hammock up. What took so long?
Cut all the grass today. Picked up a new (clearance!) mower at Sears today, so even the edges got done. Need to do the back area behind the trees, Matt skipped it this time, probably because of the line and marker Scott left.
Mulched the strawberries, need to get out and pick the ready ones. Rhubarb too. Raspberries are happy now, with the dead trimmed out. Beans are coming up, corn's about 3". Peppers and tomatoes seem slow, though one tomato already has flowers. Onions are coming, 3rd sowing of carrots is up. Spinach starting to bolt, I need to get out and cut more.
All 3 columbines are blooming, buds in the Lady's Mantle. Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder) continues to bloom, I'll cut it back when it's done. Daff foliage is yellowing, time to cut that too.
Got the hammock up. What took so long?
Friday, June 8, 2007
June 8, 2007
Warm and humid 85º.
The irises continue, gloriously. I'm looking for a pink one, for Alice Maurer. I suspect one will come home to live with me, too, if I ever find one. I suspect I will have no peony flowers this year - must dose everything with bone meal in the fall.
The pine pollen is outrageous. The grass needs cutting, but I might need a mask to do it.
The irises continue, gloriously. I'm looking for a pink one, for Alice Maurer. I suspect one will come home to live with me, too, if I ever find one. I suspect I will have no peony flowers this year - must dose everything with bone meal in the fall.
The pine pollen is outrageous. The grass needs cutting, but I might need a mask to do it.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
June 7, 2007
Continued cool - 72º but no rain today, or in the immediate forecast.
I found some Miracle Gro in the garage - I'm going to start adding it to the watering can, get this show on the road!
I found some Miracle Gro in the garage - I'm going to start adding it to the watering can, get this show on the road!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
June 6, 2007
Overcast, cool - 60º no more rain though it looked threatening once or twice
Corn's up! Beans coming. New growth on the onions. Pink strawberries!
Got the raspberries pruned yesterday - definetly a borer of some sort in the old prunes. Shoot. Maybe n the fall I'll cut everything to the ground and start fresh.
Corn's up! Beans coming. New growth on the onions. Pink strawberries!
Got the raspberries pruned yesterday - definetly a borer of some sort in the old prunes. Shoot. Maybe n the fall I'll cut everything to the ground and start fresh.
Monday, June 4, 2007
June 4, 2007
Raining much of yesterday, all of today. Cool, low 60s
Had a huge salad out of the garden today. Well, the lettuce and spinach were, anyway.
Had a huge salad out of the garden today. Well, the lettuce and spinach were, anyway.
Friday, June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
Rain threat continues to be just that. 80ish degrees, very humid. No rain.
I realized there was room for one more sowing of carrots, so I did. Maybe I'll hold the rest of the seeds and try a fall crop in September. With the glass, I should be able to grow until Christmas.
I realized there was room for one more sowing of carrots, so I did. Maybe I'll hold the rest of the seeds and try a fall crop in September. With the glass, I should be able to grow until Christmas.
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