Hi greeneyes and everyone!
I’m so sorry to hear of the water issues your garden has been experiencing, greeneyes.
Since I checked in, I have harvested a few okra, kept the stevia alive, and became disappointed that the ant bed in the garden patch is alive and well. Have put out more diatomaceous earth, but the little buggers have destroyed my mammoth sunflower heads. Only one or two are showing any possibility of forming heads at all - never mind lack of seeds.
Someone has chowed down heavily on the bee balm. Put down the DE in hopes to at least slow it down. Other herbs, especially parsley are doing well. I hope to see the butterflies consume it all in the fullness of time! I planted it for them! (I scrupulously did NOT put DE in the parsley pot because I don’t want to hurt the caterpillars!)
The garlic sprouts are continuing to grow in their large pot. The garlic plant in the ground patch formed a lovely seed head. I went ahead and shook it in the place I hope a garlic patch might form. With the ants there, though, it may be a race!
Grass is growing all the time, and it seems like that is all Darlin is doing these days: MOW!
Hope everyone else is having a better time of it than Darlin and I are!
TEXOKIE, melt aluminum cans,(it will bake a lot, ask friends to save their empties for you) and pour the melted aluminum, slowly, over some of the top. When the aluminum has cooled, dig it up, carefully, it may be very deep, 2 or 3 feet. Wash it off, and you will have a one of a kind ornament.
If IIRC, cornmeal is an effective treatment for ants. Sprinkle it all round the ground. That’s what I used for the corn patch last year, and it worked.