Posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:30 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning! Hope that all of my FRiends and fellow gardeners have had a good and productive week.
Began the Spring harvest in my apiary yesterday, which yielded 7 gallons of beautiful honey from 3 hives. Still have 3 hives from which to pull the honey boxes, and the remaining hives will not harvest until Fall because they are relatively new. Bit of trivia here ... a gallon of honey weighs 12 pounds.
The wheat harvest is over and the farm is buzzing with tractors getting cotton and soybeans planted on the wheat ground. The field corn has tassled and pollinated, and the wells are running almost continuously to keep it watered. It is very hot and dry here.
My local garden center has all of their plants 75% off, and I went crazy in the hibiscus department. I'm adding them all over the property ... even at the gates to the donkey pasture. I also purchased several mandevilla vines to plant with some hibiscus around the back porch. We are really going to enjoy a tropical view!
My earliest sweet corn has tassled and is pollinating. I am hoping to get several acres of cowpeas planted today. Wish me luck!
Please check in and let us all know how your gardening ventures are going. I get such inspiration from reading what you're doing, and I'm sure that others do as well.
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I had to have my 351W tore down and rebuilt a couple weeks ago and in taking off the compressor they ‘fixed’ my A/C but it’s too hot to drive over there to make them fix it! Not LOL! :)
They should come get ME and they ride in MY truck while I drive their A/C’d auto back to the shop! It’s just a couple of fittings and a freon charge.
One thing for sure, you don’t want to be without AC here. You can tell the new northern state transplants. Riding with all the windows down on the way home from work.
Well, I haven’t had any squirrel since childhood in the 1950’s. Even then, they were not a favorite, but I would eat them if I needed to.
We have a feral cat that catches a squirrel now and then. I need to plant some basil, and spray with some pepper spray, and maybe hang some computer disks around.
I have also read that they don’t like to smell soap and avoid coffee grounds.
/johnny
“Why do weeds seem to grow 3X better than veggies???”
I think it has something to do with getting kicked out out the Garden of Eden.
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