Hot, hot, and more hot here in Central Missouri this past week. 4" rain the week before and I'm already running irrigation in the pumpkin patch and the kitchen garden.
I've been at war with the japanese beetles for the past couple weeks. The filthy, stinking vermin are shredding my orchard trees. Seven slows them down for a day or two, but that's about it. I mixed up a sprayer full of malathion/captan yesterday and got medieval with them. I don't like using that stuff, but I like losing an entire tree full of fruit even less.
I'm mostly caught up on shop projects and suchlike stuff, so I've had some time to get into the pond with Nanner. I think I'm about two weeks away from calling dirt guy to come out and close the dam. That will be a happy day.
We just haven’t had issues with the J.Beetles on the fruit trees. Maybe because we haven’t had fruit that matured or something. They hang out up at the rosa rugosa plants.
We also got quite a bit of rain this past week. Heat wave had a break and was actually in the cool 60s at night. Just getting ready to close down the computer for the week - taking off for vacation to Branson.
Not sure if we will come back Friday or Saturday. So may not post till Saturday this week.
Keeping my fingers crossed that you get the pond project advanced with no set backs. We have one of the storage sheds delivered and 2 more to go. These are all designed to be against a wall of the house for easy storage of patio furniture and gardening tools.
Will be building a larger shed to store stuff that is currently in the garage, so that we can park vehicles in the garage.
Have a great week!