Three 12 hour work days DUN.
Drip Irrigation Kit will be here Wed. I work Thurs/Fri and then have three days off so that’s when I’ll try the - Tank Sprayer Pump Running a Small Drip System - experiment.
Going to rake the mulch off the garden and burn it tomorrow. The mulch is grass/leaves I mowed down yonder where the bugs are so now I get seed ticks on me when in the garden. I’ll leave the garden bare for a few days and spray the perimeter so that the escapees of Death Valley(bare dry soil) will die.
I’m also going to pick up a truck bed of compost tomorrow and that will be my new mulch. I’ll put it on this weekend once the ticks are gone. Going to install the drip kit first and then cover it with compost mulch.
Also need to pull back my shade cloth. I set it up as though it was 99 degrees out there just to know/have that setup when I need it. Will have to ponder how to pull it back so it’s easy to extend back out, after I kill the ticks of course.
Pole beans ain’t having a good time. I have a mole/vole running back and forth under them. I started them in peat pots so the pots are pushed up every day. Something else to kill and a design revision to the high tunnel. Underground barrier around the perimeter.
‘Weekend’ starts on a Monday! My weekend used to be Thursday and then Sunday, LOL!
I still have to get my beans IN! Yikes. I was way ahead, then it got so hot that all I was doing was watering everything. My lawn is yellow and CRISPY; I refuse to water anything but newly sewn grass seed...so the beans were neglected, but there’s still plenty of time.
I managed to kill my Cucumbers with kindness by over-watering them. *Rolleyes* And I’m supposed to be the ‘professional’ around here, LOL!
I think it was psychological. I’m not a huge fan of cukes. They’re cheap to buy all year and I’m well stocked on Pickle Relish, which is pretty much all I use them for. I will make refrigerator pickles if the need arises.
I definitely have raised soil ridges so I have moles - eating my earthworms. Wonderful.