Dang, you’ve been BUSY! And you’ll be even busier if those 50 little bluegill “pan out” into a good catch of catfish!
We are very dry here too, with a 30% chance of light rain early tomorrow morning, but, radar looks like the stuff holding together will miss us.
Generally, my garden is really liking this cooler weather, as long as I can keep up with the watering. A couple of the late transplanted tomato plants are not doing so well, but the rest are: I’m up to 7 fruits growing on the “big” Mortgage Lifter plant that took forever to fruit. If this thing produces tomatoes the size claimed, I’ll have more tomato than we need, and I have 3 other ML plants going. There’s a “free veggies” stand on the way to our nearest small town — I may donate or swap a few tomatoes to them.
I inadvertently ended the drought in part of my garden this morning.
I took the morning off from the salt mine to attend the weekly Geezer Breakfast one town over with a bunch of retired gearhead buddies. Before I left I turned the water on to the soaker hose that serves half of my tomato patch.
I was away for about three hours. And of course, the soaker hose had a blowout while I was gone. The runoff flooded about 50’ out into the horse pasture outside the garden fence. That ought to make the crabgrass happy for a few days. lol
I’ve heard about Mortgage Lifter tomatoes for years but I’ve never planted any. How’s the flavor on those? I like to try a new variety every few years. I don’t expect that I’ll need to can any tomatoes next summer so it would be a good time to try something new.