Posted on 06/25/2010 5:13:58 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Here in East Central Mississippi the weather has been typical for the middle of June and the official start of summer. Temperatures have been in the mid nineties in the afternoons and high sixties to low seventies overnight with afternoon showers every other day or so. My garden is thriving in this weather and doing very well. I have not had to do any extensive additional watering which is good.
Also this past week I noticed quite a few honey bees up in the garden. I hope they decide to visit often. In the past years my main pollinators have been bumblebees and they are all over the garden also. Things are a buzzing!
I hope all of your gardens are doing well.
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I don’t live in CA anymore, so I don’t fear Oxalis as much as I did when I was younger. Our cold weather doesn’t kill it, but it slows it WAY down. I don’t try to dig it out anymore (impossible) I just pull it out even though I know that it will come right back. Actually, it’s a pretty little plant compared to some of our weeds.
I reached for a little weed yesterday without gloves. It wasn’t over an inch high. It turned out to be a stinging nettle and my finger hurt for hours afterward!
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