Posted on 07/15/2011 5:13:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. It has been another week of hot humid weather. My little garden got its small share of a 60% chance of rain yesterday afternoon. A nice pop up T-storm spent about half an hour dropping a nice steady rain on my garden. There is a 70% chance of rain today. If the percentage for rain is not above 50 the pop up T-storms seem to pass me by. I did get to harvest about a dozen ripe tomatoes this past week but they are on the small side. My replacement paste tomato plants are coming along just fine so far. I will leave them to develop in their 5 inch peat pots for a couple of more weeks before setting them out in the garden.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
We had about 10 minutes of medium rain this afternoon. Skys are still threatening.
We just returned from restaking and straightening our mater plants from being blown over last night. This year is indeed a learning curve for us!
Wow just after I posted about hearing thunder the power went out and come back on then out then back on and there were some very loud and ominous deep electrical buzzing sounds coming from up the road to the north of me. The Sounds were kind of like you might expect to here in a SiFi movie when the big electrical zapper gun goes off. Fire trucks headed that way now.
Raining now. I hope the power stays on.
No, didn’t look. I feel horrible for all the farmers suffering in the south. One FReeper posted he’d had an inch of rain since October.
I guess I’m just an Ozark Hillbilly, but I never heard of having to license any critter especially not a dog. Do they make you license other pets too? Or are they just prejudiced against Dogs?
Course I never heard of regulations against gardens either. What a crazy place. Sounds like they need to vote out the dictator’s in training.
This is her latest professional studio photograph...
Usually used with a headstock on a small stream, upstream (or small dam) on a small stream; pipe down to the pump; pump uphill; the ‘waste’ water from the pump (~90% of the intake) dumps back into the stream.
Yes, a hillside spring also works, as long as there is at least 3’ of fall—the more the better.
Mother Earth has (had?) plans for building them; they are simple, using mainly just stock pipe fittings & a combo of large & small pipes. IIRC, the only tricky part is the one-way valve(s).
Oak Park is a suburb of the capital of the State of Disrepute, Detroit.
Dolly came from a lady whose husband died and she moved into a apartment and couldn’t keep her. Dolly was about 18 months old when we got her in 2001 and is my wife’s walking companion EVERY morning from 6 to 7 am.
...and that is why I posted the link.
Don’t bury them. They’re more like a tomatillo than a tomato or pepper - no fuzzy stem.
I think Flea Beetle is your problem. Since they ARE a beetle, you may need something stronger than neem or soap. Can you get Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew by you? Bonide makes it. It contains Spinosad, if you can’t find it and need a substitute. (Approved for organic gardening...)
Yikes! That explains a lot.
Dolly’s looks like a real sweet heart. Some times I get to dog sit Daisy Do. I love dogs, but Hubby detests animals indoors, and doesn’t want to mess with setting up for outdoors, besides he knows I would find all kinds of excuses for bringing them in when the weather gets cold.
Back in the 60s, I knew a retired kindergaten/Fist Grade teacher. Her dog’s name was Deefer Dog. (D is for dog.)
“The Continuing Malicious Prosecution of Julie Bass, from veggie gardening to dog owning”
Now they cited the lady for a pair of illegal dogs, which she had already registered.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2749348/posts
Harassment?? You bet yah.
Robins are OK, and we let them live here. LOL But, my husband would die for his barn swallows. We leave one of the barns open for the at all times. And he cleans up after them too. We have pounds of mosquito dung that accumulates under their nests. They show up at the same time as the mosquitoes in the spring, work all summer, and leave as soon as the mosquitoes are gone in the fall. During the summer, each pair raises at least 2 families of 4-5 chicks. And they work, work, work. Without barn swallows, we couldn't live here. LOL
I’m in northern MO, and it had been so wet that I got my garden in late. Now it’s hot and dry. We hadn’t been able to get our usual straw mulch from the MFA, but we got some from a local farm this week. It should help some. Using it the last couple years has seriously improved our clay soil.
My broccoli and Brussels sprouts plants look pretty impressive, but the broccoli isn’t doing much. I’ve gotten one small crown of broccoli. I think it may be the variety we chose at fault. My cabbage is pretty shot through with holes, except the red cabbage. I may try the DE, we have some in the chicken coop.
We’ve been keeping up with the weeds somewhat. Except for my back garden. It is overrun, we left it fallow this year. It is going to take a major clean up. Mulberry shrubs everywhere. Ugh.
The cat problem we were dealing with is mostly fixed. My son came and
collected the main cat and her spawn. He’s the one who fed her in the
first place. I used to like cats, not now!
I don’t always post, but I love reading about everybody’s gardens. Thanks for keeping the thread going!
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