Skin So Soft is AWESOME for keeping Skeeters away. Some years they are so bad that you need to tie down small dogs and toddlers, LOL!
I am enjoying my ‘new’ smaller garden this season. I know once Beau is retired this August additional beds will be going in, so I’m loving this small garden while I plan the bigger one.
I have planted lettuces, spinach, beets (lots!) and radishes so far. It’s raining today, and then is going to get clear and COLD tonight (36-ish) so I’ll be covering some potted herbs and Geraniums on the porch.
Birding has been phenomenal this Spring season. There were FIVE Male Grosbeak and 3 females duking it out at the feeder a while ago, and lots of Orioles. The Indigo Bunting has come and gone.
Rhubarb is AWESOME this season - plentiful and VERY red, so this week I will be making sauce and pie and freezing more for later pies, breads and muffins.
Asparagus (at my old house) is producing nicely - picked 44 spears today, alone. We’ve moved some to the new farm and it’s taking off well.
Chilly this upcoming week, but then warmer and continuing warmth by this weekend - which is GREAT because I’m having my big Estate Sale May 19-20-21. Everything must go!
I usually use Skin so Soft, if I use anything other than long sleeves, since I don’t like Deet stink. Mostly, if we don’t go outdoors at dusk, we don’t have to worry too much.
We put mosquito dunks in the rainwater we collect, and if I am out of that, I put a spoonful of cooking oil to float on top-seems to work. It is sometimes hard to keep other containers dumped-empty flower pots etc.
I still have 3 small (3x4 ft)beds to plant. Two beds of 3x8 ft. are going to serve as compost for leaves and lawn clippings. This winter, I’ll plant hairy vetch and clover there, because the soil needs a lot of work.
When the soil is better, I will plant a winter crop such as winter wheat, because the area is too shady in the summer to get really good results for most veggies, so it will be a reverse garden- winter time crops instead of summer. LOL
Skeeters laid two huge hits on me yesterday *through my sleeves*.
I’ve decided to start a seed-tape business, selling companion planting seed tapes at our new farmers’ market. And single-seed tapes, too.
I think I have one of those days off, I’ll try and pop down to see you!