Posted on 05/18/2019 6:44:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Our 'Greeneyes' has gone missing, so I have been asked to keep the Weekly Garden Thread rolling until she returns. If anyone knows her in Real Life, please post here and let us know what her situation is!
That said, I will be posting once a week, and I will TRY to stick to her schedule of a Friday Night/Saturday Morning Weekly Post, but it depends upon what is going on here at MY farm. (It's Spring; it's BUSY!)
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Thank you so much for the greeneyes update!
Lots of wind here in Central Missouri this weekend. Got a bit of rain overnight, but not the deluge predicted by the weather guessers.
Bought my tomato plants Friday evening and got eight of them planted and caged. 12 more to do, but I need to cut up some cattle panels and build cages for those. The plants that I put in big cages last year did so well I decided to do them all that way this time and cut back on the number of plants.
Mrs. Augie and #1 daughter Leah went to the native plant sale at the local Bass Pro Shops store yesterday and brought home 50-some native perennials. They got about half of them planted yesterday afternoon.
I’d intended to take Mrs. Augie boat riding on the Gasconade River today, but the weather is still a bit iffy so we’re choring at home instead. Went to Lowe’s this morning and picked up another pallet of landscape blocks and a few packs of kale seed. I’m headed to the pond to put the corner gussets and mud pole sleeves on the dock, then get to work on the block wall for a terraced garden bed next to the house.
It looks like fun, actually! :)
“I may get a full-time job again, just so I can get some rest!”
I know the feeling! Moving from my 1.2 Acre Mini Homestead to Beau’s 160 acres is like night and day!
Awww! That’s so nice! I was glad to help. This is always a fun thread.
You heard that Greeneyes has been found, Right? Just a computer malfunction, so she should be back soon! :)
“...but I need to cut up some cattle panels...”
Cattle and Hog panels are pretty much the backbone of my garden! Beau just made a large, square compost bin for me, lined with chicken wire, using hog panels.
And they say Romance is dead! :)
160 acres! You need a few more mules.
I lived in a high rainfall/snow area and had to bring in a truckload of sand (before planting) order to grow some herbs. I could not get enough drainage from the native soil.
Friday-Sunday we got 1.5 inches over by Milwaukee! Way too much rain and cold this spring.
We got 1 1/2 inches in the past 20 hours here in Eureka starting at midnight but that’s pretty normal for this area
(And she and Billie Jeff was throwing somethin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge)
Dang Arkancides! And they moved to New York and who knows what they went and buried in the Chappaqua woods!
Well, my Mason bees—which I bought for the purpose— were supposed to pollinate my blueberries but they all blew or flew away. I saw a lone bumblebee several times but no other bees. (maybe a few small ones.) They had a box with tubes, they even had wet clay to seal their brood tubes. Well, I may have put them out a week too early. I May try it again next year when I will also have a couple of plum trees that also need to be pollinated.
Since they went truant I got an old battery operated toothbrush and buzzed the blueberry flowers by hand to do the pollination. It appears to have worked, and with all the rain I have some pretty good sized berries! (Just 6 bushes.)
I bought some rhubarb plants, Crimson Red, and they are starting just starting to wake up. I had some doubts about the roots, which were a rotten mess, and from which I trimmed a bunch of decayed junk. Home Depot was selling some Valentine Rhubarb plants and I might go get one of them as well.
If anyone is interested, the Home Depot around here was selling Fig trees (Chicago hardy) in the rack that held asparagus. I don’t have room for a plot of asparagus but I do have room for a few pots of Figs. Easy to grow. (Put tape on ends of the figs to keep the ants out! put a little apple maggot bag on the fig to protect it from squirrels and birds.)
Growing figs is a pretty serious hobby. If you don’t think so go check out You tube! Probably something to do with paying $5 for a little tray of ripening figs! Anybody else growing figs?
Today appears to be the first day in May that we won’t get any rain. Wind is blowing, so I’m hoping it’s blowing in some DRY weather for at least 24 hours!
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/live-intense-thunderstorms-erupt-over-oklahoma-as-new-round-of-severe-weather-unfolds/70008345
.25 inch last overnight. Today was warmish and breezy, but our soil is just loaded with water and more is expected tomorrow. Methinks we need to find short season plants to put in this year.
Don’t know about figs but I have been wanting to try mason bees for years now. Hubby used to beekeep 5 hives but we rally don’t need the honey. We do see some honey bees, mostly in the late summer. From what I have read mason bees are much better pollinators.
Did you say dry?? We are getting dumped on here in west Michigan.
Dry for a full 24 hours! I got 3/4 of the lawn mowed yesterday, then broke a belt on the machine. Grrrr!
Today? All rain. Tomorrow? Sunny, humid and 80 and Sunday looks nice, too. We have a 4-page list of things to do in those 48 hours, then rainy again on Monday!
Mother Nature? Get back on your meds!
Once the garden has been planted (done) and most of the outside chores are done I love the rain, then I don’t have to water. I water the garden by hand and love to do it that way but it does take time.
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