Pinging The New & Improved List!
I’ll try to follow this list too.
The flowerbeds out front need some attention. I wasn’t gifted with a green thumb. Eventually I will probably wind up getting an expert for some of the effort.
Thanks, Diana!
The Humboldt Bay region of Northern California is having unusually stunning weather for this time of the year and potatoes, corn and garlic are doing great but I had to replant the cucumbers but not the pumpkins. Headed out to the garden to finish hooking up the drip irrigation plus take a nap...
SF Bay Area.
Just got my green beans in the ground and installed a mickey mouse drip line-soaker hose zip tied to the fence.
Zucchini looking good but probably going to break down and buy cucumber plants.
Supposedly the cooler sub-zone of 5, but I know better! Anything perennial that goes in is rated Zone 3/4, to make sure it survives...and 4 doesn’t always.
Got my carrots, beets, and leeks replanted. Also planted 2 varieties of bush beans & a hill of yellow straight neck. No long season stuff at all is going in.
We even had a lot of winter kill on our established elderberries this winter. very little leafing on a disheartening number of dead branches, but lots of new shoots coming from the roots.
I put in our potatoes around the new moon in early May in high 70s weather; then we got unseasonable heavy snows & a hard freeze, as opposed to frost. Well, today, about 6 weeks later, I counted 22 just coming up, out of the 90+ planted. Thought for sure I had lost all of them.
No gardening this week or next ( I have Sun-Mon off) Tomorrow, we’re driving to Denver for the night—about a 7 hour drive. Monday morning we’ll drop a hyperthyroid kitty at the specialists for a radioiodine treatment, and leave her there for the week of legally required isolation.
We’ll then stop at Lowe’s in Cheyenne on the way home, to pick up the new washer we bought tonight. Ours ground it’s way through it’s last load today, when the transmission began slipping. We’ve had it over 15 years.
Next Sunday, I’ll repeat the trek down, and pick her up that Monday, and bring her home. ~95% chance of full cure with the one treatment. Time & labs will tell. At least it doesn’t seem to be malignant, but a benign tumor that sends her hormone levels literally off the chart. Meanwhile, that same Monday, the wife will be getting a checkup of her own in Rapid City.
Planting has finally started! I’m at least a month behind, but the tilling is finally done, and I’m poking seeds in the ground between rainstorms.
One of the local turtles started planting ahead of me. I was out tilling and spotted her laying eggs in the corner of my field. I marked out the area so they aren’t disturbed. I’m actually rather impressed that she walked so far, my field is at the top of a very steep hill, quite a ways from the river!
My original plan was to camp on my farm so I could get more work done. Heat sickness plus problems with my campsite have put a dent in that plan. I’ll try again after planting is done, but for now I’m working at night and sleeping during the day. I get more done in the cooler temperatures.
I’ve kind of been banning myself from the computer except when it rains, so I probably won’t be around much, even when I’m not camping. Then again, as often as it’s been raining, I might be around enough no one will notice!