Oh boy - went out to the garden this morning to check on things. Since Thursday night, we’ve had 2 inches of rain. Friday was cloudy with off/on showers. Saturday maybe a light shower in the am, but mostly damp, dreary, high of 72. The sun was out this morning - yay!!
Back to the garden - I had a mild panic attack - it is out of control! The grass/weeds around & in the walkways must have grown an inch or two. That’s the “bad”. On the “good”, my marble-sized tomatoes are now the size of golf balls, maybe even a little larger! My teensy weensie cucumber (first one), is mow the size of a large pickle. The bell peppers have started blooming. All of the flowers are growing - i would say 1-2 inches. The Giant Sunflowers are really getting big. My climbing vines are job #1 - getting major “haircuts” to keep them reasonably on the trellises. Job #2, that I have just completed, was spraying the weeds/grass around the beds & in the walkways. The sun being out should help the spray work (plus I add a squirt or two of Dawn).
I can’t mow around the garden since I’ve sprayed, but the yard is ankle deep in clover (lots of honey bees - more than bumble this year, so that’s great)- will get mowed this evening or tomorrow. Fields will be tomorrow when I’m not making muddy tracks. I have some steps to our generator shed to replace - made out of rocks that are an uneven surface. During the ice storms this winter, I felt like I was going to break my neck every time I had to use them. Today is a good day to take care of that issue & replace with a flat surface - I keep some gardening stuff in there too, so good steps will be safer.
Going to be a busy day, but hey ..... the sun is out & the garden is happy :-)
I have an old hoe that was my Dad’s. It was used for so long that it got smaller and the edge is super sharp. If I use it when the weeds are tiny it works fast, just scrapes them out of the ground - like a shave job. I need to do it every couple of days but it doesn’t take long.
Ugh! Weeds! Talked with Beau about that, last night. I am going to hand-weed the four rows of potatoes, which will be a relatively easy job, but he’s promised to run the small tiller between all the other rows/hills when he gets back from fishing.
Fishing isn’t going very well this time around. They caught better fish (Walleye and Northern) here in Wisconsin earlier this spring, but they still have a week to go.
Which reminds me - got to thaw some fillets for Fish Tacos this week. Yum! :)