Yours!
Theirs!
(Fresno looks hot!)
Posted on 06/26/2021 6:58:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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This is on the coastal Calif Oregon border...
Our controller is a Netro 6-staion, carried by Amazon. You will need a manifold with a 24-volt water valve (Lowes) for each line. I have a pressure regulator feeding the manifold and disconnects on the supply to the manifold and on each valve outlet for draining in the fall.
My waterlines to each bed are 3/4” Schedule 40 pvc, run underground with a riser and manual valve at each bed.
Have fun!
The mulberry tree has fruited.
The birds only got 95%!
I got a full 5%!
Now to fight them over the blackberries...
Love the ease of fruit trees, but short periods of vigilance
are a necessity.
Got two varieties of American plum trees.
One, the birds pick clean of early fruit- the other not so much.
Don’t understand that.
So perfectly beautiful.....looks like an illustrated page out of a magnificent children’s garden book.
Yummily beautiful.
Once on Chopped, a creative chef repurposed rose petals into a seasoning.....blendering the petals into a rose salt.
I’m so glad that HEAT is missing you!
Yours!
Theirs!
(Fresno looks hot!)
American Plums, you could try Maggot barriers. About $12 for 100.
Peaceful valley organic sells them or buy directly from manufacturer. Also https://www.seattletreefruitsociety.com/maggot-barriers
Wanted smaller picture! (I Don’t work for them!)
Thank Diane for your shot... congrats on your promotion!
I though my garden could survive a day and half without me....we have automatic sprinklers every other day plus I hand watered before I left Saturday morning....
garden would be fine, right?....
wrong.....4 pots of potatoes looked absolutely dead....several squash were wilted....it was horrible....we watered the heck out of them hoping to revive them.....hope so....
we're expecting even hotter temps tomorrow....
Found a cool YouTube gardening channel
Search for “Daisy Creek Farms”
the host of the channel is very good
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Sugar and rose petals in the food processor makes a lovely Rose Sugar for tea, too.
Lavender works, and Lemon Verbena Sugar is DA BOMB for tea, IMHO.
As usual, Martha nailed it:
https://www.marthastewart.com/907438/herb-sugar
I could see a Bloody Mary glass rimmed with Basil Salt, or a Mojito Glass rimmed with Mint Sugar. Yay, Summertime!
Will check it out!
The Missouri River at Jeff City went from 9' to 25' in 24 hours. It leveled off ~25.5', but it rained again most of last night and is still raining this morning. There was no time to move machinery etc. out of the river and creek bottoms. Any flooding is bad. Flash flooding is worse.
My victory garden was looking pretty good, but these past few days have been extremely unkind to it. A dang cutworm got one of my butternut squash vines, and everything else (except for the weeds) is about to drown.
This is what it looked like shortly after the deluge stopped Friday evening. The river is overflow from neighbor guy's pond.
The wheelbarrow was empty two hours before this picture was taken.
I spent most of the weekend repairing the lane to my house. I knew the pond drain was going to cause problems after a heavy rainfall, and I'd gotten started working on it, but I was too slow. The overflow got up onto the lane and cut it to base rock. Another spot above the pond is on a very slight incline, but long, ~400'. One track of that was cut to the base rock for 200' or so. I was fortunate to have ~35 ton of inch-base crushed limestone on hand, so was able to make some good progress towards getting the lane back in shape. I'll need another 50 ton or so to make it right.
There's a decent size willow tree down in the pond. It's rooted on neighbor guy's side of the fence on the back side of his pond dam. No way to get a machine in there to drag it out without causing a lot of damage, so I'll have to tie it off on my side of the fence, cut it, then drag it out with the tractor. It will be awhile before it's dry enough to get on the pond dam with a tractor.
The creek totally inundated my bait pond. It was 3' under by the time the rain stopped Friday evening. Went back there with a can of pellets yesterday evening and was pleasantly surprised to find some of the BG/HBG stayed home during the flooding.
Oh, Augie! I’m SO sorry for your troubles! I’ll stop whining about my drought conditions up here. :(
Nice fix on your driveway, though, and I’m glad your fish stayed put! :)
Watched a few of the Daisy Creek Farms videos. Very informative and well done.
A good primer for Newbies on which veggie plants NOT to buy at a nursery...because they are super-easy to grow yourself from seed! $4 for 6 corn seedlings? LOL! What a racket!
Never Buy These 12 Veggie Plants from Nursery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faPfTVWDIi4
Wow those are some amazing pictures. Pretty wet up here in Michigan too.
Glad you liked that YT channel! I found lots of interesting subjects.
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