Posted on 05/06/2023 5:31:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Black light flashlights are GREAT for finding tomato hornworms in late evening/night. Their white patches glow under black light and it’s far easier to find them then.
Scorpions also glow un der black light. I got my black light flashlight at Wal-Mart.
I am trying a new cuke called “munchers”. I mostly grow them for picking you for pickles anyway.
That’s wonderful that you grow fruit trees.
I would not even try it here LOL
My wife got one of those. I’m the tiny detail guy.
Lied about waiting to fall to plant - found volunteer Banana tree plants that need transplanting. Fun! Fun!
Still holding out on the vegetables until later...
Hey I bought one of those a few years ago. Works great.
The yellow iris are spectacular!
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Very nice! Do you use a cover? How do you keep the deer away?
Gorgeous evening. Everything (fields, pastures, yard, entrances) is mowed - looks like a park & smells like fresh mown hay.
Finally made it to the garden:
ALL dahlias are up - yay!
Despite the cool weather, I have a little tomato on one of my Celebrities.
Radishes are up as are my onion sets.
Sugar snap peas were a tangled mess, grabbing on to each other - straightened them out a bit & got the various tendrils headed for different parts of the trellis.
None of the tomatoes or peppers look like they have sunburned at all - yay again!
Spent some time making room for the mower in the garage instead of out in the pole barn - will be easier to take care of & totally protected from the weather. The battery maintainer is also easier to access & connect/disconnect.
All in all, a very productive & satisfying day.
This bed is up close to the house. I do have a big roll of deer netting and bamboo poles leaning against the house just in case...
So far, the only thing I have up on this part of my lawn is armadillos looking for grubs. They tear up the lawn but have not gone in the bed. Yet?
Jack hammered a sidewalk out today as the first step in my subterranean irrigation planter project. There might be an age limit on this sort of work that I exceeded today... Hopefully no one noticed but me.
Good luck! Nice bed of greens!
(I think the Pythian Priestesses at the Delphic Oracle were given ergot in their food.)
Aw. A fresh litter of kittens here and the Catahoula is their second momma. She’s been spayed and at 15 months, still a puppy herself.
Nice.
That Napa cabbage makes for some good Kimchee and sweet ferments.
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