Big, big day yesterday!
Ripped up the sugar snap peas that something is nipping the tops off of - left some cheerful, but unpalatable marigolds in that spot!
Both 3x6 galvanized beds are weeded & mulched where there previously had been none. These beds have the new marigolds, onions (white, red & yellow), red bell pepper, Giant Marconi, & a Diva cucumber. The red bell had two green peppers & something had chewed on one - doesn’t look like a bird. I may end up putting netting around them.
Finally got to the tomatoes. Weeded the bed, then cut off anything touching the pine mulch & some more lower branches that won’t be producing to get better air flow. I had to tie up 2 branches already on 1 of the Celebrities. Instead of trying to take off the existing pine needle mulch, since it has flattened out a lot, I just put weed barrier fabric down on top & added more pine needles on top of the fabric, which should work just fine. All the tomatoes have little tomatoes growing. Bumble bees were very busy pollinating the blooms while I was working🙂
In the late afternoon, I started back on getting the PU cap off. I was told it was a “two man” job. Well, one determined woman, with some ‘skills’ (thank you, dad) can do it too! Cap is off - now I can haul bigger loads without incurring back spasms from being bent over under that cap.
Out a little later than I wanted to be this morning, but I have a sick family member who needed tending. Doing better, so I got out & weeded my jalapeño pepper bed. As I have been weeding, I have been doing a deep watering.
Last is a bed that has bunch & regular onions. All the radishes are pulled, so I will probably plant more. In this warm weather, they’ll be up in a hurry.
More wood chips need hauling for garden walkways, but that will be this evening when the sun isn’t so hot (smoke haze has cleared!). I think I will work on the extension for the herb bed - can saw & construct in the shade of the garage.
It’s a beautiful morning - sitting in the shade of some big old cedar trees, taking a break. A small woodpecker just landed on one of the trees, not 6’ away. Chatty little fella!
The woodpeckers here generally seem to just yell at me, when I get to close to where they’re pecking. Squirrels too if I’m close to where they’re eating or collecting acorns or hickory nuts off the trees. Sometimes they pelt me with hickory nut shells.
Got a lot of Mocking birds this year including one who mocks the cat. It’s the funniest thing because the cat gets mad, lays down on top of paws, pulls in head and scowls. Even more so when I LOL at him.