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We’ve been working on planting native plants on our property. It’s appalling the number of invasives this property is over run with.
Yet what do I find but 3 healthy "volunteer" plants about as big as some of the seedlings that spent 5 weeks under grow lights! Hardy, praise God.
Below are pics, along with the results of a recent adaptation, for the most important work of sharing the gospel, and warning the unrepentant unconverted. To be seen by multitudes at events. Thank God for His race and truth. File under "crafts."
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!
Good morning! Love those zinnias. I don’t get enough direct sun to grow them. Finally got my tomatoes planted; sowed seeds of basil and green beans. The basil came up right away. The beans will take longer. Sadly, the lettuce has bolted already. It tasted good and looking forward to fall crop.
Do you have any suggestions for getting rid of white fly? The rose bushes are covered with them and I’m afraid of losing the plants.