What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Getting smoke from Canada. Did a lot outside yesterday due to cooler temps. I think I got all the poison hemlock this year. Now trying to get rid of all the button weed / velvet leaf. Mowed some more and pulled more weeds. Did some bud grafting.

 

[chicken opey]

I'm still jealous of each of you that even mentions rain being in the forecast.

I anticipate that our next rain will be in November. October if we're lucky.

However, it has been fairly mild here this summer. Our nighttime lows have only reached the 60's during that heat wave we had in May. And maybe a total of four 60°nights since then. It's currently 7:32am and it's 52° outside.

My garden is going extra wild. I need to take time out there to prune, train, and fertilize. I fertilized some things with the watering can and liquid fertilizer on Wednesday. But everything needs a dose of the dry stuff. Cottonmeal blend or the bio live meal blend.

Tomatoes are really starting to ripen in force now. I will be processing a bunch this weekend.

Got a load of peaches yesterday and started up the freeze dryer for peaches, raspberries and a tray of the volunteer tomatillos. We are keeping busy!

If I could figure out how to share the rain w you I would! I live in a desert for a few years and we only got rain in November. It flooded all roads too. Then no rain till next November

 

[chicken opey]

At the beginning of this year I bought 50, 6 foot bamboo stakes for I think it was $80 and thought it was a good deal. Well 2/3 of them are so badly cracked and split that it is basically unusable outside of potting soil or very loose raised bed soil. They will still get used eventually so it’s not like they are useless but it is still annoying when it decides to split in half while you are pushing it into the ground View attachment 4187957View attachment 4187958View attachment 4187960

We tried to harvest and cure our own. We made a trellis that lasted 2 seasons then fell apart. These people who claim bamboo is the strongest must have some hybrid type or something