What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Hunting JBs is on my list of things to do, every day, for the next 6-8 weeks. Free chickie snack

You just made me realize that our chickens may just help with the beetles. Duh, why did I think of that, they like to roam around the back under the Crepe Myrtles and blackberries where there is usually a hoard of bugs.

 

[dirkandlorie]

The rattlesnake beans just found the trellis.

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And the Blue Lake beans are vining too, in spite of their onion and shallot neighbors.

I saw the first snake of the year making a home next to one of the beds. I didn't get a close look, but it was probably a garter snake.
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Well dang! Now I have to check my beans with a stick cuz I sure ain't sticking my hand in their anymore!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Cucumber picking, horn worm hunting and cleaning out chick brooder box.
I had put deep litter in it and found grubs and maggots on bottom in 2 places! Eww. The chicks loved them! I put just a couple inches of litter in this time!
I’m glad the horn worms returned bc chickens love them so!
This is white currant volunteer tomato plant. Grows like a weed here.

If you have a blacklight, go out at night and shine it on your tomatoes. The hornworms glow. Take a jar to put them for your chickens breakfast!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I will not use OFF on my skin. Or sunblock, for that matter. I wear a loose fitting long-sleeved crew neck T-shirt, and a wide brimmed hat with a bug net over it.

I get bitten on occasion, like on the back of my hand today, by a deer fly. I'd like to try the vanilla essential oil suggestion, but first I have to find some vanilla essential oil.

I ordered Nuturobliss off of Amazon it was 8.99 for a 4 oz bottle. It was the cheapest I found. So far it has worked for me. I like the smell of vanilla, but apparently mosquitoes do not.. hoping it stays that way!

 

[WthrLady]

Some of the rural PO carriers use their own vehicle. They just cut the maintenance allowance
Finance https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2024/pb22660/html/info_002.htm

All ours do. And the vehicles are in terrible condition. No heat, no AC, bad tires, barely road worthy. I'd gladly go back to just picking up mail once a week at the post office if they'd just do it. I don't get anything but professional magazines and junk anyway.

Our rural routes are brutal in the winter.

 

[WthrLady]

Now you did it. Got me started on the shippers transferring shipments to the USPS for final delivery, don’t know what genius came up with that recipe but it’s truly a recipe for ……disaster.
How does this generally go? The shipper, whoever, sends your package to five different locations(passing right over your address at least two or three times), then hands it off to the USPS to be mis-delivered or worse simply lost into the ethersphere, or worse yet stolen.

WOW. we don't get UPS or FedEx on Saturdays even, and NOTHING on Sundays. I know there are city deliveries for those trucks on Saturday and sunday. Actually, here, USPS uses UPS for deliveries, at least they use their planes under contract to haul mail and packages.

 

[chickengr]

Didn't do much in the garden today. Apps say it's 88, feels like 93 which is 10 degrees cooler than we've been... But it still feels stifling hot to me.

Mowed about 80% of the overgrown front pasture very early this morning before I ran out of gas. Not sure where DH hid the diesel so I guess we'll finish it later tonight. I kept getting pelted by grasshoppers trying to avoid getting massacred. Ugh... I hate grasshoppers. They are all over inside my hoop house too... I have yet to find anything that gets rid of them either.... Other than chickens, which are NOT allowed in the garden...so....

try guinea fowl. they are more interested in bugs.

 

[chickengr]

Cucumber picking, horn worm hunting and cleaning out chick brooder box.
I had put deep litter in it and found grubs and maggots on bottom in 2 places! Eww. The chicks loved them! I put just a couple inches of litter in this time!
I’m glad the horn worms returned bc chickens love them so!
This is white currant volunteer tomato plant. Grows like a weed here.

I am fighting to keep currants alive! those I planted last year all died.

 

[Paz]

My purslane crop. When I harvest some tomorrow I'll just trim a few leafy stems from each plant so they continue growing.

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Yummy

 

[Paz]

Now you did it. Got me started on the shippers transferring shipments to the USPS for final delivery, don’t know what genius came up with that recipe but it’s truly a recipe for ……disaster.
How does this generally go? The shipper, whoever, sends your package to five different locations(passing right over your address at least two or three times), then hands it off to the USPS to be mis-delivered or worse simply lost into the ethersphere, or worse yet stolen.

It all comes here into the mail office. Need to walk three kilometers to the mail office to pick up boxes. Better than having them lost. I ordered something from England, and the guy Emailed me about Royal Mail not shipping to me location, which is bullshit, royal mail website says it does… and I have to pay extra 56£ for the delivery now, and it’s also going to be mailed to the post office…