Yep, Will got the solar powered golf cart working for me. I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate that and use it every single day. Yes, I do walk and exercise all the time. After all, how did four and a half acres get planted by hand? Maybe that’s why my knees hurt so much? Oh well, it’s about done now, except for some sweet corn I think I’ll have to replant. As it was so dry, I planted it in the moister parts of the gardens. Then we got 2½ inches of pouring rain. And another 2 inches, then a little more. Now those areas are soggy and I’m thinking the corn seeds simply rotted in the ground, due to the excess moisture.
Then there’s the carrots. I planted them when it was dry, and there was a forecast for rain soon. It did rain — .003 of an inch. Then it got dry again. I think they germinated on the rain’s moisture and then dried out and died. Gotta plant those again too.
Oh well, the pumpkins and squash look fantastic as do most of our beans. The peppers in the field look better than those in the hoop houses. It’s been so very hot, they kind of sat there while the weeds jumped up. Of course, at 110 F in the hoop houses, I sure couldn’t go in and weed them. Now there’s a big job, just waiting for me now that it’s cooled off again.
On the way home from mailing seeds at the post office, I stopped to take pictures of the Pink Lady Slipper bed I love. There weren’t as many as usual. But those that were blooming were simply gorgeous.
Our cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower plants look simply gorgeous this year after kind of a puny start. I’ll be planting them this afternoon as it’s cooled down and gotten cloudy following last night’s gentle rain. It sure feels good to be back in “normal” action again!
— Jackie
We’re hoping to scrounge up a zuke plant – something, likely a rabbit (no foot prints), chomped the blossom on the not that healthy looking zuke plant. I’ll be 65 come next garden season so I have plans.
Is it just the angle or is Buffy looking a bit chonky? She is too cute for her own good. We’re in keeping an eye on our one rescue – he’s a bit of an even more hot mess of health issues. We’ll not let him suffer but we’ll not put him through treatment that does not have more than a six to eighteen month survival rate. It is heart breaking but at least we could afford a diagnosis and to keep him from suffering. But I know (better half will get there) after he’s joined our other feline/canine family at the Rainbow Bridge, another will need a furever home.
Will be but a few weeks before we’ll dig our first tater plant (better half learned his lesson last year re: being impatient). The first planting was getting ready to flower when something consumed the buds.
For like the third year, nary a scape on the garlic. It won’t be long before it is ready to harvest.
Oh, hearing some thunder – weather app shows chance of rain for the next 8 days. Have the lids off the compost bins and crossing my fingers.
It is still stinkin’ hot so any strawberries that ripened over these past 3+ days are a no-go. The berries need some heat but not a scorcher.
I’ve yet to see a use for AI that is a long term benefit to society. And frankly, avoiding AI is my goal. I’ll take actual intelligence, skill, knowledge, and common sense any day of the week.
Did another stealth stock up Sunday night. Errand bundling tomorrow with add a bit more to the pantry. I can tell things are getting tight – grocery store in a upper middle class area is marking down hamburger (of a quality far better than Wally or Aldi) as well as other cuts of meat besides steak. Better half couldn’t pass up alleged thick cut bacon the store was dang near giving away. Thick cut it was not but after 1.5+ hours of productive weeding, it hit the spot with gifted home raised eggs.