Friday!! Can’t believe we’ve stampeded through another week!
This morning I put Emma onto a plane 🙁 as she flew home to warmer climates! Was lovely having her here the extra couple of weeks! Bonus!
Since I was awake, I got outside and worked my way through a list of garden tasks.
First up I decided that the cabbage patch would be a good spot for my butternut pumpkins. Not so much weeding to do since the seaweed kept the main weeds from running amok!
Lots of nice fat worms everywhere!
Because I was trying to be frugal with my mushroom compost, I haven’t covered the entire plot. Just dug a hole where each seedling was to be planted and filled with a generous amount of it.
Nine is a good start…
They got a good watering then covered for the evening.
I am still in love with my garlic this season 🙂
Got in with the snippy things and took all the scapes off the purple early garlic – Thanks to Elizabeth from Upstate NY for mentioning it to me last season about taking the scapes off for better bulb production! I hadn’t known!
I left one cabbage to continue to flower. They were such nice cabbages I’d like to get the seed from them.
Jeff did a fabulous job weeding this bit the other day. I have now turned it into the second corn patch. The first one is going soooo slow!
Apparently you can transplant potatoes… 😀 (I honestly didn’t think it would appreciate being moved at all!!)
Speaking of potatoes… time to weed the main patch!
Still no seaweed, so no mulch yet! 🙁
I fed the raspberries some of my kelp juice today – they are just humming! So good to see bees everywhere!
The Euro-Plum seems to be doing well… fruit still attached so thats a positive!
And the cherry plums! Wow… just a crazy amount of fruit there!
Checked out the laterals that I popped in the water 10 days ago! Roots everywhere! (Now to find a new tomato plot!)
I finished up the day by going over to the Dark Side and putting some snail bait around the strawberries. I have been hand picking slugs and snails at night – that are incidentally crawling straight over the crushed eggshell to guts the fruit!! Time… just didn’t want to spend the time working out other methods right now.
Anyway, guilt factor aside, I hope there are lots of slimy things out there writhing in their death throes!!
I did a lot of watering today too.
Emma planted sunflowers, marigolds and some other surprise flower seeds for me, so they will be fun to watch pop up! Just got to keep them watered!
Watering could become a full time job over summer! Maybe its time to learn how to install a watering system?? Got all the bits and bobs… just have to DO it!
Hope you have a fabulous weekend planned!
Cheers!
