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beef stew from a can.
..Time to see about lunch.
The strong storms really didn't occur. A hard rain in the late hours. My rain buckets full again for the flower-planters.
More rain this afternoon . (They say..) Sure has been a wet and cool summer. Today may get to 90F, first time in 2-years. (In Milwaukee)...We've hit 90 at least once or twice every year inland.
I started with a 5-horse front-tine tiller, the ground here is rocky. Eventually the tiller just plum wore-out, very little compression made it too hard to start.
About that time I was having severe joint issues and gave up gardening for a while. When I decided I needed more exercise, pain or not..I resumed gardening, turning soil a few gardening pitchfork at a time. (Not tilling had allowed the nightcrawler's to flourish!) Nowadays I used a small electric cultivator, in areas I want the soil looser, deeper..I use the fork.
Nap time! ..LOL.
Yeah. Likely to be a little action later, but nothing big for us.
Its raining softly, mebbe later, OK?
...not to mention going along with the mower, and having rocks they've unearthed go ZINGING towards my truck, car or patio-windows.
Youknow, come to think of it, mine (The weather app) messed-up a couple weeks ago. I deleted it from the toolbar and re-did it. Working good now, maybe thet did some kind of update that messed it up for awhile.
I'm not sure about the Roma's, but I believe all the other tom's are indeterminate. Most especially the cherry tom's, they will still produce after just about everything else is frost-killed.
Yep. And they are cute. But they aren't kidding about the "Extensive Burrows" part.
They have already undermined and shifted a 6'X12' section of our concrete patio slab, chewed holes into the garage...even were trying to gnaw the underside of the bay off the kitchen.
So far, they elude efforts to livetrap them.
Thanks. I kinda would like a bigger one, so's the plants are further apart. But then I'd need more equipment and have more weeding, lol.
Sort of. True Chipmunks have a bushier-tail.
These have a longer body, longer more narrow tail. (And more stripes)...They have had a population explosion here. (Due in part to our birdfeeders.)
Yes indeed. Carpet-cleaning, NO-fun.
(I've only had ONE dog smart enough to find vinyl flooring when that happens.)
Hi Larry. Got ahold of my first greenbeans today. (Bushbeans) My pole beans aren't ready quite yet. (Kentucky Wonders) Polebeans haven't hit the top of the pole yet, prolly won't make beans 'till they do.
...And the birds like them too, I've caught 'em at it. Next year they get netting over the top.
Most of the stuff, if you keep pests away from the tender shoots, as they mature bunny's/deer leave them alone.
Now I have a striped ground squirrel in and among my tomatoes. If I can't livetrap him/her, there will be lots of damaged tomatoes and cucumbers.
Yep. I've look at the movement, see that it appears the Lake I want to fish will be in a clear-pocket. Then go and fish. Worst thats happened is a little-sprinkle as we are leaving the lake.
YEP! Alot of his stomach troubles are over, in addition to his regular dog food, I give him cooked rice with fresh bits of vegetables (Or fresh-frozen)..just blanched in the water to a boil, then add the rice. I tryed that because it's bland-diet, he likes it alot, so we eliminated other dog treats, and that's his 'Treat' instead. He gets really-Super excited when it's fresh from the garden, LOL, he can tell.
I put it in my favorites toolbar.
That's the accuweather I use most. Great for sat-pics, really good hourly predictions, as long as you don't look too far ahead.
(Usually 3-4 hours ahead is RIGHT-spot-on.)
The storm that was supposed (100% chance of T-storms) never occurred at 1:00pm. Now they forcast around 5pm onward.
The eastward part kinda dissipated, the biggest part went north. Maybe we will luck out, most of it missing us. Hope so.
When I went to check stuff outside, I found the greenbeans were ready for the first pickin'. Had those for lunch, good beans.
...Laser likes them raw or cooked!
...naptime, I think...
Yep. Even with chicken-wire, pests still got in.
If your not using the white kohlarabi, try the seeds marked 'Grand Duke', in full sunlight. Too much clay, perhaps?..add sand and/or loamy topsoil.
Picked the first bushbeans today, had them at lunch.
Our tomatos are getting ready. Many of the cherry/grape have good-sized clusters ready to ripen. The Roma's are lemon-sized, slicer's (Early-girl, better-boy and beefsteak) have a few tennis-ball sized, and lots of smaller clusters. Lots of blooms on all of them. Largest green pepper is about 2 1/2". The eggplants are under attack, but have been producing fruits for 3-weeks.
Zuchinni have been harvested 3-times.
Kolirabi 3rd crop doing well, about to seed somemore. The Peas were annihilated by pests.
Your welcome.
The Deer have sampled the sunflowers when they were shorter, (the flowers, not the deer.) they seem to leave them be, now.
In about 3-4 hours, we are going to get hammered by another storm system. 100% chance by 1pm.
Put some stakes or bamboo poles inline with the bean-row, but avoiding 'spearing' the roots. 5 foot or better poles. You can 'train' the beans to the pole with cotton string, tie the string to the pole just above the plant..gently wrap string around the runner-vines the plants grow out. They will follow the string and wrap around the pole.
You can tie short-bits of string or twine above that if you like, this helps secure the beans against high-winds/storms dislodging the plants. It's my belief that picking often, increases the yield.
Also, if you have the oriental-beetles...they LOVE the leaves of the beans and can strip the folage in a week or so.
They tend to hit the top of the plants, I lightly dust the top leaves (Dry leaves) with insecticide-dust, at dusk..after the bee's have gone. I have had to do that 2-3 times so far.
Hope this helps.
...Ha! Good work. I followed an animal-control guy once. He barely went a block then released the raccoon into a field. I never called 'em again.
...Got my part of the mowing done. Shelley's been helping-out most of the summer.
Now to see about 'what's for Lunch.'
Yep. Winds below 50mph, big-deal...above that, make sure your ready to shelter.
...At or above 60-65mph, I'm ready to wake Shelley and head downstairs.
We've only done that once in the 20-some years we've lived here.
Yep, coons are the second reason I quit growing corn. And they for SURE know when it first ripens. The other reason I don't raise corn is space. Unless your planting them with beans. (Nature's BeanPole)
Get a live trap, bait it with fish heads or sliced strawberrys. Those two baits they can't resist.
Then you have a choice, do I 'take care of this here?'...or transport them elsewhere and they become someone else's problem.
The slicer-tomatoes are in somewhat better shape. (I think..) I'm gonna check.
The tomatoes here are good-sized, but all green yet.
I've only 1 wierd-looking broccoli that a friend donated. Nothing edible on it yet. (Looks like a big lawn-pricker-plant.)
The birds and rabbits found the chickenwire fence to be no trouble to scale, and as a result (I planted three-times) there will be few or NO peas this year. The bushbeans must not be as tasty, they only wrecked 1/3rd of those.
...That was yesterday's pic...I'm afraid to look today!...But they will probably be mostly OK.
Yep. Eventually almost all salmon come closer to shore. Some to feed, other's looking for a way inland, up rivers to spawn.
Sometimes for whatever reason the DNR has, they don't open the locks on some rivers and the fish have NO way to get upstream. When this happens, they allow 'Snagging'...involves a heavily-wt treblehook cast across the stream and quickly-violently reeling it back. I did it once, didn't seem sporting so I never went again. (But I did enjoy the two 40+" salmon that I caught and smoked!)
You are in for a REAL-Treat! 'Specially Salmon, they fight hard!