morning garden check

[flea]

I donned my bug spray and attacked the garden this morning, early enough that it's hotter in the house than outside. Two houses down they ahve a tree that is very well-placed at this time of year and keeps much of our yard in shade until 7:30/8.
-weeded and mulched veg bed with cow manure. Unfortunately I should have bought 3x as much cow manure as I did. I always do this.
-beets are struggling and have suffered some from rabbits.
-carrots are flourishing and need to be thinned again, but I didn't do it today.
-pole beans are doing well and 3 feet high. A few have been amputated by rabbits but not many.
-zucchini gearing up to take over the world.
-tomatoes all flourishing, also basil
-eggplant seems a little feeble; I mulched it heartily.
-mesclun lettuces still have some life in them, though partly gone to seed.
-picked the last of the peas but did not pull the vines yet.
-have a few shoot of calla lily, one torenia is blooming, and he seocnd wave of lilies is in bud.
-rose is gone by, but clematis still flowering.
-Round-uped the poison ivy thoroughly. Happily it is far from "desirable plants" and pretty far from the garden bed, and it's sunny and not windy so we should be good.
-now watering.

Have headache, whether from water or caffeine deprivation I'm not sure. Which to apply?

Hot. Yuck.

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I was out early spreading weed and feed on the lawn whilst the dew was still on the grass. Squishy feet are so much fun.

I'm trying to decide if I want to go get some tomato plants today. I don't really have a place to put them in the old patch, because the strawberries have run wild in there (homemade strawberries, and soon!). I'd have to dig a new patch, which I don't feel like doing. I have the one potted tomato, but I had to pick the two teeny green tomatoes that had grown to the size of cherries yesterday because they had already rotted. I mean, the farm stand is less than a mile away.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Dude, homegrown tomaties are worth it, you know that! You can eat them warm standing in the yard! And you can do fun heirlooms your farm stand may not sell. Maybe pop a small hole or two in the midst of the strawberries and tuck them in? Then you get instant mulching. And if the strawberries are that vigorous, the loss of one or two won't be a big sacrifice.

You post of yesterday has me wanting Dunkies. Actually anytime anyone mentions Dunkies I want some.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

You're not supposed to plant tomatoes and strawberries together (or even in a spot where there were tomatoes two or three years ago) for some reason. At least that's what it said on the box of strawberry plants (which I didn't read after I'd planted them next to the tomatoes). Shrug. Maybe I can just dig a few holes in the bulb patch. (Of course, I just spread herbicide on the entire rest of the lawn.)

There don't appear to be any Dunkies in San Francisco, either, which means I was stuck with Starbucks. Well, until they closed the one next to the hotel. Le sigh.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

On a completely different note, I thought you ought to be aware of this:

http://www.livescience.com/environment/060530_poison_ivy.html

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

mr. flea has been taunting me with this for 2 days now, the taunter!