July, 10, 2020

Water Hyacinth -- July 3

Ready to divide into two.

Now it's two, and spreading.

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We are eating squash now, These are volunteer hybrids.

And, our pullets are laying eggs.  

Second time for Summer Scramble

I enjoy picking small, perfect, pretty squash, until we have too many.  With some extra I made a batch of zucchini bread and put some slices in the freezer.  The sliced work well when making scramble in the winter.

June 22, 2020

Water Hyacinth

Day 1

                                    Day 11 It's doubled in size

June 16, 2020

The garden is all planted.  The corn, especially those first two rows, aren't making a good stand.  Jim had to replant the okra, none came up.  He also replanted cucumbers, zucchini and yellow summer squash, because only half the hills came up.  The spinach did badly.  I only have one plant.  I have four heads of lettuce coming on.  I wish there was more.  Our beets are doing excellently well, having been eaten off by rabbits, the last two years.  Our potatoes and tomatoes are both doing well, as well as the beans, which will as usual, prove too many.  I still have two gallons of frozen beans left. I think the cold weather we had in the middle of April may have been the reason for non-productive seeds.

We've been having a spell of very windy weather.  This is really a more normal weather pattern for us. A few years ago, we had three summers without much wind.  It felt strange at first, but it was a very pleasant change.  We seem to be back the way we were, and are as aggravated as ever with so many days of 30 mph wind.  I think it's windier than usual.  I say that we don't consider it a windy day around here until the wind reaches 25 mph. 

Jim bought me a water hyacinth the other day.  I want to take pictures as it grows.  It grows fast and and enjoy watching it. It's that tiny plant in the smaller area in the pond.

April 25, 2020

We bought a yellow tomato plant, some red and white petunias, and some snapdragons.  I intended to plant them today, but after we spent all morning cleaning out the garage, I was too tired. 

Jim has to switch the tires on the tractor so the wheel track is wider when he plants sweet corn with his cute little 2-row planter.  He planted 2 short rows of sweet corn today, below the asparagus bed.

April 18,, 2020

We had our freeze and then a warm-up.

I worked in the flower garden and wore myself out.

My scillas looked pretty bad after the freeze, but they perked up a little after it warmed up.

More snow -- April 16

It snowed ALL day. Quite a bit melted as it came.

The morning after.

April 13, 2020

Saturday the 11th, was a beautiful, sunny, non-windy, almost hot day.  

Jim worked in the garden all day planting early vegetables, 

carrots, beets, peas, lettuce, spinach and potatoes. 

We need to remember it takes 5# of seed potatoes for one row.

We didn't get some of the varieties of seed we usually get, the seeds were well picked over by the time we bought ours. 

I spent my almost hour cleaning up and weeding my flower beds.  I work until I start getting tired and then take my cart full of vegetation to the compost pile. 

I also picked a lot of daffodils since a freezing cold snap was expected.

Today we woke up to a 17 degree morning.  

I haven't looked out to see what has survived.  

Here are some before photos.

My pile of daffys

And in pint jars.  My favorite flowers.

April 6, 2020

Today was a the first really nice day in April.  It was especially so, because of the lack of wind.  

It's the first time I was out cleaning the flower gardens in April.  I picked all the daffodils that were out.  They seem late, but we had a hard freeze that did the hyacinths in.  

My scillas are blooming as well as the creeping charlie and hen bit.  I'm hoping to be out early enough to curb some of those. (not the scillas)  I take boiling water and scald the ones in the brick garden walk.

Jim planted onions this weekend, and mowed for the first time today. He also extended our sidewalk with rock.  

April 3