All I've done lately is pick tomatoes or beans or cukes. I need to pull some weeds but it's way tooooooo hot.

I need to do all the above.
Just did beans
canned 5 more qts of pickles
now going to pick more.

Broke my mower
No large reds to pick yet. Just small ones.

I go out for a few minutes, then run in again.

d

I just went out and took a pic of my little garden..too wet to dig out there.

wish I had tomatoes to pick
I do however have green ones. so I guess they will ripen eventually
Good news is my dad just gave me quite a few, so I am good to go.

I walked along and fertilized everything in the backyard, then took count of my cucumbers. Looks like 14 so far, the biggest is about 2.5 inches.

Your lucky Shani, I am just getting flowers now on my cuke plants..today I dead headed some, need to finish later.

LOL

I could never count mine . Did you see the rows?

dodge

Canned 11.5 so far.
Picked some for supper .

I'm watering the flowers and blueberry bushes.

I added a bag of decomposted peat moss to the blueberries.

I got the cut up branches added to the firewood pile.

I weeded the blueberry patch.

And I got soaken wet lol.

What was the purpose of peat moss on blue berrrys. Mine bear like crazy , an make the robins fattttttttttttt.

Well they aren't growing so I thought they might like some acidic compost.

pulled a few, very few, weeds. It's too hot to pull weeds that seem to love the heat. Dug some potatoes, brought in some tomatoes and green beans. Next year I'm putting out more potatoes.

Today I prepared my very first soil sample. There was a whole lot more to it than I expected.

First was having to clean up my bucket so the sample wouldn't be contaminated. Then rinsing it well for the same reason. Once it and my spade were cleaned I needed to wet the bed where I wanted to take the samples from. It's been completely dry lately and the soil needed to me slightly damp. After that I needed a 6 to 8 inch deep hole. Once I had that I needed to take a 1 inch by 2 inch ribbon of soil from the edge of the hole. My ribbons were all half peat compost and the other half clay.

Once I had them they needed to be mixed up, the clay of course did not want to cooperate. So I screened it and ended up with barely enough soil to fill the sample box. I was really suprised by that. But at least it's done now.

Then came the information soil test sheet. I had to look up soil maps and find my area and then copy the soil codes onto the sheet. That was interesting. I had of course no idea what it all ment but hopefully I'll find out when the test comes back.

So then I put out the newly oiled sprinkler and of course it began to rain. I hope it is enough rain to do some good.

Today I mowed and weed wacked..and deadheaded a whole 5 gallon pail of stuff. What a shame that I can't send seeds over the border.

I took some photos
I really NEED to dead head. if it would cool off or NOT rain once...

Whoohoo, I've got a tomato..the size of my thumb Poor little guy, one tomato growing with 10 plants out there. Why do I garden again?

You know how when it's very hot and dry then it rains container plants give up the ghost. I noticed today that's what happened to a couple of mine...even though I've watered. It rained a lot last night and they're dead today.

Because for you as for the rest of us....Hope springs eternal.

Yep. I keep saying next year I'm taking a break and so far that year hasn't come.

Well between the rain drops I managed to turn two piles of compost. That was hard work but didn't take very long. Now I just have 5 left to do.

Since the lawn in the front and back was hydroseeded, I've been running from back to front moving the sprinklers to get the whole thing watered. It takes all morning!!

Hey deb,

It is worth the effort when it grows..

good luck.

dodge

Yep, sure is better that the dirt already. The back was done about a week before the front but got washed out by some torential rains and had to be hand seeded, but it is coming in. I can't wait to see the haze of green out the front wondows.

I had the same problem in the spring , huge barespot, an I seeded it on a slope.
Rain took them bye bye.
THen I redid. Now It grows grass faster than the rest of my yard.LOL

Cooling effect too.

dodge

I PICKED MY FIRST TOMATO !!!

Isn't that sad????? a month late after all.....

WELCOME TO THE CLUB, I BEEN PICKING RED ONES FOR SEVERAL WEEKS NOW .. AT LAST..

DODGE