Half Way Done

Well summer is here and now we are on the downwards slide to fall and *gasp* winter. I know it's coming and I am not looking forward to it. Weather patterns so far this year have been somewhat on the cool side for us and a lot more rain that what we usually get for this time of year. Not that I am complaining too much as I have watered only 2 days all year. So far. Forecast has a chance of rain everyday for the next 6 days. The garden and lawn seem to love it. Just keep away the downpours and we'll be alright.

Cruised the garden this afternoon and I found a few interesting things.

Dug up a red onion. Still not ready.

Romas. They have been ripening a few at a time. I will get about 4-6 every other day. 

Finally got a few cukes to grow. 

Squash is a squash. Actually getting a few off of them this year. 

Brandywine Pink. My favorite tomatoes and I have my eye on this one!

Okra bed. Slow going but it is going. 

These are the Youngest Boy tomatoes. 

Two rows of potatoes came out this afternoon. I wanted to see how they were doing and they actually started getting sprouts. Next weekend the other 4 rows come out. 

Today's harvest of potatoes. Not big but they'll do. I haven't weighed them yet and will do that tomorrow. 

Yesterday's and today's gathering of peppers, tomatoes, & green beans.

Full report of this past weeks' harvest tomorrow.

On another note we have one of those multi- purpose copiers, fax machine, printer, scanner things. Well one of those storms rolled through and cut the power off for a while. Now the main screen on the machine is pretty much illegible to us and we don't know how to turn it back. 

Do svidaniya! comrades. 

TD Suburban Farm Update

Well all is well here on the TD Suburban Farm. Humid as all get out but well as can be expected. Played 18 this morning in sweltering humidity. I hit it well for the limited playing time I get but it's really not that much fun continually wiping sweat and swatting gnats. Nice course if you're ever by. Came home with a good headache and backache. Cool shower, pills and lunch took care of that though.

Suitably rested I decided to tackle some garden chores; Tieing up the tomatoes some more and weeding. If you don't stay on top of them, they'll branch out and take over! But I can say that we have fruit on every one.

Cruised by the peppers and they are exceeding my expectations. They aren't growing tall again this year but are setting peppers left and right. 

Okra planted not too long ago is coming up nicely as are the two cukes. Plated them 6 days ago and I am surprised that the rain we've have didn't wash them away. May have washed away my carrots though. 

Found the beginnings of squash bugs on my squash and probably beetles on my green beans so it's a trip to the store tomorrow. 

April 21st to today.

Watching Moonraker now so a little more, another shower, then off to bed. 

Don't let the squash bugs bite.

OK.......Rain..........And More Rain

So I made the mistake of saying 'Boy, I'm not complaining about it raining." Well I am now. Mind you we all like to see it rain from time to time. Seems like we are getting downpours that last hours. And hours. And hours. It was raining pretty good and Tropical Storm Andrea came up the coast and dumped more. Now that she's gone there still rain forecasted until next Wednesday.

I did have a quick chance to slosh out to the garden and take a look around. 

That's it. My Yellow Crookneck Squash and salvaged Daylily from the old house. 

That's more like it. And one more thing: When did gutters and downspouts become options? Hate not having them but my neighbor gave me a good lead on a cheap guy. 

That's it tonight. Maybe something tomorrow. Oh, changed the header too. 

Stay dry kids. 

Sunday's Work

Finished up everything I wanted to get done on Sunday, even got my golf in :)

I removed all of the pea plants as they were pretty well done. In their place I planted two more cuke plants (seeds actually), some carrots, and some okra. I never have grown okra before so we'll see how this goes.

As you can faintly see from the picture above, I moved the fencing from the pea bed to the bed where my dying cukes are at. I added the landscape fabric to each side, in hopes of blocking some sun. I even  took some soil samples.

PH a little acidic. Nitrogen and Phosphorus pretty much non- existent. Potash in adequate range. Do a little research on this. 

Here's an overall shot of the bed area after I got all of the mulch down. 

It did rain last night and today with a little cooler temperatures. That for some reason gave me a migraine this morning. Felt decent when I got up but then took a big nosedive. Stayed home and I now can see out of both eyes now. Couldn't at 9:00 am.