I got a good stand of sunflower and millet in the wildlife food plot. There's also quite a stand of volunteer turnips.
Still waiting on the garlic to finish. Hubby just planted a bunch of cukes today. The lemons are about the size of olives.
Hope you are all doing well. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
A few related questions I’ve had for a while;
1. What flowers would you suggest to attract Hummingbirds?
2. Would these same flowers also attract bees, and does that put the birds in any danger?
Or have they learned to share the resources?
By the way, Morning Glory vines are coming on strong around here in the Bay Area after that nice wet winter we just had.
Have you guys discussed BioChar at all?
I grew some plants inside for a while when it was still snowing. I looked at the weather forecast and planted them outside last weekend. I put in 5 tomatoes two eggplants and put in seeds for mustard greens collard greens rutabagas, turnips, three varieties of peppers and several rows of beans. Keeping fingers crossed that no more freezes happen and the 10-day forecast looks good. I have some crookneck yellow squash I bought today that I will plant tomorrow. I am missing pole beans to plant, I am planning to plant around the perimeter of my two fenced garden areas and plan for them to climb the fence. Got to find some bean to plant, looked today and did not find any.
It’s been a warm, dry week here in Central Missouri, and very productive for getting things done.
Good neighbor Dave rolled in Wednesday evening and mowed the front pasture. Came back yesterday and put it up in big round bales. The timing was perfect as the grass was in excellent condition for making hay.
His partner rolled in Thursday morning and ran the disc over my pumpkin patch. Got all of the weeds chopped up and covered real nice. I seeded the pumpkins after work on Thursday. Got back in there yesterday evening, set up the mainline for the drip irrigation, ran the dripline for my sweet corn, and got two rows of that seeded. Still have three rows to plant but that won’t take long.
I’m also going to put okra, summer squash, cukes, and butternut squash out there over the next few days.
The pond was dry enough to start work on Monday. I got all of the sticky mud and silt that washed in over the winter out of the basin. I’m going to dig another three feet or so in depth out of that, then it will be time to shoot the elevations and start building the swimming dock. I’ve pretty much decided to use 8” diameter schedule 80 pvc pipe for the pilings. That stuff won’t rot or rust so it should be maintenance free for as long as I’m around to care about it.
Next up this morning is to power wash another section of the deck around Mrs. Augie’s sun room. She’s got stain on everything that’s already been cleaned. It’s definitely looking nicer with some color on the wood.
This past week my wife, son and I picked around 5 gallons of cherries of my two trees. Best crop in years!
I put a couple of small bamboo stakes against the small trellis for the cucumbers. Within three hours one shot a tendril about a foot away and wrapped itself around one of the stakes three times. Simply amazing, how did it know, lol. Thanks all for the hummingbird comments. I had forgotten about the little fellas. I don’t spend much time outside as I did before. On my way now to the Amish nursery, they had a beautiful selection of feeders the last time I was there.
Finished seeding the sweet corn. Put up net fence and seeded the cucumbers and butternut squash. Washed another section of the deck for Mrs. Augie to stain.
Now it’s time to put the tiller away and attach the box blade to Nanner. The pond is waiting.
I’ll get the okra, zucchini, and watermelon planted tomorrow.
It’s still very cool here at night in Massachusetts, but we have a batch of cilantro that volunteered, corn coming up in pots in the front yard, four iris plants waiting for warmer weather to be planted and some heirloom tomato plants sitting on top of the raised planter that Mr. trisham brought home today.
This seems to be a repeat of the unusual late spring and summer that we had last year.
I got a good stand of sunflower and millet in the wildlife food plot. There's also quite a stand of volunteer turnips.
Pictures of the garden, etc., that I took this evening.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1350499918369479&set=pcb.1350506855035452&type=3&theater
Garden is about 6 1/2 feet by 60 feet. Raised bed and the soil is deep and rich and has good drainage so we squeeze a lot in
our first radishes, absolutely love them. Also eating a yellow one from the Ukraine which is my favorite.
We basically have asparagus at the far end, lettuces, red onions, oregano, cilantro, dill, a volunteer melon, kitchen king green beans, broccoli, some head lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, basil, busk pickles, pea pods, cucamelon, Chinese long beans, baby bok choi. 
Also some big pots up around the house, more tomatoes, peppers, green onions, here are just 5 of them
my absolute favorite peony "bowl of beauty"
a big surprise was a golden chain tree, planted over 25 years ago and this year it bloomed, had 25 or so flower chains
also have some more pictures to take yet maybe tomorrow. I'm talking older digital camera, put onto desktop, upload to photobucket and then link to FR. Dinosaur I know.