The weather guessers took a big swing and miss over the Memorial Day weekend here in Central Missouri. They were calling for thunderstorms pretty much the entire weekend. We got a little sprinkle on Sunday, then an evening deluge that lasted about 30 minutes yesterday. Aside from that, it was mostly clear and hot all weekend.
I went fishing all day Saturday, and took Mrs. Augie and one of her girlfriends boat riding on the Gasconade River on Sunday. Mrs. Augie and I went to the local nursery and picked up some pepper plants yesterday. Spent several hours working in the garden after we got home from the nursery.
I got a dozen of the tomato plants transferred from their pots into the ground. I took them out of the starter cells and put them in gallon pots right after I bought them the first week of May. The ground was too cold and wet to set them out until a few days ago. They filled the pots with roots and I stuck them neck-deep in the dirt so they ought to take off like crazy now. I need to buy some straw bales and put the cages up, and I have eight more that need to be planted.
Still need to transplant the peppers, but the ground will need to dry out for a day or two before I can do that.
The cucumbers are starting to pop up finally. They didn’t like the cold and wet that came right after I planted them. The butternut and turk’s turban were planted on hills the same day the cuke seeds went in - they popped right up and are looking good.
Pictures of 'The Big Dig' of this past week later, today. Gotta take my Basset Hound to the Vet. She somehow hurt her neck (probably falling off of her throne; Princess Isabella Barkalini) and she needs some meds and a checkup. She and I are getting old, lumpy, and falling apart at the seams, together. ;)
