I am hot-footing it this morning. It’s 9am and already 80 degrees - heading to 94 for this Independence Day!
I have until about 10am before the sun hits my main garden, so I’m going out to water right away.
That may be all I get accomplished outside today. Seems like a day well-suited to Air Conditioned indoor chores.
I dried laundry on the line yesterday - with the heat it took about 20 minutes for things to dry!
My garden IS looking lovely now that things are popping. I’ll post some pictures later and count that as another ‘indoor chore.’ ;)
Beau and six of our thirteen dogs went Up Nort’ Friday for Bear Training season. You can chase them around, but no shooting for now, and you make sure your trails are mowed and all of your bait stumps are filled with yummy stale donuts and leftover fish fry oil. Yumsters! (I should put that recipe on the Monthly Food Thread, LOL!)
I saw a few Fireworks from the front porch last night. A huge RED spider-y one which are my favorites. All family events have been cancelled on BOTH sides of the family, so I don’t have any food to prep, so that’s actually kind of a nice change of pace for me. Beau hates Mexican food, so I will survive on Tacos and Enchiladas and Taco Salad while he’s away this week. I’ll MAKE the sacrifice of NOT cooking THREE full meals a day. ;)
I’m ‘officially’ on VACATION! YAY!
Love Mt Rushmore!! Best President eva!
“Corn is as high as an elephant’s eye?”
Or
“Knee high by the Fourth of July?”
I started more lettuce, yellow squash, parsley, okra and bush beans.
Probably too late and chilly for okra here but might be able to squeeze another crop of the rest in.
I’m going to plant the squash in a brand new are and hopefully they’ll make. I haven’t been able to grow yellow squash in years. Zucchini and cucumbers out the ears but yellow squash drop off before they make.
Thanks for the ping. Nice GIF. I am enjoying the White House tribute to America and the interesting display and history of the airplanes. Nice sunny day-which I have totally taken off from all work or anything resembling work.
BBQ grill has the bottom rusted out-it was a cheap one from Walmart, but has lasted for about 25 years. So I’m researching for a new one. We don’t have a lot of space for a new one.
I want to be able to grill, smoke, bake. I’d like to have capability to use regular wood, charcoal, or propane. LOL I don’t think they make such a thing all in one. I thought about getting a green egg—but they are too expensive, and don’t use regular wood/charcoal.
So today we have purchased already cooked bbq brisket—which means no work, but not nearly as delicious as something fresh off the grill.
Winter Rye has been harvested, and is drying in the green house. Two volunteer tomatoes are about 4 ft. high and have green tomatoes. Hubby’s tomatoes that he started indoors also have green tomatoes. Still hungering for the fresh ripe ones.
Lettuce has bolted. Should have already planted some more in the shade. Corn is about 4.5 foot high. Strong winds blew some it down to a 30 degree angle. So, I used some tomato cages and metal poles to loosely tie them back up.
This is just a small patch of Evergreen Corn. It used to be pulled up-roots and all before maturity, and hung to finish maturing-and providing fresh corn for months. I plan to plant a couple of small patches of corn in the now vacant Rye beds.
One is popcorn with maturity of 70 days. The other is little giant with maturity of 55 days. I’ll plant the popcorn first and then wait a couple of weeks to plant the little giant in the other bed.
Hubby planted a type of corn that is not as tall as usual, and has more than 2 ears per stalk. We’ll see how that goes.
I had some midget melon seeds that I tried to start from 2016, but none of them germinated. So I pitched them at the edge of the compost heap-now I have a bunch of little plants all too close together. Going to have to thin them out. Ha.
Tumeric is looking good—it makes such a spectacular plant. I really hate to harvest it in the fall. It would be so beautiful in a pot indoors-if it would last over the winter-but last year it got so big I really didn’t have room indoors, and it didn’t last the winter in the greenhouse. So I don’t know if it would last indoors or not. So I’ll go a head and harvest most of it-will save the smallest one to bring indoors for the start of next year’s plant.
Basement walls are up for the storage shed/root cellar. Hoping to pour the floor next week. Due to some much needed rain, it was too muddy to do the floor this week. Lumber should be delivered after the floor is finished—we ordered it early enough to avoid the price increases.
Our swimming pool developed a leak, and the water for our garden drained out. We don’t like to use the water from the well for the gardens-so we are at the mercy of the weather this year.
That’s it from our little one acre home and gardens. Have a great weekend everyone. God Bless.
Well, I managed to kill off the Rosemary plant by over-watering. Oops. Now been a good year for that; hence my seedling which were once strong and now are gone.
I watered the Rosemary like everything else - they are all doing well. Oh well, off to Walmart for another Rosemary plant - it’s $2 for a couple of twigs of Rosemary at Sprout’s or Walmart so I might as well buy another $2.97 plant.
sigh