Set up the swimming pool in the back yard this afternoon. Surprisingly, the dogs haven't been menacing toward it. Was wondering if I was going to have to extend the electrified fencing to encompass the pool.
Daughter stayed in the pool for quite some time. In this case, I wasn't worried because it's placed where it gets lots of shade. I'm considering shading more by adding to the trellis. Looks like nothing is going to climb in the requisite spot this year. Just don't want kiddo getting sunburned too much. We both got sunburned at the outdoor public pool last weekend. She was happy having the pool up and stayed in it until dark.
The radiator spring a leak at the seam, so I had to pull it and take it for exchange yesterday. Has to come from Texas, so no truck this weekend. Had to have the ex drop daughter off. The radiator won't be in until Tue.
We went for a walk by the river earlier in the day. She gave the mother dog a bath after lunch, which I appreciated.
I'm going to have to thin some of the flowers in the garden. They're crowding crops where they're placed. Been letting them grow until now to draw in pollinators.
I'm still finding random wild tomato plants. Moved a few in the last couple of days to different spots for various reasons. Current tomato plant count is 32. About half of those are growing fruit so far, so quite a crop coming up! Nice! Most are beefsteak and some are getting to be a really good size. Still nowhere near the 200 plants I had planned on but not going to complain. Even the coordinator of the grower's market was impressed with the 30.
The battle of the squash bugs is now in swing. I cleared the garden a few days ago. Then nothing for several days. This morning, found a number of adults and lots of eggs. So they're migrating in from somewhere else. Having only a few plants so far, I'm winning the battle at this point. At least six pumpkins growing so far and at least one of those has the potential to be a giant. Have enough pollinators in the garden that I haven't had to manually pollinate a single pumpkin yet! Nice! (That would increase my odds of a giant, since I have multiple varieties growing but not going to nitpick for now.) Just have to keep an eye out and control the squash bugs for now to keep the existing plants healthy.
Lots of other crops coming up all over. Still small but gaining. Think in another month things should be in full swing.
Daughter stayed in the pool for quite some time. In this case, I wasn't worried because it's placed where it gets lots of shade. I'm considering shading more by adding to the trellis. Looks like nothing is going to climb in the requisite spot this year. Just don't want kiddo getting sunburned too much. We both got sunburned at the outdoor public pool last weekend. She was happy having the pool up and stayed in it until dark.
The radiator spring a leak at the seam, so I had to pull it and take it for exchange yesterday. Has to come from Texas, so no truck this weekend. Had to have the ex drop daughter off. The radiator won't be in until Tue.
We went for a walk by the river earlier in the day. She gave the mother dog a bath after lunch, which I appreciated.
I'm going to have to thin some of the flowers in the garden. They're crowding crops where they're placed. Been letting them grow until now to draw in pollinators.
I'm still finding random wild tomato plants. Moved a few in the last couple of days to different spots for various reasons. Current tomato plant count is 32. About half of those are growing fruit so far, so quite a crop coming up! Nice! Most are beefsteak and some are getting to be a really good size. Still nowhere near the 200 plants I had planned on but not going to complain. Even the coordinator of the grower's market was impressed with the 30.
The battle of the squash bugs is now in swing. I cleared the garden a few days ago. Then nothing for several days. This morning, found a number of adults and lots of eggs. So they're migrating in from somewhere else. Having only a few plants so far, I'm winning the battle at this point. At least six pumpkins growing so far and at least one of those has the potential to be a giant. Have enough pollinators in the garden that I haven't had to manually pollinate a single pumpkin yet! Nice! (That would increase my odds of a giant, since I have multiple varieties growing but not going to nitpick for now.) Just have to keep an eye out and control the squash bugs for now to keep the existing plants healthy.
Lots of other crops coming up all over. Still small but gaining. Think in another month things should be in full swing.
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