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I’ve been lucky this year with bugs. I got something chewing some holes in some leaves but whatever it was didn’t do much damage and I didn’t have to use any chemicals. Even the apple trees look great. With the dry spell we had there are no spots on any of the fruit. Usually there are spots on them by now. I might spray them now that the rains have just stopped for a few days. I need to get some bean seeds out today. There’s always something to do in a garden.
 
The temps are unseasonably low this week. I transplanted 11 tomato plants yesterday. These are for containers.

Could not believe the price of new terra cotta pots. I know they are best, but I bought plastic instead. The ones I planted are all container plants. Smaller, determinate types.
 
I just got in from watering and ripping out a row to replant. I got a huge box of turnips for the local food bank. Can’t stand the things and don’t know why I planted them again.... I had bought a bag of green bean seeds to plant but they disappeared on me. Guess I’m going back to the feed store today. I used the last of my own canned green beans so will clear out a lot of the greenhouse too and hope to restock my supply. Green beans are one of my favorite tasting home canned goods.
 
I just got in from watering and ripping out a row to replant. I got a huge box of turnips for the local food bank. Can’t stand the things and don’t know why I planted them again.... I had bought a bag of green bean seeds to plant but they disappeared on me. Guess I’m going back to the feed store today. I used the last of my own canned green beans so will clear out a lot of the greenhouse too and hope to restock my supply. Green beans are one of my favorite tasting home canned goods.


Have you tried eating the turnips raw. I love them raw, but hate them cooked.
 
Have you tried eating the turnips raw. I love them raw, but hate them cooked.
I have not, but will take a bite of one on the way to the food bank. I also have an abundance of yellow squash going there too.
 
I have not, but will take a bite of one on the way to the food bank. I also have an abundance of yellow squash going there too.
Still don’t like turnips, hope th food bank finds a good home for em. I will say though, if shtf, I’m going to learn to like them and kale. They both grow fantastic in Georgia with almost no effort.
 
I got about 3 hours in the gardens just now. Got all the played out stuff pulled and replanted with green beans, weeded, watered and staked the last of the tomatoes with cages. Feels good to get some of the stuff I was falling behind on caught up. I did cut one of my cucumber plants in half accidentally with the weed eater.... oh well. Saw several watermelons about the size of a baseball out in that jungle too.
 
The other day I went to water the garden and almost no water came out of the hose. I suspected that I had a leak somewhere in the 1/2 mile of buried water lines. I first checked all of the hydrants. Sometimes the cows manage to get one open. Nope. All were closed, but I did find one hydrant that appears to be broken off under ground. I'll have to get a backhoe out to dig it up and replace the hydrant. While I have the backhoe out anyway I'll have him dig a trench and run a new water line from the barn to the chicken coop.
 
Was expecting rain yesterday and today. Nothing yet.

Found a zucchini that will be ready tomorrow along with 3 or 5 cucumbers. I'll give them to my brother since he's bringing mom back to TN tomorrow.

Today I made a new pea gravel walkway to the coop because the path won't grow grass and is a mud pit when it rains. Oh my aching back.
 
We are definitely getting rain now. Buckets of rain. I just got soaked going to the coop.

Have to pick up mom today and that will be fun transferring her stuff. She always brings tons of junk on all trips . She never uses it, but bring it just in case.
 
We are definitely getting rain now. Buckets of rain. I just got soaked going to the coop.

Have to pick up mom today and that will be fun transferring her stuff. She always brings tons of junk on all trips . She never uses it, but bring it just in case.
Our rain came down hard last night. It had been dry today but just started coming down good a moment ago. All my just planted green bread seeds will love it!
 
Cleaning the strawberry bed and picked ap a baby snake. I screamed like a girl.

I'm glad I was almost finished. He went down into a hole.
Snakes are good at getting rid of other pests. I usually catch them, handle than a little and then let them go again. I really like having them around.
 
I saw one report that the storms rolling in tonight may have winds up to 70 mph . And possibly tornadoes .
Garden doing great . We invited Our Daughter to come pick everything She wants . She sent me a picture of a crockpot of green beans with a chunk of salt pork .
Roma tomatoes are getting ripe the Bigger Boys are growing fast .
 
NOPE NOPE NOPE. All snakes should die. I hate them. Anything that startles me.
They have their place, and I definitely like them better than rodents! They actually make decent pets. If you forget to walk them they don’t complain. They don’t bark or make noise. Don’t shed or scratch up the furniture, if you forget to feed them don’t sweat it, they can go a year between meals. Very low maintenance.
 
They have their place, and I definitely like them better than rodents! They actually make decent pets. If you forget to walk them they don’t complain. They don’t bark or make noise. Don’t shed or scratch up the furniture, if you forget to feed them don’t sweat it, they can go a year between meals. Very low maintenance.

Haha.
 

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