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| Peony, cv. "Joker". It seems to be doing OK even though it only gets a few hours of full sunlight |
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| Three, 32' long rows of potatoes. The annual grasses are coming up and they need to be tilled. I am waiting for the soil to dry out. |
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| Provider bush green-beans in upper-left corner, banana peppers to the right of them, then two rows of Nicotiana rustica which is the pale green |
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| Two rows of tomatoes planted on 2' centers. Stupice on the left and Ace 55 on the right. The clump of green at the far end of the Ace 55 row is an oregano plant that volunteered. |
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| Posts for the cucumber trellis. I have some lengths of top-rail salvaged from a chain-link fence that I will reuse to hang the vegetable netting. Excavating and replanting the posts was one of Saturday's jobs. East end of the orchard is in the background. |
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| The north-east corner of the garden is reserved for fall crops. "Reserved" almost sounds like I plant to not have this tilled. Writing fiction made me clever. |
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| Deadon savoy cabbage. VERY split resistant and tastes good. |
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| Collards. Belladona loves the Office episode where the boss can't get it out of his head that they aren't called "colored greens". |
A few root crops will also be sown in the fall garden.
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| A pecan graft breaking buds |
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| Another pecan tree doing the same. |
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| A grafted Shellbark Hickory with two catkins (bottom-center of image) |
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| This woodchuck was repurposed as fertilizer for a pecan tree. It is the Circle of Life. |
Looking good ERJ!
ReplyDelete"Repurposed" hahahah.... I love it.
ReplyDelete"beat me to it" - they ate the snails or drank the beer ? :^)
ReplyDeleteBOTH!!!
DeleteJoe Don't you ever just want to sleep in until 8am? Woody
ReplyDeleteOnly when I am sick. I am an early-to-bed guy, though.
DeleteI am not worth a broke-Richard after seven PM.
We have slugs, but very few snails. A couple days of gathering them up at night fall reduces the population greatly.
ReplyDeleteJerry
For the snails and beer, the trick is to bury an empty jar in the ground with the open top just at the surface. A small amount of beer will do to attract the snails and slugs into the jar but be too far down for the birds or other creatures to reach. If they do manage, try a bottle. Same idea but even more restricted for anything larger than a snail.
ReplyDeletePhil B
I was always under the impression that you turned the jars upside-down when trapping snails in the Southern Hemisphere.
DeleteWhat method are you employing to reduce the woodchuck population? It seems quite effective.
ReplyDeleteI use 160 body-grip traps set in the opening of burrows that show evidence of fresh digging.
DeleteAnother way to figure out where to put them is to make sure you don't have any traps set and then let your dog go sniffing around. His nose will tell you which ones are "most interesting" as long as you follow your pooch and watch him. If you use the dog method then you need to keep control of him as long as you have traps set.
A 160 body-grip trap is named "160" because the squares are 160mm or about six inches. They are just the perfect size to fit in front of the opening of a woodchuck burrow. That is, they are just a little smaller than the opening.
You also need a couple of stakes and a trap-setting tool although some cheap-skates will use 110 para-cord. The cord is not recommended except as an emergency method for extracting a pet that bumbles into a trap. The cord can fit in your pocket while the tool cannot.