While not gardening per se, I've been working on a few things in the wildflower meadow. I wanted to build a little memorial for our dogs with a bench to sit on nearby. My parents insisted on buying the bench, which has been in place for a couple of weeks ( you can see the growth difference ). Then it was a matter of me having the time, good weather, and mental fortitude to do it. Losing Cooper broke me, so there was some catharsis involved here:
Wife says Arabian Nights dahlia. She's the one that ordered them, I just put them in the ground where she wants them, and try to make sure they don't die.
A couple shots from the garden so far: Rhubarb always starts to look like shit this time of year. My dad told me that the original root stock for those plants is over 100 years old and the old timers up here who have rhubarb, have got it from that same stock. The grape plant is a new experiment using a cutting my brother took from the plants of the old man we used to live next door where my brother lives now. Thats also where those rhubarb plants came from. I need to finish filling in the bed that the pumpkins are in. I've got the topsoil, it's just been too damned hot to do it.
Looks great, but I hate you. My garden is DOA this year due to such shitty weather and lack of work on my part. You're great motivation for next year though.
Your weather and ours hasn't been too different if I'm thinking of your location correctly. I've had to replant stuff, put in new seeds, so don't hate me too much. And in fairness, it would look like absolute shit in a few weeks if I was working this summer. I wish I'd taken pics of last year's garden, it was a complete shit show and produced very little.
Friggin woodchuck: That was AFTER it wiped out my lettuce ( which was on the ropes from the heat so whatever ) and I sprayed the rest of the garden with Deer Off, which normally works well. I trapped it easily enough and relocated it, which made our son's girlfriend happy.
Yeah the deer are getting used to people at our farm house. They chomped on a number of my tomatoes before I put the fencing up.
This morning i went out to get to the blueberries before the birds did and saw that it was time to cut some more basil, oregano and thyme. I'm having a good year with the basil, it needs to be cut faster than it dries.
I’m jealous. I can’t get any blueberries off my bush for some reason, and my basil is pathetic from all of the rain. Hope springs eternal.
Hope is a lot of what goes into gardening. Last year wasn't so great, but right now things are going well. One of the pregano plants is looking a little rough though. I still can't get basil to grow indoors though.
I need to rip out this mint because it's about to drop seeds everywhere which will increase my work removing it by 10,000x but the pollinators love my overgrown garden patch. https://imgur.com/a/89osu8m
Yeah, mint really draws in pollinators. I had some in a big planter and the activity around it was pretty much the same.
I sold 2 big planters, have another big planter, it encroached into another planter, it's in the cracks by the AC unit, and it's taken over a section of the veggie garden. It's a fucking monster. I'm honestly afraid to remove it at this point because the bees are gonna get me. I'll have to do it at night or something .
That kinda got me into trouble before. The flowers throw seeds everywhere and they ALL start. But maybe that's the best way, if I can stay on top of it. A bunch of seeds got into my bathtub planter from before it got moved up to the deck. I pinched them all off or pulled them out and I don't have any mint plants in there at all now. I do have a lot of the volunteer oregano, but I'm cool with that.
I don't know what kind of trees they are, but I have three trees that are covered in some yellow crumbly things which are covered in bees during the day. The first time I noticed it, I couldn't figure out what the humming noise was. You could hear the bees from 15' away. I tried to get a pic but a video like you did would've been the better choice.