What did you do in your garden today?

[Esther Knapicius]

Sunday--weeded out the large bed near the house. Discovered a yellow jacket hive, will have to gas it. Cut the entire back yard. Suppose to rain today. Discovered a sweet Robin nest tucked in the Oak Leaf hydrangea, why they built it 5 feet from the ground. SMH, have a cute pic of the nest with eggs in it. See if I can get back to this thread with my cell and post it.

 

[Anniekay]

It's annoying when that happens. I've a couple of plastic buckets that I use when I'm pruning to collect what I've cut off. Yesterday I carelessly chucked my secateurs into one and made a hole in the bottom, so I'll have to buy another.

I can't like your post because now we're both in the same boat !! Nothing there to like !!

Lowe's has a black steel wheelbarrow on sale for $79.00 so I got that one. It's a 5 cubic foot capacity but has pneumatic tires. I have my flat-free tire from my little red one that I plan to switvh onto it. Not a bad price. It's marked down from $99.00

 

[Anniekay]

out the large bed near the house. Discovered a yellow jacket hive, will have to gas it. Cut the entire back yard. Suppose to rain today. Discovered a sweet Robin nest tucked in the Oak Leaf hydrangea, why they built it 5 feet from the ground. SMH, have a cute pic of the nest with eggs in it. See if I can get back to this thread with my cell and post it.View attachment 104532

@Esther Knapicius, yellow jackets are your friend. I never had as bug- free garden as when I had a nest in the yard. They fly all through your crops and pick off all kinds of larvae and insects to feed to their young.

Send them to me -eeee !!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@Esther Knapicius, yellow jackets are your friend. I never had as bug- free garden as when I had a nest in the yard. They fly all through your crops and pick off all kinds of larvae and insects to feed to their young.

Send them to me -eeee !!

and then jump up on my thigh and sting me. OUCH.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@Esther Knapicius, yellow jackets are your friend. I never had as bug- free garden as when I had a nest in the yard. They fly all through your crops and pick off all kinds of larvae and insects to feed to their young.

Send them to me -eeee !!

I also have no crops.

 

[Anniekay]

and then jump up on my thigh and sting me. OUCH.

Mine never stung me. I walked slowly amongst them and watched them fly around checking for larvae.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Rarely had a wasp sting, but they are painful, caustic rather than the acid of a bee sting, which means they last longer. The worst part of a bee sting comes later with an immune reaction to the proteins in it, that means you get used to them and bee keepers who get stung regularly just brush them off, wasp stings always hurt.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I also have the brown wasp's deciding to make their egg nests under the curve part of my wooded deck bench. Its not a lovely thing sitting there and hearing the buzzing just behind my ear. So I have to flip the bench. Get a long handle and scrap out the nest and toss it to the lawn. I am such a home wreaker. Meanwhile the wasp moms are flying about looking in the general area where the bench had been. So I spray the area later with insect spray and hope they don't do it again. Seems each year they do. We have a whole entire 10 acre woods, go there and nest up all you want. Leave my bench alone.

Right now, raining a lot. so the ground Yellow Jackets are safe, I am not fussing with them. And too much involved with our next trip away. But when we get back. Same with the Yellow Jackets, go to the woods, no one goes there, there is 10 acres right there , don't pick on my flower bed.

 

[big rockpile]

Sprayed my Zucchini and some Tomatoes.

Pulled Weeds, mixed soil, sifted Compost and picked Peppers.

Put some more soil in one bed.

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[Anniekay]

I changed out the pneumatic tire on my new wheelbarrow for a flat free tire. Mixed up some feed for my clematis, the 4 of them, their 6 week fish fertilizer feed, and prepped my shed to become a rose arbor.

This Ce'cile Brunner has been in the ground now for two years. First year I did a lot of pruning to get her into shape for training her onto my potting shed. She blooms her head off every spring.

Isn't she wild ? !!

 

[big rockpile]

Was already to do some watering but all seemed OK.

My wife bought a Flower I really like. Was looking today ball of seed and a new Bloom next to it.

Repotted some Spearmint.

Turned some Compost.

Was looking at my regular Garden second planting of Bush Green Beans are Blooming. Pole Beans are looking good.

Cucumbers are Blooming. My Squash is being contrary not wanting to climb.

Going tomorrow to see a Herbalis on my Cancer.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Covid means I have not got out there for a bit, the lawns look terrible, but we have been getting four or five tomatoes a day and a cucumber or two from the greenhouse, though watering it makes me breathless and I come in and sit down.
Still, starting to feel a bit better.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Hope you feel better soon. @Oliver Buckle . Drink plenty of water, orange juice, zinc tablets, vit. D .

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Thanks for the thought, Esther, already feeling a bit better, but not well yet. Yes, drinking lots, and orange juice is wonderful the way it cuts through all the nasties. VitD I reckon I am probably OK for, I spend so much time outside normally, and even now I tend to sit out on the bench and look at it. Zinc is worth thinking about as I am veggie, but I usually start the day with milk and cereal, I always try and get things in me with food rather than as tablets

 

[big rockpile]

Well once again had rain heading for us and it went where we weren't.

So I watered everything.

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