Happy Fathers day to all "dads" - with two legged children and furbabies. We spent out weekend with my FIL on Saturday instead of Sunday. It's been very very hot in garden and I haven't done much outside. Got a new trimmer to tackle weeds, but it's a long process. In the large garden my hubby took a weed-whacker and cleared most of the beds and I'm starting to replant everything from scratch. Weeds just took over and killed off much of my plantings, and then groudnhog finished it off. So we wiped it all out and started again with new batch of tomatoes and peppers, some melons and cucumbers and squash. Potatoes and onions from spring planting remain. Then I had a chance to get into the small garden and pick some berries - red currants and gooseberry. And sadly found two baby groundhogs. "sadly" refers to the fact that one was already dead and another barely alive. As much as I hate having them in my garden it hurts my heart to see animal die and I don't wish to harm them. Unfortunately not all my neighbors think the same way and these babies clearly ate something laced with poison.
Anyway, life goes on. On a side note, I picked fresh garlic to see how the head is coming along, and it will need at least 3 more weeks. One thing that I stumbled on while we were out this weekend was this pillow - I thought it was a perfect slogan for me, so had my hubby pose for a picture to show it :)
And of course current "blooms" around the house and back yard are plentiful, with variety of lilies, aslstibe, begonia, and introduced this week were two pots of phlox. I try to stick to perrenials but once in a while will mix annuals for a kick of color.
One thing that I do want to show is my little african violets that I keep at home - I sniped a leaf from a plant of my coworker two years ago and put it in water to root, and it's been growing beautifully. This past winter I had a whimsy of taking a seed of a pomelo that I was eating, and stuck it into the same pot and today I have a tiny seedling growing. Will see how well it will take.
So come and share how your gardens are doing this time of the year.
That's too bad that you had to resow/plant so many things - but at least you were able to get some harvests out of the garden. The currents & gooseberries look great!
ReplyDeleteIt's ok, I guess it's for the better. I wasn't here to harvest in spring so might as well focus on summer crops.
DeleteThat is sad about the groundhogs. I've trapped many over the years, but they are always alive and well when I relocate them far away. Our garlic is drying up with our hot weather and I dug more plants this morning.
ReplyDeleteWe don't believe in killing animals either so it's sad for me, especially since they are so tiny. I heard about heat wave in your area and hope nothing will get lost.
DeleteWeeding with a string trimmer is sort of what I need to do. The mild winter (not complaining) meant lots of weeds wintered over and had an early start. There is still plenty of summer left so hope your new plantings thrive.
ReplyDeletethis is a metal trimmer but string would work too. I just wish it had a longer handle so I wouldn't have to crawl around on ground.
DeleteWhile I hate to see animals suffer, especially baby ones, groundhogs are a menace, and let's just say I "humanely" put an end to their predations when I see them.
ReplyDelete:( they don't know that they do damage, they just want to eat. I don't mind them on the other side near woods and I don't want to kill them either.
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