So things are slowing beginning to produce in the garden. So far a few little grape tomatoes have been ripe enough to pick and a couple of the Early Girls as well. Looks like I have a three cabbage shoots sprouting up to in one of the raised beds. Everything seems to be going well with the old beds. I laid out a soaker hose and covered it with some mulch this year to see if it helps with the watering. I am still using the timer on the hose and have only been letting it water for 15 minutes. I recently decided to increase the time to 20 minutes to see if there will be any change.
I spent most of my weekend working on the rain barrel for the self-watering gutter grow system. I finally have it finished and still need to install it. So far I have just been dumping collected rain water from five gallon buckets into the gutters to feed the plants. One day as I was moving the buckets over, I found a little friend sitting in the water just soaking up the coolness of the water.
To help with the mosquito problem, I went to a local pet store and purchased some 10 cent fish to eat the larvae. Not sure if its working or not. Only bought 4 fish, so either I didn't buy enough or there are just to many larvae. I ended up doing some research and found that I could use the mosquito dunks in the gutters and that it would not be harmful to my vegetables.
This past week I spent all day Monday trying to fix my fence (it was leaning in my neighbors yard at about a 45 degree angle. So I straightened up the post and decided to cut the pickets in half and make a 3ft fence. This will allow my neighbor and I to talk with each other, keep Cassie in my yard, his kids in his yard, and the sun to hit both of our gardens.
The squirrels are back! I found this guy just lounging around, probably because he was full of eating my vegetables.
Get dirty and keep on gardening!
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