Four days have slipped by me.....without posting. I do jot a brief entry in my written journal to try to keep track.
The most important news is the vet came Thursday and de-horned Willow's two heifers. He also preg checked Willow and she is due for mid-August. I thought I wrote on the calendar when we thought she was bred but I am not finding it. I will take the vet's word and will dry her up around July 15.
We sold some calves and were very pleased with the prices.
Mostly we have been just keeping up....mowing, some weeding, tilling and other mundane gardening chores.
We are both looking forward to next weeks promise of cooler weather. Surely I can get the rest of the garden in. DH will be setting cattle panels in the new orchard garden for the tomatoes.
We had the first humming birds yesterday evening so I put out a feeder this morning and already have seen two different birds. They are late this year and I have seen no Baltimore Orioles yet.
In my daily tour of the yard this morning, I found more self-seeded foxgloves. I hope I can keep these going for a long time. I love the tall spiky look in the flower bed.
and more at the end of the porch,
I think the clematis are more lush than last year.
This is the one behind the Buff Beauty Rose that I showed last week.
It is in full glory now,
This is a closeup of the nigella bloom. I have a huge spread of these by the porch, all self-seeded.
Garden Pests:
I thought I had escaped potato beetles this year....not so. Several plants were stripped so out came the Sevin.
Also the dreaded baby slugs have devastated the hostas and this was after putting out egg shells and grapefruit halves. I have now spread wood ashes around them.....I should have spread a light coating of sharp sand over the entire bed before they broke ground. They are only 1/4 to 1/2 inch long and it is easy to miss them.
Garden Disease:
Several of the annual poppies are curling over and dying....looks just like fire blight that I am having on some of the fruit trees. My feeling is I should just cut down those trees affected and make my gardening life easier!
The most important news is the vet came Thursday and de-horned Willow's two heifers. He also preg checked Willow and she is due for mid-August. I thought I wrote on the calendar when we thought she was bred but I am not finding it. I will take the vet's word and will dry her up around July 15.
We sold some calves and were very pleased with the prices.
Mostly we have been just keeping up....mowing, some weeding, tilling and other mundane gardening chores.
We are both looking forward to next weeks promise of cooler weather. Surely I can get the rest of the garden in. DH will be setting cattle panels in the new orchard garden for the tomatoes.
We had the first humming birds yesterday evening so I put out a feeder this morning and already have seen two different birds. They are late this year and I have seen no Baltimore Orioles yet.
In my daily tour of the yard this morning, I found more self-seeded foxgloves. I hope I can keep these going for a long time. I love the tall spiky look in the flower bed.
and more at the end of the porch,
I think the clematis are more lush than last year.
This is the one behind the Buff Beauty Rose that I showed last week.
It is in full glory now,
This is a closeup of the nigella bloom. I have a huge spread of these by the porch, all self-seeded.
Garden Pests:
I thought I had escaped potato beetles this year....not so. Several plants were stripped so out came the Sevin.
Also the dreaded baby slugs have devastated the hostas and this was after putting out egg shells and grapefruit halves. I have now spread wood ashes around them.....I should have spread a light coating of sharp sand over the entire bed before they broke ground. They are only 1/4 to 1/2 inch long and it is easy to miss them.
Garden Disease:
Several of the annual poppies are curling over and dying....looks just like fire blight that I am having on some of the fruit trees. My feeling is I should just cut down those trees affected and make my gardening life easier!
