What have you done today in the Garden?

So nice looking thru the posts of gardeners daily duties, fix-it’s and refreshing the July growth thru warmest temps of the summer. Most importantly enjoy the comments and feedback by extremely seasoned gardners.

Sjoerd since you have unlimited access to canal water maybe install a quick shower with a filter to cool off or a quick run thru the sprinklers. It is tempting on hot summer days. I have a sprinkler with a built in filter … protection against ground water in the well that can irritate skin.

Riley I hear ya on that light fix. Light in the garden at night is always a point of interest showing all the efforts you have accomplished in your night garden as well as the daytime. I have to replace the pump in the pond for the waterfall. Not sure I need to bother it’s been a good pump system for many years… I think I can live without it … we'll see…I will miss the sound of the waterfall.
I also had to clip the wisteria up on the roof again and years of climbing up there it never gets dull. Took pic of the mimosa tree it’s in full bloom.

The hummers are on it like flies on honey.

 

Pac— haha. We have piped canal water available to the Allotmenteers. I would not want to shower in it. Pee-uw.
Nice Mem, BTW.

 

Like showering in water from a fish tank, ay?

 

I haven't been on for a while but my garden is doing good. I have a butternut squash that is going crazy! One of them (I have 2)is probably 13 feet long. I always put whatever winter squash I plant next to the edge and let it go up a trellis that I have leaning against the fence. The trellis is probably 6 feet. The one went up one and kept going. So I put another one going down. It's at the end so I had to find (I'm out of trellises) something else. I'm just waiting to hear a knock on my door and open it to find that squash plant waiting for me.


My grapes are doing well as is my chamomile.

And here's My potatoes.

 

Daniel, what kind of squash are those? I know to prune summer squash; but can winter squash be pruned as well?

 

I prune my butternut squash after they have about three on because then the vine puts all it's energy into the fruits. Mine are trellised as well. I think Daniel does this too but we'll see what he has to say.

 

Annie—you got that right. It is very stinky water at certain times of the year.

Willow—So good to see you back. How are you enjoying being a Pensionado?
I admire your work with the Squash—Brill.
You ought to get a very decent harvest from the tatties. What kind are they?

Annie— you know how to grow Squash, that is plain to see. Have a great harvest.

 

Last night after the sun got far enough to the West so that my Loropetalum 'Jazz Hands' bushes were in shade, I got a pail of water and took cutting from those bushes. With 40% sucess rate and wanting 5 new bushes, I took 26 cuttings and immediately dropped them in that pail. I left them outside because...humidity, which we are dripping with here right now.

Early this morning I brought them into the potting shed, trimmed them for optimal chances of survival, dipped them in rooting compound and potted them up in a mix of potting soil with about 40% more perlite added to it.

I put all my cutting under the eaves on the north side of my back screen porch. That's my bright, sunless and damp area. Note the moss. Wish me Luck !!

 

I have my usuals, huckleberry gold, wild purple, and usually I get Yukon gold. But this year I saw Yukon baby. When I spoke with the guy he told me they were a little smaller but you get more per plant. Where with Yukon gold you may get 1 or 2 decent size and the rest little tiny; with the baby you get all more uniform and more per plant. So I got the Yukon baby. Usually I get my 3 staples and try something new. This year, my new variety is Amarosa. It's a fingerling with magenta colored skin and flesh. I guess you can count Yukon baby as a new trial but he said they pretty much taste just like a yukon gold.

Wow! Yours are further along than mine. My season has been very wet this year. And I had a few really hot spells but overall it's been a pretty mild season. I got peapods, which I don't usually get more than 3 or 4 peas of any kind before they bolt in the heat. Here's my little babies.


I have 2.....a lot of blooms; but just 2 fruits. I don't have the bees that I usually have either.

 

Yours are coming along just fine !! My season starts way before yours since I'm so much farther south.

 

@Melody Mc. Your gardens are gorgeous and lush and full of good food! Beautiful

 

Willow— good looking work. The fruits have begun.
I know the Yukon Gold, but not the other ones. They look quite healthy.