What have you done today in the Garden?

thanks Jane. 1500.00 and she is like her old self. waaah! 1500.00 what a bunch of money over a few expired supplements. expensive lesson. I am glad she is better though, thanks for the kind words.

 

So sorry about your dog Carolyn. Poor guy, & what an expensive experience!

Hope your bees work out.
SJ: now those are some gorgeous photos of strawberries!

 

Thanks C. it was a terribly worrisome 24 hours. I think she could have died. ever try moving a 100 pound dog who cant walk? oyvey! she was in so much abdominal pain she couldn't bear to be touched. thankfully I had a car floor cover that was thin and sturdy enough to scoot under her and heft her up.. she allowed us to carry her on the tarp. she was so sick. didn't care.

the bees are moved and hopefully now today they won't be all over the area where they used to live. quite a few were circling that area yesterday. but it needed to be done. and I made a split and got two hives instead of one. there were a lot of bees in the swarm. A full three deeps and two honey supers full.

 

I am so sorry for not commenting on your dog story. That was very serious...gosh! I am so glad that it all turned out oké. Pity that it was so expensive.

The bee news is; of course, interesting to me. Are there any pics? Fingers crossed that it works out for you. What an enormous swarm. Ye-gad!

 

No worries S. I don't expect anyone to make conversation over my dog. I was not offended.

I might have a couple of pics from when they first arrived but it was late and I was worried they would get irritated with us so we moved along as quick as we could... probably too quick. I am hoping we left the queen in the correct box.

 

I was so lucky all year that it was relatively dry and the garden could grow up without being hampered by fungus as is usually the case around here. Nothing is forever and sure enough there were signs after a tropical wave came through here that spraying was in order. So I picked more squash and the first cucumbers and hosed the plants with this thyme oil product I have grown to like and 1 tbsp of betadine.

 

we went to visit friends yesterday. it was a three hour drive straight out rt 30 through farmland. it was sad to see nearly no fields planted yet. probably a few here and there... 10% MAYBE. and raid for today again. farmers are sending their corn seed back and hopefully putting in beans instead.

 

So sorry about your dog @carolyn and glad that everything is ok now.

A few days ago someone told me that her dog ate a bag of sultanas, rushed him to the vets and had a injection to make him sick and some morphine, he's fine now.

 

thanks Logan. she is back to her normal self although had we not taken her I am not sure if she would have recovered as well if at all. her blood pressure was 180 and went up to 190 when they gave her pain meds. which is unusual. usually it goes down. they gave her an IV drip all night long with pain meds.
what are sultanas?

 

@carolyn Sultanas are dried white grapes. They look like yellow raisins.

 

I dug two rows of Red LaSoda potatoes, and the rest of the Kinnebecs. First year for trying Kinnebecs, but will definitely plant them again--disease free, good production, and taste great! What more could a person want?
I had help digging--Timi the cat thinks that when I'm in the garden it's play time for kittens! She makes figure eights around my ankles, tries to get into the harvest basket, and if I miss a potato she points it out. There is a bit of retriever in that cat!

 

That's great news @carolyn
Over here we have dried raisins, sultanas and currants. They're all a variety of dried grape that are used In cakes and puddings, they're deadly to dogs.

 

Hiya Carolyn...glad that you took no offence. I felt really bad, after all--what is important to you is important to me, as they say.
That was a scary moment.

What a shame that the farmers haven't been able to plant their fields yet. That is dramatic. Here's hoping that the weather dries for you folks there.

Clematis trimming and watering in the greenhouse...we got soaked biking home. The slugs are coming alive.

 

We jammed more strawbs this morning...we will bike out to the lottie in a couple of hours for a bit of work. There is so much cleaning to do there.

 

We had a farmers market this morning. I baked all day yesterday and part of Thursday as I wanted to make sourdough bread and that takes for ever to rise. we had broccoli, snow peas, sugar snap peas, lettuce a few tomatoes even along with all my greenhouse plants and planters. came home to I think the slowest day I have ever had here. 1 customer today here at the house. piddled and putzed around the garden doing little things like planting basil between the tomatoes and marigolds between the zucchini and cukes...