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@Daniel W
YOU are the best grower I've ever "met" !! Those winter squash are amazing !! I still have some baby butternut squash on the vines that their stems are just starting to tan up. I find Waltham butternuts easy to grow. I wonder what it could be that makes yours difficult?

Yesterday evening it finally got cool enough to get some work done outside. Since my lawn cutting is still unfinished I weedeated everywhere where I had mowed. Trimmed some unruly rambler rose branches and deadheaded zinnias. That war that.

 

I agree I adore all of Daniels garden events and pics. Very inventive and talented . Extra green thumb

 

My elderberries are wild ones. I did have a tame bush/tree, but it never made berries and dropped dead after a couple of years. It was a total waste of $$. The wild ones are much easier, and usually do quite well. If you all lived nearby, I would share some bushes/trees with you. I did finish up the ones I had picked, and picked a few more. I gave some of the ones I picked last week to the chickens, they were getting buggy.

I do have at least 1 butternut squash on the vines if the varmints don't steal it. And I finally found a few pumpkins growing. One is around ten pounds already and turning orange. I have loads of those bird house gourds, so I will have to learn how to make a few bird houses with them, or share them with friends.

The cucumbers should have cukes soon, they are doing well. The tomatoes have not done much so far. Maybe I can haul some compost tea around tomorrow. It is so hot and dry, things just don't do much like that. I will wait a few more weeks to plant some fall things. I did find a baby watermelon on one of the vines today. I will have to keep them watered.

Lots of other things are drying out and wilting with the heat and no rain. We had some storm clouds and thunderstorm this afternoon, but no rain at my house.

 

Thanks Daniel, that's what I was thinking. I kept looking for the brown woody stem. That was some harvest you had!

I have 3 butternut on mine, AA. I had (and I emphasize had) 3 delicatas but they looked kind of precarious on the trellis (and it's leaning on the fence, the trellis isn't even straight up vertical) so I went and got one of the old leggings from when my granddaughter was way younger. I was going to again use them as a hammock (I used them 5 years ago when I first tried to grow cantaloupe). I barely touch the plant and the first one falls to the ground! I'm standing there with a stunned (and I'm sure pretty comical) look on my face. I'm looking at the other 2 wondering if that one was just a fluke that it fell. I look at the other one (without touching) I was going to hammock up and it looks like it's on there pretty firmly, but I'm still a little iffy. So I step back and my arm barely brushes the trellis and the second one is down. Needless to say I am not going near that plant until the last one is ready to pick. I now know why they're called delicata!

 

Not doing anything today, the weather is a lot cooler, maybe a bit of mowing tomorrow.
I've some shopping to do and I've just given the coffee machine a good clean. A run around the carpets with the vacuum cleaner may happen later, but I'm going to spend time playing my musical instruments, which I've neglected lately. Then there's cricket on TV later.

 

Dug up the potatoes. Was an ok harvest. Used local nursery seed - Gurney seed produced way better last year. I will have to post a pic

 

Thank you @Willowisp0801 I will be careful.

 

We've got wild elderberries around here, don't do anything with them but my mother in law gave me a recipe for a cough syrup to make out of them, made it once not sure if it worked.

 

Cut the end of the hedge, can't cut the rest of it anymore as it belongs to someone else

 

My son and I harvested two of my bags. They did really well. We're doing another two bags this weekend. And if any others look like they're dying, we'll do those as well. The ones we harvested were Yukon Baby. I get my seed potatoes from Grand Teton Organics. They don't charge shipping and they answer any questions you might have (hence the reason I bought Yukon baby instead of Yukon gold this year and I won't go back). Plus they have 40 or 50 different kinds to choose from.

I didn't do anything today, it rained.

 

@Willowisp0801 I added Grand Teton website to my seeds folder will check them out thanks

 

I mowed the lawn and gave our mimosa a "haircut."
I don't want it to get too tall, I'd rather it bushed out.

A step ladder was required, (my wife says I'm too old to be using ladders) as even my Barnel telescopic pruner would otherwise not have reached.








The new owner of the house next door (she rents it out to a Hong Kong Chinese couple and their three kids) had the tree at the bottom of their garden, butchered in March. Most of the branches were removed and an attempt to saw through the trunk, to cut it down with an ordinary hand saw was aborted.



But isn't nature wonderful?

 

I'm too old to be using ladders, too!

My previous house went onto the market, before I bought it, because the previous owner fell off the slightly sloping roof. She was 83 years old.

 

I’m old too always on the roof… but I have a flat top roof in a couple of sections around a Pizza Hut style roof with cement tile. It’s easy to get up there … it’s getting down …my hand grip is a get a bit slow.

I trimmed tons of shrubs today, mostly evergreen shrubs, english holly, mahonia’s , rhody’s, azalea's, & Euonymus fortunei. Pulled more wild blackberry spikes out of the garden beds, Also Started collecting the hydrangeas to dry .

 

At the moment just watering things, today going to the fracture clinic to have my plaster removed hopefully, then I'll be able to do a bit more but gradually start doing things.