It started getting overcast before dusk last night, around 6. My sweetie woke with a headache which I have been tracking when he gets them and the weather, sure enough, still overcast this morning and here it is almost 11:30 and it hasn't broken cover yet.
Needless to say, the garden didn't need watering which is a good reason to water in the evening as it stays moist longer. This kind of weather also lends something to the peas that like the cooler weather.
Close up of the area I planted the small potatoes, there's a divot behind the pea and I had to give it a real close look to make sure it was just the soil settling after I watered rather than a backtracking gopher. There were more dirt piles behind the compost heap and next to the Jade as well.
Good news for gopher, this is prime real estate for a nest, bad news for us.
Speaking of critters, this morning I was woken by what sounded like every single crow in the neighborhood attacking something. I got up and looked out, they were all in the tree where the hawks have a nest. There have hardly been any hawk sounds from the tree today and my thought is one of the fledglings likely got out of the nest and was hanging out in the tree. The crows never go after the hawks at the nest so I can only hope that the fledgling survived and maybe flew off somewhere else. Sad to think it would have fallen to the ground and attacked by the nasty crows.
Why am I rooting for the hawks? Hawks eat rodents and snakes, crows.... um.... eat worms? Eat dog kibble.... dig up lawns looking for bugs....If I were a gun type person I would have a pellet gun just for the crows and gophers (I shot a pellet gun when I was really young and have never had a need to use a gun in my life).
Anyway.... some of the tomatoes are changing color thankfully and the mites are getting worse. Today would be a good day temperature wise to spray but it's a bit breezy and I don't have nearly enough spray to get all the bush.
Stupid tomato stop blooming and fruiting already!
It's going to be a chore chopping that down and getting it into a bag (maybe two bags), then have to dig up the soil and get rid of as many roots as possible, checking for nematodes. Marigolds, other than leafminers are doing good, the two that were wilting have recovered but I didn't take any pictures of them.
The crows are back at it and I hear a hawk also so something is going on in the tree again. Don't start singing Circle of Life, I will hurt you.
Close up of the onions that are blooming and rose leaves being eaten to bits by rose worms.
This is the little single petal pink rose in front of the giant bird of paradise and next to a jade plant. It's already bloomed out and likely won't bloom again this season. I really want to find out what kind it is because with that sort of timing it's closer to a wild rose or antique rose than a hybrid.
And now for something completely different, a hummingbird in the Jacaranda yesterday evening.
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