Same ol' garden, new problem and flowers!

Weather is still warm and predicted to be warmer on the weekend. Still breeze thankfully but it's not a cooling breeze just air moving about that's slightly cooler than the rest of the air.

I 'might' have some pocket change to get some seeds or fertilizer, one or the other not both unfortunately. The new problem is: I sprung a leak in my hose.

 Less than a year old and it has a hole already. I kept the original cardboard label/wrapping for it but have long since lost the receipt. I bought it at HD and they can look it up using my card. It has a ten year warranty and I may just haul it over to get an exchange. Or, I have the mending tape to take care of it. Decisions will be made tonight.

The marigolds are opening!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The peas are just about ready to pick, might pull a few pods tomorrow and get a continuing harvest for the next few days or a week. Luckily they keep for a while and by the time they are done, I should have some beans to plant.

Not quite fat enough and there's a number of them that won't be ready for at least a week. Just going to keep them watered and hope I can get some fertilizer in there and the other beds soon.

Keep forgetting I want to plant chives and onions later in the fall. Will see about the chive seeds this weekend maybe and the onions will definitely have to wait until fall.

Watered the south bed really well, the other two weren't as needful, did sprinkle them a bit but not heavily. I realized that one of the things people make a mistake about is seeing a wilting plant means they have to water. If the soil is bone dry, yes most definitely but if it's middle of the day and the soil is still damp, no. Check back in the evening or the next morning and do the watering then.

I've mentioned before about the '3 o'clock wilt' how it can get so hot during the day the plant responds by wilting to conserve moisture. The other reason for wilting is it can't pull up enough water even if it's available, to compensate for what is being lost from transpiration. Soaking them at that point could actually do more harm than good. 

Hence I just got the surface moist to cool things a little and was good with that. Me personally, wanted to make sure that the guy that just hates to see things wilting would see the soil was wet and leave them alone. He hasn't touched  the garden as far as I know since we had our little talk. 

I remembered to try and check the lemon bush for damage but forgot by the time I was done with doing my things. Oh well. There are times when intervention in someone's yard is needed and other times not. When it is a definite threat to a larger area like citrus groves and grape vines yes. Years past it wouldn't have been an issue but in the last ten years it is a serious threat to everyone's yard if they have certain plants. 

Anyway... warm weather, flowers and such.