The forecast called for a light freeze couple nights ago. I was quite happy when I went out in the morning to find it never happened in my yard!
However, I came home Tue to find one of the dogs had managed to work their way under the gate, which wiggled the gate enough to open the latch. Then all of them must have gotten in the garden and went to town. Playing, chewing irrigation tubing, pulling up stakes, digging and possibly eating some of the tomato plants. I'm guessing I got home before this went on for too long. Took a little while to repair what damage I could but most things are okay.
Garden is still recovering from frost damage and I'm not certain how many tomato plants will recover.
The bulb and deeper planted flower seeds are doing great now. Definitely going to have a larger assortment of flowers this year than last!
Planted out more pepper plants yesterday, jalapeno and cayenne. Hoping they do better this year than past years.
Sprayed a really strong acid solution on the weeds yesterday. It works well if I spray the weeds directly. However, if I spray the soil around them it actually helps some of them along. Have to hit the foliage. Big problem there is that so much lettuce is growing in the trenches (thanks to the dogs trampling the mounds a couple months ago, spreading the seeds). I have to be very careful to not spray the lettuce. I'm just letting it grow where it is, then harvest them from the trenches first.
One negative to working out of town is that, when I have to clean up after the dogs, there is a lot to clean up. However. I have read many times how dog (and human) feces cannot be used for compost or fertilizer. That's not true, it just has to be composted for a long time or cannot be used for food crops if composted less. For flower beds, it's okay. So I buried all the dog waste in various planned flower areas yesterday. Those areas are currently bare. If I plant surface seeds and keep the area moist, by the time anything takes root, the waste should be decomposed. Once it's buried, there's no odor because the microbes start to work on it instantly. I'll keep doing that with remaining bare spots. Happy to say I don't have many of those left.
However, I came home Tue to find one of the dogs had managed to work their way under the gate, which wiggled the gate enough to open the latch. Then all of them must have gotten in the garden and went to town. Playing, chewing irrigation tubing, pulling up stakes, digging and possibly eating some of the tomato plants. I'm guessing I got home before this went on for too long. Took a little while to repair what damage I could but most things are okay.
Garden is still recovering from frost damage and I'm not certain how many tomato plants will recover.
The bulb and deeper planted flower seeds are doing great now. Definitely going to have a larger assortment of flowers this year than last!
Planted out more pepper plants yesterday, jalapeno and cayenne. Hoping they do better this year than past years.
Sprayed a really strong acid solution on the weeds yesterday. It works well if I spray the weeds directly. However, if I spray the soil around them it actually helps some of them along. Have to hit the foliage. Big problem there is that so much lettuce is growing in the trenches (thanks to the dogs trampling the mounds a couple months ago, spreading the seeds). I have to be very careful to not spray the lettuce. I'm just letting it grow where it is, then harvest them from the trenches first.
One negative to working out of town is that, when I have to clean up after the dogs, there is a lot to clean up. However. I have read many times how dog (and human) feces cannot be used for compost or fertilizer. That's not true, it just has to be composted for a long time or cannot be used for food crops if composted less. For flower beds, it's okay. So I buried all the dog waste in various planned flower areas yesterday. Those areas are currently bare. If I plant surface seeds and keep the area moist, by the time anything takes root, the waste should be decomposed. Once it's buried, there's no odor because the microbes start to work on it instantly. I'll keep doing that with remaining bare spots. Happy to say I don't have many of those left.
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