What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

weed wacked for an hour (that's plenty enough of that for me and i'm glad the battery pack doesn't last longer). Mom decided to complain that she didn't like to do it even if it was possible for her to do it after all. so there ya go. not surprised by this "turn" of events, but now i get to deal with all this extra work on top of the extra i'm already doing? um, nope i'm not "trimming" every time i mow. once every three or four mows maybe... i hate lawns...

now though, i can use it to weed some thistles instead of mowing large areas so to have a spot weeding device might make some things easier and faster. am i actually gaining any time though? no. there's almost two acres here - i can knock back brush and weeds as much as i want - i don't want to or i'd already have been doing it... so there ya go.

p.s. love you Mom!

 

[flowerbug]

after the aforementioned trimming i got out and finished weeding the garden i'd like to plant with beans (late, but we'll do it anyways as they'll help keep some weeds down and provide some N and perhaps a crop of fresh beans for eating even if none get to dry bean stage before the frost takes them out). last year the later planted beans were the best crop i'd seen of them in a long time - but we did have a late fall frost - a few weeks made a lot of difference.

after the weeding was done (it's not really done but i was done ) i transplanted some more creeping thyme along the edge and got it watered in. glad to say it also rained a bit later on to help out.

more weeding today but i'm going to start gardening by picking some peas and pea pods. i'm really good at the planting and weeding (ok sort of ok) parts of gardening but some times i just don't have left-over energy for harvesting so i need to do it before i do anything else and when it is cooler it also helps a lot.

and there are some Beaver Dam peppers on the plants.