theres a snake in my

Average Day

Crazy racist survivalist uncle sent this giant squash for seeds next year

Oak trees health on the up

I have a 6 ft snake somewhere

No wonder I ain't got rabbits anymore

Manduca quinquemaculata

Hornworms, I have read, can be controlled with a mixture of flour and salt. The flour and salt mixture will expand the worm and make him "explode". This morning I found several dried worms on my tomatoes but also wilted leaves and caked salt on plants. I used 1:1 salt and flour but would recommend 3:1 flour to salt.

Spinach at 3 weeks from seed

2nd try at cantaloupe at 1 week from seed

Running behind on the pumpkins but 2 of these should provide many small baking pumpkins for fall.

almost 90

ripening tomatoes

Sprouting beans and Spinach

Worms ate several limbs of zucchini but producing well

Progress

Walking on Stoned

"That is well said," replied Candide, "but we must cultivate our garden."

- Voltaire

3 bags of mushroom compost = $6
9 sq feet organic mulch = $8
40 spinach seeds = $.95
1 used tire = $0
4 7ft fence post to be split for veggie ladder = $3.50
i spool electric fence wire = $donated
1 box 1 in wood screws = $donated
rocks bricks and gravel from Craigslist or previously removed from garden space = $0
stepping stones found behind shed = $0

total spent today about $17

fences and oaks