Mickey

Sure sounds like most of us are having weather issues this year. Most of the stuff I got planted a couple weeks ago are up and the radishes I planted earlier are getting close to harvest. Here is the first of June and no Tomato's planted nor second planting of corn. Plenty of weed coming up from all the recent rains. Don't think this is going to turn out to be a very good garden year.

1970 Bolens 1257 w/tiller
2005 Cub 3204 48" deck
Yanmar Fx24D
5' Howse rotary mower
RSB 1300 Yanmar tiller

Mark / Ohio

I put the drip hose in the garden today and hooked it up to a timer. Don't want my sprouts to get too dry. Sounds like scattered storms all week and warming up.

I found this little fellow on the front porch today trying to take a nap.





He was still there a few minutes ago I assume waiting on mom. For better or worse I thought I'd better get him at least back out in the yard somewhere. He ended up running across the street towards the neighbor's front porch. At least he is further from the garden now.

Stood about 2' tall to the top of his head. I don't know, maybe he's still on a milk diet. If he is, he must be getting pretty hungry by now.

Mark

2002 John Deere LT150

Mickey

Wish I could see more wild life around here. For being out in the country we rarely see anything like Mark.

In the nearly 40 yrs here, I think I've only seen a deer a couple times. I've seen foxes close to the house a number of times. There have been a couple of times I've had more than our share of wild life at the house. Only trouble was once it was Opossums and the other skunks. Didn't need either. The yr we had skunk trouble I trapped 21 over a couple months.

1970 Bolens 1257 w/tiller
2005 Cub 3204 48" deck
Yanmar Fx24D
5' Howse rotary mower
RSB 1300 Yanmar tiller

Mark / Ohio

One night I think it was 6 deer I counted standing around the yard at the same time. Even in the tree filled sections of the inner city they are about. Don't see many skunks. I see about one coon and/or possum a year passing through. But of course they are not normally out and about during the day anyway. Groundhogs I see everyday but seldom in the yard. I have one or two chipmunks now that showed up last week. So far only one occasional rabbit. The rabbit started a nest next to the house in a flower bed but moved out before it was completed. One thing I seldom see now compared to the past is toads. They used to get into the basement window wells. I've rescued some fairly good sized ones out of them.

The kid in me never out grew the fun of catching a toad and playing with it.

Mark

2002 John Deere LT150

GreenWannabe

For a couple of years, I lived in an RV park about 30 miles west of Topeka, KS. While we were there, saw several deer, a flock of 19 turkeys for a couple of months, many ducks, geese, and other birds, rabbits, an occasional coyote, and one evening a bobcat. One friend told me her husband had always wanted to see a bobcat in the wild, and had been looking for more than 30 years, and here I was, just there a short while, and I saw one. She said he would be unhappy.

Regards

Fred

vansimplement

Here in NW Iowa things are a bit behind last year as well. First we kept getting cold snaps, then we kept (and still are) getting thunderstorms. I managed to get my seedlings in the ground on Memorial Day and they're doing pretty well so far.

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jbrumberg

I no longer could maintain my tomatoes under lights so I planted them today within these plastic water plant protector "thingies". I've been running my rider with its grass catcher in my lower field since it started to turn green and before it started to get too high to cut for mulch. We'll see how the tomatoes make out. Jay

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Nicahawk

All the garden talk has prompted me to post a couple pictures of my garden. Weather here in my area has been pretty wet this year and I'm way behind. When I catch up I should have about 3/4 acre planted. The wire panels are for pole beans and peas to climb on.

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Nica in KS

Mark / Ohio

Looking good what you've got done there so far Nica!


We've topped two inches of rain since the storms started yesterday. Supposed to get miserable hot 90°F+ next few days. Going to be nice and steamy with all this water laying around.

Mark

2002 John Deere LT150

jbrumberg

[quote=Mark / Ohio;8612]Looking good what you've got done there so far Nica!

Ditto- Jay

NH TC29DA with 14LA FEL with 60" HD QA bucket, cutting edge & toothbar, weighted R-1's, FOPS, CCM M-160 58" tiller, Tebben MD 60" Rotary Cutter, Woods LR 108 96" Landscape Rake, Woods GB60 60" Box Blade