Gardening, anyone?

My husband fertilized the raised bed garden today.

Then a beautiful rain came.

He found several items to pick but decided not to because I haven't felt well and stayed inside.

Monday will be a better day and we can harvest then.

I am so tired of treatment which ends mid August. I am sure this feeling is normal and will pass.

Coach Vicky

squirrels came back and even eat some of my roses

Good that the plant has lots so u can tell till you look close that some were taken away . Here she is looking beautiful still.

Other did not have much luck

I added more spice but I now think I need to find something to scare them with .

On the other hand I just realized my little bonsai tree is blooming too first time in years I got him 3 years ago I have 3 bonsai trees never had blooms

See the tyny little white flower? Lol

Hi, I love gardening but as energy runs down, so the care for my garden. I bought two lavender plants and I am trying to save at least one. Recommendations? Please. I love lavender.

Maria

DH put his game camera up to capture a nights worth of visiting at our bird feeders. We were very surprised. Thought I'd share. Sorry that they are night shots. But just amazed how in six hours we had this many visitors that were not birds.

Red fox

And as morning came about we had cardinals and squirrels. Busy night at the local restaurant.

Enerva, Gardener's Supply Catalog has a number of devices to protect plants. You might look and get ideas.

Mariangel, welcome to our garden! I know nothing about lavender except that it's my favorite color. I'm going to add some to a small flower bed I have planned... as soon as DH gets our new sidewalk put in.

Jazzy, I'm still praying for rain for you! 🙏 Hopefully you'll get some soon, sizzling is not good for plants!

Vicky, sending gentle healing hugs and prayers that your treatments pass quickly. We've got your back, you just need to take slow deep breaths and rest as much as you need and enjoy your garden when you can.

Gardennerd, awesome pictures! I've got 2 cameras but never figured out how to work them. My DS figured it out but he forgot to show me before he headed back to TX, oh well

Enerva, I was tempted to get an automatic sprinkler that was activated by movement. Withyou living in an apartment your lower neighbors may not like getting splattered with water. They have some that you fill with water and are solar powered which would work well for you.

It rained off and on most of the day yesterday so I just slept all day. I can't seem to figure out why I'm so tired all of a sudden? I don't like it! I'll wander out to check my garden in a bit to see if my tomato and pepper plants have grown with the rain. They still seem awfully small to me, they are growing peppers and tomatoes so I guess I shouldn't worry about plant size. The only thing I have planned for the day is to pick up the fallen branches from the storms Saturday and Sunday and mow the yard. I'm worn out from just thinking about it. 😜

The above is before the landscaping.  I had someone bring in dirt and plant some evergreens.  I added flowers. The below is a picture as it looks now.  I still have a lot of work to do to make it match the picture in my head.

Here's a close up.

Gardennerd, what awesome night pictures! Who would have guessed so many visitors would show up?

Ananda, that is gorgeous and looks like you have planted my type of plants....ones that mostly take care of themselves while looking beautiful.

Jazzy, I understand the sizzling garden. That is why I am mostly planting peppers now. We had too many years of high heat and no rain and I would lose my veggie gardens after all the work I put into it. I don't plant a lot of flowers for that same reason. I do have 2 beautiful fake hanging baskets which also give me joy. Still hoping for rain your way and mine too. We got teased with a misting yesterday. It was so light that I went out and watered the veggie gardens, the flowers, and the grapes and blackberries. I figured if I did not water then they would all look awful tonight when I got home and since it takes me about an hour to hand water I was not looking forward to that. I still prefer nature's watering as the plants do seem to perk up a lot better.

Scottie, what a cute lil frog!

Welcome to the site Mariangel! Lavender is such a great plant...looks great, smells great.

Enerva, sorry to hear the squirrels are back. I didn't know bonsai bloomed. What type is yours?

Teka, That beauty bush is so pretty as is that red honeysuckle. I have some of the invasive yellow that has made its way to the front yard and wrapped around the water faucet there. I should pull it. Ugh

Vicky, it's OK and will get better. I find on my worse days thinking about the garden helped me as it always brought me joy in the previous years.

Lori. I still experience that tiredness too. I think it is the body still recovering from the assault on it and then the AI I take contributes to the feeling too.

Does anybody use shade cloth? We don't need it here but it seems like it might be helpful where there's more sun. Our front lawn is mostly clover. I'm fine with it since it doesn't need any care and stays green much better than the grass. People here let their grass go brown in the summer. It's green from fall to spring.

Jazzy. . .123 degrees is insane weather. We are having an odd Georgia summer. Mid to high 80s, when it's usually 90s and rain almost every day. Keeping fingers crossed.

Scottie

Great day yesterday! Thank you all for your encouraging words.

After a swim DH (I call him Pool Guy in the spring and summer, Mountain Man in the fall and winter.) we went to the garden. We gathered strawberries, red and white radishes, and out first zucchini!

Coach Vicky

I read this on my Farmers Almanac and wanted to share 😍

Fair and green is the marsh in June;
Wide and warm in the sunny noon.
The flowering rushes fringe the pool
With slender shadows, dim and cool.
–Antoinette Alcott Bassett

Jazzy, 123!!! Holy cow! We lived in Alamogordo for 4 years and it'd get so hot and crispy every summer with very little rain during growing season. Dang!

Vicky, yay for great days!

Heidi, yay for your DH building you a porch for your garden shed! I'm wondering if it's the AI that I'm taking too? I can deal with a sleepy day now and then as long as it doesn't move in and take over my body. Otherwise, it'll have to move out! If it were just that easy.

My beans are doing great and I have the cutest baby cucumbers. We got a nice down pour late last night so it saves me from watering this morning. I'm trying to send rain to everyone that needs it but it keeps getting sidetracked!

The new beans seeds I planted because the squirrels got to some are growing nicely. One tomato plant has three flowers already.

Hi folks- just to clarify, not that hot here in central NM, but down in southern NM, it will be hotter and Phoenix and places in Palm Springs and Palm Desert are in the 120s. Phoenix is cancelling flights, tarmac not stable in this heat and seen that once before but not in awhile. Dangerous heat.

For anyone here taking AIs, the pharmacist advised me to take it before bed as I would not feel the immediate SEs when I took it. I have stiff joints that are with me always, but it helps to take it before bed. I was on Arimidex and my MO changed me to Aromosin about a year or so ago (less joint SEs). Its a long time taking these (5-10 years) so keep trying to figure out what works.