FishinBC's Blog

No time for a summer cold
Jul 20, 2007 | 6:58 AM PST
Tags: veggie , Pond , Daylilies , Squash Vine Borers , Tomato , Cukes , Zukes , raised beds , Banana Peppers , dogs , racoons , birds

Still dry but we are supposed to get some rain this afternoon.  I should have watered last night but was just too tired.  Been fighting a summer cold and trying to convenience myself I am not going to catch it.   I am sure it will sneak up and bite me sooner or later.  I don’t have time to be sick!

Gave some more pond plants away.  I potted up some off shoots of the lotus and four leaf clover, added some hyacinths, water lettuce and gave them to a co worker who just put in a pond.  My pond is still full!!  Loads of lilies still blooming, but nothing from the lotus yet. 

We will get the new raised bed up this weekend and do the soil prep, to have it ready for a fall veggie planting.  Want to do some peas and beans and more greens.  My yellow tomatoes have been the best producers so far.  They sure are yummy.  The red varieties are producing, just not as big or as many.  I think the vine borers have finally discovered my zukes, I have two plants withering that I will pull out tonight. L  Cukes are still doing great and I have one with dinner every night.   I think the heat is starting to get to the peppers.  The banana peppers are curling.  I have been checking to be sure that they have adequate even water.  Any suggestions?

More of the new daylilies are getting ready to bloom.  These should be the Crimson Shadows.  I have to late season ones that I hope will bloom also.  One is called Late Embers and the other Fall Pink Melon.  The two blooming now are called Go Figure.

Have the inevitable weed pulling and deadheading to do as well.  Been lazy about the weeds in the flowerbeds with heat we have been having.  The black and white brigade has been promised a trip down to the lake in the morning, so we will be up before the heat and I will have no excuses after that.  The boys will be good and tired after a swim and Briar will have a good long ball session.  They deserve it after being put aside a bit while company’s been here. 

Rob now has the timing of the raccoon family’s visits down.  They show up on the deck at about 5am every morning now and he knows it.  No barking this morning, he just sat at the sliding glass door to watch them eat their breakfast.  The babies are growing fast.  Got a couple of dark pix of them this morning and will try to get them posted tonight.

The bird feeders have been really busy in the evenings.  I am seeing a lot more indigo buntings this year.  Not sure if there are more than normal or I am just providing a better seed selection.  Must make some more of Gene’s suet for the pileated woodies.  They are now daily visitors too.