Tasks
- Turned drip irrigation on for the night
- Gave sad looking strawberry plant some extra water
Notes
- Something is eating one of the sweet potato plants -slugs?
- Very hot and no rain
July 10
Tasks
- Watered a little but didn't use drip irrigation because it looked like rain
Notes
- Saw a black and white ladybug on the currants, unsure of ID
July 9
Tasks
- Put up trellises for tomatoes and squash
- Pruned tomatoes
Harvested
- Lemon balm: 0.3 kg
- Currants: 0.1kg
- Strawberries: 0.1kg
- Snow peas: 0.2kg
- Mulberries: 0.1kg
Collected
- Columbine seeds
- Russian sage seeds
Notes
- Sunny and hot - sprinkled rain later in the day
- Potatoes are flowering
- Squash are vining out
- Garden is looking very green!
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| Potato Blossom |
July 7
Harvested
- Garlic scapes
- Mulberries
Notes
- Very hot and then very rainy
July 6
Tasks
- Watered new sweet potato plants
Notes
- Irrigation worked well overnight - emptied the barrel
- Very hot and sunny
July 5
Tasks
- Installed drip irrigation
- Planted sweet potatoes
- Weeded burrs, goldenrod, dog strangling vine
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| Installed Drip Irrigation System |
Notes
- Some rhubarb fell off so ate it
- Peas are harvestable
- Baby peas are growing
- Very hot - warm in the evening and 26 C - Sunny
- Ate some wild strawberries