Bedtime took forever tonight, so it was well after dark before I made it outside to water. I went ahead and fertilized as well, mixing up 15 gallons of John's Recipe, and giving everything a good dousing. I tried to give extra TLC to the pumpkins since I stabbed them with a medicine dropper this afternoon, injecting bT into most of them. (Found quite a few squash borer holes once I knew what I was looking for. At least I found them before real damage was done!)
This weekend is crazy busy, so I don't think I'll manage to get much done in the garden. I've got a triathlon Sunday, and while I'll be home by noon, I'm not going to want to play in the garden after. Saturday is pretty much booked too.
I need to design a butterfly garden for my son's school (It's called Mariposa.)
I need to give the plants a more thorough drink.
I need to weed in the back yard along the retaining wall.
We need to figure out a bird&critter net for David's corn.
I need to dig out the last of the bleeding heart in my herb garden and try to win that war.
I need to stake my fruit trees!




Responses
Bob, John's Recipe is my current favorite liquid fertilizer:
http://www.ladybugbrand.com/fertilizer.htm#fertilizer-1
I wish I could magically transfer your unwanted bleeding hearts to my yard. :) I dunno why but its been one of my favorite plants to observe this spring:
http://greenthumbr.com/plants/dicentra/images
Aaron says its because it got destroyed by the frost last spring and that I'm making up for not seeing it last year. My bleeding heart also has a little bit of sentimental value to me...being that I bought it for cheap from a place that had it on the sidewalk with a sign in it that said "rescue me." I was pretty excited that I brought it back to life.
Sorry for the confusion :)
Being children of the Politically Correct movement, we figured "Wandering Jew" simply could not be acceptable. Sure enough, it appears to be a less-than-pleasing moniker.
There's the "Wandering Jew" folklore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew
Our own database claims ours to be more acceptably called a "Purple Queen".
http://greenthumbr.com/plants/tradescantia_pallida