{"id":707,"date":"2017-07-04T08:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkskywv.net\/waynes_impossible\/?p=707"},"modified":"2018-04-09T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:27:31","slug":"june-july-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkskywv.net\/waynes_impossible\/gardening\/june-july-update\/","title":{"rendered":"June-July Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s near the end of June and I’m still struggling to get the rest of the garden planted. While there are a number of reasons, they all sound like excuses so I won’t go there. I am making progress though and for most plants, if not all, it’s probably not too late.<\/p>\n

Tomato plants – I planted 16. They have already been reduced by half by a critter(s). That worries me because I have squash plants coming up. The fence is almost done so hopefully that helps. Update: Some of them seem to be recovering from their attack!<\/p>\n

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Big sheets of cardboard help keep the weeds in check until I get to them. They will be cut into smaller sheets to use as “under-mulch” afterward.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What’s slowing me down now is that beautiful green grass (and other lovely volunteers) have come in and I have to hoe each row and then rake it out before I can plant it. It did save me time to weed whack it. I didn’t whack right down to the ground though. I don’t know why. But at least I kept it from going to seed and made it much more manageable to hoe.<\/p>\n

I’m getting there.<\/p>\n

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Egyptian Walking Onions getting ready for a walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Welcome to July<\/strong>. While I was working on this post in draft mode, the calendar changed on me. Time waits for no one. So I changed the name from June Update<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Yesterday (July 1) I did a mega-big push and got a lot accomplished. If I do the same today I might have it just about all caught up, might need one more day to be done. Then I have to get crazy with mulch so it doesn’t get taken over by weeds again.<\/p>\n

And I definitely have to finish that fence!! It’s almost done though. I hope it works. This is nuts!<\/p>\n

So far I have planted:<\/p>\n