Hell of a week. Wife, 30wks pregnant with our second daughter, decided she wasn’t getting enough attention (or something idk) and sprained her foot at the 4th and 5th metatarsals (outside toes). So, I’m off work the next couple days.
Dropped the work horse (my old pathfinder) off at the muffler shop this morning to get a fairly simple exhaust leak fixed so it’ll pass state inspection, won’t be ready til tomorrow evening at best. No biggie, since I’m home with the wife and a 10mo old anyway, except I panic a little every time I look in the backyard and she ain’t there lol.
Storm came through the other night, dropped a small limb off a small tree in the backyard, fell right on our cayenne pepper plant and knocked off the stem with 4 peppers on it. Luckily 3 were already of decent size so I currently have them hanging and the biggest is reddening up quite nicely.
Went to IKEA (closest is about 2 hours away) to look at the new bed we plan on getting and confirm for my wife that it won’t fit in our Mazda CX-5 (box is 84” long and 20” wide) and had to bite my tongue in order to keep from saying “This is why I kept pushing for a minivan.” Now we plan to borrow my buddy’s minivan to go get the bed tomorrow. We did come home with our new mattress, though.
Decided the onions and potatoes were as ready to harvest as they were gonna get, as the stems and stalks were all yellow and droopy (and not from lack of water), so once the youngin went to sleep I went to work digging them out. Lesson learned: potatoes and onions have deeper roots than I had expected, go bigger on the container next time. Oh, and doing garden work is still sweaty on 90-degree, high humidity days…even at 1030pm.
My one basil cutting has successfully become its own basil plant, and was rapidly outgrowing its solo cup, so I repotted it in a nice planter. May go bigger later, we’ll see how it does.
Plan to repot the mint plants as they’re all going crazy, probably will put a few in the ground around here to grow along with the grass and maybe mitigate some of the fire ant problem I currently have in the backyard by helping the soil not be so much of the sandy/clay they seem to prefer.
Speaking of fire ants, my gallon of horticultural molasses showed up yesterday, so I went out this morning and sprayed 4 gallons of molasses water on the whole yard and my plants, hoping that will help with the fire ants also (saw lots of conflicting results, but I figure it can’t hurt). Okra plants look really happy since I sprayed them with it, and I also sprayed my compost bins (partially cause fire ants have been raiding them too).
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