Backyard Garden

So it's a bit of a gamble, but it shouldn't be. The weather has been great this past week, hovering in the mid-60s. We hit 80+ degrees one of those days. It's Memorial Day weekend and should be a perfect time to transplant the seedlings Jen has been growing and raising for the past month. Maybe more than a month. We spent the day planting the seedlings and sowing the seeds in the garden, then watering the little beasts in the hope that they take and grow. Looks good, though. It is a gamble because last night, around 11:00 just before heading up to bed, I decided to check the weather. I never check the weather at night because I'm going to bed and I don't care. It's going to be colder than it was when the sun was out. Maybe it will rain, maybe it won't. I don't care because I'll be sleeping. But I checked it, and it said it was going to get down to 38 degrees. Not quite a frost, but along with that temp, the app gave a frost warning. I...

We had squirrels digging in the garden, mind you they are not eating anything, just digging holes and digging up carrots, cilantro, and basil. We are prepared to hang the lovely aluminum pie plates that make racket, and it might work if we have jumpy squirrels. Problem with that is we have city squirrels! Other than removing squirrels I have read ther eis not much you can do. Once they find a good place to dig and hide things, thye come back over and over and over. Since we have been in the midst of monsoon season for a couple weeks, the squirrels are staying away. Which is good, except all the rain is causing a couple of crops to get that "over watered" look. Most of my cilantro and parsley kicked the bucket (over watering, they had rot at the base of the plant) and I am in the process of figuring out what I can replace it with. I may go to a nursery and see if I can purchase some. The melons look yellwed at this point and we may lose those as well. They love the rain when t...