Procrastination

I write again on this blog to relax and procrastinate on a school project I should be working on.

The golpher (another one) has drilled a hole in my front lawn and even eaten some of the surrounding grass. I suspect this is the one which is responsible for the demise of my margarite daisy. Since it isn't near any food I'm growing I'll go after it with bait. I don't want my front yard looking like something from 'Caddyshack'.

I removed the chinese cabbage which bolted again. I've also removed the wrinkly spinach which had also bolted. The backyard golpher (I'll call him Fred... the front yard one will be called Barney) is destroying the lettuce plant by plant so I'm just not going to worry about them anymore. This decission really doesn't have anything to do with the golpher but more so with having worms ending up on the dinner plate. Let me rewind here a moment...

Back a few months ago, we had family over and the salad from the garden had a worm in it. I don't spray anything (herbicides, pesticides, fungicides) on it so bugs (and gophers) live. Diatomaceous earth is supposed to slow them down or stop them but only with limited success. Tonight we had corned beef (no, it's not from the garden) and cabbage (yes, it is) and a worm ended up with dinner. In a nutshell, that sort of killed dinner (as well as the worm) so we ended up snacking all night for food. As a result, no more food will be grown where worms can hide. I'm just realizing I need to dig out the artichoke plant for this reason. Smaller vegetables, fruit trees and herbs can stay.

The first bell-pepper is starting to show. It's coming off of a Home Depot plant. The chilis are taking their time. The corn should be ready in about another week (for the first one, anyway). I haven't decided what I'm going to plant in the bare areas yet. The pole beans are between 6 and 12 inches tall. It'll be awhile before there's anything to harvest.

I cleaned up the garden shed (sometimes referred to as the 'barn' because of the gambriel roof). I need to build shelves to increase storage.

Not much else.