Tbh I sometimes wake up with a crick in my neck and do this to work it out

They always do, in spite of me asking them to stay tiny and fluffy

Someone on the town crew was out with the boom flail mower, mowing on the sides of the road. Ostensibly, it’s to keep the drainage channels clear and to reduce plants from reaching out into the road. Guy mowed my entire front row of ferns, skipped some lilies, then mowed down my flowering and decorative grasses. At one point, he must have lifted the boom to avoid an Iris, but then brought it back down on another flowering grass in the middle of my front gardens. They’ll survive, but my front garden is going to look destroyed for a few weeks at least while they recover.

In more positive news, we had some friends and their son visit on Sunday. My wife took the other ladies around to walk in the gardens at one point while I was cooking - I found out later that we’re part of the inspiration for some folks who are looking to start a sober living space!

I really love that awkward phase! Their adult colors start coming in, and they’re super adventurous.

So I didn’t spot any other girls frequenting the greenhouse, which leads me to believe they could all be hers. Our two boys are ‘chocolate’ and ‘pied’, so with her ‘pied’ genetics they could all be hers and the colors might be crazy.

Generally speaking the yellow bits will be light and the brown parts will be black or brown, with browns and sometimes green or an iridescent purple being kore common on the yellow ducklings.

She bit me a little but a few of them weren’t hand shy at all and I scritched a few duckling bellies today

I bit the bullet and ordered some shirts to wear while I’m working the market stand, and I’m hopeful that they make everything more cohesive. Logo is the front, catchphrase is the back:

I helped a friend out of a bind this week, and tomorrow I’ll be helping another friend start to transplant his garden from his old house to his new one. Hopefully this heat dome doesn’t ruin our efforts.

They can get pretty gigantic. They don’t all grow to that size, but a rhubarb plant that’s been in a spot it likes for a few seasons can be massive. Since the stalks are the edible part. We use those leaves as a chop and drop mulch to smother and cover weeds

One of our market friends is a mom & pop bakery, and she asked this past weekend if we had any 😂

I agree, it’s amazing

At first I had a little trouble but then I saw the telltale “V” of ripples in the water. You might have wanted a different picture but I think you captured the mood perfectly.

Oof, yeah. I would be feeling the same way

Thanks, I’m really proud of everyone who donated their plants and time, and for the folks in town for showing up like they did.

Congrats!

Our town library’s plant and bake sale happened on Saturday, and we raised over 1200 dollars for the programs they put on - a 107% increase in donations from last year!

I’ve basically run out of small pots for bringing plants to market, but choose to see it as proof that my seed starting has gotten much more consistent. I do need to find more though, because I have something like 300 seedlings that need more space. Sent some texts and emails and also metaphorically begged for them during the plant sale so hopefully folks come through, since I refuse to commission the creation of more plastic.

Please give him some of it! And some pats and a “whosagoodboy” because he is

Hi Petey! Even your serious face is very smile inducing

Here is a landscape video of part of it

and

Here is a portrait video of part of it depending on your viewing preferences. Sound removed because the kiddo was freaking out about seeing snakes for the first time.

This whole post should be marked MSFW (milksnakes found wuv)

Mugolio

Welcome! We’re glad to have you here!

It’s not so much the crop you’re growing, but the weedy species around the growing space which will try to get to that space and will entangle themselves in the plastic interweave. Trying to remove them by pulling will just rip some of the material apart, which means bits of plastic left behind and greater opportunities for even more weeds to make it through.