Along came the nasty

Just when you get cocky about the plants.. Yep the weather has a way of humbling you.. Every year it happens and there is little to be done about it..

 First off.. There is a section of lawn (grass) that is on the west side of the house and it really isn't that big of a deal.. it grows every year without much fanfare.. Except it always bothers me that it nearly really doesn't grow at all.. It never gets above height.. Even if I leave it alone for a month it never grows really hardly at all.  lower the platform raise the platform... Scalp it.. Treat it nasty it really doesn't care..

 Yesterday I do something that I think is a good idea.. Hope it is.. The tiller has an edger blade of it, and I used it to cut into the grass.. A lot of the time that edger is used to get irrigation tubing set in wherever I need it..

 Trying to cut squares as in a aeretor.. Trying to make the grass get water rather than pool up. That is a fairly solid area there and without the grass growing there it might feel like bricks to walk on instead of now where it feels like grass growing on cinder blocks..

 Above and directly below: This is right in front of the deck, and every year like clockwork the corner area becomes worn by people walking in the same exact place.. In this case the people are me because I'm the only one that walks there.. I am trying to get the grass to grow fully there and the idea was to replant there and then I realized that it would take a while to do and with it being the main traffic area this would likely not work but rather be a terrific failure.. So rather than do that I am designating these spot watering heads to water there every day for at least ten minutes per day.. Friday was twice because of the 100 degree day that it was..  It seems to be working but DAMN.. It is so hard to remember those little things are there..

 The reseed under the clothesline.. As mentioned in a previous blog this was reseeded from an earlier failure.. It seems to be growing well.. Hopefully by the first of August I will have all these spot watering places done.. Hope to anyway..

 The pumpkin headed for the gas meter.. Still unstoppable it moves along at it's pace..

 Climb a tree?  Ok but I gotta get somewhere by September..

 The pumpkin will not hold a record breaker or even challenge.. The reason??  The leaves are being shreaded by hail and then wind..

 These are the roma tomatoes setting on in mass..

 Moby grape type of tomato.. Can't you taste them??

 Back to the pumpkins.. Still in sharing space mode.. I guess that's alright.. Like I have much coice right now..

 You see the blossoms?? They aren't supposed to be that visible.. But the wind has made seeing the under carriage that much easier..

 Hot day wilting under the heat of the sun..

 It seems the wind has done what I couldn't do.. Thin the herd a bit..

 The pumpkin patch proper..

 these were all blown over from the opposite direction..

 They look a little worse for ware but still ok..  I watered them solid for an hour today.. hopefully they will recover nicely..

A little more about the wind/weather last night.. The wind did blow, harder than I thought it would but it came as very little surprise.. This is the time of year shit happens to plants.. We can get smaller hail but very persistent, like a machine gun just ... Ripping the shit out of the plants..

The leaves are taking it in the shorts, from bugs, hail... RABBITS.. Maybe other animals I'm not sure.. But it will be interesting to see what we get this fall..

By the way I was checking the compost tumbler thing and a week or so ago I added water to help get the latest batch of compost to get done.. Big mistake.. It is really nasty heavy and yesterday I opened it and it smells like someone cleaned a carp in there.. Really nasty stinky stuff.. And wet and clumpy it reminds me of road apples.. You know ... horse shit..  I added leaves from a tree that was dead for a while, trying to dry it out.. The date it will be emptied will be the 30th of July.. Yummy..

Badge Henry..