The Pumpkin Patch

I wanted to show you a different view of the pumpkin patch.  I know you can't tell this but the plants are now up to my waist. They have grown so much. I don't think I have ever had a year when the pumpkins plants looked this nice. Tonight we are going to crawl around putting a teaspoon of Osmocote  and work it into the soil around the base of the plant. It is a time release fertilizer. The tomatoes and peppers will get their shot of Epsom Salt. I really have never babied a garden the way I am this one. This morning very early, two of the boys came out and they said, " No wonder you two stay out here in the early morning, it is so peaceful, it is like being at the beach." Up until then they act like we are a bit cracked. We spend so much time out here.

This is the gourd area. The white blossoms are the luffa sponges. The yellow blossoms are the bird house gourds, and the kinds that you can craft with. It is very pretty out here too.

 Do you remember the baby blue jay that fell out of the tree around Easter? The male and female blue jay had another baby. They drove this guy off and then had a new family. When the newest member fell out of the tree, it barely had feathers. Not being the best of parents, the poor thing died. I picked it up which was a mistake because the parents saw me. I took it and buried it. Remember how the male blue jay has been my friend and followed me? Not since I took the baby. He just left. The Mom for three days followed me around the house, what ever room I was in she would sit on the railing and scream obscenities at me.
It was traumatic for me. I was even folding clothes in the laundry room with the door shut mind you and she came right up to the door and screamed at the outside door. I felt like I was in some kind of a horror movie.

She was screaming at me one evening as I was watering my chickens, " I told her that it wasn't my fault she used two sticks to build a nest so her baby fell out, she needed to get with the program and build nests better." She stopped screaming and flew off, since then I don't see either one. I had nightmares for two nights over that baby bird!

 

 It looks to be a busy week around here. Lots of good things to get done before people start arriving. It should be a fun week. July will show up and be hot all month. It is summer after all. My challenge will be if I can keep my garden weed free for July.

Have a wonderful new week.
~Kim~

 

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