The garlic tops are mostly dry and I have been digging the bulbs out of the ground. This year I am not hanging them up by their tops, just standing them up in boxes and putting the boxes in the shed where I usually hang them. The tops are pretty dry and fragile instead of mostly green. The ground in the rows feels warm and is just a bit moist. Bulbs are mostly on the smallish side. Not great. As I dig I think. What should I try next to solve this excessive nitrogen problem? Maybe I'll buy bags of wood shavings like most horse owners now use in stalls. It would not mat together like straw and would not need to be shredded. Another idea is to plant in the pathways, however my rows are wide and the pathways are narrow, so that would result in less plantable ground, but if I spread shavings and rototilled crossways maybe everything would even out. Gotta think on that some more. Or I can plant the garlic on the opposite side of the garden where I usually grow corn and tomatoes and where a lot of last year's fallen leaves were tilled in about a month ago. I have a lot of time to dig and think.
The local packrat supply might have run out. After moving the trap I caught 2, skipped a night when the trap was sprung and then caught 4 on consecutive nights. Some adults, some youngsters. The last 3 nights I have caught nothing. Darn! I was going for a world record!
We are in a record setting high temperature streak. Not all time records, just records for the date and only exceeding the old ones by a degree or two. Not really noticeable or exciting except for those people who are really "into" weather.
My hubby has finally admitted that his days of cutting firewood in the woods are over, so when we saw a trailer load of sections of tree trunk for sale he bought the load and had it delivered. He tried splitting it with a maul and decided he's not going to do that anymore either, so now we own a hydraulic splitter and have the woodshed about half full.
The grasshopper plague continues! And they are growing. Not many little ones left now, most are 1 to 1 1/2 inches long. And I see them mating! I sprayed a bunch of areas this morning while it was cool and they weren't hopping until the spray hit them. One hop and they can't make another, or so it seems. I have also been hunting for and spraying wasp nests. Last year's sticky traps really seem to have knocked down the wasp population, however the same brand of traps is only catching flies this year. Lots of flies. Not my targeted species! I think the company may have switched chemical attractants between their fly and wasp traps. Maybe I should buy a fly trap and see if it catches wasps.
Early this morning we watched 3 coyote pups moving single file across our pasture. They might have been following their momma back to the den after a night of exploring and looking for trouble.
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