Week of April 23, 2019

We got home from California to very nice weather.  On April 24, I planted arugula, lettuce, spinach, snap peas and carrots on the southern half of the garden, rotating crops this year.

We are leaving on April 28 and Paula has agreed to water that area.  We are also supposed to have snow this week as well as rain so that is good. Tom did a great act of service for me. I don't know if the stupid rabbits will try to get in but he put a fence around the garden.

 I bought this today:
I will put some of it around the fence near the Baileys and the gates before we leave on Sunday and then I will use it as the season goes on.  Tom said really only coyote urine works.  This is available at Walmart so I will get some of that too.
Tom chased a rabbit today.  They can get in through tiny holes. I hate them. But the squirrels are the worse. And get this, so last fall Scott was so upset that we trapped squirrels and relocated them but he told Tom today, "This peanut thing is really getting bad. We are FINE with you trapping them this summer." What a turnaround.
I went to the Ace 99 cent for 4 pack sale. The petunias were not in good shape, very spindly. One of the other crazy gardeners there at 7am told me to trim them back, prune, baby, prune.  Joan is going to babysit them until I get back. I got 36 4-packs. Linda told me she had bought a 4-pack for $2.49 the other day. This is the lowest price of the season.

And dear Linda got me some potting soil. Two huge bags of potting soil.  When I get back on the 11th, I'll be busy with potting tomatoes, planting the zucchini, cucumber, summer squash seeds.  It will have to be different this year with the fence.  Here are the scalped petunias and the ones I'd not scalped yet.