What happened!?!

Finally, blogger started functioning again on the ftp server at NKU. It had been down since May 20th or so. Finally got working today.

Needless to say, a lot of gardening happened since May 20.

We decided to go with planting grass seed around our sqaure foot beds rather than mulching over weed barrier. And thus, we've planted a grass blend that met our needs-- drought tolerant and high traffic tolerance. The grass has sprouted. We're keeping it watered.

I bought a little timer that controls how long we water. Very useful, as now we can set the sprinkler on before we leave for the day and it shuts off automatically. It cost about $8.

I fertilized everything again with the espoma plant-tone about July 1. Hopefully i'll get around to using the fish emulsion and epsom salts this week or next.

we've had a lot of challenges this year with rabbit and deer. We put up a simple fence using bamboo and fishing line. The deer seem to respect it. The rabbit do not. They've eaten the tops off of some tomatoes and peppers. They pretty much decimated the japanese edamame soy beans.

Hopefully the technology will continue to function and we'll keep blogging...