I have had the darndest time with the soil in the small crop bed. The soil is unusually clumpy. Not wet-clumpy, dry clumps. And they are hard. That is unusual. I can usually just crush them by hand easily. I even added compost this year. Maybe I dug the clumps up from deeper in the bed this year. I need fine soil for planting carrots and lettuce, etc. Fortunately, it has rained for 2 days so I think I can crunch up the hard clumps in a couple days. And maybe I better add a couple inchs of leaf-gro to turn in!
I cleaned out the small 5' pre-formed pond last week and siphoned it dry.
Then I repotted all the waterlilies and sweet flag, refilled it, and waited a week.
I added some mosquito dunk and was surprised to find ( a week later) that there were larvae all through it. I took a full dunk and crumbled it up all over. I am glad to see there are no larvae to be seen now!
So I added 4 small orange fantail goldfish to the pond. They like to sit under water plant leaves, so they are hard to spot, but I stood by the pond for a while and finally noticed them moving around. They stick together. I may put some netting over the pond to keep the goldfish safe. I had 3 that lived there for 4 years then all disappeared in a week. I suspect a raccoon.
I pre-soaked some other crop seeds several days ago. It gets the initial root started so you know which seeds are viable. Flat Italian beans, corn, cukes, cantelope, honeydew, and watermelon. I got those all planted just before the rains came Saturday.
So I'm waiting for the first seeds to come up. I'll bet on the beans to show first.
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