Edit: I think I saw a native bird outside but it flew off before I could get my crappy plastic binoculars. It was brown with a long tail and made a rattling chattering noise. Didn’t look like a mynah.
Melbcat ate a good bit of her breakfast. I give her anti nausea medicine with the rest of the meds by oral syringe, and since she’s been picky about the expensive kidney friendly food switched back to the stinky generic tuna cat food she loves… At the moment she gets that with sprinkled toppings of Fortiflora and nutritional yeast, a spoonful of pumpkin puree, and today she got a dab of plain lactose free yogurt too. Baby girl eats better than I do ❤️
My golden nugget pumpkins look ridiculous with their plastic hats on but they’re not eaten or dead. The bigger fellow that got planted first even appears to be growing larger. The soil test results came back and everything is within safe limits.
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I’m still a bit worried for them though. Pumpkins are heavy feeders that like manure in their soil and plenty of water. But this is dry sandy soil, with greedy tree roots extending in from someone else’s tree. They’re planted in half arsed unfertilised holes scraped out in the midst of the invasive grass because I don’t think I can clear it all. (I dug manure through to improve the soil many years ago before the grass invaded but that would all be gone by now.) They absolutely will have to compete for nutrients and water. I’ve also planted everything kinda late.
The smaller sized variety is growing in the paper cups and putting out leaves. They’ll be ready to pot soon. I could bum a lift for potting mix tomorrow (and maybe manure? adding a second bag of anything takes the delivery from $10 to $25 and it just keeps scaling up) but not sure if it’s good to go out in that heat.
The least taxed zucchini plant is sending up a few male flowers now but the others are not, and two are suffering from something that looks like powdery mildew. I’ll have to repeat the spray when it’s not too hot.
The tomatoes are doing ok. Wilting regularly between waters but I haven’t noticed the fruit splitting from moisture variations which was my worry with heirlooms. Only one is ripe so far but they seem to be setting an ok amount of fruit. I bet the birds and rats take notice soon.
Edit: I think I saw a native bird outside but it flew off before I could get my crappy plastic binoculars. It was brown with a long tail and made a rattling chattering noise. Didn’t look like a mynah.
Melbcat ate a good bit of her breakfast. I give her anti nausea medicine with the rest of the meds by oral syringe, and since she’s been picky about the expensive kidney friendly food switched back to the stinky generic tuna cat food she loves… At the moment she gets that with sprinkled toppings of Fortiflora and nutritional yeast, a spoonful of pumpkin puree, and today she got a dab of plain lactose free yogurt too. Baby girl eats better than I do ❤️
My golden nugget pumpkins look ridiculous with their plastic hats on but they’re not eaten or dead. The bigger fellow that got planted first even appears to be growing larger. The soil test results came back and everything is within safe limits.
spoiler
I’m still a bit worried for them though. Pumpkins are heavy feeders that like manure in their soil and plenty of water. But this is dry sandy soil, with greedy tree roots extending in from someone else’s tree. They’re planted in half arsed unfertilised holes scraped out in the midst of the invasive grass because I don’t think I can clear it all. (I dug manure through to improve the soil many years ago before the grass invaded but that would all be gone by now.) They absolutely will have to compete for nutrients and water. I’ve also planted everything kinda late.
The smaller sized variety is growing in the paper cups and putting out leaves. They’ll be ready to pot soon. I could bum a lift for potting mix tomorrow (and maybe manure? adding a second bag of anything takes the delivery from $10 to $25 and it just keeps scaling up) but not sure if it’s good to go out in that heat.
The least taxed zucchini plant is sending up a few male flowers now but the others are not, and two are suffering from something that looks like powdery mildew. I’ll have to repeat the spray when it’s not too hot.
The tomatoes are doing ok. Wilting regularly between waters but I haven’t noticed the fruit splitting from moisture variations which was my worry with heirlooms. Only one is ripe so far but they seem to be setting an ok amount of fruit. I bet the birds and rats take notice soon.
Maybe a wattle bird? They make all sorts of noises
Yeah, I’ve been looking up calls and it could be