Assorted Things Around The Garden

Well, there's a lot going on here at Merlin's Garden so here's a quick run down.

Of the 27 eggs Boudica, the bearded dragon laid I'm down to about a half dozen still possibly viable to hatch and produce baby dragons.

Speaking of eggs, I usually fetch in an average of one per day duck egg. I write (in pencil) the date before I put them in the fridge and always the newest in the back to insure rotation and freshness. Everybody here eats eggs! Myself,  the canine kids, the lizards, sugar gliders, hedgehog, even the birds that laid them. Between us all we eat every bit including the shells.

Also speaking of eggs, I finally ordered the Hova-Bator incubator w/ auto turner, etc, most of the bells & whistles but not all as some I found extraneous & unneeded for my purposes. I bought one almost identical some 25 years ago for around $50.00 and now the price is almost three times that. Like most things, the price rarely goes down so I figured I'd best go ahead and get it now.

It's the latter part of July and I have yet to see any catalpa worms on my trees so I'm doubting I'll have any this year. Maybe they don't produce every year?

Along with my almost daily eggs I fetch in a few tomatoes, mostly the smaller varieties of cherry and/or grape... most of which I gobble before even bringing them into the house! I've been picking a few peas here and there, and freezing them until I have enough to cook up what we refer to as a "mess". I've also harvested a couple of nice cucumbers and my sunflowers are starting to "deadhead". That is, they've made all they're going to make and are starting to die down so it won't be too long before it's time to harvest the heads and uproot the stalks for composting. The peanut patch is looking pretty good but corn, gourds and okra are looking quite dismal. As was the case last year my volunteer tomatoes are far outperforming those I worked for. My dill in the front garden is going to flower/seed so I'm hoping it'll colonize as did my dill plants at my former home.

That's about all I can think of re: new/recent goings on here at the garden. Until next time, Merlin