2024 08 10 - Moved fence

This fence had been on the other half of this garden around the strawberries. So I only had to move three sides of it.

I've had this fence for about 10 years and have moved it a few times most years. There is a short piece that is closest on this picture that came from my folks. The rest of the fence is three foot high chicken wire that has been bent too many times and has some larger holes in it. What I should have done was cut the fence where the holes are so all the fence that I do have is good. BUT the way it is, I had to stretch this fence to get it to fit without rounding the corners. Any less fence and I would have had to left some un-fenced.

This corn was planted about the same time as my other garden. I am on the last couple of meals of corn from the garden. This one hasn't produced one ear yet. The corn in the bottom of the picture and the top left were original plantings. The rest of the garden I replanted when I saw how badly the corn was doing. I did not take down any of the original corn in those areas.

I'm not trying to protect the corn, I'm planning on planting beans between the corn. And un-fenced beans do not last.

I was going to take my plastic fence down from my compost pile and put it on top of this fence, but when I went to take it down, there were actually a few morning glories finally growing on it. So I left it for now.

Volunteer morning glories are in full bloom on my pea fence. It's likely been 10 years since I planted any morning glories in that area. So they are either still coming up from old seed or coming up from last years volunteer plants.

I had planted a watermelon at the end of my strawberry patch away from everything else. And I had kept a few feet weeded around the plant. But for weeks the plant never got any bigger than what it had been when I bought it.

Before it really started to grow, half the plant died off.

Then this last week when I was mowing the yard, I realized that I had mowed off the end of one of the vines. So I decided to do a little weeding around the remaining vine. Saw this little green crochet ball and was going to throw it back in the neighbor's yard. But when I grabbed it, it was attached to the vine ...

So I stopped weeding. Some of my stuff seems to do better when it can't be seen.