It is getting pretty hot during the day. To avoid working in the hot sun I have been getting up early to take care of my garden. I am not a morning person but I love summer mornings. I love the sound of birds, the cool morning air, and walking around my vegetables and flowers.
My onions are doing great. Their tops are about to fall over and I can see thin yellow skins are forming on the bulbs. We already harvested few of them for cooking. I love going out to my garden to pick things right before dinner. It doesn't get any fresher than that.
I planted some sunflowers this year. In the past I haven't had very good luck with them. Our resident squirrels will get a hold of them and bite off the top. But this year it is not the squirrels that are causing the problem. My sunflowers are getting attacked by earwigs.
After doing some reading I found out a really simple and nontoxic way to fight the earwigs. What you need is some oil and a shallow dish. I used an empty tuna can and olive oil (some people suggested fish oil). All you need to do is dig a little hole that is big enough to bury the can and pour a little bit of oil in it. To spare you seeing a bunch of earwigs drowned in oil I didn't take a picture of the end result, but trust me, it works.
Other than the problem with earwigs my sunflowers are doing great. I am planning to feed my chickens with them in the fall.
After last years experience of trying to find pickling cucumbers I decide to grow my own this year. The cucumber vines got plenty of flowers because they take a short time to mature. I can pick a handful of them every morning. I do not have enough to process, so I am thinking of making some refrigerator pickles with them.
Today's offering from my garden and chickens.
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