There is a low spot in this pen so when it rains it's deep squishy mud. I dumped some creek sand in there and a couple buckets of sawdust based compost. Hopefully it will stay a little drier.
I finished clearing out the patch of dead tomatoes in this garden and planted a thick cover of Giant Red Mustard. Root knot nematodes don't like mustard greens. I cleared another patch of dead tomatoes out in another area. I couldn't tell on most of the plants if they had nematodes or not but the last plant I pulled certainly did. I dumped several inches of compost on top with some blood meal for extra nitrogen. I'm going to try some Mizuna mustard there, it's not as strong as Giant Red so I don't know how it will work out. When I was done with that I worked on the wind break some more.
A dahlia is finally blooming. All the earlier flowers were eaten by Japanese beetles.
I can't get the right color of theses red zinnias. They are a deep dark almost blood red in real life.
And most of the day was the usual stuff, feeding and watering birds, finished cleaning out a pen, now to move some more babies around tomorrow, fooling with tarps the wind tore loose, a little housekeeping and now time for bed. Good night world.
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