While reducing garden clutter, i.e. plants, I found a Cauliflower head.
Now I planted three plants at the same time in spring; one was ripe way back in July and a second in August.
This one was in the midst of squash, tomato, Cleome jungle; I half-heartedly gave it room to breath , some times not being able to even see it, in in the sea of green.
It was tall and spindly later on and I though it would bolt.
Well last week when I was hacking away there it was, a nice big white cauliflower head.
Taters now look more like they should this time of year as I am assuming my rough handling and stringing out the vines, so you can see each separate plant, causing the ground/mulch to be much drier is part of the reason.
I had shut off the irrigation system but having seeded gaps in the lawn, it is now back on.
Down South it had rained 2 inches shortly before I dug up potatoes, and in parts of the garden the shovel made that slurping sound it does when digging in real we soil but the when I got down 8 inches the soil was moist yet not near as wet as the top six.
Night Crawlers and Angle Worms are very numerous this year though you sometimes wonder why , while digging potatoes you see many each hole then suddenly, no one is home, next hole, they're baaaack
I am extremely surprised, the leaf mulch this year, maybe because of variety but I doubt it, had not reduced in volume , in either garden to the degree it usually does.
Normally by now 12 inches would be down to a dry 1/2 to 2 inches; it is still thick 4 inches in place and wet.
I would have thought the very warm humid weather would have reduced it greatly.
I was weeding the boulevard hill for reseeding yesterday, pulling dandelions, crab grass and Spotted Spurge.
When I got down to my Buffalo Grass patch I found you have to be real careful as Spotted Spurge and Buffalo Grass seem to like to live together.
Sp. Sp. sends out runners just as Buffalo Grass does; I had mowed it the day before so I had very short grass, including crab grass .
The runners from spurge and B. Grass were tight and I would pull a spurge plant by the root but end up with multiple B. Grass runner coming up with it plus short , very, cut Crab Grass looks just like short cut B. Grass and I had to be careful to not pull B. Grass plants rather than C. Grass.
I also seeded this part of the hill thirty years ago with genuine pasture grass, the Broadleaf Fesucue seems to be spreading also so it looks kind of weird with B. Grass and the Fescue together in patches.
I should treat this part of the hill with weed preventer but am not sure if B. Grass is immune to these products.
I should have treated the bare lawn for Chinch Bugs again but it is too late now seed is down.
