Just What You Need This Week #84: Do these 5 things before Friday

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None of these take more than five minutes. All of them will save you a much bigger job, or a ruined crop, in a few weeks.

This Week: Five Tiny Tasks:

1. Tie up your tomatoes: a leaning plant this week is a snapped stem next week. (grow the best tomatoes)

2. Mulch your cucumbers: locks in moisture before the next hot stretch.

3. Check squash stems for borers: look for sawdust-like frass at the base; catch it now, save the plant.

4. Thin your carrots: crowded carrots stay small forever; five minutes now means real carrots later.

5. Harvest herbs before they flower: once basil bolts, flavor drops fast. Snip now, freeze or dry the extra.

🐔 One thing to check with chickens are waterers staying cool/shaded in the heat?🐐 One thing to check with goats mineral feeder topped off, shade access

Happy Homesteading

- Gretchen

PS - don’t make these common gardening mistakes!

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Happy Homestead,

Gretchen