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Last night we had a lot of rain, which was a great thing for more than the obvious, it also cooled things off today and it made the weeds easier to pull – both really good things! Our first fall frost date is around the end of October, meaning that we have about 85 more days of the growing season – so the perfect time to plant that fall garden.
We weeded the beds of the producing plants and I filled in with some more bush bean seeds where there were openings in the bean part of the bed. Then we pulled the plants that were past their prime, pulled weeds, again, and turned the soil, mounded the dirt and flattened the tops. Ready to plant. Pulling out the seeds we put aside what we wanted to plant and then looked at the days to maturity and that determined what we would plant.
In the first bed we planted Armenian cucumbers and viroflay spinach. We put the markers in, laid newspaper in between the mounds, to keep the weeds down, and then mulched.
In the other bed, Stella harvested the last of the lettuce – so we will definitely be having salad with dinner tonight – later I will go into the garden and get a cucumber to add. As I was pulling weeds in this bed I accidentally pulled a carrot – still not ready!
In this bed we planted both red and yellow beets, Russian and dwarf blue curled kale, nutri-bud broccoli and simpson lettuce (green). I again laid the newspaper and then mulched. Talking to others this growing season, many are having problems with squirrels – I am not 
having that problem, but I am having a problem with my beds. The culprit of the problem is our cat – she loves to lay in the barren dirt, roll in it and bask in the sun, absorbing the warmth from above and below. Not sure if what I did will work, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I put in wooden stakes and
then wrapped sting around it – making a fence, if you can call it that. I will let you know how it works out. Then I watered all the places we planted.
Walking through the neighborhood today, we started talking to a fellow gardener – also doing some weeding. She has a plant that I love and it used to be in front of the Historical Society building, but the landscapers pulled it all out a couple of years ago – it is a moon flower, but not like what I have seen elsewhere. I am very excited, she told me to come back when the seed pods were brown and take some for my yard. Again, people are stopping their cars and their walks to take pictures of our sunflowers. Check out the height on one our sunflowers – Stella is 4’1″ tall.
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