Choice Morsels

It's the first week of July! So hot and humid out, yesterday I waited until 3:30 to work outside and mow. I put melon rinds outside in a spot under the shade of our old wooden picnic table for a box turtle living in my backyard someplace.  I've seen him come out to munch on rinds before and I find anything I put out demolished every day. I put some watermelon rinds out today and lunch and when I looked again a couple hours later, they were eaten to the skin. Putting rinds out for him to munch helps keep him out of mischief in my garden, because it keeps his little belly full. The day I didn't put rinds out, I found the bottom of a low hanging tomato eaten. I've since brought all the large, low hanging tomatoes into the house to ripen, because I want to be the one to eat them! Today's Garden Pics: First ripe golden tomato! My pretty first tomato of the season! We had this one on several BLT's and it was sooo delicious!  Yellow tomatoes are sweet...

Yesterday's task was hedging the overgrown shrubs (since my car didn't start) and I also cleaned up the Hosta bed that's between those sets of shrubs as well. Hubby checked my car this morning and it started up fine.  So, since yesterdays yard work was major exercise, I did something lighter today: watering all flowers, flowering shrubs, herbs & pots with Miracle grow. I do this with a watering can & a also a plastic milk jug, so I can carry some in both hands.  I only have one usable outside water tap now at the back of the house and walking around with watering can is WAY easier then wrangling 200 feet of hose, believe me. Today's Garden Pics: Some of my new Hyacinths I planted last fall: I love these 2 purple ones! A total of 4 came up: these 2 purple, a pink and I think maybe a white. It's just a bud still, so I can't really tell. They were mixed bulbs. A Red-Bellied Woodpecker on the Feeder: I got this shot of the Wood...