Around the house on Good Friday

New season figs.

This year's pecan crop?

Cucumbers and nasturtiums.

Wild blackberries. Called dewberries by some here.

Wild gladiolus.

Had a pretty good set of thunderstorms last night. Oddly, the aluminum (watering trough) planter didn't seem to have gotten much rain at all. Even to the extent I found fire ants in one spot. Same spot as last year. Annoying. Flooded it good for now. Will probably continue to do so every day, though we have 2-4 inches of rain with possible tornadoes and hail forecast for this weekend.

I've read that you can use dawn dish soap. Or hot water. May lose a few cucumber plants whichever way I go.
The cucumber plants in the picture are in an area that isn't infested yet, near as I can tell.
Guess we didn't get the ant poison down around the outside of the container soon enough. Been watching for them and hadn't seen them until today.

You all be safe and stay sane!  Be sure to thank God for all you have and for keeping you safe. God bless. 💗

I don't know too many places that don't have fire ants any more,

But for the few of you who are blessed not to, I thought I would share this little video. Click on the arrow and see what happens after I picked a pecan (with a picker) from their nest.



You all be safe and God bless.

No matter where you live

Thank a farmer for what you eat.

And on another note, we here are fine. I thank the good Lord for that.
Our garden plot is underwater, but the raised bed has saved the broccoli and basil. I think.
The broccoli was not happy with its first day out from under the row cover I've had over it for a couple weeks, but I think it was time.

The other bed you see has been covered with diatomaceous earth. I am trying to use non-poisonous methods to kill off the fire ants that came with a truck load of garden soil we bought, and then mixed in with our compost pile unknowingly. Hubby had not mixed all of it in, so discovered it was in the garden soil, and not our original compost. Yay?
It is frustrating. If we have to use poison, we just won't be able to plant there till fall. I was glad that hubby decided to use the raised beds this year, finally.

However, his corn didn't fare so well. Fortunately he only planted one row before the rains came.

Other areas of Louisiana and Mississippi were not as fortunate, so keep them in your thoughts and prayers, please.

The Ides of March give us in America one week till our taxes are due. We got hit this year, but the Lord will see us through.

Hope you all have a wonderful, blessed week. ♥

A little update

When I first saw this yesterday, I thought it was a mushroom and went about my business. A while later, I realized two things.
1) There is probably a fire ant colony in the mulch of this watermelon hill.
2) It was not a mushroom, but a turtle egg; because now it was covered in ants helping themselves to the unexpected meal.

Turtles from the bayou come over to lay their eggs in the pasture or yard if we let the grass grow much. Crows and ravens are quick to dig the eggs out. I am guessing that there were probably two crows fighting over this egg and it got dropped on the watermelon hill.
Today, it looked like this. All cleaned out.

Found another eaten egg out under the Stewart pecan tree.

Don't think we've ever seen any of them hatch; but if they hatch at night, we wouldn't see them anyway.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

P.S. Blogger is being a brat and not showing me any blogs. Going to try clearing my cache and hope that works...