What did you do in the garden today?

BrooksHatlen said:

A coffee grinder can turn it into a nice powder. Blends very well that way.

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Fishychix said:

Don't forget to wear a mask (I imagine). I accidentally inhaled chipotle powder and my lungs and throat were on fire. So I couldn't image what the hot stuff could do.

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Fishychix said:

Don't forget to wear a mask (I imagine). I accidentally inhaled chipotle powder and my lungs and throat were on fire. So I couldn't image what the hot stuff could do.

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NewBoots said:

We had bee houses for years at the place in Portland, this is our first year at the new house. This is the bug house.View attachment 2640483


This is the mason bee house. The house is beautifully made but I uglied it up to attach the side panels to protect it from the wind and blowing rain.
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I want both but I just have no more space. Our soil is so terrible here we have to box in any fruit trees we want to actually grow and bear fruit. We do have a bunch of crabapples, a regular apple, and a prune plum but I want MOR!!! Especially pears.

Awesome, I am really itching for a battery powered one to trim the area around DPs shrub and flower garden. Power mower is too big and the weed eater has an annoying trailing cord.

My tomatoes are doing great but those danged peppers sprout so slowly and then grow even slower! I am really hoping for great things from my wintered over peppers.
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I think it is, we never saw any in Portland unless they were the ones you can buy as egg cases. Once we moved here to the south coast we started seeing them and researched it, this is the very edge of their range.

I always wondered about that, catalpa worms really do come from catalpa trees?

I am with you sister, when I win the lottery I'll have a small orchard.

Did a bunch more up-potting including the okra, I have 6 pots now with 2 plants each in them, once it gets a little warmer here I'll give them a shot in the raised beds and keep a couple in big pots and hope for enough to pickle. The summer squash are growing fast now in the greenhouse and I'm wondering if I can get away with planting them in big (say 7 or 10 gallon size) pots and let the plants trail across the ground. They take up so much space I don't really want to use the raised beds for that unless I have to. Any opinions?

Got to show off some of the raised beds, the recent weather has really got them going:
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Strawberry bed and I really hope they earn their space.

View attachment 2640544Lettuces, mustard greens, bok choy, and carrots.

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More mustard greens, beets, lettuce, radishes, snapdragons, and yarrow.

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Snap peas, more lettuce, fennel, and arugula.

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Garlic, onions, and shallots. This bed will get switched to tomatoes once they're big enough and it's warm enough.

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Gooseberries, currants, oregano, and shallots. The gooseberries are sending up runners, all inside the bed so far.

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Blueberries, lingonberries, borage, alyssum, and mixed flowers.

View attachment 2640572Crabapple, I really hope for enough fruit to pickle some.

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A regular apple (I forget what type) and I just though the flowers were beautiful.

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And finally, some dutch iris, I just love these.

Okay, that's my picture bomb for now. Stay dirty everyone.

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igorsMistress said:

I have to crack the whip on the kids this afternoon too.

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WthrLady said:

For the Taller bigger plants March 5th. Those have been transplanted 3 times, now in a 20 ounce solo cup.
Otherwise I start about April 1st and don't plant in the garden until AT LEAST May 25th, and then even that is weather dependant.
Peppers are a PIA, I just buy the few I want.
Decorative corn and corn, I start in peat pots 3rd week of April.
Marigolds I start 3 rd week of April.
Beans I'll direct plant this weekend.
Onions I start in deep single cells from onion sets mid March. Onions went in the ground today.
Horseradish I start early March and that went in the ground today as well.

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TJAnonymous said:

If I pooed in a flower pot and put it in the garden, he'd lose his friggin' mind and have me committed

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