What did you do in the garden today?

BReeder! said:

Are you and to clean inside the burrow? And the tube?

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Typically I wouldn’t have to clean the burrows, they should do that on their own. Rabbits don’t normally make a mess in their sleeping quarters if given an opportunity not to. I gave them dirt not straw or hay. I can clean the tube yes, we’ll see what it’s like. They don’t soil their tube in the house so I don’t know what they’ll do with this.

BirdsBeesTrees said:

How do you plant Rutabaga?

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Direct seed in the garden mid July or so to have them ready by Oct. as a brassica, the cabbage looper enjoys them, as a pest. These were our surprise crop last year, we really enjoyed them.

Thanks for the feedback on Baker Creek! I placed my order. And then another one through dollar seeds.com
The good news is, most of what I weeded out of my BC order I made up on the Dollar Seed order

Acre4Me said:

Direct seed in the garden mid July or so to have them ready by Oct. as a brassica, the cabbage looper enjoys them, as a pest. These were our surprise crop last year, we really enjoyed them.

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I ordered the same 2 from Bakers Creek that you did. I'm so glad you posted your seeds or i wouldn't have thought to plant it.

TJAnonymous said:

Yeah, nm. I couldn't take the pressure... I brought it into the sunroom again. I checked it a few days ago and the leaves were a pale green. I checked it again after I posted and most of the leaves have turned yellow. So I broke down and moved it indoors.

ETA - we've had a boatload of rain recently so it could be turning yellow from either too much rain or the cold or both. I'll watch it over the next few weeks and see what happens

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I have a Meyer Lemon tree in a pot. I try to not over love it. It doesn't appreciate my overwhelming attention, lol. I also have a Lime tree in a pot but i accidentally put it in too large a pot and it wants to grow 6 feet tall....in my house...and it's never bloomed.

Just venting, so please scroll past because I have nothing about the garden, I just had a really extremely crappy day.

My car is still stranded on Vashon Island after last week's snowstorm, so today we got up really early to go get it. Drove an hour to catch the early ferry, only to be told by the worker in the ticket booth, "no boats" due to worker shortage from covid. She said there might be an afternoon shift, come back at 1:40. So we thought, let's not drive home, let's walk around the park and maybe visit the zoo, that'll kill 5 hours and be fun.

After walking a couple miles and visiting some gardens that would be beautiful at some other time of year, the sole on my old but barely-used hiking boots fell off. Slipping and sliding with one leg shorter than the other, we gave up on the walk, made our way back to the car, drove home, and I changed into different footwear, then we headed back to catch the afternoon ferry. only to run into a road closure.

We bumbled through the city as well we could, through unfamiliar streets, jerk tailgaters and inopportune train crossings, only to find out the ferries were cancelled for the rest of the day.

All we could do was go back home, but I figured we could stop by the store (part of the company where we both work) and maybe resuscitate part of the wasted day by getting the faulty hiking boots returned or replaced.

Huge fail! As soon as the manager found out we worked for the DC, he became really condescending. I wanted him to look up the SKU of the boots and see if there was a recall due to faulty construction, but all he did was look up my personal purchase history and said, "I can't find any record of you buying these boots." I asked him, "can't you just scan the UPC on this tag and get the SKU?" and he smirked, "that's not how this works," I was tempted to tell him, let me come over to your side of the counter and I'll show you how to make it work, but figured this wouldn't help my cause at all. After realizing I wasn't going to get any positive results, I asked him, "could you at least dispose of these, since you have a way to recycle them and I don't?" And he said, "We don't do that - dispose of them yourself." So we walked out, and he yelled after me loudly, " You should know better than this!" I muttered "F U" under my breath, with a mask, and was perfectly courteous to the young man at the exit, wishing him a good day as well.

Now I'm all paranoid that Mr. Condescending might have called Human Resources to try to get me fired for attempting to "scam the company," which is not true at all. At least I have proof I bought the boots from my company (the brand name is on them, and I have a witness who saw me pick them up) and I took photos of the faulty soles. Plus, if he really believed I was a scammer, he wouldn't have told me to dispose of the boots myself, would he? He would have insisted on taking them, to prevent me or some random dumpster diver from taking them to a different store to reattempt the scam. In fact, this is what Loss Prevention tells store salespeople to do. So he can go fudge himself.

Then when we finally got home, after a whole day of achieving nothing, we got a text that our late dog Lily's ashes were ready to be picked up. The cremation place did a really nice job, a wooden urn with her name engraved, a clay oval with her paw print, and a little sample of her hair.

The only thing keeping me happy today:

(((Hugs)))

Oops! Silly me!

@littledog, I'm sorry you had such a crappy day.

Acre4Me said:

Territorial seed order and Baker Creek seed orders arrived! View attachment 2953495View attachment 2953496

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I am covered, I ordered extra last year. I am making a new garden plot at our new property and will most likely not plant in the spring. I want to build this new garden up correctly and than we'll see about planting in late June for a fall garden, but we'll see.