What did you do in the garden today?

Swiss said:

I saved seeds from store bought yellow cherry tomatoes years ago. They still had good germination last spring, so I planted them. They were delicious, so I saved fresh seeds. I'm sure they were hybrids because of where I bought them.

I don't remember what the originals tasted like, but I had to have liked them to save the seeds.

Yesterday, I officially got to do something with actual seeds! My fridge is now stratifying wild strawberry seeds I saved from the surprise patch I found last season.

I realized the other day that I really need to figure out what my succession planting schedule is!

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JUST remembered I have seeds chilling in the back of the fridge!

I took the cool weather veggies outside for about an hour. I would like to transplant them straight into the garden soon but they need to get bigger and accustomed to daylight and wind.

5 Points Wingfeather said:

I took the cool weather veggies outside for about an hour. I would like to transplant them straight into the garden soon but they need to get bigger and accustomed to daylight and wind.

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I take the dome off my seed tray as soon as the lettuce sprout and put them in the sun. The seedlings can handle the sun, but when they get bigger leaves the sun in my area scorches them. Although I set them out early, I still need a shade cloth to grow them to maturity in my area.

I broke and planted seeds this evening. DS was abit down after struggling with learning his alphabet today. He tried really hard though. So I surprised him after his bath with a bucket of coir, 4 different packs of pepper seeds and a tray of starter cells. He was much happier and helped me plant 50 cells. DW for to join in at the end after he bath too. It's great to see the kids enjoy gardening.

We planned 3 sweet peppers (Candy Apple x 20, Carnival x10, and Costa Rican Hybrid x10) and 1 hot pepper (Fish pepper x10). DS is looking forward to the sweets, not the hot peppers. He made it a point that we needed to tell which ones were hot - so I labeled each group of cells with popsicle sticks.



I added water to the two lower trays hoping they'll help maintain humidity in the covered grow rack - I'm realizing now this is more like a DIY grow tent at this point.

This wasn’t today but last week, but I found a few bags of forgotten clearance bulbs in the back of a Walmart that were desperately trying to sprout. So of course I adopted them and chucked them in the flower beds. . We may have 100ish later-than-normal hyacinths, muscari, and dutch irises this year if they make it. Hope they do!

TJAnonymous said:

It looks like a blight of some type. I know you are in Europe so I'm not sure about what resources are available but typically you can take some leaves to a university and they can test them for you. I'd also take a soil sample (at least 4 cups minimum). If you can't do that, try a copper fungicide on it.

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I can send the soil sample together with my father’s monthly soil samples.
It looked ok up until last month.

I sowed some seeds in the little cups thingy used for hatching seeds.
Faqus, watermelon, gherkin and currant tomato .
Some of the seeds are pretty old, so I hope something will grow.

AMM10 said:

Yes, I agree with @TJAnonymous that this is blight. I can tell by the photo that these are still fairly young trees…What has the weather been like in your area* and how long ago did you notice this?

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I noticed it because I go check on all trees every now and then, this one is actually 10+ years old, but had a rough start. It started on the edge of the leaves, so I thought nothing of it, since it always happens with older leaves. When I saw it in the middle I realized, there’s a problem.
Weather this couple of weeks was really cold, and rainy (not freezing, we don’t have frosts where I live). There was also a small earthquake. And then another one, and three hours later was another one.
The banana and mango also look kinda bad.

A freaking mosquito kept biting me and pushed me to my limit. It made me plug in a never used 1 acre mosquito trap. I have a small half acre one outside that is doing the job and never found the need to plug this one in until today.....................I will kill that mosquito if its the last thing I do.....

Paz said:

I noticed it because I go check on all trees every now and then, this one is actually 10+ years old, but had a rough start. It started on the edge of the leaves, so I thought nothing of it, since it always happens with older leaves. When I saw it in the middle I realized, there’s a problem.
Weather this couple of weeks was really cold, and rainy (not freezing, we don’t have frosts where I live). There was also a small earthquake. And then another one, and three hours later was another one.
The banana and mango also look kinda bad.

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Has it been raining there quite a bit lately and have there been any bug pests?

I’d recommend taking your banana and mango plants indoors when the weathers bad.