What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

I pulled/dug a lot of weeds today. There are a lot more.

I picked the last of the snap peas. I planted half a row of Sugar Snap, and half a row of Sugar Bon. Bon grew shorter and bore first. Snap grew MUCH taller, bore later, bore more, and they were sweeter. I'll grow them again next year and skip Bon.

 

[Smokerbill]

I pulled/dug a lot of weeds today. There are a lot more.

I picked the last of the snap peas. I planted half a row of Sugar Snap, and half a row of Sugar Bon. Bon grew shorter and bore first. Snap grew MUCH taller, bore later, bore more, and they were sweeter. I'll grow them again next year and skip Bon.

I've planted peas in the same spot for the last 4 years now and each year they do better. I'm thinking that the mycorrhizal fungi that peas need has built up in the soil in that area and has helped the peas do better. Just my theory.

The snow peas I planted this year are over 5 feet tall, and they're supposed to be a bush type. Producing like crazy too.

 

[jerryse]

I carry bandaids with me.

I used blood stop powder to slow the bleeding. Couldn't keep a band aid on because I was leaking blood. Used duct tape to keep the bandage on. Not that bad of a cut really.

 

[cj2024]

I soaked some 2year old Super sauce hybrid tomato seeds in warm/hot water and sprouted them on a damp paper towel and placed the sprouted seeds on top of the filled seed cells and covered it with a small square piece of toilet paper and covered it with about an 1/8 inch with fine coco coir.

I did it this way so that the seed would not get washed down too deep. I like this method because I didn't need to use a humidity dome, and the sprouted seed popped up within a week in full sun light. I had my doubts that the sprouted seeds could break through the tissue, but it did.

I also sprouted some lettuce seeds this way without soaking in hot water but used two pieces of toilet paper. I place a tissue on top of the seed cell and placed the seed on it and covered it with another piece of tissue and lightly covered it with fine coco coir.

I think the tissue help keep the seeds moist and in place.