What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!

 

[Sueby]

I can tell I did a lot of gardening yesterday, my legs are so sore from squatting.

 

[Dinogrrl]

I procured for myself some wild muscadine vine cuttings, hoping they'll take root for me!

 

[fuzzi]

Wow your Milkweed is way ahead of mine, it's just leaves right now, plants only 8 inches tall.

Aww, Bless our Moms & hugs to them in Heaven. My Mom's African Violet plant blooms in my kitchen constantly, and it's a plant from early 1970s...amazing isn't it?

I had cuttings from my grandmother's African violets, but the plants died years ago.

I'm happy I still have descendants of my mom's primroses, though. They're really going crazy, blooming.

 

[fuzzi]

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday afternoon I tied up my tomatoes.

Loose knot (not slip knot!) at the base

Drape the other end over the trellis and knot.

Keep the string loose!

As the main vine grows wrap the string around it.

Then I pruned the bottom branches and some of the suckers to allow air circulation around the base of the plants.

The cattle panel trellis and string ideas I got from Gardener Scott's YouTube channel.

 

[Smokerbill]

I procured for myself some wild muscadine vine cuttings, hoping they'll take root for me!

Good luck. Are you going to use rooting hormone to help them make roots?

On a whim I plucked several dandelion seed heads this morning. I've always wanted to have a cultivated patch of dandelions for greens and edible blossoms.

 

[WthrLady]

Had 20 minutes of bright to the eye Aurora last night and then poof, gone.
The up-potted tomatoes are now in the greenhouse with their 3 week older siblings.
Corn and peas are up.
Expecting rain on and off all week. Perfect.

 

[Smokerbill]

I started up a batch of weed tea fertilizer this morning. I dug up a variety of weeds with roots attached, lightly smashed the roots and leaves, put them in a bucket and covered with water.

It needs to soak/ferment for a week or two before it's ready to be diluted and used as fertilizer for the garden.

https://www.almanac.com/fertilizer-tea-plants-weeds-and-grass

I gave my last three cherry tomato plants to my neighbor yesterday, then gave her a tour of my garden. Glad those plants found a home.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

viola - johnny jump up

I always called them wild Pansies. We've got a few types growing wild here. I kinda like them.