What did you do in the garden today?

[Stuffedcritter]

Tuesdays are sluggish for me coming off my 36 hour work shift theres pancake batter all over the kitchen windows, cupboards, two dogs, going to need scrape the stove top! Did check the lettuce, peas and swiss chard I planted Saturday nice soft rain to help get them started. Harding off some of the bigger seedlings to go out in the cold frames (last frost date 5/17) . Starting garden huckleberry,ground cherry (first time growing any suggestions welcome), super sweets, Rutgers, Mortage Lifter, German Johnson, shf tomato Brandywine. Peppers are standard bell, serrano chili,Habanero,Jalapeno kinda hum drum list compared to Crazy H. Standard herbs parsley, cilantro, dill, oregano, German chamomile, borage,lovage, sweet marjoram, thyme,oregano,basil, horseradish (four year old plants) pot marigold, new one this year is caraway. High light of my growing season going to be two 100 gl rain water tanks work with hoose wont have to spend two hours hand watering or hauling water from the fire pond, gray water from bath tube. (town water) Lazy gardener sending you all my snakes, how about some NY grown vampire mosquitoes-) Cool Yankees are giving out seed pkts for Earth Day!

 

[hosspak]

Tuesdays are sluggish for me coming off my 36 hour work shift theres pancake batter all over the kitchen windows, cupboards, two dogs, going to need scrape the stove top! Did check the lettuce, peas and swiss chard I planted Saturday nice soft rain to help get them started. Harding off some of the bigger seedlings to go out in the cold frames (last frost date 5/17) . Starting garden huckleberry,ground cherry (first time growing any suggestions welcome), super sweets, Rutgers, Mortage Lifter, German Johnson, shf tomato Brandywine. Peppers are standard bell, serrano chili,Habanero,Jalapeno kinda hum drum list compared to Crazy H. Standard herbs parsley, cilantro, dill, oregano, German chamomile, borage,lovage, sweet marjoram, thyme,oregano,basil, horseradish (four year old plants) pot marigold, new one this year is caraway. High light of my growing season going to be two 100 gl rain water tanks work with hoose wont have to spend two hours hand watering or hauling water from the fire pond, gray water from bath tube. (town water) Lazy gardener sending you all my snakes, how about some NY grown vampire mosquitoes-) Cool Yankees are giving out seed pkts for Earth Day!

Do you think Yankee Fuds will get sunflower seeds? lol

 

[lazy gardener]

Thanks for the snakes Stuffed critter. We don't need vampire mosquitoes. It's almost time for the annual Black Fly Breeder's conference. They always arrive within several days of the bloom of the Trilliums... otherwise known as the Stinking Benjamins.

 

[jeepguy982001]

didn't really do anything in the garden i watered my seedlings and have most of my other patio princess tomato seedlings starting to come up. and ordered an electic starter for my tiller/cultivator tired of pulling and pulling and nothing happening so hopefully that works. Just spent most of the day doing yardwork and this and that.

 

[Loc20chick]

I added another 4ft x 4ft garden space, so far my lettuce n beans doing great. Keeping my fingers crossed. Hope to add another 8ftx8ft sometime this season..

 

[Sill]

Tore out my spent winter flowers and put in summer varieties that can take the heat. Black potato vine, moss rose, Mexican feather grass, and vincas are all tucked into my big pots. With these I'm guaranteed color all through the heat, though I sometimes have to water twice a day when it's over 115 in the afternoons and over 90 at night.

 

[3goodeggs]

Is the black potato an ipomoea?
I am intrigued.

 

[Stuffedcritter]

3goodeggs yes it's in the same family as the morning glory. Great filler plant more spreading then climber, grows nicely where ever its planted. Last summer I found some in pinkish green leafs used in place of coleus under a Maple tree. Sill posted hold up in the heat and wind, love the black and green vines in hangers less then six dollars get I get a thirty dollar wow factor.( price of 18 inch hanging pots at the nursery last week)

 

[jerryse]

Peas and radishes are up. Rain tonight. We need a good rain. Air layered 9 French lilacs to root plus 2 peach. Ran out of plastic bottles to layer with. Just had lunch going out to top work 2 wild pears growing in the woods over to Bartlett for deer food. Current fruit is less than 1 inch.

 

[yinepu]

Peas and radishes are up. Rain tonight. We need a good rain. Air layered 9 French lilacs to root plus 2 peach. Ran out of plastic bottles to layer with. Just had lunch going out to top work 2 wild pears growing in the woods over to Bartlett for deer food. Current fruit is less than 1 inch.

I've always used plastic bags for air layering.. got any pics of the bottle method?