What did you do in the garden today?

[MissChick@dee]

8 hours in the blazing sun today. Everything that needs planted this season is now planted. No cukes or beans this year. I'm giving the beetles the year off. 40 tomato plants and 8 peppers, different varieties. Several honey berry bushes, raspberry and blackberries. 4 different varieties of squash. All drip irrigated, all heavily mulched.

DS took up his drone and got me a shot for you. Nothing like a drone to show you how out of square your garden in. GOOD GRIEF! Ignore that please.

I have 6 of the 40 tomato plants that don't look good. Everything perked up really well once I watered, but still those 6 look crappy. If they still look bad in 7 days I'll pull them and replant with more.

I also found the natural spring that runs under the property. We knew it was there, it varies on depth depending on seasonal rainfall. Currently it is only 5 inches below ground!It cuts through the corner of the garden and runs down towards the barn. It's not consistent enough to drill a sand well for livestock water or plant irrigation though. Total bummer as my house well is over 400 feet deep.


Bean shaped area on far upper left is the squash area, garden is lower center, orchard is to the right.View attachment 1799493

Awesome!
You are going to have such a variety. I get more tomatoes than I can give away and eat with three tomato plants...I can’t imagine 30!
Who cares Iffin things are off justa’ bit....I’m off a bit my own self lol
It’s all good

 

[MissChick@dee]

Not much done in the garden today other than reinforcing my new border wall, between the chicken run and garden that is. I have two fenced garden areas along side the chicken run and am now growing cucumbers up the bullwire fencing that separates them. I've had to create another barrier so they can't peck on the vines. Oh yeah, I picked most of the remaining lettuce out there this morning. The furnace has been turned up causing it to get a bit bitter.

Hiya!
Welcome to the garden thread.

 

[igorsMistress]

G'morning gardeners

Nothing doing in the garden today. I'm going to water the grass this afternoon and check on the lantana as our temps are up to 100+ now on a daily basis. I'm wondering if the tomatoes will last longer this year with the afternoon shade and hay mulch. I might try rooting some cuttings with aloe for a bumper crop in the fall when the plants quit producing. A first for me, I've never tried the cuttings before. Or aloe for root stimulation.
I'm off to work in the salt mine, have a great day everyone

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Nothing happened in the garden yesterday. This morning I picked some more radishes. I noticed the French Breakfast radishes I planted about a week ago are popping through the soil. I thinned the leeks a bit. It got a little nippy last night and was in the mid 40's this morning so the spinach and broccoli are liking it. I've been using a heat resistant Romaine lettuce seed the past few years. It does really well here and I've always managed to harvest it before bolting. The first lot of the lettuce should be ready for picking next week. It will be nice when I don't have to buy vegetables from the supermarket again. The plan for the day is to finish the last of the grass trimming and planting my little daffodils. Have a great day everyone.

Weeding in the garden, then will mulch with some straw. Last year, we had a tough time with one end of a particular raised bed, which dried out fast and often. Had to water it 2x per day on the hottest days. So, it’s been turned and amended with vermiculite and perlite since then, however seems to still want to dry out quickly (just not as bad as last year). The straw mulch should help retain the moisture.

Need to plant the Chicago Hardy Fig -we figured out a sunny, yet more protected spot for it to go, and need to get it planted.

Any recommendations for ordering fruit trees? We would like a plum, an Asian pear, and an Apple tree. We are not sure what would be a good nursery to order from. We are in western Ohio.

I've used Stark for my dwarf peach, Cortland apple and the brown fig tree. I planted my fig tree (I think it's a brown turkey fig) in a large pot so it can over winter in the garage. It's on wheels to so I can move it by myself. The peach and apple trees were both bare root and are doing very well. I believe they are located in Wisconsin and if they shipped to me I'm sure they ship to your area.

 

[MissChick@dee]

My tomatoes are up
still in the aqua protectors.
Cilantro is up.
Radishes and fingerling potatoes doing good.
I have something coming up in my Junk dirt and the chickens aren’t eating it ... yet.
My chickens have a gang mentality I just can’t figure out. Things they’ve never bothered (Irises) they will pick one plant and rip it apart while leaving all the others alone it becomes some weird Ninja competition.
I have realllly good chickens. They know their names. And they know the squirt bottle!
If I’m working in a area and don’t want them into it I just put down the squirter. Magic!
It’s the highest degree of offensiveness to a chicken to get water on them. Or you’d think they were being attacked...so funny.
Mine clear a path when I have it. Beats anything I’ve ever tried.
So much better than yelling.
And faster than they are lol.
Good Morning Gardeners!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all 10:30 here have not been out to the birds or the garden managed
to eat a few eggs with bacon in it.. If I missed a hello here it is Welcome to the thread

 

[WthrLady]

Mine understand the words GET OUT! LOL.

Nothing in the garden today except walking past and taking a plant count to see if the tomatoes are perking up. Down to 3 that dont look great. Better than 6.

Another inch of rain last night.

I went to a local mom and pop who said they had thornless boysenberry plants in. Got there. COVERED in tiny needle sharp thorns. D'OH.

Filled a planter with galaxy and raspberry cheesecake petunias for my new "neighbors".

Currently 84 degrees with a dripping dewpoint of 74 degrees.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well made the trip to the feed store have her getting me 4 50 lb oyster want to put it on my front area black weed fabric down now

 

[Acre4Me]

Mulched most of the garden with straw. Peppers and tomatoes look happy! The pole beans aren't growing very tall - string is ready for climbing and support, with nothing growing up them, am beginning to wonder if they really are pole beans, but have never grown a pole bean, so I don't know! Rain tonight...thunderstorms, so never know how much. Planted the fig - I hope it likes it's new spot! Turnips are looking good - wow they grow fast! I planted 2 types and both are looking pretty happy. The Daikon Radish are also looking good. Beets - many seeds planted, but few sprouted and still can't find the other variety of beet seed that I purchased!

 

[LittleMissCountry]

My tomatoes have started growing! I have two plants that have tiny tomatoes. The others are still small.

Funny thing is that we have tomato plants coming up in the rocks under the porch, where we had the potted tomatoes last year.

Also my ground cherries have started growing. This is the first year that I have ever grown them, so I can't wait to see what they are like.