What did you do in the garden today?

[TropicalBabies]

Busy day of work-work and little time for outside pleasures. Our summer 3W1, 5W1, and 5W2 sessions begin on the 11th - egads!
Had to go into the city too for groceries, gas, feed, etc.Spied a bunch of --> millennials <--- not adhering to protocol and absent of a mask.

But! We got some weed whacking done. And some of my seeds are flourishing.

P.S. Sorry if I seem a bit "you know what," but this younger generation is just so spoiled?? I can't surf, I can't go to the movies, I can't get my hair done, blah, blah blah. I'd like to see them function during WWI or WWII.

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Great starts! Getting close... Yeeehaaaa!
I hear what you are saying about millennial's, though i don't know that "magic thinking" is theirs alone to own. And some millennials are pretty darn smart and groovy dumb is just dumb.
Well Kauai is officially down to NO new, all recovered (and shipped home) cases on island. Still locked down as tight as a drum. I'm totally ok with that. What ever the experts say I'm good with. Lots of stuff to do... I can always scrub the toilet, clean under the sink or wax my truck etc. etc cuz the list goes on...

 

[Acre4Me]

Seemed a good day to hit the feed store. Got more pine shavings, another chick waterer,

I did the same yesterday. Shavings, more waterers. I had to get more waterers bc the big 5gallon one is in the coop, on a heater base, and the 10 week old chicks don’t know this, so we put out a 5qt waterer for them. Well, all the chickens want water from this awesome waterer so it empties fast. Of course, the waterer in the coop will get moved outside soon, and the chicks will be homed you the coop soon, but we don’t want thirsty chickens, so more waterers were purchased!

yesterday was pretty blech. Rain, overcast, windy, more rain, colder than I wanted, and no sun at all. Today, cloudy and more rain this evening and through the night.


I put most of my tomatoes into larger containers, buried up to their first leaves and with fertilizer added. Theyhave noticeably grown since their transplant! I have more to transplant, but out of containers.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. I was finally able to make some progress in the garden yesterday. I planted some carrots, turnips, dill, my nasturtiums and some random wildflowers. I also set one of my rosemary plants out in the new garden bed and set out the lavender I had kept inside over the winter. The lavender that I left in the ground is actually showing signs of growth. Then I fertilized the two herb beds and the new garden bed. It got up to the low 60's here yesterday. I let my rooster out of his bachelor pad. The ladies really missed him. I checked on them when I noticed no one was grazing in the yard. The girls were all inside his little bachelor pad having some kind of party with him. Too funny. I'll give him a few days before separating them again. We are supposed to have rain for the next few days, so no more gardening for now. I should be able to get a few more things planted on Sunday. I need some dry weather to haul some dirt into the two garden beds I put in last year. Their dirt level is a bit low and they need more dirt before I plant in them. But the area in front of the steps into the main garden is super saturated and it's hard enough for me to get in there without my shoes getting sucked into the mud. The chick babies didn't come in yesterday. Likely today. I mentioned my chives because last year was the first that I planted it in the herb bed. It didn't do so well, but seeing it coming back this year makes me feel like it should do much better from now on. The other perennial herbs are doing well. Thyme, parsley, oregano and sage. I'm adding more oregano, marjoram and dill this year. I plant basil with the tomatoes and peppers so no need to waste room in the herb garden with that. My grass is getting greener with every drop of rain and it's starting to grow like crazy. Ugh! I hope my weed whacker string gets here soon. I'm glad things seem to be settling down on the island @TropicalBabies. Yesterday we had our highest single day loss of life from the coronavirus. They had to close one of the Walmart stores because 28 of their employees tested positive. Just when we thought things were getting better. Stay safe everyone and have a great day.

 

[Acre4Me]

kinda makes a midwest/NE gardener cry! We need heat for our awesome garden goals!

 

[AllenK RGV]

So I slept on the root pouch raised bed idea and after paying all of the monthly bills decided to pull the trigger on em so 5x400 gallon pouches(70"W x 24"H) will be coming this way. There is no hurry to plant them up though until much later in the season. 10A kinda sucks like that. If it isn't already in the ground by the time "Spring" has passed you are done!


And no I'm not planting sweet potatoes, yech! I'm thinking for sure I am going to get potato going in one and give cucumbers a go too corn will be a next season thing once I have the back 50% of that 1/3 acre totally cleared/fenced to put that into the ground.

 

[igorsMistress]

kinda makes a midwest/NE gardener cry! We need heat for our awesome garden goals!

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It makes this southwestern gardener cry too. Stupid heat.

 

[igorsMistress]

So I slept on the root pouch raised bed idea and after paying all of the monthly bills decided to pull the trigger on em so 5x400 gallon pouches(70"W x 24"H) will be coming this way. There is no hurry to plant them up though until much later in the season. 10A kinda sucks like that. If it isn't already in the ground by the time "Spring" has passed you are done!
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And no I'm not planting sweet potatoes, yech! I'm thinking for sure I am going to get potato going in one and give cucumbers a go too corn will be a next season thing once I have the back 50% of that 1/3 acre totally cleared/fenced to put that into the ground.

Hey Allen, I was checking out those root pouches this morning. I love the idea of those big ones for a 3 sisters garden. Thanks for mentioning them, I'm going to give it a try next year.

 

[Acre4Me]

It makes this southwestern gardener cry too. Stupid heat.

Yes, I was thinking about you too! Looks like it will be a hot May!

 

[igorsMistress]

Yes, I was thinking about you too! Looks like it will be a hot May!

I'm worried about summer temps for us quite a bit. Poor chickens are going to bbq on the run.

 

[Acre4Me]

I'm worried about summer temps for us quite a bit. Poor chickens are going to bbq on the run.

I can only imagine! We were in Vegas in June 2017 - they were breaking heat records while we were there. Luckily, we wore our sun gear - the pants/shirts with the light sun protection fabric and they were so helpful, as were the light straw hats we had...friends that saw pics, were like"why long sleeves/pants in the desert?".... but we would have baked if we had not had those on during the outdoor hiking tours.

And, we don't have quite the temp extremes here, in Ohio, yet I was frantic to get up shade cloth last summer as the south side of the run was horrendously hot. Adding the 6' tall shade cloth to the south and SE corner of the run drastically reduced the temps for the girls, so your all-the-time-sunny-summers are certainly hotter than here (but less humid)!

Guess you should begin freezing large chunks of ice for those girls to put into pans of water they can walk through. Last year, we would put a galvanized pan of water with ice under the coop decking. It was placed on some blocks. When I would come into the run, always made me laugh bc there would usually be a chicken standing in the pan, but I could only see their legs... No body.

Any garden food plants that can be grown successfully in that heat and sun (without shade cloth)?