What did you do in the garden today?

[TheOddOneOut]

I picked strawberries and also planted beets, lettuce, shallots, and beans. And a sunflower.

 

[Birdielee]

Hi everyone! When I got home from work this evening I pulled a few weeds and watered the garden. Hubby made me a 2nd bee hive stand. I hope to split my hive later in the week!
Anyone know how to tell when tomatillos are ripe/ ready? I’ve never grown them before. I don’t think they are ready yet. I’m just asking for future reference.
My carrots still haven’t sprouted.
I’ve only got 7 radish sprouts in 1 section and 4 in another. So unless they come in like gang busters latter, I’m not going to get very many!
I love the clematis when it blooms!
I couldn’t believe the poor performance of my zucchini last year either! I think they must havebeen alien zucchini.
I did see a few a the pea plants poking through the ground today.
Oh, and my rotten chickens stripped all the green off of my 1 Elderberry plant that was doing well ( out of the 2 original ones I got).
Now I’ll need to make cages for all the fruit trees. I had thought that since they had ignored them this long that I was not going to have to worry. Guess they showed me!

Want an elderberry or 2? Or 3? I have 2 varieties.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I picked strawberries and also planted beets, lettuce, shallots, and beans. And a sunflower.

The sunflowers around here just plant themselves. My wife extolls on their soil building virtues so I must dodge them with the mower. Going back to @NewBoots query about Endives... I hated traveling across the Benelux I always felt stupid because I can understand Flemmish for some reason having learned French, am able to speak German and English. But they seemed to always understand whatever language I chose to reply in. They did however do the american thing and speak louder to me so I would understand them.

I am richer for it all you all should see my hundreds of priceless 100+ year old corckscrews. Yep we turned an addiction into an addiction. I still crack up over my 5 euro barbershop mirror that is a serving setting made of filigreed pewter from 1888. The mirrorred part broke in the early 1900's and part of the repair included a newspaper from 1905. I also am the proud owner of a silver opium pipe that must have been from the mid 1800's opium wars. Yep my kids tested it out they were dorks. When my teens were teens we just left em the house most weekends so they could be teens. The legal drinking age in Germany is 16 so we weren't that progressive. Anyhow my daughter is now in her mid 20's and a manager I know how she got those skills running a household, my little cat herder is all grown up. BTW I only had my daughter my other teen is now my son in law.

 

[Birdielee]

Good morning gardeners. @karenerwin I was told that when the papery skin is dry and the fruit comes off the plant easily they are ready. @Wee Farmer Sarah yay for asparagus! I watered this morning morning and I'm frustrated with the junipers. They both look horrible but one seems to still have some supple green on it, but I'm pulling the other one today. Ruellia is super easy to propagate and I know it's chicken proof so I'll probably fill in the xeriscape garden with cuttings after I get everything else in.
New oleanders for outside the west wall
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Ruellia and firebush
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I went out to the garden near dusk yesterday and pulled out the ground cover and a few weeds, the forget me nots and the alyssum
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Mint is very happy!
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The pink hibiscus, Rose of Sharon, is growing well
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Red bird of paradise
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The thing with the yellow bell shaped flowers is blooming, it's a recent transplant and loves bunny poop!
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The juniper that I think might make it
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Aloes. The logs and hay really help the soil maintain moisture
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The Mexican BOP. I'm going to see how it does without protection. The chickens spend very little time out there because of the heat so it might be ok.
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Enjoy your day everyone!

I think "the thing" is a jessamine vine

 

[igorsMistress]

I think "the thing" is a jessamine vine

Lol the thing I couldn't remember yesterday. It's called a yellow bell, a trumpet vine family member.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Another lovely cool night. I did a little weeding in the garden yesterday. Added more dirt around the potato plants. They still need more. Ugh! I finally got my birdhouse gourd plants into pots and the Hungarian Peppers I bought. I still have my one remaining poblano pepper left to be planted. I also want to get some little onions in the ground as well. Weed whacking is on the agenda today. I have a nice 18 volt rechargeable Black & Decker weed eater but I stopped using it several years ago. It's a bit on the heavy side and the battery would run out before I was finished. So I bought a cheap Worx weed eater from Walmart that needs to be plugged in. It works great and weighs less than half of the big B&D whacker. I have a 100 foot contractor weight electrical cord and I can do most all of the trimming with that. I do have to add another cord to that to get to one of my apple trees. My little BO chicks are growing like crazy and having a blast in their new coop and run. I really need some feedback from cabbage growers. This is my first time growing cabbage and I'm concerned about the long range forecast of 90F+ temps at the end of the week. I'm hoping shade cloth will help. I will likely need to harvest whatever lettuce I have in the ground if there is more than 2 days of excessive heat. I always plant a heat tolerant variety of Romaine "Cos" lettuce and it usually does well. Love the rabbit tractors @NewBoots. I'm glad to see you have tried to give your bunnies a better quality of life. I hate to see rabbits cooped up in tiny cages. They need to be able to touch the ground, nibble grass and clover. So as promised, I took a picture of one of my endive "heads." It really is quite tasty and easy to grow. This is Burpees Curly Green Endive. Have a great day everyone.

 

[katiefloy]

Maybe you need to elevate the barrel so you have more water pressure to get the water out to where you want it? Or maybe it has debris (leaf pieces, silt) in the outlet?

thank you. it is elevated but not by much. i will try raising it more.

Pics please? Everyone here loves pictures, and I know I get great ideas from other folks work!

sure. my goal with this garden was to reuse/repurpose as much as possible laying around in storage. the fence was moved from another section of yard. i did have to buy new posts though. i found some extra birdhouses in the shed so decided to use them as post caps. i did "have" to buy a few more so i had enough for all the posts . i really like how it turned out.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. Boy is it warm outside for digging holes, I'm dripping sweat and it's only 0800! I got the oleanders planted outside the west wall, they got fresh bunny poop from Walts box in the holes first. I'm going yo have to replace the end of the hose, it doesn't make a good connection to the soaker.

The mesquite trees out front have really filled out!

I moved the red bird of paradise to a different spot and found that it had divided itself so I have 2 out there now. Pulled the junipers and planted the white things. Also moved the sage from the front yard. I think I'm going to add more hay, what is already out there is breaking down pretty quick.

Put the firebush in the shade garden. It's a miniature variety and will shade the heather in Spring

I moved the groundcover to an empty planter in the front rather than throwing it away.

K, enjoy your Sunday everyone!

 

[igorsMistress]

thank you. it is elevated but not by much. i will try raising it more.



sure. my goal with this garden was to reuse/repurpose as much as possible laying around in storage. the fence was moved from another section of yard. i did have to buy new posts though. i found some extra birdhouses in the shed so decided to use them as post caps. i did "have" to buy a few more so i had enough for all the posts . i really like how it turned out.View attachment 2194290View attachment 2194291View attachment 2194292

I love the birdhouse idea, super cute!

 

[WthrLady]

thank you. it is elevated but not by much. i will try raising it more.



sure. my goal with this garden was to reuse/repurpose as much as possible laying around in storage. the fence was moved from another section of yard. i did have to buy new posts though. i found some extra birdhouses in the shed so decided to use them as post caps. i did "have" to buy a few more so i had enough for all the posts . i really like how it turned out.View attachment 2194290View attachment 2194291View attachment 2194292

OH I LOVE THAT! I go to a Scandinavian festival each midsommer (not this year grrrr) and there used to be an old man there that sold homemade birdhouses. I'd get two each each and I hang them on the T posts fall down the pasture line. They are so colorful and cute. Like a little norwegian village by the sea. The birds fight over them each year.

Side note. I bought one cheese bird house with a side porch and all, moss roof, stick fence around its porch, just a cute clearance thing from Joannes. Several years ago, one of the support ties gave way which allowed it to flip completely upside down. This is the MOST fought over house on the property. We call it the fixer upper.
Honey, where do you want me to dump this manure?
Two posts east of the "fixer upper".

Where'd you see the gopher?
About 5'oclock and two paces south of the 'fixer upper'.

What's all the ruckus?
Someone is being evicted from the 'fixer upper'.