What did you do in the garden today?

[JennT]

I filled the bottom of my raised bed for potatoes! We will probably put the potatoes in on Sunday before we leave for our in-laws.

 

[erinszoo]

Got two raised beds turned and planted, one with onions and tomatoes and the other with melons. Built a mini greenhouse over the melons for the few cold days left to come. Cut my holes in my straw bales for planting in and installed my trellis ready for squash planting after the late freeze on Monday night is over. Picked lettuce for salad. Drooled impatiently over my asparagus bed waiting for it to come up. AND started planning my Thomas Jefferson bed - planting all plants that Thomas Jefferson grew at Monticello just for fun - white scallop squash, tennis ball lettuce, mexican sour gerkin cucumbers, costoluto tomato, and asparagus beans. I have Ananas melon in another bed already plus asparagus, artichokes, and peas elsewhere too so I'm not adding them to this bed as well even though he loved growing them. I wish I had a good source for finding out what all varieties of things he grew. My other passion is to find a source for Black Knight carrots. I've heard they grow them in Japan still so I'll have to see if my cousin (whose wife is Japanese) can find some for me on their next trip East.

 

[chickenstricken]

I did the same thing today that I did yesterday................................................shoveled out the cat poop

 

[hollys chooks]

Building some extra outdoor seats from some wood i picked up from a friend closing down their fringe festival venue. Extra places to sit and admire the chooks destroying the lawn.

 

[LoveChickens123]

nothing it is raining here

 

[erinszoo]

I did the same thing today that I did yesterday................................................shoveled out the cat poop

Been there, done that ... we now put rabbit wire over our beds until the plants are big enough to keep the cats out. Sigh.

 

[LoveChickens123]

thats what i do

 

[erinszoo]

Picking lettuce and spinach for salad. Watered the greenhouse plants and rolled up the plastic on the melon bed and squash in the hay bales so they didn't bake. Need to go roll the plastic back down now. Defended my lettuce from the wayward chickens too.

 

[HenFriend]

A couple of days ago my boyfriend fenced the veg area for me so I'm hoping to plant out my onions today now they are safe from being scratched up. I had to replant the garlic twice after the chickens got in! I'm also going to re pot my tomatoes and sort out the next batch of seed for sowing. Moved my peas, cauliflower and fava beans out the heated greenhouse to the small plastic house but they are not looking too happy although I covered them with fleece. It it still below freezing most nights and very windy but I am running out of space in the main greenhouse. Perhaps I should be more patient and wait for the weather to improve before sowing more seed.

 

[LoveChickens123]

All we did today was water it!