What did you do in the garden today?

[Artichoke Lover]

Planted some lettuce, peas and yet more strawberries today.

Red Sails lettuce

Gourmet blend lettuce

First bloom this year I’m really excited.
I also tried to make a homemade apple pie for the first time. The crust fell apart rather spectacularly
And I found an apple seed sprouted inside the apple. I’ve found this with tomatoes but never an apple.

 

[chickengr]

I put my 2 pekins (cochin bantam) and 2 young legbar hybrid pullets in my garden. they did some weeding. they ignored lettuce so they are going to be my gardeners again!

 

[Hermits Garden]

I wish I could grow them but it g ya too darn hot. No luck so far.

Y'all are down in Phoenix, aren't you? We're up at Pinetop-Lakeside, so not worries up here, but yeah, it's dicey down there. I've been trying to help my mother and sister in law grow iris down there for over five years with verrry limited success.

So far the best practice has been with morning sun (or a couple hours morning and couple later evening), shade through the middle of the day. Also to plant the rhizomes so the fan of leaves shades the rhizome from the sun, if that makes sense. Lots of folks over-water them, thinking to counteract the heat, but that just bakes them.

 

[igorsMistress]

Y'all are down in Phoenix, aren't you? We're up at Pinetop-Lakeside, so not worries up here, but yeah, it's dicey down there. I've been trying to help my mother and sister in law grow iris down there for over five years with verrry limited success.

So far the best practice has been with morning sun (or a couple hours morning and couple later evening), shade through the middle of the day. Also to plant the rhizomes so the fan of leaves shades the rhizome from the sun, if that makes sense. Lots of folks over-water them, thinking to counteract the heat, but that just bakes them.

See there, you know lol. I do have a shaded garden that gets high shade after 10 or so in the hottest part of the year so I might try them there. I’ll hit you up for some advice!

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Winter storm warning for tomorrow here . I need a sunny day .

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Planted some Big Ruffles spinach and some seeds from the apples I used for the pie yesterday.

 

[Wolfie2]

Removed some weeds yesterday from the garlic & onion beds. Also stuck a pineapple top in the ground. Had tried to root it in water as seen on U-Tube but after 1 month, very few very tiny roots, lots of slime and things starting to get smelly ( yes I changed the water frequently) I stuck it in the ground. Hope it takes off.

 

[Acre4Me]

Ordered 4 fruit trees!

two plums, two apricots.

 

[oldhen2345]

Planted some lettuce, peas and yet more strawberries today. View attachment 2469233
Red Sails lettuceView attachment 2469236
Gourmet blend lettuceView attachment 2469239
First bloom this year I’m really excited.
I also tried to make a homemade apple pie for the first time. The crust fell apart rather spectacularly
And I found an apple seed sprouted inside the apple. I’ve found this with tomatoes but never an apple.View attachment 2469244View attachment 2469245View attachment 2469246View attachment 2469247

Aside from looks, I bet that pie tasted good. Strange apple- isn't nature interesting?!

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Aside from looks, I bet that pie tasted good. Strange apple- isn't nature interesting?!

It did taste good! Even the crust. In fact I think I’m going to save some of the syrup/filling to baste over the top of the crust. It caramelized and it made the crust even better.
This is the recipes for the pie and the crust if anyone’s interested

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12682/apple-pie-by-grandma-ople/

https://www.inspiredtaste.net/22662/flaky-pie-crust-recipe/