What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

some little gem of ideas in this..

Interesting video, although their winter appears much warmer than mine. More like early Spring activities here.

 

[WthrLady]

Bingo! That's exactly what my husband and I have been talking about.....

We have this
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...kEYhPiZJ2zFBc5CylWkFbiqQC9N4CwkkaAiQDEALw_wcB

 

[WthrLady]

Interesting video, although their winter appears much warmer than mine. More like early Spring activities here.

Well here too, but I like the seed potato stacking.

 

[BReeder!]

Well here too, but I like the seed potato stacking.

I liked the idea of overwinter the seed potatoes in a mound of straw and dirt. It may require a large mind here to prevent freeze since my first line is 3ft or so, but I think it's a possible solution. I don't have a root cellar or other cool, dry place that doesn't freeze throughout the winter.

 

[WthrLady]

Maybe the heat from composting straw helps with that too? I saw he waterproofs it too.

 

[chickengr]

I've tried for 2 years now to get onions to grow with no luck. The first year I tried to plant them in containers. I think they dried out too much and got too hot. Last year I planted them in the ground. They seemed to go well until I left for 10 days on vacation and weeds overtook them.... This year I'm ready....lol. I have a plan to keep the weeds out and keep them watered in self-watering containers. *fingers crossed*

I eat green onions so weeds are not a big deal, lol. onions for me and weeds for chickens, a win-win situation. then I have room to plant summer veggies. once I do move to my new place I will have room to plant as much as I want to. at the moment I have a tiny garden.

 

[chickengr]

Onions. planted 4 types of onions last year - bought the little bulbs for 2 varieties (from TSC), and bought 1 variety from the local garden store, which had no real bulb at the bottom, but had some greenery above the root end. Then also bought some Burpee seeds at the garden store for "bunching onions". Several of the bulbed ones rotted. Some grew, but none grew very big at all. The bunching onion seeds didn't grow at all - weird bc I planted them in June, when it was hot. All were planted in all day full sun areas.

I posted a pic of my recent Territorial seed order that arrived. There are two types of onions seeds I purchased. They had some good info on the website about onions and daylength, and which ones are good for which areas, in general. So, that will be my onion experiment this year.

Also, I looked up companion plants for onions. Apparently good with the Brassica family - repels those irritating cabbage loopers. Also good with other plants, but NOT good with beans or peas or sage. So, maybe I'll space them out this year among the plants like I do with carrots.

I have chamomile all over my garden. it seems that it confuses bugs with it's strong smell and it attracts bees.

 

[karenerwin]

This was in our yard this morning. We believe it got hit or clipped by a car. I did see him try to stand up but he was unable to.
He was still there 7 hours later but he had managed to get himself into the ditch. I called the conservation department and they gave me the number of the agent on duty in my area. He gave me permission to put it out of its misery.
Had an experienced hunter friend come over and gut it for me ( in the dark, by car headlights and flashlights). Tomorrow I will skin it and butcher it. It was a young male. Didn’t even have buttons yet. He did have broken legs and internal damage though. Not sure when it got hit as we didn’t hear anything so it may have been last night.
Picking up the bunnies this week!
Back is doing better. Especially when I can be up and walking/moving around. Sleeping is a different matter.
I wake up because of the pain after about 5 hours. This morning I got up for an hour and a half and walked around. Then was able to sleep another 90 minutes. Next appointment they are going to put me on the back stretcher thing.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I was given a vidio by a friend stretching is their thing so far it is helping here also

 

[BReeder!]

All-nighter here...
I need to get off this forum before I get in trouble. I ordered the last of my seeds except for herbs just now. However, I had a coupon for $25 off $50, $50 off $100, or $100 off $200... I feel into a downward spiral. I figured I would splurge and get $100 in my car and just pay $50. The discount didn't account for tax and shipping and it was actually $80. Then I figured I might as well hit $200 in the car to get $100 off. I ended up spending a total of $125...

I grabbed seed potatoes. I really wanted the purple and rose colored varieties which I cannot get at Menards or Home Depot. I grabbed a 4lb bag off Yukon Gem (a disease resistant Yukon Gold) potatoes to round out the potato patch. I also decided to try Jerusalem artichokes as another root vegetable that I should be able to harvest for years to come. While in root vegetables, parsnips caught my eye too. I then got a meyer lemon and dwarf pomagranate for indoors to sit in our south facing bay window. I've been wanting the meyer lemon tree and can't find it locally. I also got a pollinating pair of native plum trees to plant with our peach tree, creating a mini orchard along the fence. I've been wanting a berry bush, and the fact that gooseberries can produce in the first season was intriguing enough. Since I was getting fruit, I ordered a pack of 25 strawberry bareroot starts too (need to figure out where those are going...). Then I thought of rhubarb, so I got a 3 pack of bareroot starts to plant between the fruit trees. By then I just needed to hit a number so I grabbed Stuttgarter Reisen onion bulbs and seeds for a small sweet pumpkin variety called Winter Luxury Pumpkin.

You see why I need to get out of the farm forum... LOL.