What did you do in the garden today?

[Artichoke Lover]

Got some baking and laundry done in the house. I ended up cutting stakes for my peppers and the trellises. I think I cut around 50 today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Been a busy day here taking advantage baked 2 loaves of bread. Made cupcakes of spice cake with cream cheese frosting.. Boiled 24 eggs because I can

 

[Sally PB]

I need a way to keep them out of my strawberries (planted in tires) before they find them.

You can use DE to deter slugs. Sprinkle a ring of it around the plants you want to protect.

 

[WthrLady]

Spent the whole day waiting for the irrigation guy to show for his morning appt. He showed at 145pm, no phone call to let me know he was running late. It's a good thing he's a nice guy! LOL.

While I waited, it was only 40 degrees today and super windy and COLD COLD to the bone, I took the winter panels off the coop,played with the hens for a bit, and then baked chocolate chip peanut butter cookies, still no show, so transplanted a mass start tray of San Marz tomatoes and a tray of Roma into 6 pack cells. 3 full flats for those. Checked all the others. Tomatoes started 9 March on working on their 3rd set of true leaves. I'll bury them deeper in their solo cups tomorrow or Friday. Marigolds look great. Horse radish looks good. Bunch onions look crappy, will pull and reuse the cells for cherry tomatoes that should be coming up in mass tray in the next couple of days.

Lots of stuff to get into cells and started in the next two weeks, mostly stuff I like to get a head start on, like decorative corns and stuff for sale, people like to buy big.

Tomorrow is egg deliveries in the next village, and painting the greenhouse deck is a MUST. and I need to spend a hour or so ripping up weeds in the garden to buy mulch this weekend.
Hope all are ok.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Still have DE will use it more in garden as not with chickens anymore

 

[Elyrian1]

I did manage to pot the strawberry runner and a basil sprout today, now to see if they actually start growing better. I'm also going to start some cucumbers and maybe a single spaghetti squash for the MIL as a parting gift. I'll be able to get them in the ground about a week before we move.

Now, bummer that I can't have my aeroponic indoor garden, but it actually works out. We were planning on moving north, to zone 4a. I spent days just picking out cold hardy, short season plants because the growing season would have been a whopping 90-100 days. Yikes!

Now, however, we are eyeing more southern climes after a stepping stone move. A stepping stone move being 1-3 years in a place you don't intend to stay permanently in order to grab a nice job with good benefits prior to moving to the area you really want. I'm expecting we'll end up, eventually, in zone 7ish... maybe even 8. I grew up in zone 9 so I can handle whatever on the warm side. It's the dang cold that kills me!

So in the end, it will all work out.

 

[TJAnonymous]

You can use DE to deter slugs. Sprinkle a ring of it around the plants you want to protect.

I've tried DE in the past at my previous house and it didn't work. They just slimed their way right over it.... So I switched to salt.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh really maybe try salt then beer then the DE have like 9 tires I plant in

 

[Elyrian1]

Got to be careful with straight salt though. Salting the ground too heavily can turn it barren.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Little amounts there always has to be balance in anything we do