What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Should I pinch off the flowers on all of them? Or does that just apply to the smaller/younger one?

I was going to say remove the flowers for sure on the little one, maybe on the bigger ones as well, but someone just said that they got berries from their first year plants, so .

When I chose which blueberry plants to buy, I got the ones with the most leaves and best green growth. Some had lots of flowers, but I decided against them.

I can't claim to be an expert, as my blueberries haven't done as well as I'd hoped. This year, they look to have some awesome growth coming on... hoping I don't lose it to a freeze after all this beautiful weather.

 

[TippsiRabbit]

here in west central Canada is the soil still partially frozen . I have my started seeds still in my sun room .Snow is gone ,now today is yard cleaning planned and fixing up the bikes . Building a new Rabbit hutch the old one got toppled over in the last Blizzard thats the plan .

 

[Acre4Me]

gets wet and then dries it will get dense and hard, which isn't ideal for most things to grow

The #*!@ morning glory vines are an exception. Am on my 4th box of removing the stupid runners from just one raised bed. The boxes are smaller, but this way I put the roots in the box, box goes into burn pile.

really annoying plants.

 

[WthrLady]

I get nervous about lids made in China so I won't buy them unless I know who made them. Some of them get awful reviews too on Amazon.

I agree.
Too much rain last night.
Going to try to paint the greenhouse shelf today.
Dark and rainy today, no motivation, no energy. Bleh.
I have another to build and paint, but need more shelf and lumber. Then I want to put one at the end, so that would make a 'U'Shape finished set.
If I can find another LED grow light, I could move some seeding supplies to the greenhouse and keep 4 more trays of seedlings in the seed shed until the nights warm up a tad.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

So we bought/planted 3 blueberry bushes today. Two in 3 gallon pots, one just a 1 gallon. Should I pinch off the flowers on all of them? Or does that just apply to the smaller/younger one?

Generally the rule for perennial fruits is to remove the flowers the first year to let the roots get established. I removed most of the flowers off of mine I did leave couple though. I would at least remove the flowers off the smaller plant and maybe thin the flowers on the larger ones. That said you are also supposed to remove the flowers from new strawberry plants and I don’t have the patience to wait 2 years for my first strawberry.

I get nervous about lids made in China so I won't buy them unless I know who made them. Some of them get awful reviews too on Amazon.

Yay!

I did not pull the flowers off of mine last year & it produced quite a few berries that I totally enjoyed. LOL. Someone else probably knows much better than me though, it was my first blueberry bush.

Got tons done yesterday - got the mulch pulled back & fertilized all the berry bushes, garlic & shallots & then got them remulched. Side dressed & mulched the onions. Planted some bean seeds in the garden & was flipping the plexiglass in place, it hit my big toenail & ripped it 97% off. So, a trip to the ER where the 3 docs on said they wouldn't touch it. They called 4 other places who also said they wouldn't touch it. One Doc felt bad for me at this point so she caved & numbed it up & cut off what she could. Gave me antibiotics & a referral to a podiatrist to get the rest of it removed. It never hurt until now, holy cow is it throbbing! I'm guessing not much happening in the garden for the next couple of days, I can't get a shoe on (nor would I want to).

Hope it heals up quickly. Toenail injuries are more painful than broken toes in my experience.

 

[BullChick]

The #*!@ morning glory vines are an exception. Am on my 4th box of removing the stupid runners from just one raised bed. The boxes are smaller, but this way I put the roots in the box, box goes into burn pile.

really annoying plants.

After digging up the roots, and getting rid of them, I found out yesterday that we are supposed to kill the flowers, and not the roots.
let me find the article...

Quick & Dirty Morning Glory Control​

• Although morning glory makes for a beautiful plant, the mature vines create the biggest problem. You will want to take them down with a sheet below the plant to catch any falling seeds. A trellised morning glory usually has hundreds of seeds waiting to fall to the soil below and germinate the following spring.
• Pinch the heads off of any morning glories peeking out of the soil to prevent the sun from providing the majority of the energy that feeds into the plant.
• Do not pull morning glory weeds up from the roots. Although it sounds counter-intuitive, pulling the roots creates new, more numerous fibrous roots. These roots spread underground and help cultivate the plant in new locations, many feet away. This is why morning glory is considered an invasive species, perhaps second only to the kudzu plant.

https://dengarden.com/gardening/How-to-Get-Rid-of-Morning-Glory-Safely-Permanently

 

[WthrLady]

Ya, it's one of those 'you just made it angrier' plants.
It will take a couple of years, but killing off the vines is the way to go.
The plant eventually starve to death.
I'm on year three of controlling bind weed, a MG cousin.

The year I PULLED it, it came back tenfold.

 

[Sueby]

Have an appt shortly for the toe. It's pretty gross, I unbandaged it to shower.

It's funny, I purposely grow morning glory on my fence, but it doesn't get invasive here. I'm not sure if it's a different kind, of if our winters just kill it. If I don't let it reseed it does not come back the next year. The hummingbirds love it.

I really probably would pull off the flowers on the blueberry, or at least most of them. I think the idea is to let the plant focus on getting established root wise the first couple of years instead of producing fruit. (duh, like @Artichoke Lover just said!)

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. Ouch @Sueby. That sounds like a really painful injury. Good luck at your appointment. Just a word of caution: podiatrist seemed to have missed the lectures on pain management in Medical school. I picked up some potted tulips at the discount store yesterday when I went to get the seed potatoes. I planted them in the cutting garden and put the new edging around. Immensely better than the black wire that was there. I can see the BES greening up a bit but no signs of life from the daisies yet. I'm still waiting for the zinnias I started indoors to get their secondary leaves so I can plant them in that garden spot. No signs of asparagus either but it looks like the chard is germinating already. I rolled back the plastic cover on the little hoop bed as the temps will get into the upper 60's today. Still no movement on my weed whacker. I guess I need to make a phone call. I have recovered completely from my little tumble the other day so I may try to drag the pallet out to the potato patch today. We'll see. Nothing spectacular, but my humble little cutting garden... (as you can see the grass is still not completely green yet)

 

[Swiss]

I planted my tomato seeds 3/29 (top is Orange Icicle, and bottom is Sweetheart of the Patio). Today, I had to thin them! I planted so many SOTP seeds because I've had them so long (the sell by date on them was 12/2014), but I guess they were still really good. I'm pretty sure every single seed sprouted!

Thinned:

I really wanted to save all the seedlings I cut, but only have big containers for 4 SOTP and 3 OI.