What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

I’m feeling pretty crappy after my COVID shot yesterday.

Hopefully you feel better before too long. My first one was worse than my second, but symptoms from first were gone after about 3 days. keep your favorite hydration bev next to you, and rest when you can.

I need to mulch the strawberry beds but wind isn't good for that.

No, it certainly isn't. We've all gotten a face full of straw/mulch/sawdust at one time or another. When it is a SE wind, and I open up the nest boxes to check for eggs, I'll often get a face full of straw bc the east facing coop window is right there, on the east wall next to the nest boxes on the north wall, so the wind just blows right through, picking up the straw.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. It finally stopped raining. We got close to 2 inches and of course the ground is quite soggy. Hoping to finish hanging the wire and gates in the chicken yard this morning. I will have to try the vanilla spritz @Happy hen lover. The day before yesterday when I was working outside I was attacked by a cloud of biting gnats. One or two bit me right below my eyebrow and it is itching like crazy. On my garden walk this morning I noticed that the potatoes are starting to come up as is the lettuce seed. I picked two asparagus stalks. May is going to be a crazy busy time for me so I imagine the time will fly by quickly. In addition to getting the rest of the flowers and vegetables planted, building the final coop addition and baby chicks arriving just before Memorial Day weekend. It's good to hear from you @karenerwin. So sorry for your recent losses.

 

[WthrLady]

Thank you so much. I agree on the peppers! I guess the fact that I still have some alive is good . I did find a 6 pack of orange peppers from the FFA kids I didn't start near early enough on my maters. But he's they're still alive spindly but alive. I also agree about the planting date. I remember a few years folks loosing plants on Memorial Day. Planting too early gets too risky. I did order heat mats and lights for next year. What's your best producing tomato plant? I did get peas in ground on St Patty's day that's the only planting rule I can remember . They are just starting to send out trendills . Thanks again

I can 90% of my tomatoes into plain sauce. From that I can do anything I want all year long. My best are SanMarzano. This year I am also planting Marriage SanMarzano to see how they do. Romas don't do well in this soil. And Amish paste are too large to complete ripening before I run out of season.

I also do early girl, better boy, and two varieties of cherry. Those are for DH to graze on.

Living the years in Juneau the misquitos grow large enough to carry off children and small animals .. Avon if anyone knows who that is has a product called skin so soft it repels misquitos

Avon, and the formula changed years ago and doesn't do it anymore.

Karen, ask the moon for that house and you'll GET IT!
========finishing breakfast and then popping into town to get 9 more bags of mulch then home again to throw it down and spread it. Then I'll water the greenhouse, and mow the acreage. I know the birds are looking forward to getting out.

Have a great day all.

 

[BullChick]

I can 90% of my tomatoes into plain sauce. From that I can do anything I want all year long.

Exactly! Add this and that for pizza sauce or that and this if it’s spaghetti night. I leave some with more liquid for baking pastas without boiling first. Of course, juice is great to can too. Drinking it alcoholic or not.

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

So far today, the car battery was dead so had to push it down the driveway so we could position the other vehicle to jump it. Then got some trillium roots planted...accidentally ordered them during the wrong time of year, but they looked healthy so hopefully they'll make it.

Considering digging up the tulip bulbs today. Maybe potting them up in some sand to store them? Has anyone tried that? Our soil retains too much moisture for them to come back each year (even lost some daffodils), so looking for ideas. I don't have a potting shed, so need an outdoor storage idea.

I will likely also do some war on the ivy. And I need to check on all my cuttings to see what's rooting and can be hardened off and moved outside.

 

[oldhen2345]

Yesterday I finally got all the weed and feed out in the back yard. Checked on the garden, things are coming along nicely. Still moving my azalea pot around trying to find the perfect spot to plant. Today, gonna put my moss rose, cushaw and sunflower seeds in seedling containers and plant a drift rose. I need to zip tie my climbing roses to the trellises.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have take some some photos may not name my chickens. Name the roses. Climbers very prolific 3 of them

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I got the rest of the tomatoes planted. I keep forgetting to post photos though.

 

[NewBoots]

@Artichoke Lover, those are lovely pictures! Especially that white arching one, is that a rose? That cage with the chicks in it looks just like one of the rat cages we used to have when we were breeding pet rats.

Thanks for checking in @karenerwin, and I'm sorry for your losses. You've hit the perfect time to sell a house, the market is nuts now. A simple manufactured home on a single lot in this tiny town sold for 335,000 and that's at least 100,000 over what I would have expected or what homes like that were selling for when we were looking for a place. Of course that said, you should move here

@WthrLady and @BullChick, I partially agree on canning mostly sauce, but I ran out of canned salsa and tomato chunks way too soon last year so I'll be canning more of those too. Might try my hand at my own V8 too.

@Sueby, I think you and the others that replied are right and so I'm going to pot up the squash and probably cucumbers either today or in the next few days. Of course that'll expose them to wandering chickens but worth the risk I'm hoping.

Time to get outside, I'd done the morning chores but I like to peek in here while I have lunch. Going to move those squash, and try to start some flower seeds for DP. Maybe go fishing a little later, we'll see, watching the chickens scratch around in the yard is pretty fun too and my super soaker arrived so I can't wait for Nicky (aka Naughty Kitty) to try stalking a hen now. Oh and Glyness seems to be considering laying again, keep your fingers crossed, she'd make a big roaster but I'd really rather not.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

@Artichoke Lover, those are lovely pictures! Especially that white arching one, is that a rose? That cage with the chicks in it looks just like one of the rat cages we used to have when we were breeding pet rats.

Thanks for checking in @karenerwin, and I'm sorry for your losses. You've hit the perfect time to sell a house, the market is nuts now. A simple manufactured home on a single lot in this tiny town sold for 335,000 and that's at least 100,000 over what I would have expected or what homes like that were selling for when we were looking for a place. Of course that said, you should move here

@WthrLady and @BullChick, I partially agree on canning mostly sauce, but I ran out of canned salsa and tomato chunks way too soon last year so I'll be canning more of those too. Might try my hand at my own V8 too.

@Sueby, I think you and the others that replied are right and so I'm going to pot up the squash and probably cucumbers either today or in the next few days. Of course that'll expose them to wandering chickens but worth the risk I'm hoping.

Time to get outside, I'd done the morning chores but I like to peek in here while I have lunch. Going to move those squash, and try to start some flower seeds for DP. Maybe go fishing a little later, we'll see, watching the chickens scratch around in the yard is pretty fun too and my super soaker arrived so I can't wait for Nicky (aka Naughty Kitty) to try stalking a hen now. Oh and Glyness seems to be considering laying again, keep your fingers crossed, she'd make a big roaster but I'd really rather not.

It’s a blackberry bush! It’s going absolutely insane this year. The cage is an old ferret cage lol.