What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

The moths/butterflies.....yup.
PLUS the bonus of swallowtails

 

[Brooks_]

I plant a lot of marigolds and basil around my tomatoes. The marigolds deter nematodes, but also attract parasitic wasps which feed on tomato worms.

I also make a mix from pureed habanero peppers and water which I spray on my tomatoes. This prevents a lot of pests because they don't like habanero peppers any more than I do....lol. Just be sure you WEAR GLOVES AND GLASSES when applying it. Long sleeves and pants too.... No fun to get capsacian on your skin or, God forbid, in your eyes!

I don't think I'd spare the hot peppers for that. Maybe with a bumper crop.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I don't know about 40 days and 40 nights....but just FOUR days of rain really sucks. I was happy for the first day or two. Now, I just wish it would STOP! It is supposed to be sunny and HOT starting tomorrow through the weekend. You know what that means, right???

Here comes the mold..... *sigh*

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm going to be adding new flower beds to my back yard which is sloped. I also have a dog who LOVES to dig so I have to be smart about putting up a barrier around the flower bed which can keep her out of it. I've been doing some research to get some ideas on what repurposed and/or free materials I can use to make the new flower beds. Came across this idea....repurposed garage door panels. Now that's a new one to me.....lol!

 

[Elyrian1]

That may be the most awesome use of old garage doors I've ever seen.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm going to be adding new flower beds to my back yard which is sloped. I also have a dog who LOVES to dig so I have to be smart about putting up a barrier around the flower bed which can keep her out of it. I've been doing some research to get some ideas on what repurposed and/or free materials I can use to make the new flower beds. Came across this idea....repurposed garage door panels. Now that's a new one to me.....lol!

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OH ya. My mom did that with their old steel door about 5 years ago. It looks really nice.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I got CO2 tanks for my new pistol it is loaded for rats.. I am going to kill things tonight

 

[NewBoots]

Weeded, made a tomato cage out of cement wire, weeded one of the beds, took half a snake away from one of the chickens (little harmless garter snake, poor thing), watered the seedlings still in the greenhouse, put the 5 week old bunnies into the grow-out pen (their mother sighed with relief), and then watched the bunnies play and munch fresh grass and clover. The littles are doing great in their protected part of the coop and growing like weeds. Threatening to rain so we'll keep our fingers crossed.

 

[Beer can]

I always thought you were supposed to wait to plant your beans until your corn was around 9-12 inches tall? Otherwise your beans can outgrow the corn and you'll still have to end up staking them.

I think I read four inches? Most corn is pretty strong tough stalk stuff no need for staking, but like I said that that painted mountain indian corn is small. I've also grown a variety of sweet corn once yrs ago don't remember what it was very short 3-4 foot stalks with full size ears doubt that would work good either.

 

[Beer can]

I planted Potato Onions

I've grown them for some yrs now, much smaller bulbs than reg onions but pretty cool beings they multiply. Pretty amazing how long they store though, no joke, I actually forgot to replant a bag of them one year forgot all about them. Had them in a paper bag in a cupboard in the kitchen out of site. So from harvesting that fall to through that yr, to planting them the following spring some did wither away and turn to paper but the majority of them when I planted looked like fresh picked!
Have a bag to plant this week hopefully I don't forget Lol.
One year I even forgot to dig them up, so froze solid all winter that spring they all sprouted and then I dug them up and separated and replanted them.