What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

Busy day of work. Outside during lunch to get fresh air. Looking at the garden, I need to weed my small block of sweet corn...

 

[Sally PB]

I got an area string trimmed that really needed it. I'd been holding off, so as not to tweak my back again. Now I have to get all the lovely mulch raked up!

I'm taking a break for some lunch, and I knew once I sat down, I might not get up again. The trimming was the most important part, though, and it's done.

It's looking dark outside, then the clouds thin, and we don't get rain. Again. Maybe I should have left the laundry on the line.

 

[WthrLady]

@BReeder! when I was a kid in Ohio, when dinos ruled the earth, we learned how the Natives planted their corn.

In a circle, dead fish in the bottom of the corn holes. three groups of 4 seeds. Ring of beans and squash around that. As they got tall they would support each other and are held as a group with the beans.

Funny how that stuff sticks with you.'

That and making apple butter on a fire with a giant copper kettle.

 

[chickengr]

There's more corn there than you realize. The corn is in clumps of 3 or 4. An interesting technique I read about for planting small quantities of corn is to plant a few kernels together just a few inches apart from each other. Yield is still good and they support each other like a clunk of bamboo would support each other.

that would be my style. my garden usually is a miniature jungle, lol.

 

[vall]

Last few days was a whole lot of weeding. Having to line every tree or bed in hardware cloth for gophers does not make that easy. I planted two tree collard plants in one of those beds and now I have to cover it with cardboard and mulch because I do not want to deal with weeding through hardware cloth there ever again!

Speaking of gophers, I thought they were about done invading for the year but I found new mounds yesterday so traps are set.

Cool this week and drizzly so I decided it was a good time to replant carrots and lettuce.

Blackberries are ripening already. This variety is Prime Ark Freedom, it sets two crops a year and the first crop is at least a month earlier than my other blackberry plants!

 

[NewBoots]

So my red hard neck garlic has been looking a little sad lately, kinda rusty and maybe a little wilty. And I'd originally been hoping some of the garlic would be finished when it was time to plant the tomatoes in he beds and it is time to move the tomatoes. But I figured I was wrong and the garlic would not be harvestable yet bit I poked a finger down the stems of the garlic and they were huge! I pulled all the red hard neck and have it hanging in the garage/barn to dry (never did it before so I had to look it up) and now I have a big area for tomatoes between the shallots (who are not ready to harvest yet). Once I have that space tomatoed, I'll check on the other garlics in the beds.
Garlic Harvest:

So far anyway, we'll see how far along he softnecks are. Still munching on the white radishes as a snack in the morning, the snap peas are not quite filled out enough, we're have baby beets and their greens with lunch.

The weather is kind of chilly and threatening rain but once lunch is over I'll got back out, I just can't wait to get more tomatoes planted.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wood for the winter being dropped today

 

[Fishychix]

Robin Update:

getting bigger and hungrier!

Still 4 chicks!

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Honest question: why are chicken and quail chicks so adorable and fuzzy and these ——- aren't?

 

[Acre4Me]

Honest question: why are chicken and quail chicks so adorable and fuzzy and these ——- aren't?

I know!! My youngest, is also amazed at how ugly they appear these early days!

but, I guess smaller egg, short hatch time for survival reasons? So they come out quite helpless for awhile. The tuft of fuzz on their heads and wrinkly skin ..

 

[oldhen2345]

that would be my style. my garden usually is a miniature jungle, lol.

Me too