What did you do in the garden today?

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Ducks are awesome!

They do mess up their water and like to splash it everywhere, but they are lovely animals to have. I'm letting ours out on the lawn this year during the day. That should help to keep them from being so messy in the run as they'll spread out more. I've also learned some things in my ducky journey. Raise their pond, filter their pond, use bedding in their run that can be composted later. These steps help make ducks less of a messy to own and aid in keeping them healthy.

As for slugs and snails, ducks LOVE them. I only get small slugs about 1-1.5" long. I've never seen a large slug here. The ducks eat any creepy crawly they can get though.
I agree ducks are wonderful! The messy water can be a pain, but I never met a chicken that kept the waterer sparkling clean either LOL.

I can’t imagine keeping them in a run, that would be a LOT of work. My flock tends to run the big yard in the morning and then they go to the side yard for the warm part of the day where there’s more shade and it’s cooler.
 
Good morning gardeners. Temps are really nice right now. Yesterday I played with dirt. I mixed up garden soil and coir and put another pile into the potato bags. The potato plants are looking good! Then I dug out the area for the new grilling pad addition to the patio. I must thank all the rain we've received recently for making it so easy to scoop the dirt from a 3 foot by 8 foot section. I need to run errands this morning but should be able to level and place the stones down this afternoon. I also put most of the trim on the big 4 x 16 foot garden lattice fence yesterday as well. This morning things are looking good in the gardens. It looks like some more lima beans maybe getting ready to break through the soil. I sprayed the peach tree and apple tree with neem oil. The tomato plants in containers are showing signs of overwatering. Gee, I wonder why... Knock on wood, but I haven't seen any slugs in the garden yet. I have a large bag of egg shells ready for dispensing when they do show up.
 
@Elyrian1, ummm... didn't anyone warn you about Garden Math?!? My story is something like this:

Put in a garden. Buy some land that is next to ours. Enlarge garden to twice its size.

Friend causally mentions that a really good place for a garden is "up on the hill." Pooh-pooh this idea as it is UUUUPPP on the hill.

Rethink the uphill idea; after all, it doesn't frost up there as late/early, and tomatoes and melons need the longer season.

Put in a garden up on the hill. It's not that bad to haul stuff up there. Enlarge garden to put in more tomatoes and melons. And peppers. They need the heat too. Enlarge uphill garden again. Hubby builds a green house up there where there's lots of sun and good southern exposures. Start seeds up there and have spinach and lettuce in the winter.

So, really, I just have two gardens. That's perfectly normal. A lot of people have just two gardens.
We have two gardens lol. That said one of us gardeners has lost our mind and I’m not sure which. Since someone thought it was a good idea to plant about 25,000 square feet this year. Not to mention the sunflower fields and the covercrops baiting the deer out of the main garden. We have absolutely no self control. :lau
I definitely won’t be doing this much next year unless the world goes crazy(crazier i should say). I’ll probably restrict myself to 2,000sqft next summer.
 
It was busy this weekend I finally got the pole beans in the ground and the last of the corn. Dear Dad planted the other type of corn and cowpeas in the front. And I weeded most of the summer squash all 8 rows of the first batch of corn and 2 rows of beans. I also picked some carrots and the first banana pepper. The beans are about to bloom and so are the muscadines. The persimmons just finished blooming and the tree by the house is absolutely loaded! It’s raining today though and I was so tired when I came in yesterday I felt like puking so today will be spent indoors maybe making freezer meals.
I almost forgot! One of the carrots was so long it had grown straight down through the hole middle of the 5 gallon nursery pot! It broke and there was about an inch lodged in the ground under the pot!
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Bindweed - that is what I am battling! :he

I've been very diligent in keeping any and all of what-I-thought-was-morning-glory from producing any flowers for the last 2 years.

This spring I turned over the two worst beds multiple times and pulled out POUNDS of the root systems. They were collected into small boxes to contain them, then tossed into the burn bin.

Then, I looked up Morning Glory and Bind weed stats. Apparently, morning glory is an annual, but spreads its seeds very well, so it seems like a perrennial, but does not have the extensive root system of the bindweed - although they are in the same family/group of plants. There are a few other characteristics that are also indicative of bindweed - all of which this annoying plant has.

There are two ways to control:

1. Spray with herbicide (like Roundup). Obviously this is around my garden, so I'd need to be REALLY careful on a windless day. hmm... not sure I'll try this with garden in early growth stages.

2. Keep on it constantly to pull it out when it is only a few inches above ground to starve the roots. Might take up to 3 years to kill off all the bindweed. This is somewhat what I did this spring - turn over, remove roots (they are bright white), wait 2-3 weeks, turn over again - remove roots...this was done at least 4x already.


:mad: Die weed, DIE!! :mad:
 
Bindweed - that is what I am battling! :he

I've been very diligent in keeping any and all of what-I-thought-was-morning-glory from producing any flowers for the last 2 years.

This spring I turned over the two worst beds multiple times and pulled out POUNDS of the root systems. They were collected into small boxes to contain them, then tossed into the burn bin.

Then, I looked up Morning Glory and Bind weed stats. Apparently, morning glory is an annual, but spreads its seeds very well, so it seems like a perrennial, but does not have the extensive root system of the bindweed - although they are in the same family/group of plants. There are a few other characteristics that are also indicative of bindweed - all of which this annoying plant has.

There are two ways to control:

1. Spray with herbicide (like Roundup). Obviously this is around my garden, so I'd need to be REALLY careful on a windless day. hmm... not sure I'll try this with garden in early growth stages.

2. Keep on it constantly to pull it out when it is only a few inches above ground to starve the roots. Might take up to 3 years to kill off all the bindweed. This is somewhat what I did this spring - turn over, remove roots (they are bright white), wait 2-3 weeks, turn over again - remove roots...this was done at least 4x already.


:mad: Die weed, DIE!!
I hate bindweed. We had it in Colorado, and it was absolutely everywhere. It grew wild, and it choked out everything, and the chickens wouldn't touch it. Ugh. Now I've traded that for nightshade. Can't win, lol.
 
:rantS-L-U-G-S- :barniethey eat everything-- I have noticed we dont have as many frogs this year, it may be early, I have only seen 1. I am not hearing them either. I have seen way more slugs than usual. I had to pull them off the Black Cohosh, the Bergamont, lettuce, the Echinacea,,, and more. I have been using diatomaceous, it does help,:he but HOLY COW! I need more frogs.
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I'm looking up garden predators - might get some nematodes for the soil. But they offer slug/snail control too.

https://www.buglogical.com/decollate-snails/

Apparently, buy once and if all goes well (they reproduce as expected) then should not have to buy again. Unfortunately sold out currently.
 
Same rut here pretty much... mow, weed whack, water, pull weeds, prune, fertilize one in awhile, repeat.

I walked the garden today. I got curious to see if my potatoes have flower buds since that's been a hot topic here. Sure enough, they do. Pics of Kennebec, Purple Majesty and Yukon Gold flowering (pics in that order):
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