What did you do in the garden today?

[vall]

warm and dry here. no time for gardening as I have to cope with chickens. got 26 quails and know nothing about raising quails. can I plant anything for quails? would they eat chards, beetroot leaves, etc.?

Yep they love chard, kale, lettuce, and anything with seeds like cucumber, melon.

I think gophers only live west of the Mississippi River.

The west plus Florida though I didn't see any holes in my land there.

 

[Sueby]

OMG my butcher mislabeled a chuck roast - it was actually a prime rib roast & I put it in the crockpot. That's like a $100 cut of beef ruined! I should have known to double check because all the filet mignon was labeled sirloin. I thought it was a funny looking chuck roast with bones sticking out the side. Doh!

No idea why I'm telling the garden people that. LOL

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

OMG my butcher mislabeled a chuck roast - it was actually a prime rib roast & I put it in the crockpot. That's like a $100 cut of beef ruined! I should have known to double check because all the filet mignon was labeled sirloin. I thought it was a funny looking chuck roast with bones sticking out the side. Doh!

No idea why I'm telling the garden people that. LOL

Because you know we won’t judge you.

 

[Sueby]

That was both the best pot roast & the worst prime rib I've ever had.

 

[WthrLady]

Not QUITE gardening, but I ran into ACE hardware looking for a couple of farm gaskets and they were tossing all their giant mums in a big bin for the trash. I asked if I could have them and they said YES! 10 inch pots and the plants were about 20 inches across.
I'll set them outside for the cold a few days, then trim them back and put them to sleep in the workshop with the over-wintering pepper plants. I only had room for 18 pots in the truck as it was feed store day and grocery (people feed store) today. LOL.
So if I can overwinter them and get them going, I'll have them for next year

 

[Birdsonghill]

Our weather forecast come out of the big city TV stations and the cities national weather service office. It is almost always warmer there than out in the country side in our area. I usually subtract two to three degrees from their forecast predictions and am closer to reality where we live. We still have not had a hard frost, but it is getting close the next couple nights, when I subtract 2 or three degrees from the official forecast! Then the temps rise back up to the fifties for lows for the next week. That is about normal here. The yoyo effect is normal in our area , as well, due to being where artic and Gulf events meet so often, yielding increased unpredictability! 30 to 40 degree temp swings are common from day to day in the winter, 65 degrees in January on a Monday and 25 degrees Tuesday, then back to 65 on Wednesday! Snows 6 inches and 25 degrees one day and is all melted, sunny and near 70 degrees the next day is relatively common. We may get snow a few times on the ground but it seldom lingers for more than a day. Some years no snow accumulations at all, maybe just flurries from time to time. Things tend to rot over winter here from staying wet and cool, but seldom frozen, so rot flourishes. A snow cover is likely better for many plants rather than sitting dormant in soggy unfrozen ground, that mold loves. Mosquitoes come out of culverts, hollow trees and similar with every warm snap and you may get bites all over in January on a warm day! Similar ticks and fleas. They can be active all year during warm spells. We are fortunate about many of the mums as they over winter in the ground here, if they don't rot. I actually grow Hawaiian ginger and turmeric outside my backdoor for about 15 years ,now, and they are suppose to be tropical plants! The southside of the house keeps the ground warm enough, evidently! I just leave the frost burned down leaves covering the tubers over the winter and clean them up in early spring before they rot. Found out they would survive by being too busy one year to take care of them and they survived snow and 15 degree temps.

 

[Wolfie2]

Got a decent amount done in the garden today. Needed to get as much planted as it's getting late in the planting season here for winter crops. Tilled up a 5'x 30' area and planted a row of mustard and a row of sweet peas. 2 3x6' raised beds, got some kale & collards in one and got the other ready for garlic that will go in soon. Cleaned out most of the mint that took over a 3x3' RB and got some cilantro and parsley. Left some of the mint for a next years crop. Filled in some of the empty spaces with cover crop seed. Planted about half the garden with cover last week and it had poked its head above ground now.
Also got some lettuce and radish seeds in big pots (molasses tubs).
This was my To Do list for today as we had a cold front scheduled for this evening and I wanted everything planted before it got here. Started raining about 15 minutes after I closed the doors to the garden shed. I'd say I timed it about right.
About all I have left to do is onions and garlic and hopin the onions hit the feed store soon.
Now I'm hopin we don't have a freeze like we had last winter.

 

[Ascholten]

Getting my totes ready for planting my garlic that arrived yesterday. Now that I know all the things that I did wrong to kill it two seasons ago im hoping this june ish I have some actual garlic this time around.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

If you are north of me, and have clear skies, the aurora are SCREAMING tonight!!!!

 

[chickengr]

Not QUITE gardening, but I ran into ACE hardware looking for a couple of farm gaskets and they were tossing all their giant mums in a big bin for the trash. I asked if I could have them and they said YES! 10 inch pots and the plants were about 20 inches across.
I'll set them outside for the cold a few days, then trim them back and put them to sleep in the workshop with the over-wintering pepper plants. I only had room for 18 pots in the truck as it was feed store day and grocery (people feed store) today. LOL.
So if I can overwinter them and get them going, I'll have them for next year

congrats!

I tried them but I could not oversummer (new english word?) them here.