What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Spicy Chicken soup for supper. I forget how good that is.
Anyway, found a SUPER book at the thrift for a dime in the village - Greenhouse Gardening.
It's from 1985. It has recipes for SOIL in it and a lot of things that are not greenhouse specific-like companion plants, planning locations for winter or spring rotations, support types, adjusting Ph and salts, and figuring out weird problems.
So holler if you want me to look anything up.
Seedling wants/needs

Soil creations. I have one for sandy and super sandy too.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I paid $3.99/gal today for Premium non-ethanol. Drove 6 hours to pick up a 6 ft live edge walnut slab that I'm going to use as a fireplace mantel. Cost me $500 for the slab and $80 in gas. :/

Got my 4 rose bushes planted in the garden and flower bed. And my free Arbor Day Crape Myrtles planted in pots until I get them a little bigger.

My pepperoncini's have sprouted finally! Yay!

 

[PopoMyers]

do they spy on weekends? most things here get done friday afternoon to monday morning. not big jobs but like retaining walls, etc.

Not sure, but not improbable. You never know. The lady came by with a satellite photo of said object.

 

[PopoMyers]

I paid $3.99/gal today for Premium non-ethanol. Drove 6 hours to pick up a 6 ft live edge walnut slab that I'm going to use as a fireplace mantel. Cost me $500 for the slab and $80 in gas. :/

Got my 4 rose bushes planted in the garden and flower bed. And my free Arbor Day Crape Myrtles planted in pots until I get them a little bigger.

My pepperoncini's have sprouted finally! Yay!

$3.99? Over on the western side we are up to $4.25+ for regular (near highways)

 

[PopoMyers]

Good afternoon gardeners. I turned on the hose at a trickle for the lemon tree early this morning, that’s all. We have sun and clouds and thunder with a sprinkling of fat rain drops and it’s windy. The plan this weekend is to start buying soil for the garden and maybe shred some branches, we’ll see how wet it gets. I really want that compost pile cleaned up and mindless, physical work would be a good thing at this point. My dad has been moved to a skilled nursing facility close to me and I’m pretty sure he won’t get out alive. Mom lives on the other side of the valley and with fuel prices like they are she won’t be able to go daily. Fortunately I can go several days a week, so can our kids and hubs can stop on his way home, plus hospice will visit two to three times a week as well. On a happier note, there are onions sprouting, one of the chaste trees has leaves on it and the aloe is going to bloom soon!
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It's good that you can visit your dad often. That can make all the difference in quality of life where he is.

 

[PopoMyers]

Checked on the garlic, which are up about 4-5". And set out 7 mousetraps. 2 in parked vehicles, the rest near the coop and in the garden. Onions and tomatoes sprouted and growing. Daylight savings coming next week! Messes me up every time, feel like I'm jet lagged for a week more. Personally, I disdain the spring clock change. How about you? Chooks could care less.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Time messes with me bad real bad ...
This is what I did do today 4 hatched to a fully zipped in the incubator still

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Okay, so the roses did not go in today or the last couple of bricks

BUT I got a few more stumps out (smaller fruit tree ones) and cleaned up a corner we have been putting off for years.

Tomorrow and Sunday, I am going to dig out the last stumps-at least a dozen and rake up years worth of old peach pits.


And then............After about 5 years and at least 100 truck loads hauled to the dump..... I am done with the clean up!!!! Well except for the old shed that is falling down, but that is for the fall when I have some man help! My dad was a garden hoarder and could never pass a construction sight with out finding something we "needed" for a new project. Only they sat there for decades. He also would not all anyone to clean up the garden and had planted so many fruit trees that they were competing on levels to try and find some sun.

I still have terraces to build, berry vines to keep on digging out and weeds. But WOW it feels so good to be so close to done cleaning it up!

I bet! Its refreshing. Good on you tackling things that have been Eating at you for awhile. Its all good!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

What did you do in your garden today?

I picked a bunch of Rattlesnake green beans and Cherokee wax beans, a few tomatoes, three eggplants, some broccoli shoots, and jalapenos. Pretty happy with today's harvest!

Stood outside in the freezing cold of CT wishing it were warmer so I could plant things!! ! I did start some tomato, bell pepper and lavender seeds indoors and the tomatoes popped already! I also put some sunflower seeds in water to soak over night. Tomorrow I will sprinkle them on coco and cross my fingers. The chickens are gonna love those BOSS greens

 

[Acre4Me]

Spicy Chicken soup for supper. I forget how good that is.

YUM! sounds delicious! for me, I find I love a bit of tabasco sauce in any chicken soup (canned or homemade).

Soil creations. I have one for sandy and super sandy too.

I'm in clay soil here. I agree with the recipe. Sand - so important! We bought a truckload of garden soil from a reasonably priced source (which means it was only OK soil and that was shown in its soil analysis we had performed on this soil). BUT, it came pre-mixed with sand, so it was evenly mixed and the soil (still quite clay like) was much easier to manage. Also, we have added perlite and vermiculite to the soil. We bought huge bags from a farm store for a reasonable price. And we have been working on our compost pile for a couple of years, so we are finally getting some good compost to mix into the soil. Whew! a lot of work, but it pays off eventually!