What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

Oh…and someone (I think I know who) put compost that was not quite ready into my finished pile…I’ll have to dig under to see how impactful that was. It is full of non decomposed pine shavings. Plus, when I forked it yesterday, the smell was not great. So, not sure if I’ll have garden compost for the spring. At least we got goat poop last fall from a friend and spread it around the beds.

 

[WthrLady]

We haven't had enough moisture to break down our compost this winter. Until yesterday, precip since the middle of december was only .14 inches. So I'm going to have to bring some in as well. I can use it as a filler base for the beds in the hoophouse. It will just look like I have huge beds full of coffee beans until I cover it up with soil. LOL.

Hoping to get into the seeding shed today but if not, I'll still sort seeds and come up with a seedling plan and numbers, and dates.

I'll bake out egg shells tomorrow too for tomato food and get that made while all but me are gone for the afternoon.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ever do something and then spend the next 5 hrs wishing you had done something else?

Yesterday I repotted all my seed starts into bigger pots and put them outside in a homemade greenhouse. I used some well decomposed pine needle, wood chip mix for the substrate. I didn't water yesterday because the starter soil was still really damp.

This morning I was operating on 3 hrs sleep. Fed animals around 7 am. As I was walking back up to the house, I peeked in on the seed starts. They looked kinda dry. This is where I made my first mistake because I didn't put my finger in the soil. Just decided I would go ahead and lightly water....which I did and then recovered with the plastic.

Now here's what I'm obsessing about...
1. Should have actually checked the moisture content with my finger.
2. After lightly watering, I should have left the plastic off for a while.

The composted material I used came from a big pile where I've had all kinds of unnamed fungus grow like crazy. You all know what happens when you have fungus, moisture, and warm air....

Probably not a healthy environment for my young starts.... And I won't be home for another 2 hours to rectify my blonde moment.

 

[Boppo]

I am reading a book about container gardening and another about interplanting vegetables and flowers. Sorting my seeds. Looking for good seed starting mix. Getting more excited!

 

[Boppo]

”Wee-ipped?”

There Are NO single syllables south of the Mason Dixon

 

[Sally PB]

Still very windy here. The gusts have died down a little, but I'm going to be inside today. Winter comes back tonight, but I know it's not too long now. I just want to get out there and start getting my hands dirty!

Once it gets warm enough to do stuff, there is going to be a LOT to do, so it would be nice to be able to chip away at it.

 

[Anime2lover]

This year I'm going to try and build one of these in all of my chicken yards, so they always have fresh grain and grass even when their stuck in their Penns instead of free ranging, like they have to be right now (beautiful hawk, but really irritating right now, saw him before he nabbed any birds)

 

[WthrLady]

Got a couple of those deep, black/purple, slicing tomatoes. Remember I mentioned that video of the man that has the HUGE hoop houses that grows them, and other varieties, for the local farmer's market. He admitted that they tasted like nothing/or not great, but only grew them for the novelty of them being SO dark and like a giant purple nightshade berry.
(which unless he's telling people how they taste at purchase or when asked, is a huge integrity thing with me, but I digress)
He's right. They smell like NOTHING. They Taste like NOTHING, not even salted or warmed. Their skin was extra thick to the point of distracting and leathery.
I won't be planting any.
They are pretty inside, but not worth the square footage in my garden.

 

[igorsMistress]

Got dirt, finished watering, bought more sunflower seeds.

 

[Elyrian1]

It was late last night when I settled down for the evening, so here's yesterday's happenings. I spread a pile of dirt into a nice, thick garden bed in the front corner of the yard where it's heavily sheltered by two sections of six foot tall fence. It's going to be my herb bed with some flowers interspersed throughout because pollinators are our friends.

Then I ran around town for the better part of the day. Why? Because the toddler behaves better when I'm not around and DH wanted to finish getting wheels installed on all four of the gates into the property. He was welding up brackets for the wheels, mounting them, adjusting gates, etc with help from my Dad all day yesterday. They're big, fat, spring-loaded wheels so the gates open like a dream.

While I was out, I went to HEB and got herbs, a couple of pepper plants and a tomato variety I'm hoping to try out. It's suppose to be just below freezing for a few nights so I'm going to have to think of something to keep them alive for the next week or so.