What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Tomorrow i will be digging up stuff

That hard frost killed my guava, and Im pretty sure took out my brazillian cherry too. Im hoping that one comes back but won't hold my breath. When I replace it, it'll be another one that lives in a pot from here on out so I can move it into garage on crappy nights.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Thank you! I will be amending the soil in April and my plants are set to arrive in May.

Ya you cannot keep field grass from coming up, those roots are 4-12 feet deep.
Around here you can mulch, put down barriers, spray and that stuff is still coming up.

We still mulch and try to keep it as short as we can to lessen competition and increase exposure. (grass can get to 6 feet high and those little bushes can get lost)

 

[allenw]

I'm happy to say my garden is to wet to get into today, first good rain since last October. We've had rain since then but not a good soaking rain, hopefully it will get better from here.

 

[Ascholten]

The field grass. One thing I have done that can control it a little bit, somewhat, sort of. and you can't really use this too close to other plants.

Pour Salt, Saltwater on it, it gets into the roots and kills it, BUT is fairly harmless, and eventually washes away with the rain and no poisons / toxins / chemicals you can't pronounce getting into your veggies.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

And there goes a major poultry farm (they raise a LOT of Costco, Walmart, Tyson broilers) and turkeys around here. Wish I knew WHERE in the neighboring county this was. 500,000 birds. I'd need therapy after culling that many. (they do it with oxygen limiting foam last I heard.)
https://www.klkntv.com/a-half-milli...a-to-be-killed-after-bird-flu-found-in-flock/

 

[pennyJo1960]

Could drive up poultry prices over most the country.

 

[Ascholten]

I wonder how much of this is BS like the coofie was BS.

With that, god it makes me sick to my stomach, all that wasted food and lives...

Ok, so it had the flu, they can't still eat it? I mean, do a deal with campbells soup or something, make a butt ton of chicken noodle soup, the heat of cooking should nuke the flu right? It's just horrible, all that going to waste.

Aaron

half a million lives taken for ZERO purpose, it's just incomprehensible. How many acres of chickens is that even?

 

[Sueby]

Afternoon all.

I think I will pull the straw back over the strawberries tonight & throw a little more on the onions. Probably not necessary, but we're flirting with questionable temps. If only the wind would die down a bit, would be easier!

Garlic is looking good, looks like I only lost 1 over the winter. Shallots are just popping up. Walking onions are still questionable, hoping to see more than the couple that look alive.

So I have no idea how I did it, but I've run out of garden space. I only planted 1 extra bed of onions & I feel like I'm short 3 beds. For the life of me I cannot figure out what happened & where I will fit everything. I am seriously confused & so annoyed that I lost my planner from last year.

 

[Ascholten]

Afternoon all.

I think I will pull the straw back over the strawberries tonight & throw a little more on the onions. Probably not necessary, but we're flirting with questionable temps. If only the wind would die down a bit, would be easier!

Strawberries are fairly hardy, unless it's getting in the mid to low teens I don't think the frost will hurt them very much. Luckily wind chill does not really tear up plants that bad either. The big killer from what I have seen over the years is desiccation. Water them right before the freeze and a bit after to keep them plump and happy.

Aaron

 

[Acre4Me]

Rainy all day, so far.

Planted celery today - its on a heat mat now. I planted extra pepper seeds too - some did not germinate very well, so this time I planted 2-3 seeds per starter cell.

Looked through my seeds and will need to start flowers soon.

We get a hard freeze this weekend, so I'll work on hardening off the onion starts and I'll plan to plant them in the next 7-10 days.