What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. We got nearly an inch of rain overnight. Fortunately the worst of the winds were way east of my area. I planted the chard, endive, lettuce and bunching onions yesterday. I packed the dirt over them down pretty good and apparently they held their shape through the rain. The asparagus is looking good despite the cool temps and the onions I planted on 2 April are coming up nicely. I didn't get the radishes planted yesterday because I used a pack of seeds from last year. After I prepped the row I opened the pack and all the seeds fell into the walkway. Apparently I had opened them last year from the bottom. Oops! I'm still waiting for my potatoes from Jung to ship. The bed that they are going into isn't prepped yet, but it would be nice to have them soon. It's a little too soggy to be working in the garden today so I started bread dough. I may work on re potting some of my starts today as well. Better weather forcasted for tomorrow.

 

[Ascholten]

I actually get big sheets of cardboard which I'll throw on TOP of my mulch pile, then may cover with several burlap coffee bags which i also get from my business.

The bags, cardboard. Worms LOVE cardboard, it's one of their favorite foods plus this keeps the girls out of it, they can't scratch thru cardboard very easily so are not eating any worms that do make it into the mulch system.
Aaron

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I guess I missed the memo on the high winds for my area. They are kicking up quite briskly right now. Yet another reason to stay indoors today. LOL!

 

[Acre4Me]

The two peach trees we ordered shipped today!! They will be bare root sticks- let’s be honest.. my neighbor heckles me about my expensive sticks. Last year we bought two plums (different but compatible), and two apricots (different but compatible) from this company. Arrived in good condition and grew well for the fact they were basically sticks. So we decided to order peaches from this company this year. My neighbor has trees from big box store. Nothing wrong with those -his look great, but are much taller than mine, so harvesting will be harder to accomplish on his trees, and they’ve never been pruned, so they are a nice tree shape, but not easy to thin, or spray, or net them if wanting to exclude birds.

We ordered Asian Pears a few years ago from Stark Brothers. They are healthy looking and seem to have grown well. But their website seems to always be out of stock of most things. I spent a year and a half checking their site frequently, but never had anything else I wanted, ever in stock…ever. So, we had to look elsewhere for fruit trees. Hopefully this new supplier trees perform well in a few years - looking forward to some fruit!

 

[Ascholten]

You can always get trees, 'out of season' if they are available, and keep them in a pot, hell, on the porch, even in the garage or laundry room until it's time to plant them.

I have learned over the years, sometimes this is the only way to get things as they always seem to be sold out, or when something does come in, they get 3 trees, and 43 people waiting for them.

Good luck with your peaches.

Aaron

 

[NewBoots]

I was gifted seed tape once and that was even easier! My indoor tray space is limited so beets, carrots, peas, beans all get direct seeded.

I love seed tape, no thinning needed! I grab it when I find it whether it's a variety of whatever crop I planned to grow just because of the convenience.

Pouring rain again right now, I got the critters seen to between squalls. Yesterday it was heavy rain and high gusting winds but it's supposed to ease up around 1pm so I might get the beets transplanted.

We had a good friend over to visit yesterday and Penny did really good! She barked at her at first but Jane kept bribing Penny with treats and Penny actually gave her some friendly dog kisses. Jane was brilliant, I can't imagine a better person to help gentle a skittish and fearful dog.

Miss Prissy is coming along, she ate the mash I made out of chick crumble and egg yolk and is coming out from under the mama hen heat plate when we enter the room. She clearly has issues but whether she lives or not, we'll have given her the best shot at growing up. It's cute to see her elbow in with the 2 bigger boys to get to the mash. She certainly has heart.

 

[WthrLady]

Spent the whole morning hex coding colors of yarn.
I was going to take a break and hang the new coop door, but the windchill is 34 and the winds are HOWLING, SO nope.
Scratch brownies are out of the oven.
I'm going to go to the village for my break.
When I get home I'll work in the seeding shed and see if anything needs upsized. If nothing else, I can fill cells with soil for prep.

OH remember the dog poo robot vacuum saga. I can't get it clean, shark won't sell be replacement pieces, it really doesn't smell anymore, but it's banished from the house. SO...I have set it up in our huge garage. I'll cut it up in zones, so I can set it on patrol for the top of the steps, the rugs to the entry way steps, and near my potting shed. LOL. I refuse to toss it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Gardeners we have the stick Dyson we love and a shop vac medium size .. Can buy single sleeves for the shop vac .. That is what gives stink here.

 

[Sally PB]

carrots, I have bought baby carrots from the stores, the organic ones in the baggies, and planted them, they grow, and at the end of the season, you have a not so baby carrot, and if you want you can let a few seed. Not the most eco way but you can get seeds for next season. being organic they can't nuke them so they should be viable offspring.

Has anyone successfully saved their own carrot seeds? They will readily cross with Queen Anne's Lace. I've read that the first generation *might* be ok, but they can revert very quickly to tough, inedible roots, like Queen Anne's Lace.

Since we have QAL everywhere here, I've never even thought about growing out any carrots for seed.

 

[Elyrian1]

Oh wow, I didn't know they could cross back. We don't have any Queen Anne's Lace around here that I know of though.