What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Thats what im battling too. Even in my raised veg bed. I had one with a foot long root! What is it??

Dock probably yellow dock as curly dock has smaller leaves .

 

[microchick]

Gazed longingly out at my raised beds and prayed that the evenings would warm up so I can get my lettuce and spinach planted and it have a chance to germinate before rotting in the ground.

 

[TJAnonymous]

This is the look you have when you want to go outside and work on your mountain sized to-do list but you are bad sunburned from the day before...

 

[microchick]

That also looks like me fuming because the spring weather so far has been damp and cool and I gots things to be doin outside like planting my spring garden and transplanting some Asian lillies!

 

[TJAnonymous]

@Sueby - so an idea hit me today... I'm planning on building some small raised beds (3 ft L x 1 ft W x 18" H) and arch some plastic lattice between them. Think of the McDonald's golden arches... The purpose of these beds is to grow my Butterfly Peas and Runner Beans. However, I was thinking about the space under the arches between the boxes. There won't be a ton of room under there. Maybe 3 ft x 2.5 ft under each arch... But I was wondering if the lattice work and flowers could provide enough shade for lettuce to grow?

 

[Sally PB]

Sally, although I have not dedicated my efforts to them the past few years TBH, from my past experiences where I'd have like 30 different types of peppers growing. FROST is your killer. Some species can tolerate a bit of it, may freeze back to the ground, others nope, you are done. Habanero's come to mind, out of all my peppers I must say the Habs were the most temperamental ones I had to put up with. With that, id say, do NOT let any peppers freeze really, they don't like it.

This is a Habanero pepper. Since they are for DH (way too hot for me!), we call them Hubbyneros.

I don't see any signs of life, but it can sit there for another month or two. Or three. I've kept it watered to just damp.

 

[NewBoots]

Mama’s Herbs.. my wife not my mom.. ha.. lol..!!

Those are lovely mixes of herbs with a bit of lettuce thrown in! Once it grows in it should be gorgeous. I hope you have it near the kitchen door, I know for mw, the closer to the kitchen the more I use my fresh herbs.

question for you all--mint: in containers or in ground? I don't want it taking over the yard but I have a 7x15 area that I can use for mint, I have 4 different kinds

I'm betting it depends on how wet your planting area is. Here, you have to jump back once it touches the ground and hope it doesn't outrun you. Seriously! We planted some in a old cast iron bathtub that was left in our backyard at our first home in Portland. It filled the tub frighteningly fast. But even before that, it shot out runners in all directions and tried to escape to the main garden. The only plant that I've seen that is worse for spreading is Creeping Jenny.

Here is one of the plants.

As someone else said, I'd nip off the leaves from about half way down and maybe lay the pots on the side and once they reorient, either up-pot them or plant them outside if the weather permits.

thanks! It is not by other garden stuff, it is a brand new bed that I just took the grass off, added compost too and turned this spring.

Oh lord, please don't put that mint in the ground in your main garden. Once it goes nuts, you'd have to get every scrap out or it'll regrow.

Haven't slept in days because of the pain so I'm just sitting on the heating pad today. But I need to get my starts outside for a couple hours & get a cattle panel cut up for supports for the peppers.

I'm so sorry Sueby, that sounds miserable.

I grow mine in a half barrel pot. I feel like you can get rid of it easy enough if it were to take over, but what do I know. Mine dies back in the winter & regrows in the spring. It shares a pot with sage & thyme & hasn't choked them out.

We've tried to mix varieties of mint the the same pot but the common mint always outgrows everything and fills the pot with roots. We uproot it, trim it back roots (it always looks like there is no soil at all) and all then replant it to let it go nuts again.

Mint will take over like a weed if you let it. Some of them will string out of the original pot and spread where they touch the ground. Not necessarily a bad thing.

I've been tempted to plant it in wet ditches in the past. Actually did once and I figure whoever lives there now curses me.

I heard from a few people, which I need to check if it's true or not, they are experimenting with mint in beehives to keep the hive beetles out. If this is true, I wonder if it'd keep certain pests away from the girls too, if you can keep them out of it. If not, at least their poop might smell a bit nicer

Oh THIS! I have a 8 gallon pot of the stuff in front of the covered run and thanks to you, I'll put it into the open run today!

My Nemisis. To you this round goes. But. I WILL PREVAIL! The war will be Won. . . .

Oh man that stuff is so hard to dig out. If you try to pull it up like a normal weed, you end up with a handful of leaves and the root stays put. Try dynamite.

 

[Ascholten]

This is the look you have when you want to go outside and work on your mountain sized to-do list but you are bad sunburned from the day before...

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Well, think of it this way, you got THAT out of the way for the season. The sunburn will fade into a bit of a tan, which lays the base for you to just continue tanning now instead of burning... let's just hope so. I used to hate when I went fishing and didnt pay attention only to wake up the next morning to wet sheets because of all the blisters on my back popping.

oof,

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

This is the look you have when you want to go outside and work on your mountain sized to-do list but you are bad sunburned from the day before...

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That's when you spray yourself with Americane or Solarcane and get on with it.

 

[SheaLoner]

Oh man that stuff is so hard to dig out. If you try to pull it up like a normal weed, you end up with a handful of leaves and the root stays put. Try dynamite.

We used a backhoe the first year. It was dock and something like a wild parsley, cow parsnip? Whatever the poison ivy like one is, but dosent actually cause a reaction up this way. That thing had 2' roots and 6feet tall.