What did you do in the garden today?

[Iluveggers]

Repotted 50 tomatoes. Instead of potting up, I removed them, added an inch of soil and repotted. Hopefully the extra inch of dirt will hold them until I can put them outside!

 

[5 Points Wingfeather]

Repotted 50 tomatoes. Instead of potting up, I removed them, added an inch of soil and repotted. Hopefully the extra inch of dirt will hold them until I can put them outside!

What will you with so many tomatoes? Do you put a lot up? Or give a lot away?

 

[638858]

Just finished mowing.. all day.. sittin on the porch drinkin a couple cold beers.. beautiful day today

 

[WthrLady]

Came the back way scenic route from the village today, found an eagles nest.
Also went into a mom and pop nursery that used to be THE place to get anything. Shadow of its former glory, things brought in from big companies far too early in the season. Only filling about 20% of the old place. Shame. I gladly paid extra back in the day for the quality stuff, locally grown and grafted.
That said, look at the color of this petunia! NEON orange!

 

[Iluveggers]

What will you with so many tomatoes? Do you put a lot up? Or give a lot away?

12 cherry/pear plants (we eat about a quart a day all summer for snacks)
12 slicer/heirloom plants (for slicing on burgers, blts and tomato mozzarella salads)
12 paste plants for canning.

I plant the rest at the farm to contribute to the family’s farm stand (also add any bumper crop to the stand), & whatever’s left give to friends. I had about 4 extra plants last year that two of my neighbors happily took!

 

[jerryse]

Farmers are planting soybeans and apple blossoms are opening . Think I will plant beans tomorrow if the soil is dry enough . We have had a lot of little rain showers this week but no large amounts . FYI you can plant dry beans from the grocery store . Much cheaper seed . I am doing blackeyed peas and pinto beans this way this year .

 

[Sally PB]

It rained off and on this afternoon. I would have gotten more done if it had been in the "off" position from 2-4.

Tomorrow is supposed to be dry, so I plan to plant more onions. They companion well (so I've read) with beets and broccoli, so I'm going to give that a try. I have two long raised beds, and one will have red onions and beets, the other will have white onions and broccolini, which is as close to broccoli as I want to grow. Broccoli intimidates me.

The red fleshed potatoes that I ordered aren't available, so I told them to sub any purple or red fleshed variety that they have. I'm getting Magic Molly purple fingerlings sometime next week. I'll plant as many hills of that as I get seed potatoes for, then fill in the rest of my potato area with the Elba that are sprouting in my basement.

 

[SheaLoner]

I am *not* an expert, but

1. I think corn likes a little less water than most people think.

2. I think clay soil can work ok as long as your ph is right and you have enough organic matter and fertilize it some.

All we have is red clay here and it does fine. I dunno about swampy though. You could try celery or bamboo or something that likes the wet?

If you try corn anyway, we plant ours in mounds, Indian style. You make a mound of clay, stick your finger in the middle and put in the corn with some fertilizer. Then you plant squash around the base.

Thanks guys. I do have a lower terraced bed I can plant it in instead. They drain better. Will either build up some more raised beds in the low area or find something that can stand wet feet.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

I am beyond excited because my garden started today! I woke up to see a whole bunch of little sprouts from my strawberry and basil seeds. Last year all but one of my strawberry plants died so this is so exciting for me.
Here’s some pics. I’m sure my fellow gardeners will share my excitement
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That's awesome! I'm right now experimenting with store bought strawberry seeds and so far ~14 have sprouted.

 

[NewBoots]

My coffee isn't hardly coffee. It's a mocha latte instant thing. Think creamy hot chocolate that is barely chocolate flavored and has that coffee/mocha taste.

When I was a kid, my job upon getting home from school was to make a pot of boiled coffee on the stove and it always smelled soooo good but tasted awful to me. I started drinking coffee when I got my first serious job in my 20s. I'd mix a cup of coffee with a cup of coco. Now I can drink it hot, iced, with or without cream, nearly anyway it is offered to me. And probably too much of it too.

I have to only drink decaf. I mean--Brown Sadness Water.

Oh I am keeping that expression! The perfect description.

Only gardening people would get all excited over a $10 bag of poo.

I know and I just love it! But rabbit poop is just the best thing isn't it? Usable strait out of the bunny with no danger of burning plants or salmonella. We use the urine too, just water it down.

I think @NewBoots also makes compost tea.

I do but mine is just a few 5 gallon buckets of foliage (borage & comfrey usually) left to age a couple of weeks, strained, then mixed one part tea with ten parts water. Smells terrible but we use it on everything from seedlings to newly planted trees and shrubs.

I cannot believe how much you have to water! That's like a full time job in itself! I water twice a week if it doesn't rain. Amazing the difference climate makes, sheesh.

That's about my watering schedule for the summer and a dry fall. Partly why I love checking in here, so many different climates to learn abour.

I have to pull the flowers from the rhubarb, I see it's bolted.

Rhubarb bolts???? I've only grown it myself for a few years but we always had it in my parents' garden and I don't ever remember it flowering.

I still worked from the front porch last night as a circulation center and tornado warning headed right towards my house (again) from only 20 miles away. The words 'dissipate damn you' were uttered often and loudly, but couldn't be heard by anyone over the howling winds.

Okay that picture was terrifying!Does it look like that often? And those are amazing petunias, such a striking color!

In the greenhouse the San Marzano, Early Cherry, and Firecracker (determinant) tomatoes have sprouted. And so have the zucchini but none of the peppers nor cucumbers. I've been late to get the greenhouse going this year but now that I have, the little sprouts make my heart happy. It's blustery with blowing rain today so not anything more than critter care and watering the greenhouse got done today. I did get another seed tray filled with soil and soaking to be planted tomorrow. Probably more tomatoes, peppers, and some flowers. I love having flowers sprinkled in with the vegetables and it really helps bring in the bees.

The chicks in my bathtub are coming along, but I'll have to put some sort of walls up to keep them in there soon. We candled the eggs in the incubator and all 12 look like they are all developing at the same rate.