What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

My DH bought me a "present" at TSC this morning.... A "Crazy Chicken Lady" ballcap and this....

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Does the ballcap have velcro or snaps???
(get chicken poop lip junk every year for the kids stockings....10 year on now. They love it.)
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Was going to go out and look for asparagus, we have it wild here, but winds are pegging out at almost 60mph. So that's a nope. Hens want out. NOPE. I could fly them like kites!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

My DH bought me a "present" at

TSC this morning.... A "Crazy Chicken Lady" ballcap and this....

My cousin sent me a tube of the lip balm after Christmas. I love it

 

[Smokerbill]

Not in my garden, but in my indoor seedling growing area. My 12 tomato plants were getting too big for their containers so I transplanted them all to bigger containers. I'm hoping it will be warm enough outside in a couple of weeks so I can get them set out in the garden.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

It hurts to thin my seedlings. It had to get done though.
I need to put less seeds in the starter pots so it's not such a big deal though.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It hurts to thin my seedlings. It had to get done though.
I need to put less seeds in the starter pots so it's not such a big deal though.

I was going to thin mine the other day but I ended up saving them

 

[Smokerbill]

It hurts to thin my seedlings. It had to get done though.
I need to put less seeds in the starter pots so it's not such a big deal though.

I've started planting just two or three seeds in these 1.5 inch starter pots. After they sprout and start growing I thin down to a single plant per pot. When I up pot them to a larger container the rootball just slips out of the starter pot easily. Less transplanting shock, I think. These are the pots I plant seeds in.

 

[CNJ]

This is my second attempt at grafting tomato plants to a spoon tomato plant. I was waiting for my clear close pin grafting type clips to arrive, so I could do a cleft graft. I did 6 Black Krim, 3 Honey Bee Cherry tomato, 2 Esterina cherry tomato and 1 Pink Tie Die. I made a slit on top of the root stock and slipped in a wedged scion. I used this method with the larger clear close pin grafting clips, since my plants were to fat to do the splice tube method.

In my last attempt I soaked the plants right before putting them in my 5 gallon healing buckets. This time I watered them in the previous day's evening, so they had time to drain over night. Furthermore, I did not put any water on the bottom of the bucket like the last time. I just misted the sides and cover. I think I failed last time because there was to much moisture in my healing buckets. I saw roots growing out of both the root stock and scion. Also, the skin of the root stock became mushy.

 

[DotToDot]

I weeded the whole thing, planted some tomatoes, and took out some HUGE rotting posts. Of course my chickens were under my feet the whole time. Once I actually grabbed my Sussex instead of the shovel!!

 

[igorsMistress]

Every time I used my master blend hydroponic fertilizer at label dose on my straw berry plants they died, so I switched to chicken pellets on the survivors and they are still alive. I grew these from seeds I got from a supermarket strawberry.

Recently, I took a chance and gave them the master blend at half strength and they liked it, so I conclude that master blend at full strength is too strong for strawberry plants.

I am going to save the seeds from my first big strawberry and start a new batch. Maybe the seedling will adapt to my growing environment and be more resilient.

The only type of strawberries plants my local nursery sell are the small fruited seascape variety.

I’m using General Hydroponics products for my strawberries. I purchased soil grown plants and am transplanting to DWC inside under a grow light. I’ve read that one university or another uses 50% coco coir, 25% perlite and 25% peat moss as the medium, but I haven’t found an acceptable substitute for peat moss which is used because of the pH of the water. I think it’s the U of AZ, I forget.

Anyway, I’m using Masterblend for my tomatoes and peppers. I watched a video where this guy swears he cuts the epsom salt to half strength when his peppers are going to bloom and he gets a much better harvest. At full strength he has a lot of blossoms fall off.

 

[WthrLady]

winds just blasted us with 65.5mph
tomatoes have all been fed and watered.
Maybe another week and I'll have to pot them up a size. Then soon it will be greenhouse time!