What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Wow. I never heard that. What's the reason? Kind of academic for me... I rarely use pepper.

We use pepper (and creole) in literally EVERYTHING.

 

[igorsMistress]

It was a gene intervention, they used a special virus to cut up and repair the parts of the boys’s genome that causes the bubble boy disease. But when cutting and repairing, they also changed something that causes cells to multiply, making them multiple without control and creating cancer.
To the researchers favor, I must admit that the gene intervention did indeed cure the bubble boy disease.

Bubble boy disease? You mean the kids have a severely compromised immune system I suppose?

I was thinking of a boy from some time ago, you’re talking about more recent events.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

Late yesterday afternoon, I put the plastic totes upside down over the pots in the green house, as it was supposed to get below freezing. It got down to 30, so I'm glad I did.

When I went up there today, everything was fine. (BIG whew!) In fact, the soil temps were about 60, even though the air temp was about 49.

Today, I took a roll of weed block (useless stuff, IMO; doesn't work worth squat) and unrolled it over the tables. Since it's black, I thought it would help with the warmth. We're being warned about another frost tonight, and there are 3 nights coming up next week that they say will be around 30.

We've had some sunshine today, so I think everything will be ok. Doesn't take much sunshine to warm the green house up! I'll still put the totes over the pots though, just in case. Even though my plants are still tiny, I don't want to lose 2-3 weeks' worth of time.

That's good news!

I hear you. I am due for frost again this weekend. I don't have a greenhouse right now but I don't have many plants out yet. I do have white 55-gallon plastic drums that I cut in half - lengthwise. I overturn those on tender plants for a mini greenhouse and it works pretty well. But I don't have enough to even require those. I guess it's 2-liter soda bottles and some leaves.

I just hope it isn't windy. Seems like whenever there is a late frost, wind complicates covering them up.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

FYI I repowered mine with a Harbor Freight engine more than once. 40 year old Troy Built horse model. I bought it new.

Seems like back then Troy Builts were premium quality. But not so much any longer?
I hate it when good brands go bad. But it's worth it to keep the old ones up!

 

[WthrLady]

I drove the gator out to the neighbor's old 1912 homestead where they burned the house down and harvest a ton of fireplace bricks.
I used those to line the north wall of the schoolhouse, behind the new butterfly garden. Then I installed the plastic cover. The bricks witll spend the day heating up and releasing that heat over night. I left enough room for a frost blanket or frost panels for thursday night-Sunday night. My cherry tree is in full bloom and I'll probably wrap that at night, wind dependent.

 

[CNJ]

I try to find unique recipes to include, as my readers seem to love them.

Have you tried Chawanmushi before? I have recently been eating it for breakfast daily, but I don't make it the traditional way. I use a TBS of this instant soup base to 2/3 cup of water and 2 eggs.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKWDY34...colid=MLWA33UJI8DX&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

I add 1/4 tsp salt and I only put a TBS of minced lunch and meat with a TBS of minced shitake mushrooms in two small ceramic bowls.

 

[WthrLady]

Bubble boy disease? You mean the kids have a severely compromised immune system I suppose?

I was thinking of a boy from some time ago, you’re talking about more recent events.

"boy in the bubble" was 70s/80s

 

[pennyJo1960]

I bought 6 more strawberry plants quinault is the breed of them.
Will have close to a dozen now.

 

[Sally PB]

where they burned the house down and harvest a ton of fireplace bricks.

Oh, man... I totally forgot about trying to get the bricks from the chimney. I really could use those. I have soooo many uses for brown bricks! Well, any bricks, but this time of year, I'm thinking of the warmth they'd hold.

 

[Sally PB]

@LifeSimpleAndSweet, where are you located? You can put that in your profile, and it will be there. (Just your state is fine.) Climate matters so much in gardening.

@CNJ talks about his cool Hawaii projects, and I can only admire them from here in Michigan.