What did you do in the garden today?

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

Rain coming tomorrow and high of 80 today. Ordered some scion wood from Fruitwood nursery online Sunday. Out for delivery today. Impressed with them. I will be grafting those today. Order from Indiana berry should ship on 26th, That will conclude my orders.

I am now wishing there was a grafting section in the chicken forum.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning all. I had a horrible headache after work yesterday; the wind is blowing and my sinuses are not happy about it so nothing got accomplished. The lettuce is growing really well, I’ve noticed the temp is much higher and humidity is lower, like half as much, if I don’t turn on the fan; I’m assuming the heat dries the area faster and the lack of air movement must impact the amount of water the medium wicks from the bucket. Today I’ll get the strawberry buckets prepped so I can transplant tomorrow after work, and I intend to transplant the hibiscus and thyme.

 

[igorsMistress]

Thank you!

You’re welcome, I didn’t realize you’d got a response yet.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

We are trying a hydro method this year!

 

[jerryse]

I am now wishing there was a grafting section in the chicken forum.

Youtube videos are helpful. I will share what I do today.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

Youtube videos are helpful. I will share what I do today.

I watch a lot of them. I tried the air layering method extensively in the last year or two. All the while, I am wondering how this is supposed to work when you are removing the cambium layer. Every one of the tree and shrub rootings failed.

 

[Acre4Me]

Leeks will hopefully get planted today or tomorrow. They were started on Jan 30. We planted 104 cells, six varieties. There are 90 cells with plants. A few cells have 2 plants.
Here they are in the cells.

The layer chicks are doing well. After the sunscreen incident/freaked out teen child, they all survived. We will open up the pop door into the run (small separate area for chicks), to get some fresh air.

The bantams have been dying 1-2 per day. It is day 7. Obviously the Hatchery knew a thing or two about fragile bantams bc they gave us 35, although we only ordered 25. We are now at 25 bantams. We’ve been doing our best but they are tiny and fragile. I think the next order of bantams will be brooded indoors for a week or so, maybe a few more would have survived -hard to say bc I know some would have still died.

 

[chickengr]

some tomatoes germinated and we had bigger than pea size hail. I hope tomatoes will survive. it is still cold so no gardening yet. next year I should plant a lot of winter/cold weather crops.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. So sorry about the bantams @Acre4Me. I came up with a less labor intensive and lower cost for my grape arbors. I ordered arched trellises from Amazon. I'm only putting in a few vines and with the cost of the t-posts, the cross bars and the wire the ready made arches were less expensive. Also the idea of planting the hillside with a bunch of cross-like structures seemed a little weird. They'll be here Friday. Now I can see getting these vines planted before the end of the month. I just planted another 12 cells of English lavender. These are for the local deer to enjoy. LOL! One of the lavender plants in the herb garden is still clinging to life, but at least it survived the arctic blast. I'm wondering if I should start the mustard seeds indoors. I had planned on direct sowing them. Thoughts @WthrLady? The mustard will be planted in the grape section as "ground cover." Spring in New England is a bit of a challenge @chickengr. The only thing I have planted so far are cool season vegetables. My first row of peas is germinating but I'm hoping the majority of them will hold off for another day. We were lucky last night because we didn't get frost, however tonight it looks like a sure thing. I covered my baby leeks. They take a long time to mature and I don't want to take any chances with them. I don't plan on putting the tomatoes starts out until the first week in May. The beds they are going into this year are easily covered if needed.Time to get busy. Have a great day all.

 

[genxjanette]

adding the run is no problem at all as long as you allow the run to be well vented as well.
Ours is full wide open except in cases of extreme wind or precipitation.

That makes sense. The coop and the run will face south, with the sides of the run being west and east, so I plan on putting the wind protection just on the west side of the run. Just for winter and heavy rain storms. Would you be able to share some closer up pictures of your run with me? Also, I got approved for my permit. Yay! I live in a suburb just south of Saint Paul and we can have 6 chickens in our little community.