What did you do in the garden today?

[Swiss]

We had a few moments of sunshine, enough to warm up the green house just a bit. It sure doesn't take much. If we get 15 minutes of clear sky, it's enough to make it warm. Half an hour of the watered down sunshine we've been getting will have to do for today.

My starts are still tiny! I think I need to take a seed catalog out and show the plant pictures so they know what they're supposed to look like.

My tomatoes don't look like they've grown at all in, like, 2 weeks. Maybe they are mad about being outside for those few warm/hot days we had? They didn't get burned, but that's about when they started to look a little drained of color... I've never had this happen before... they normally try to outgrow everything!

 

[WthrLady]

They want warm nights over 70 and soil temperature of at least that. Below that they stunt and start to fight nutrient issues and disease. At 40 they really start to suffer.

 

[igorsMistress]

Bought this rack from Menards they were selling cheap since it was going to be trash. Got it for $5 even with the banners on it

Nice score!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good rainy morning. It’s really a cold, wet mess outside. I honestly can’t foresee any outside work today. I may use the time to go to TSC. Maybe pick up some shavings and look for more pansies. No heavy work today.

 

[Sueby]

Morning. Still fighting vertigo so my sister came over to bring me meds & collect eggs. DH comes home tonight, thankfully. I didn’t get to bring in the spider plant I was hardening off & now its bleached white. It’ll be fine.

Raining today, we need it. My lettuce isn’t doing that great. I’m not sure why it doesn’t like this raised bed on the deck. I’ve never had such a hard time with lettuce. Maybe it hates the soil. Maybe I should add some compost. It was expensive raised bed organic soil from last summer.

 

[jerryse]

32 this morning and had a few minutes of sun. Cloudy chilly day with a high of 50. Soaking some bean seed before planting. Fortex pole 70 days. Timing it so I am home when they are ready. I no longer like to bend down to pick beans. Age. Expecting my last shipment of plants this week.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Had a whole thing typed and poof, it's gone.
I was going to plant strawberries in a gutter, but remembered that I had a whole stack of gloriously thick window box liners in the garage, just collecting dust for 4/5 years. I pulled those down, drilled the bottoms, lined with geocloth, and filled with potting/raised bed soil. Then in went 8 stunning flamingo strawberry plants from a local seller, and 10 of the most pathetic looking crowns from DeGroot. OMG they are TERRIBLE, smelly, slimy, knotted, unrecognizable things. I soaked them for an hour in warm water to find out what was what. I have very little hope for them. SO ANNOYED.
They're watered in and waiting for trip this week down to the greenhouse/schoolhouse to get used to warm days and cool nights before I mount them on the ledge of the schoolhouse.

I was going to up pot the tomatoes today, but decided I wanted them taller. So I raised the lamp height and then I'll move them later this week to the greenhouse to get used to warm days and cooler nights, and THEN I'll increase the size of their pots about two weeks before the sale. That will have their roots going and they'll be happy.

No sun currently to speak of and its cloudy and struggling in the low 40s. I am not amused.
Rescued a baby bunny from behind the trash bin and released him down pasture by the woods. I told him not to make me regret setting him free, the garden is off limits. I'd hate to have to shoot him later.

I swore I'd never buy another DeGroot product. Everything I've ever purchased from them never lived... Then we went to TSC about a month ago and they had a brand new shipment of plants in which were still green and robust so I bought a DeGroot Hinnonmaki Red gooseberry plant. So far it's still looking good so there's hope!

 

[Acre4Me]

Cold. It stays cold for another few days, frost potential at night. I had to rescue my flower starts from hail that was showering down for about 5 min yesterday. It was small, but obvious ice balls.

<crossing fingers>. So far, no more bantam deaths for a few days. They are still so tiny, of course. They are approx 11 days old. Although they have a good setup outside, we weren’t expecting so much wind, rain, cold weather, wind.

They are in a covered pen, with most of the wire walls with clear roofing panel covers, so wind blocked that way. There is upper ventilation, so wind can enter that way, but generally stays away from the brooder. However, the towels are to block any cold winds bc they are so tiny. We are using an old dryer drum propped up on bricks. The heat lamp is inside, pretty low. No shavings, just earth floor right now. They have been eating and drinking pretty well, but still prefer ground up crumble.

Rhubarb flowers are trimmed. There were a lot of flowers, and they are only 1 year old. But, only the Victoria variety flowered, the other two varieties are just growing.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I did a lot yesterday... Worked all day long and now I'm sore. Helped DD get ready for prom... She's the one in the green dress.


Then worked in the garden for hours. Got the indeterminate tomatoes planted in their buckets. Got corn in the ground.... 3 weeks late. Got beans and flowers seeded. Also put down more cardboard and using straw on top as mulch this year.

Today's plan....get the freaking irrigation system in!

 

[literaljones]

I planted pansies that had been sitting in their plastic packs since early April.

Are we related? I still have quite a few plant babies in plastic containers. It's kinda worked out though as the weather has been wild!