What did you do in the garden today?

[CluckNDoodle]

You can try covering everything in black foil for a couple of weeks, if you water it underneath as well, all the evil doers will be gone. Try doing that BEFORE they flower.

Unfortunately it's throughout the garden so I would have to solarize the ground like that when I'm not growing anything. I've never actually tried that before because I was told it would also be detrimental to the soil life BUT it has been a really long time since I've looked into it became I always seem to have something in the ground, lol!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners. Going up to 80 today short pants.
Have tomato outside will bring it in tomorrow.
We fight the morning glory that was brought by humans.

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

Re-creating the sitting space in the graden

 

[Smokerbill]

Morning Gardeners. Going up to 80 today short pants.
Have tomato outside will bring it in tomorrow.
We fight the morning glory that was brought by humans.

Same here, temp wise. 80+ degrees. And I gotta get stuff planted today! I started out by pulling the mulch off of two of my raised beds. I covered one with plastic to help raise the soil temp for my tomatoes and peppers. It's only 50 degrees now.

Peas and radishes are growing nicely, as are my brassicas and lettuce. I really like the red Russian kale variety. Produced well last year, well into freezing weather.

I planted several herb varieties, onions and chives last week, all started from seed in my house (as is everything else I'm planting).

Two rhubarb crowns are pushing up leaves, and my horseradish plant, confined to its barrel half to keep it from spreading, is also doing nicely.

I hope 12 pics isn't too many in a single post.

 

[igorsMistress]

Hi all. Still taking it easy after this week, what a disaster. The house is in chaos also and hubs has to work this weekend. I did check on my lettuce and strawberries though, they’re looking good. One of the flowers on a strawberry plant produced a tiny berry but it’s already turning pink. That’s more than I expected. I’m going to cut that off this weekend. Anyway, here’s the lettuce, I can’t wait to give it a try

 

[Sally PB]

I trellis my summer squash. I wish it was a little easier to tie up, but I love that I no longer have to deal with squash bugs.

Are you saying that if you trellis your summer squash you don't get squash bugs...? (SO hoping that you mean that...!)

For us it's horse nettle, a terrible, toxic, and pokey weed that spreads by seed and rhizomes.

Horse nettle, poison ivy, pokeweed.

onions and chives last week, all started from seed in my house

I planted onions from seed this year, 4 weeks ago. They sprouted quickly... and several just up an died. I don't know how many actual plants I'll get. I also have about 240 Red Baron sets (DH's favorite) ready to go.

 

[WthrLady]

We made it to 50 today, but it's rainy (not enough) and foggy and the temperature is falling.
I went to a local farm that specializes in small scale plants. I knew no one else would be at her sale today, so off I went. Her prices are high, but I get it.
Walked away with a flat of various things I only wanted one of and I don't want to buy a packet of iffy seed to get ONE-herbs and a few year after year goodies.
$80 later...but she's nice and local and small business and send people my way when she runs out of tomatoes so....

 

[Nomadicus]

I put six more tomatoes in the ground that my wife bought and 2 dill plants to use in pickle making. It's in the mid 80's here so I'm doing things out side in shore spurts.

 

[jerryse]

Sour cherries no frost damage, Plum and apple too early to tell. Heartnut walnut and mulberry hit hard. Spot spraying some weeds. Bull thistle, creeping Charlie, stinging nettle and poison hemlock.

 

[Smokerbill]

Sour cherries no frost damage, Plum and apple too early to tell. Heartnut walnut and mulberry hit hard. Spot spraying some weeds. Bull thistle, creeping Charlie, stinging nettle and poison hemlock.

Speaking of thistle, I have Canada thistle in one of my raised beds. And it spreads through roots or rhizomes. Last year I tried to dig out some of the roots but it was too much. This year I'm going to chop every thistle plant down as soon as I see it (which I didn't do last year). I guess if you deprive it of its leaves for enough time, years maybe, the roots will finally die.

And I just finished planting my artichoke starts, 2 in an existing flower bed and 3 more in one of my garden raised beds. I never really cared for artichokes, but I'll eat 'em. The plants look cool too.

Also planted wildflower seeds in a patch pretty close to my garden, it was a pollinator mix.