What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

Well, I got a second wind and was able to put my tomatoes and basil into the ground. I tried a couple new things.

I planted the tomatoes horizontally, in furrows. I trimmed off all but the leaves at the very tops of the plants, and kind of bent the tops upward when I buried the roots and naked stems.

I also treated the roots with mychorrhizal fungi. Many plants benefit from fungus innoculation, but brassicas don't. I treated the tomato roots when I up potted them and it really seemed to help. I treated the basil roots, too.

Didn't get the row cover up, though. Maybe tomorrow.

And if this batch of tomato plants doesn't make it in the great outdoors, I have new plants that just sprouted a week ago. Good to have backup.

The tomatoes I planted, left side... 2 each of Roma, Oregon Spring, and Stupice, all determinate bush varieties. I'll probably cage these. On the right side, 2 each of large cherry, Early Girl and Black Krim, all indeterminate. I'll run these up strings and make "tomato trees", a la James Prigioni of the Gardening Channel on Youtube.

I ran the basil plants down the middle of the bed.

The reddish mulch is from a rotted fir tree stump I found in the woods out back.

 

[Eagle343]

No work in the garden, still raining. Weather claims its supposed to snow again tonight, wont do anything but screw with my fruit trees and push back my planting in the ground. I did get a chance to plant half a flat of egg plant and half a flat of Greek peppers.

 

[WthrLady]

Woke up to 35'. No harm no foul to the stuff in the greenhouse, strawberries and mums didn't mind. The tomatoes and squash and herbs are still in the heated workshop.
Tomorrow I'll up pot the tomatoes, Wednesday too. I'll finish planting the herb and butterfly garden. That's covered for now anyway, so I don't mind filling that.
I finished the rock labels late last night.
COLD COLD COLD tonight and tomorrow night still.
I can't believe we're still a month from my plant sale.
The garden center said they've already had repeat buyers coming in for replacements for things they planted outside too early. (I was out prowling for orphan plants and wintergreen, and a bay plant. Came up empty.)

 

[igorsMistress]

That’s how the military works though? At least in my country… my brother was in intelligence, and they told he’ll be transferred to navy intelligence, it took about three years until they moved him and he stayed in the same base.
Younger brother was kicked out of the military police, and still receive orders from th

I came across a video sharing 4 tomato planting secrets and one secret was throwing in one comfrey leaf in the planting hole, the others were 1 TBS fertilizer, rabbit poop soup, and spraying the plant and stem ground with a milk and water ratio of 1 to 4.

This lead me to a benefit search on comfrey and I found out it has many medical uses. There is this guy who healed his and his grand daughters eye scratch., it is also a good supplement for chickens. I will order some comfrey seeds today.

This is one of many videos on comfrey......

That’s a lot of work. A scoop of rabbit poop and some gypsum in the hole works pretty good.

 

[CNJ]

That’s a lot of work. A scoop of rabbit poop and some gypsum in the hole works pretty good.

I think he spray his plants with the milk solution to prevent blight and other types of fungal issues.

 

[WthrLady]

Made one of those dinners tonight that you can't stop eating, it always taste so amazing, and you can't wait to have more tomorrow. LOL

 

[igorsMistress]

I think he spray his plants with the milk solution to prevent blight and other types of fungal issues.

I’ve read it’s for the calcium, not from the guy just in general.

 

[Smokerbill]

Anybody familiar with Korean Natural Farming method. Lots of concoctions to make, but kind of makes sense. I haven't tried any of it but spent many hours watching videos and learning about it. I may give it a try someday. This is a guy who seems to know what he's talking about.

I bring it up because of igorsMistress's post about milk adding calcium to tomato plants. In natural gardening you can make a calcium solution using toasted eggshells soaked in vinegar. It's supposed to make the calcium much more bio-available to the plants.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisTrumpSoilSteward/videos

 

[TJAnonymous]

I went ahead and ordered some comfrey seeds. I've been thinking about doing it but couldn't decide where to put them. I've decided that I'm going to put them on the neighbor's property...lol. It's a medical building. They have one little corner of the property right next to my garden where they don't landscape. The weeds have become unbearable and are constantly invading my garden from over the fence. I've tried to cut them back and clean it up a little, just for the sake of my garden....but it's a constant battle in the summertime. So instead, I think I'm going to do my best to clean out the weeds and put some comfrey seed down there instead. Maybe that will choke out some of the weeds. And I can harvest leaves to make comfrey tea next year....

 

[fuzzi]

Well, I got a second wind and was able to put my tomatoes and basil into the ground. I tried a couple new things.

I planted the tomatoes horizontally, in furrows. I trimmed off all but the leaves at the very tops of the plants, and kind of bent the tops upward when I buried the roots and naked stems.

I also treated the roots with mychorrhizal fungi. Many plants benefit from fungus innoculation, but brassicas don't. I treated the tomato roots when I up potted them and it really seemed to help. I treated the basil roots, too.

Didn't get the row cover up, though. Maybe tomorrow.

And if this batch of tomato plants doesn't make it in the great outdoors, I have new plants that just sprouted a week ago. Good to have backup.

The tomatoes I planted, left side... 2 each of Roma, Oregon Spring, and Stupice, all determinate bush varieties. I'll probably cage these. On the right side, 2 each of large cherry, Early Girl and Black Krim, all indeterminate. I'll run these up strings and make "tomato trees", a la James Prigioni of the Gardening Channel on Youtube.

I ran the basil plants down the middle of the bed.

The reddish mulch is from a rotted fir tree stump I found in the woods out back.

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I did the horizontal transplanting method last year. I forgot and put them in vertically this year.