What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Started grafting Hickory today. This heat wave should help them heal. I will continue through the weekend until finished.

 

[Nomadicus]

I used a hoe to clean the ground of weeds and grass around my tomatoes and then built a watering ring around each plant. Added water and let them be.

 

[Swiss]

Yesterday I worked in all 3 gardens and got a lot done.
At home I planted tomatoes ( 2 cherry, 4 Amish paste & 3 slicers), 3 green peppers, some lemon basil, 2 jalapeños , 2 Cheyenne peppers, planted more beet seeds & zinnia seeds. I tried to dig up some of the Jerusalem Artichokes that I never harvested last year. Not that was a mistake! They are taking over that whole end of the raised bed.
I ended up having to move some broccoli plants that were being completely overran by the Jerusalem Artichokes.
Then I drove out to the farm garden. I planted 4 tomato plants ( all slicers), some basil, & the Jerusalem Artichokes I pulled/dug up ( I fully expect the deer to eat them like they did last year). I pulled weeds out of the onions & potato beds and watered everything ( including blueberries, blackberries & raspberries & table grapes) really well. Oh and I planted some beet seeds.
Then I drove out to my daughter’s and we went to her church garden plot. There we planted 2 tomatoes, some more basil, a green pepper plant, a jalapeño & a Cheyenne pepper, onion sets carrot seeds ( lots of carrots because the package had a leak! ) and some spinach seeds. Plus we planted a lot of flowers in the flower tub also. Oh and I planted the 2 broccoli plants here that I removed from my house.
There was another member of the church garden board there who told us we could dig up and take as many strawberry plants as we wanted out of 2 beds. I couldn’t believe it! The plants were growing great and many had nice big berries on them already. So we dug up 20 or so. I would have gotten more but didn’t have anything else to transport them in.
My daughter kept about 4 for her house. I gave a friend the gallon ice cream container full today.
Today I planted the aluminum roasting pan full of them at my house and I still have a 5 gallon bucket with a layer or 2 of them. I’m going to take them out to the farm garden to replace all the crowns I planted that never grew.
Plus a friend brought me a really nice butterfly ( bush or weed I don’t remember which)!

Sounds like a really busy and productive day!

I upgraded even further and added solid rubber tires. No more flats!

Yep. I wait till I get a flat, but then I replace it with a soild tire. Started doing that a few years ago after my inner tubes were only lasting one or two summers. Cheaper to replace them with solid tires that should last a lifetime.

Good to know! I was wondering about my garden cart tires the other day because I thought I heard one leaking. It wasn't leaking, it had a clump of mud/compost stuck to it just to give me a scare.

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Long Post With Lots of Pictures Warning!

On Monday or Tuesday, I worked in the main front flower bed. I finished weeding, and dug out the little shrub/bush thing that was mostly dead. Today, I planted the live parts of that bush in a pot. Then, I weeded the garden bed on the side of the garage, and filled some of the empty spaces between the hostas with the last of the Lily of the Valley from my Mom's garden. I need to get back down there to take out the rest that she doesn't want.

We have wild violets of all colors here: yellow, white, pale purple/blue, and now dark purple that travelled with the Lily of the Valley. Last week, I transplanted some yellow ones to the main front flower bed, and today I transplanted the purple ones in there.

Then, I finally fixed the lattice under the front porch that had been pushed over and allowed rabbits and other critters under, and filled in the hole that was under that same lattice, but against the house.
Before pics of the main front garden bed:

After pics:

After pic of the side of the garage garden:

My tulips began opening today! And they always surprise me with how pretty they are!

Project Spread The Dandelions (aka pick all the seeds and blow them around the yard) is proving to be pretty successful! They are everywhere, and they make me so happy!

You know what isn't happy, basically all of my tomato starts.... and I really don't know why.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Rain has started!

I had to put out the pasture seed in sprinkling rain but I didn't mind. I also seeded some millet, buckwheat, catmint, thyme, and Amaranth just for kicks. I'll have to keep the chickens locked up for a month so everything can get established. They will be so upset... Spoiled birds!

 

[igorsMistress]

Well I’m officially unemployed. This stupid vertigo has kept me out of work for two weeks now and the employer won’t hold off any longer. I go see an ENT in June so hopefully I’ll get some sort of diagnosis and then can move on and find a new job. In the meantime I feel like I’m living on a boat and don’t have my sea legs yet. All I did was water the apricot tree, haven’t even been out to check on the tomatoes.

 

[BReeder!]

I like your tomato trellises. What varieties did you plant?

2 beds will be filled with SuperSauce toms and the 3rd bed will be super sweet 100 on 1 side and purple Cherokee on the other.

I am debating if I want to do the string method again or try trellis netting. I am leaning towards netting.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Built two more 8'x4' raised beds today for a total of 9! More room for broccoli and cauliflower! Also spread some Wine Cap spawn - our first attempt at growing mushrooms. Anybody here grow mushrooms?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Well I’m officially unemployed. This stupid vertigo has kept me out of work for two weeks now and the employer won’t hold off any longer. I go see an ENT in June so hopefully I’ll get some sort of diagnosis and then can move on and find a new job. In the meantime I feel like I’m living on a boat and don’t have my sea legs yet. All I did was water the apricot tree, haven’t even been out to check on the tomatoes.

I'm so sorry it's taking so long for you to get help. I know all too well what you're going through. We've been dealing with the same here and my husband is currently out of work. Different health concerns but the wait to see every specialist is sooo long that we're going on almost 7 months of my husband trying to get help. They're still trying to figured out what is happening. PCP, cardiologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, it has been very challenging and stressful to say the least...If the exploratory GI procedure they're about to do on him next week doesn't provide answers we're going to get a second opinion from another cardiologist but I may be irreparably upset with his original cardiologist if it does end up being related. We have seen him more than 10 times in the past 7 months and he keeps saying he doesn't think it's heart related even though all of this started after his emergency stent procedure in October. I'm really hoping the GI doctor finds something simple in this upcoming procedure so he can get help.
Prayers for your relief as well!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Built two more 8'x4' raised beds today for a total of 9! More room for broccoli and cauliflower! Also spread some Wine Cap spawn - our first attempt at growing mushrooms. Anybody here grow mushrooms?

I've only grown mushrooms in a box and it was fun but I wasn't successful propagating the spores a second time. Good luck!!

 

[Smokerbill]

2 beds will be filled with SuperSauce toms and the 3rd bed will be super sweet 100 on 1 side and purple Cherokee on the other.

I am debating if I want to do the string method again or try trellis netting. I am leaning towards netting.

Have you seen James Prigioni's Youtube channel? He calls trellised tomatoes tomato trees. Pretty informative stuff. But kind of a goofy guy. LOL