What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Cushion mums.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm out to work on the irrigation for the orchard, then prime it.
I ordered deep drip stakes for the garden last night too.
I've also got in mind building a broody coop/grow out pen for the barn.
Always a project, and I'm glad of it.

I've got some verbena to trim for the dehydrator, but that's about all I've got going at the moment.

 

[gtaus]

I am always looking for ways to make gardening easier for me. The less I have to bend over, the better. So, all my new garden beds are now raised beds and I find that I am not nearly as sore at the end of the day after I have been working out in the garden. Along with that thinking, I came up with a simple pallet project to make a mobile workbench that I can pull behind my riding mower. That allows me to work at waist height level for potting/repotting, etc..

Pallet Wood Mobile Workbench

While I was outside in the yard working on some stuff, I found I needed, or could have used, a workbench out in the yard. So why not make one out of a pallet?

I found a nice pallet, just a bit bigger than my tow behind utility dump cart. In order to get a good fit, I flipped over the pallet and screwed on some scrap 2X4's, just wide enough to fit around the side walls of the dump cart.

Then I flipped it over, right side up, and slid it on to the utility cart. Presto! Instant mobile workbench whenever and wherever I need it!

I may or may not fill the gaps with strips of pallet wood. Lots of my outdoor work is pounding out nails of wood and the gaps in the pallet top make it easier to pound out those nails in the voids between the planks. You can't do that if the top is solid filled.

Anyways, the 2X4's on the bottom of the pallet that I added keep the top securely on the cart when I move it from one place to another. Also, since nothing is permanently secured in place, I can easily fill the cart with all my tools and accessories under the pallet workbench top and just lift it up if/when I need those tools.

It's a really simple pallet project, but already I have found it quite useful. Instead of working on the ground, I am now able to work at table height and not be bending over all the time. At my age, the less I have to bend over to work during the day means I won't be as sore later that night.

 

[Smokerbill]

I am always looking for ways to make gardening easier for me. The less I have to bend over, the better. So, all my new garden beds are now raised beds and I find that I am not nearly as sore at the end of the day after I have been working out in the garden. Along with that thinking, I came up with a simple pallet project to make a mobile workbench that I can pull behind my riding mower. That allows me to work at waist height level for potting/repotting, etc..

Pallet Wood Mobile Workbench

While I was outside in the yard working on some stuff, I found I needed, or could have used, a workbench out in the yard. So why not make one out of a pallet?

I found a nice pallet, just a bit bigger than my tow behind utility dump cart. In order to get a good fit, I flipped over the pallet and screwed on some scrap 2X4's, just wide enough to fit around the side walls of the dump cart.

Then I flipped it over, right side up, and slid it on to the utility cart. Presto! Instant mobile workbench whenever and wherever I need it!

I may or may not fill the gaps with strips of pallet wood. Lots of my outdoor work is pounding out nails of wood and the gaps in the pallet top make it easier to pound out those nails in the voids between the planks. You can't do that if the top is solid filled.

Anyways, the 2X4's on the bottom of the pallet that I added keep the top securely on the cart when I move it from one place to another. Also, since nothing is permanently secured in place, I can easily fill the cart with all my tools and accessories under the pallet workbench top and just lift it up if/when I need those tools.

It's a really simple pallet project, but already I have found it quite useful. Instead of working on the ground, I am now able to work at table height and not be bending over all the time. At my age, the less I have to bend over to work during the day means I won't be as sore later that night.

Great idea! I have pallets and I have a garden cart the my mower pulls. I'm going to make one of these too!

 

[Smokerbill]

I have a dozen tomato seedlings in starter cells. Their secondary leaves are growing so it's time to up pot them before they get root bound. Once they start taking off in the bigger pots I'll put them in the garden, in hopes that the quick growth rate will continue.

Does anyone else here treat their plant's roots with mycorrhizal innoculant? Seems to have really helped last time I up potted tomatoes. I also treat the root ball when planting in the garden

 

[Acre4Me]

Does anyone else here treat their plant's roots with mycorrhizal innoculant? Seems to have really helped last time I up potted tomatoes. I also treat the root ball when planting in the garden

Yes, and last year I used that same one. This year I have a different one. This is the third year using inoculation in the plants.

We also used inoculant for the compost when we started. The first one we tried *might* have helped, but the next year when it was still sluggish to decompose I found a different one and it was clearly beneficial as the compost began to turn to dirt at a much quicker pace.

 

[WthrLady]

drip tubes are priming and filling
JUST in time for it to get hot outside.
I'll still need to install them in the garden, more upside down/bending work, but it shouldn't need me to swing a massive sledge hammer. LOL (don't tell my orthopedist)
The garden soil is soft enough to just push stuff in. I do need some replacement emitters. I could have sworn I had a whole bag of them in the irrigation box.

 

[igorsMistress]

I harvested the lettuce, one for me this week and two for the chickens. Started Romaine today, sixty to seventy days to harvest, and have water airing out for the strawberry nutrients. The lettuce was almost empty of water, but the berries are still half full. I’m really pleased with their change from soil to hydroponics though, there’s lots of new growth on all three plants

These buckets have been cut in half and aren’t going to work with two inch net cups, so the three inch will have to do. I’ll be able to use the two inch in the seven gallon containers and I think lettuce will be easier in those since they tend to use a lot of water. I’ll definitely be looking for more seascape strawberries though; they’re an everbearing variety.

The shade garden needs a lot of work. I gotta get the tomato plants out of there, give the peppers more nutrients and rinse the clay pellets and buckets. I’m getting a pond pump and hubs is running electricity out there for me so we can try again with that method. This summer I’ll be collecting what I need for the SIP beds in the sun garden and tomatoes, peppers, melons, etc will go out there. I think it’s more setup work but worth the effort in the long run. Plus raised beds will be more comfortable for Igor and prevent me having to bend over and get dizzy.

Have a great day all!

 

[Sally PB]

Something to go with dinner! First picking.

 

[Sueby]

Catching up here while sitting in the truck at Home Depot. I just had to get out of the house but am in too much pain to walk around.

So DH has dug out all around the house, like 8 inches down. Front sills are rotted, hence the trip to HD. A big mess. Anyway, I had him save a couple flowers from the dug beds & had him plant them in front of the chicken run. He has no clue how to dig a root ball to save a hydrangea. I look out & my beautiful hydrangea is hanging from a fork on the tractor he ripped it out with, now hes shaking the dirt off the roots. I'm sure they'll all die. Whatever.

I planted the rest of the wildflower seeds in the rest of the garden beds. I saw 1 sungold volunteer. Watered everything including new transplants. My lettuce looks like it might grow. Taking its time tho!

But they don’t know our bodies like we do. They a degree to PRACTICE medicine, they don’t know all the answers all the time. We allow to practice on us because they make educated guesses with the knowledge we don’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite thankful for doctors. Some are better than others, as with any profession.

My BFF is a respiratory therapist in a local hospital, we were talking about my back not being fixed after surgery & she laid the 'well that's why they say "practice" medicine' on me. It's so true it made me laugh (while crying, lol).

Ok, off to finish catching up.