What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Yikes, I'd be worried about squatters.
Could you put up security camera signs? There don't need to be cameras, the signs work as a fairly good deterrent. People don't want to go looking for hidden cameras, and risk being spotted.

 

[gtaus]

Need a little advice....

This is my first year attempting to start seeds for transplanting later in the raised beds. I bought a 50 pack of 3 inch net cups. The seedlings are doing fine, and I have started bringing them outside during the day. My question, if it rains outside and the storage bin lid fills up with 1 inch of water, will it drown out my plants in the net cups? I think I would be in real trouble if I used regular pots with solid walls, but will the slots in the net cups prevent the roots from drowning because they have so much access to air all around the cup?

FYI, I am using these Hefty Hi Rise 72qt storage bins as mini greenhouses. I turn the bin upside down, using the lid as the tray to hold the plants and the clear bin becomes the greenhouse if needed. However, like today, I just let the plants stay outside without the top on. If it rains and the lid fills up with as much as 1-1/2 inches before it overflows, will it drown out the plants in the net cups?

FWIW, I have been bottom watering the plants by putting 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water in the lid, allowing the net cups to soak up the water over a day or two. Then I wait for a few days until I see the top of the net cups drying out. Then I bottom water again in a day or two. It seems to work for me. But I have seen other people recommending that all water not absorbed by the net cup's potting soil should be removed after 20 minutes.

I really don't know what is best. It seems to me that the net cups with all those slots are just different than pots with solid walls and I don't know if the net cups are as prone to overwatering. Anyways, that's my concern and my questions. Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[karenerwin]

I got a lot done Tuesday at the farm garden. I worked there for about 4 hours. I weeded the 2 onion beds and the potato bed. Added more dirt/compost to the potatoes. Planted a zucchini plant and 2 spaghetti squash plants. Planted some pole bean seeds and cantaloupe seeds near the arch trellis. Put together the new raised bed and filled it with dirt/compost and then planted the remaining strawberry plants that I got from the church garden last week. Weed eated all around the blackberries, table grapes, blueberries and raised beds (then the battery died). Then watered everything. We’ve had and continue to have rain/ thunderstorms in the forecast but we continue to get very little actual precipitation.
At my home garden I noticed that one of the broccoli plants has the start of some broccoli growing on it.
I have 5 chicks hatched so far in my incubator ( out of 20 or 21 eggs). They are due to hatch on the 10th. At least 2 more should be out by the time I get up in the morning and hopefully more continue to hatch.
Tomorrow (Wednesday ) I’m delivering two chicks from the previous hatching to my coworker and then heading down to Poplar Bluff to cut grass at the house on the market down there.

 

[CNJ]

Need a little advice....

This is my first year attempting to start seeds for transplanting later in the raised beds. I bought a 50 pack of 3 inch net cups. The seedlings are doing fine, and I have started bringing them outside during the day. My question, if it rains outside and the storage bin lid fills up with 1 inch of water, will it drown out my plants in the net cups? I think I would be in real trouble if I used regular pots with solid walls, but will the slots in the net cups prevent the roots from drowning because they have so much access to air all around the cup?

FYI, I am using these Hefty Hi Rise 72qt storage bins as mini greenhouses. I turn the bin upside down, using the lid as the tray to hold the plants and the clear bin becomes the greenhouse if needed. However, like today, I just let the plants stay outside without the top on. If it rains and the lid fills up with as much as 1-1/2 inches before it overflows, will it drown out the plants in the net cups?

FWIW, I have been bottom watering the plants by putting 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water in the lid, allowing the net cups to soak up the water over a day or two. Then I wait for a few days until I see the top of the net cups drying out. Then I bottom water again in a day or two. It seems to work for me. But I have seen other people recommending that all water not absorbed by the net cup's potting soil should be removed after 20 minutes.

I really don't know what is best. It seems to me that the net cups with all those slots are just different than pots with solid walls and I don't know if the net cups are as prone to overwatering. Anyways, that's my concern and my questions. Thanks for any help in advance.

I have my tomato clones in 6 inch net cups and they are sitting in a heavy duty 2ft x 3ft tray that is 1 inch deep. I put two micro fiber hand towels on the bottom, so the water in uneven spots gets wicked out. I fill it to about half an inch only when it gets empty. My tomato clones are almost 2 ft and I just started planting them in my wicking buckets.

I made some 5 ft tomato cages for these clones, so I won't be taking off the suckers, I will let them go wild and top them off.

 

[gtaus]

Yikes, I'd be worried about squatters.
Could you put up security camera signs? There don't need to be cameras, the signs work as a fairly good deterrent. People don't want to go looking for hidden cameras, and risk being spotted.

That's a good idea. Thanks.

 

[Paz]

Picked a couple tomatoes and garlic weeds. The plan for tomorrow is “stealing” some horse shit from my neighbour and spreading it around the banana. The soil around it doesn’t take any water, so I hope some horse shit will help wetting it better.

 

[CNJ]

Picked a couple tomatoes and garlic weeds. The plan for tomorrow is “stealing” some horse shit from my neighbour and spreading it around the banana. The soil around it doesn’t take any water, so I hope some horse shit will help wetting it better.

I got tired of watering my Apple, Gran Nain Chiquita and Ice cream banana trees and let them dry out. However, the Ice cream and Gran Nain banana trees are still alive, I should make a clone of the Ice Cream banana tree before it dies. I already moved the dwarf Gran Nain Chiquita Banana tree to my front yard where I can take good care of it. The stem is really thick, I am pretty sure I am going to get a giant cluster this year, Its my baby.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

Need a little advice....

This is my first year attempting to start seeds for transplanting later in the raised beds. I bought a 50 pack of 3 inch net cups. The seedlings are doing fine, and I have started bringing them outside during the day. My question, if it rains outside and the storage bin lid fills up with 1 inch of water, will it drown out my plants in the net cups? I think I would be in real trouble if I used regular pots with solid walls, but will the slots in the net cups prevent the roots from drowning because they have so much access to air all around the cup?

FYI, I am using these Hefty Hi Rise 72qt storage bins as mini greenhouses. I turn the bin upside down, using the lid as the tray to hold the plants and the clear bin becomes the greenhouse if needed. However, like today, I just let the plants stay outside without the top on. If it rains and the lid fills up with as much as 1-1/2 inches before it overflows, will it drown out the plants in the net cups?

FWIW, I have been bottom watering the plants by putting 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water in the lid, allowing the net cups to soak up the water over a day or two. Then I wait for a few days until I see the top of the net cups drying out. Then I bottom water again in a day or two. It seems to work for me. But I have seen other people recommending that all water not absorbed by the net cup's potting soil should be removed after 20 minutes.

I really don't know what is best. It seems to me that the net cups with all those slots are just different than pots with solid walls and I don't know if the net cups are as prone to overwatering. Anyways, that's my concern and my questions. Thanks for any help in advance.

If your plants are doing well, don't worry.

Sure, ideally, dumping out extra water after fully soaked would be great, but most of us don't have the luxury of being next to our plants 24/7.

If their roots are used to this way you've been doing it, they will grow to conform to it. Water roots are different than soil roots. When transplanted, they will need more water until they adjust.

A quarter inch of water at the bottom is not that much. I sure wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Bronx girls]

Im gathering all my supplies to finally update my coop

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

Im gathering all my supplies to finally update my coop

Watch gonna do?