What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

We got a scant trace of rain this morning. I'm going to hang laundry on the line in an hour, in case that will inspire Mother Nature to rain some more....?

I ordered 20 sweet potato slips. They sent 25. I count 8 that look "good." I count 4 that look dead. The rest are in-between. If they pull through, they've just been slowed down a lot. I figure I've lost at least 2-3 weeks of my season from UPS's screw up.

 

[WthrLady]

We got a scant trace of rain this morning. I'm going to hang laundry on the line in an hour, in case that will inspire Mother Nature to rain some more....?

I ordered 20 sweet potato slips. They sent 25. I count 8 that look "good." I count 4 that look dead. The rest are in-between. If they pull through, they've just been slowed down a lot. I figure I've lost at least 2-3 weeks of my season from UPS's screw up.

laughing at the laundry.

 

[Smokerbill]

With all the trouble people are having getting their sweet potato slips delivered, has anyone just started their own slips from store bought sweet potatoes?

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/sweet-potato/how-to-get-sweet-potato-slips.htm

When I was a kid my grandpa farmed sweet potatoes, and he started his in a bed filled with sand outdoors. There was an electric heating cable buried underneath to keep the bed warm. I think he just saved the best looking sweet potatoes from the previous year's crop to grow the slips from.

 

[CNJ]

With all the trouble people are having getting their sweet potato slips delivered, has anyone just started their own slips from store bought sweet potatoes?

I did, I cut the top and bottom off an Oreintal sweet potato and stuck it in a bowl of water, but maybe I should let the cut ends dry out and form nobs instead.

 

[Smokerbill]

My squash seedlings are making progress. Burpee's Butterbush on the left (vine borer resistant because they have tough vines), and mixed summer squash on the right side.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

How many frames equaled how much honey?

Maybe we'll have honey in a year...

10 frames was 34 pounds of honey. There are bubbles in the bottles because I just bottled it.
I've never harvested honey in June before, the honey is very floral tasting probably from the orchard. I've never had honey this light colored before either, the picture makes it look a couple shades darker than it actually is.

 

[Sueby]

The honey is beautiful!

 

[CNJ]

I decided to concentrate my recources on my Pineapple tomato that I grafted onto a spoon tomato root stock. I will feed it 2 gallons of an Alaskan Fish fertilizer and Bloom solution in 3 day interval, alternating with garlic juice.

The spoon tomato root stock seem to be resistant to the stunting virus that is prevalent in my yard. It may also be resistant to that new virus that can live in the soil.

I cut the root stem off my tomato scion that I side grafted onto a hardened Princess Yum Yum root stock . The scions didn't show any signs of wilting, so I think it might make it. One of the scions already had the stunting virus before I side grafted it, I wanted to see if it would recover, since the Princess Yum Yum plants are thriving in my yard and probably living with the virus. If you blow up the picture, you can see the yellowing and molted leaves of the infected plant with the red clip.

 

[fuzzi]

With all the trouble people are having getting their sweet potato slips delivered, has anyone just started their own slips from store bought sweet potatoes?

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/sweet-potato/how-to-get-sweet-potato-slips.htm

When I was a kid my grandpa farmed sweet potatoes, and he started his in a bed filled with sand outdoors. There was an electric heating cable buried underneath to keep the bed warm. I think he just saved the best looking sweet potatoes from the previous year's crop to grow the slips from.

I grew sweet potatoes from one whole potato.

I had a nice harvest, but they didn't store well, all rotted.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Took about 10 pages to catch up Gardeners been off the site a few days.
A cold went through us back side of it now.