What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

Slowly but surely I am filling in the holes in the garden. Planted Brassicas last night. Put some Reemay over them today, after picking off the cabbage worms. Dastardly butterflies accosted the poor seedlings while they were STILL IN THE POT! THE NERVE!!! Have some room under the Reemay to put in some collards, kale, and swiss chard. Several water melon seedlings to plant, some butternut squash, then, I need to turn my attention to weed control and laying in more wood chips. I'm finding that chicken feed bags work splendidly to lay in the walking paths. They fit the wide way for wide paths, and the narrow way for the skinny little paths.

 

[herfrds]

Boy was that a race the other day! weatherman kept predicting this huge storm to come in and dump tons of rain on us. So DD and I went out and got the corn and green beans replanted. Plus got the rhubarb, daylilies, strawberries and herbs planted.
The rain was pretty much a bust but at least the rest of the garden is in.
Now to go harvest some fresh spinach!

 

[pennyJo1960]

yes arugula, spinach, lettuce been eating salad from the garden with dill, mustard plant and rosemary

 

[karenerwin]

Slowly but surely I am filling in the holes in the garden. Planted Brassicas last night. Put some Reemay over them today, after picking off the cabbage worms. Dastardly butterflies accosted the poor seedlings while they were STILL IN THE POT! THE NERVE!!! Have some room under the Reemay to put in some collards, kale, and swiss chard. Several water melon seedlings to plant, some butternut squash, then, I need to turn my attention to weed control and laying in more wood chips. I'm finding that chicken feed bags work splendidly to lay in the walking paths. They fit the wide way for wide paths, and the narrow way for the skinny little paths.[/QUOTE]

What is Reemay? That's a good idea to use feed bags to line the walking paths.

@herfrds, I got up and cut grass right away because we were suppose to get a lot of rain today too. I got the grass cut, but all we got is a small storm. However, I believe that it must be raining hard in the city because the baseball game is on a rain delay now.

I've been working the last couple of days on pulling out the poison ivy. It is quite prolific in one large section of our property. I've been using a "pre"exposure blocker, but apparently I didn't do a good job putting it on yesterday or I sweated it off. My right arm from wrist to elbow is very itchy!! UGGHHH!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

What is Reemay? That's a good idea to use feed bags to line the walking paths.

https://www.amazon.com/Reemay-Garden-Blanket-67-100/dp/B001FA9SNE

 

[chickadoodles]

Lg sorry your butterflies got your plants.

The squirrels ate my seedlings.

Penny sounds like you had a nice salad. Yum!

It's hard to see the tomatoes from the front. So I took a pic of the back. Also the red bag on the cart has sugar pie pumpkin seedlings I hope the squirrels don't eat.

Purple Cherokee tomatoes looking good.

 

[pennyJo1960]

nice looking there chickadoodles

 

[chickadoodles]

nice looking there chickadoodles

Thanks Penny.

 

[pennyJo1960]

your very welcome

 

[dan26552]

My butternut squash are doing really well, I planted them early last month and they already have female flower buds. There's a wide range of shapes and sizes. The acorns aren't doing as well, they are smaller, paler and not as vigorous.





Acorn.


The butternut also has very pronounced "leaves" on its flower buds.

Butternut


Acorn


Butternuts.


Butternuts on the left acorns on the right.