What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Thinned the turnips:

And I watered all the collards and lettuce transplants.

 

[Bleuberry]

Nothing. It's in the fifties here and cold, cold winds. Most of our summer veggies are cleaned out now but still have some relaxing tomatoes. Picked the corn today. Salad peas,lettuce,radishes,garlic, green onions and kale are coming up nicely thank goodness.

 

[lightm]

Today I cut down a small tree, took the log, and inoculated it with mushroom plugs.
Here are two of the logs. Supposedly I will get mushroom in half a year or longer...

Then I noticed I have this single red berry on my asparagus plant!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I am 40 pages behind... Not likely to go back and read everything I missed. Hope everyone is doing well in my absence!

I've been busy trying to get my mom's house cleaned out & sold, business trips, and getting my own house in order. I have a CRAP TON of iris bulbs from my mom's house. Still trying to find places to plant them. I forgot about and then later found a box of Dahlia bulbs, freesia bulbs, and ranunculus corms from a couple of months ago. They were pretty dried out and shriveled. I soaked them in some water for 30-60 minutes. I really hope they survive...

In the process of making some changes in the garden to remove all the tire beds and replace them with self watering raised beds. Also built a platform to move my strawberry barrels onto so I have better weed control around them and they get more consistent sunlight.

Repotted my goji berries (started in the spring but still REALLY small). Finally got around to transplanting my crepe myrtle and gooseberries in the ground.

 

[WthrLady]

Today I cut down a small tree, took the log, and inoculated it with mushroom plugs.
Here are two of the logs. Supposedly I will get mushroom in half a year or longer...View attachment 3655133

Then I noticed I have this single red berry on my asparagus plant!
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That's how it gets you. It draws you in with the shiny little red berry, and when you get close enough to really look at the oddity, ZAP, the plant eats you.
Asparagus, eh......crazy.

 

[lightm]

That's how it gets you. It draws you in with the shiny little red berry, and when you get close enough to really look at the oddity, ZAP, the plant eats you.
Asparagus, eh......crazy.

I just looked up asparagus berries and they are toxic. Is this what you mean?

 

[WthrLady]

I just looked up asparagus berries and they are toxic. Is this what you mean?

I was thinking more like Little Shop of Horrors, killer plant from outer space.
The berry is there to lure you in.

 

[akroberts1085]

39 is the forecast for tonight. I have to go pick my luffa. Yes, as in one. There are 3 more on the plant, but I doubt they're of any size (girth) to be useful. But I could be wrong. They're still dark green, so these may be a total bust anyway.

I need to get the soon-to-be garlic and potato onion beds ready. My new seed garlic arrived yesterday. I should have done the beds by now, but there were other things that needed to be done, so I let that project slide.

And, I need to dig the potatoes.

What is a luffa?

 

[akroberts1085]

Went out to the green house garden and picked about 15- 20 tomatoes. Still waiting for my peppers green beans and cucumbers. Trying to start a compost pile. Had to work on wiring the new shed my husband calls it "the studio". We still have to get the ceiling fan hooked up but for now it's good.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I am 40 pages behind... Not likely to go back and read everything I missed. Hope everyone is doing well in my absence!

I've been busy trying to get my mom's house cleaned out & sold, business trips, and getting my own house in order. I have a CRAP TON of iris bulbs from my mom's house. Still trying to find places to plant them. I forgot about and then later found a box of Dahlia bulbs, freesia bulbs, and ranunculus corms from a couple of months ago. They were pretty dried out and shriveled. I soaked them in some water for 30-60 minutes. I really hope they survive...

In the process of making some changes in the garden to remove all the tire beds and replace them with self watering raised beds. Also built a platform to move my strawberry barrels onto so I have better weed control around them and they get more consistent sunlight.

Repotted my goji berries (started in the spring but still REALLY small). Finally got around to transplanting my crepe myrtle and gooseberries in the ground.

I feel you, after my father died, we had to empty the house too, also 350 km away from where I now live, my parents “collected” stuff, they are not the only ones, I also have trouble throwing away stuff that isn’t broken we tried to empty the house for a year ( along with my sister) in the end we had to give up and had a company empty the house and resell whatever was worth something, I’m sure they made a huge profit!! But if you live so far away, you just can’t manage to sell the stuff, we were there every few months on a weekend, and did manage to sell some of the stuff, but it is too difficult in the end, it was a big house, not a chance to take stuff in the car and sell it at home either