What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

I have so many seeds, I really don't need to order anything. If I can't direct sow it, I buy starts - I just don't have room to start seeds. I do need some wildflower seeds though, they worked out really well last year. I did order new bare root strawberries for spring a while back, I'm digging up the ones out there now & repurposing the 2 beds for melons on a cattle panel trellis. Strawberries will have their own greenstalk. As will onions, peppers & greens. Nothing is going to break my back this year!

I do want to try some edamame - I might need another greenstalk for that tho, lol.

I need to buy more insect netting though.

I buy starts for some things too. I mean, a jalapeño is pretty much successful and easy to find…tomatoes, also easy. But, for the direct seeded, I buy seeds.

I enjoy edamame. Basically you grow until they are plump and pod filled out. You can wait until a pod or two per plant looks like it is crossing over to the drying out side (slight yellow on a pod or two) and pick then. Bc it’s a pick them all at once scenario, just chop the main stem at the ground and carry all plants to a shady are to remove pods. Give the plants and leaves to the chickens- they love them!! About 30 min later remove the denuded stem for the compost pile.

 

[Acre4Me]

I would love to start my garden, but my 2. Hip replacement is coming up, probably around May, and that is the time if you have plants I should be there, replanting them and giving them lots of water ( we live in one of the driest area of Germany ) so when I’m gone for 6 weeks, all my efforts will be for nothing when I do come back, I won’t be very mobile, so… no garden for me this year last year, at least I got some tomatoes, berries and plums, my peaches rotted away cos the family was too lazy to pick and preserve them, same with the apples

Hopefully it’s a fairly quick recovery. I’ve known some to bounce back pretty quickly- but that may depend on the type of hip replacement.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I buy starts for broccoli every year because the feed store plants are always way more robust than my piddly starts. I also buy onion bulbs and some herbs here and there as starts. Everything else is direct seeded.

 

[jerryse]

1 1/2 of snow overnight. Waiting for the warmup. 2 chainsaws will not start so I have been checking them out. One not getting fuel. Ordered a kit with carb, plug, fuel and oil lines. Online 13$ hard to beat that price. Big saw quit while using it was low on fuel. Mixed new fuel but no go. Tried another plug I had on hand but no go. Had to get in a dark spot to see if I had spark. Weak spark and would not fire with starting fluid. It did pop the compression release once but could not hear it pop. I ordered a ignition coil online 15$. Now I wait for parts.

 

[fuzzi]

Stupid New York State Thruway Authority.
I just got a $40ish bill for three passes through a toll in NewYork State a week before Christmas.
UM I haven't been to NYState since 1982.
AND it has DHs car tag listed, he was here teaching classes and hasn't been to NYS since 2000, and he didn't have this car or tags then and we didn't even live in Nebraska then.
AND the bill came with my name on it and HE"S the primary on that car and tag.

WTH New York?!

NY is in need of funds...

Illinois tried that *@# with me. I disputed it and won. The tag wasn't my tag, duh.

 

[Sally PB]

so when I’m gone for 6 weeks, all my efforts will be for nothing

Can you plant some ground cover, like rye, maybe for a nitrogen fixer/soil enhancer?

 

[fuzzi]

NOT one of my zinnias bloomed or even came up last year.
I didn't think that was even possible.

In the last few years I've noticed germination issues with name brand, brand new seeds. I bought from Baker Creek last year, had NO issues.

 

[fuzzi]

Technology, eh?
Well, we made it to 20 today.
I spent the whole morning doing laundry, chipping ice of doors and windows, washing more towels, and reworking a bed pillow into a more usable shape and firmness, then sewing a new cover and case for it.
The afternoon was spent on the tractor moving that drift and pushing snow deeper into the yard before it froze solid again.

Auto guys said they put in a new battery. Um, how could the 3 week old battery have been the problem? Once the car was jumped and driven the battery was at proper volts. When I turned it off, it wouldn't start again and needed jumped again. Brand new alternator too.
I swear. Fuse, computer module....I have no idea.

Ford?

 

[fuzzi]

Now the PayPal whisking email that made it through all my filters yesterday was scammy. The lengths these ppl go to.

My grandmother used to say if criminals worked half as hard as they do but for something honest they would be successful.

 

[fuzzi]

I don't trust PayPal; I think someone working there is using the Pay Pal data base to scam people. I deleted my card number when my card got compromised. I am pretty sure the charge in my checking account happened after I bought something with Pay Pal. My bank refunded my money and gave me a new card and the evil Law company that charged me for a subscription got flaged and blacklisted by my bank.

I am recently getting scam email saying I was charged by Pay Pal, but I know it's a scam because I deleted my old credit card from their website and did not input the new one.

I've dealt with PayPal, used to like them but then they changed their policies, and I deleted my account. I'm trying to remember the specifics, it might have been a clause stating they can deduct money from your bank account if they decide you owe them money. Lots of companies are doing that, take time read the policy updates.

I won't use PayPal even as a guest, they still want all your information. Nope. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me.