What did you do in the garden today?

[cj2024]

My determinate tomatoes are nearing the end of its life cycle, but there are still a lot of green tomatoes to go. I am going to make some tomato and mayo sandwiches with some ripe tomatoes for breakfast.

 

[Sueby]

Oh what I wouldn't do to have a nice, ripe mater off the vine! Grocery store ones just don't cut it so I don't even bother.

Always a sad day when you use the last of the garlic braid.

 

[jerryse]

Blistering morning sun. I had to take my shirt off. Slightly overcast now.

 

[cj2024]

My indoor baby tycoon tomato plant has begun to flower under my Spider Farmer SF2000. The first bunch of flowers didn't catch, so I am using a battery-operated toothbrush on the new flowers.

I bought two different grow lights from 2 different manufacturers. The Spider Farmer is rated for a 2ft x 4ft area and the cheaper Farm Light is rated for a 4ft x 4ft area.

I think the cheaper Farm Light is better since it covers a larger area, and it runs cooler with the space between lights.

 

[akroberts1085]

My determinate tomatoes are nearing the end of its life cycle, but there are still a lot of green tomatoes to go. I am going to make some tomato and mayo sandwiches with some ripe tomatoes for breakfast.
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You lucky duck I would love to have a fresh from the garden tomato sandwich

 

[Sueby]

I did it, I finally pruned the peach tree. It was brutal but I've watched easy 15 videos on pruning new peach trees & learned open center, no central leader. I think I did pretty good.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

The only gardening I did today was turn off the heat mat on the Texas Grana onion starts. I also ordered more grow bags. One of the grand kids is interested in growing vegetables so I thought I would put together a variety of grow bags and set up a portable “container” garden for her impending birthday. They don’t have a yard where they’re living now so she can garden here until DD is able to find a house to buy. She’s waiting for the mortgage rates to come down. There’s plenty of room in the old chicken yard to accommodate a little garden area. Like most of you we’re having unusually warm temperatures today. It’s currently 59F and sunny. Another warm day tomorrow then a little drop in the temperatures and rain for a day and a half. I’m so looking forward to these ice hills around the yard are gone. I’m still taking it a bit easy. There’s still lingering aches in my left leg so my next round of yard work will have to wait a little while. I stopped into TSC to pick up a bag of chicken pellets and was a bit disappointed that the only “chicks” they had were a few turkey poults. They had their sign “chick days are here” but no chicks.

 

[Smokerbill]

I took a look around my garden and saw a couple of tulips coming up in one of the raised beds. Two years ago there was a patch of tulips about 20 square feet in size. I dug them all up (I thought) and replanted the bulbs in a different location. Guess I missed a couple.

Most of my chive plants are looking healthy. I might dig out a couple of clumps, separate and replant them so I can get a big bed of chives going somewhere.

My herbs didn't fare so well. Oregano and thyme handled the winter just fine, but the cold weather hurt the rosemary plants. I still see a little bit of green on the rosemary so I think it will come back, but I think I lost the tarragon and marjoram.

Update: I just read that tarragon is cold hardy, but the plants die down over the winter, so it should come back. But the marjoram is a "tender" perennial that can't survive the cold.

 

[WthrLady]

@WthrLady people in New England like to claim we have a moody Mother Nature with the temp swings - but I've never seen anything like you get!

It's lovely out there - 55 degrees & a half a foot of snow still. Still can't get to the peach tree. Supposed to get tons of rain tmrw, hopefully it'll all melt & flood the place worse than it already is.

My Baker Creek seed order says it was delivered yesterday, but I got nothing. Hopefully today.

currently feels like 12', yesterday at this time it was 82', a 70' difference and the winds are howling to 50 mph. Yep. The great plains.
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Yesterday's fire was causes by a lawn mower, and has so far burned 70,000 acres and counting.

 

[Jenbirdee]

I got out there!! 65 degrees today!! I cleaned up all the piles of dead branches that were left from harvesting the sunchokes last fall, and spread ducky mulch around! Until it started raining, but thats fine