What did you do in the garden today?

[Nomadicus]

We got rained out today. I had things to plant but not in the rain.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Planted a cherry tree today, they were on sale for 4,99€ in our local supermarket ( apple, pear and different cherry trees) if it doesn’t take, it isn’t a financial disaster and if it does, I’ll be happy, I already had/have cherry trees, I love eating cherries, but… one of them got a strange disease, one day, it had one branch with leaves drooping, the next day, all the leaves were drooping it was literally dead within a day the other tree was supposed to bear sweet cherries, but somehow it only has yellow sour cherries

 

[Jenbirdee]

Got the blackberry planted and dug out a big bunch of worms for the girls.

OH! I love doing that it's so much fun! (worm time!)

 

[jerryse]

Vegetable grafting question. Going to try squash and cucumber grafting to help pest and disease issues. I wonder if bush onto long vine would result in bush or long vine? Summer squash onto butternut. I may need to use bush butternut to get bush type. Any thoughts?

 

[Jenbirdee]

Vegetable grafting question. Going to try squash and cucumber grafting to help pest and disease issues. I wonder if bush onto long vine would result in bush or long vine? Summer squash onto butternut. I may need to use bush butternut to get bush type. Any thoughts?

wow i know nothing of this but it sure will be interesting to follow along and see what you get!

 

[igorsMistress]

Praises!!!! No cancer.

Yesterday, I cleaned the garden spot a little with a hoe. Coco, Mocha, and Nutmeg helped until Nutmeg needed to lay an egg so they all went back in. It is still too early for many worms or grubs to have come up near the surface but the hens found a few of each and a few bites of fresh greens.

Excellent news, super happy for you all.

 

[igorsMistress]

We don't have Menards in CT.

So excited, I got out & did some gardening (barefoot!) on this beautiful day.
I amended the top 3 tiers of my GreenStalk with some perlite & worm castings & got lettuce & spinach planted. That's as much as I could do, still recovering from surgery & on no bending, lifting, twisting or reaching for 7 more weeks. Felt good to get some Vit D before the rain comes back tomorrow.
I caught a wren trying to make a nest in the top waterer of my GS, glad she didn't get too far because I had to evict her. I felt bad & left the cover off so she doesn't come back. Will have to remedy that situation somehow.
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How are you feeling after this surgery Sueby? Did it work better than the first?

 

[Molpet]

Vegetable grafting question. Going to try squash and cucumber grafting to help pest and disease issues. I wonder if bush onto long vine would result in bush or long vine? Summer squash onto butternut. I may need to use bush butternut to get bush type. Any thoughts?

I had to look this up. Haven't read the whole thing. I'm on my phone. But if I put it here I may remember to read it on the computer
https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/v...lia),,most used cucumber rootstocks worldwide.

 

[WthrLady]

None of the traps triggered last night, but all the seeds are gone, save one.
Tonight I'll replace the seed trays with rat sized sticky traps. I'm not a fan of them, but they work. Each trap will go where the seed trays were, and each will have 5 seeds.

UPDATE: I went into small town, next over, and picked up some glue traps. I just went down a couple hours after walking it this morning, and there, 2 feet from the back garage/basement door, lay a dead mouse, in the middle of the floor. There's NO way I would have missed it this morning. It must have chewed one of the poison blocks.

 

[igorsMistress]

G’morning everyone. We had rain over the last couple evenings, no gully washers so it has all soaked in. Waiting for the teenager to get up and help me get some stuff done outside, general cleanup is all today. I am thrilled that the lilacs are filling in with leaves, still hoping for the best for the two chaste trees.

At this point I’m not impressed with these “advanced garden beds.” I think they hold too much water and the soil is too wet about a foot down. I don’t know if I’m going to keep them in there or not, I suppose I could plant herbs and flowers with shallow roots in them and it probably wouldn’t matter.

I still don’t have my tower thing set up and we have one more garden bed to build and fill. Hoping I can get that done this weekend. Well, hoping I can supervise that getting done this weekend.