What did you do in the garden today?

[TaylorGlade]

Awww! Chick is crying, "How come you other chicks won't come out to play? Hurry up & Come on out, I'm all by my lonesome!"

Yes. It (I think he) was snuggling up next to an egg last night. My son just knocked on the door and told me that egg is now pipped. He was also pecking at another egg. I'm betting he's hearing them cheeping. I can't hear it inside the Bater, but he probably can. And he's already trying to round up his flock!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Grocery store toms? It's never occurred to me to try that. I hope it goes great. It also sounds like you will have a beautiful bounty.

We just planted raspberries but have wild blueberries and blackberries. And we planted a couple of figs and some more blackberries. Hoping they don't get too cross pollinated with the wild ones. But David loves the things and the store is crazy expensive on them. Especially on the organic ones.


Too bad about the table! We also have wild magnolias everywhere, but they are all scraggly. They do flower, though and it's like a wonderland in June.

Do you have any gardenias? We have one and it's as tall as the house. It has these delicate white flowers and I just get lost in the scent every summer.

These were bought at the store, which is rare for me, but we had a craving for our tacos. We were very pleasantly surprised by the flavor, texture & color of these tomatoes. I know anything at the grocery store in the produce section is a gamble & the Roma or other vine ripened were often disappointing, but these were fantastic.




We had fig trees & one did so well, but I'm going to plant one further from the house. They are delicious & very productive but attract critters & bees. I don't mind either, just prefer them not practically knocking at our back door. I can't tell you how many bees & wasps I had to shoo out of the back door & laundry room. Lol
Hey, an easy way to shoo them out btw...hold up the bristle end of a broom, the wasp or bee will often step right on & hang on as you gently walk outside. Once outside they fly off of the broom calmly, usually right back to the fig tree. They seem to like hitching rides on broom bristles, as long as you're gentle.

 

[fuzzi]

Good morning gardeners. Waiting for the sun to take care of the rest of the snow and ice. Our ground is so soggy even though it’s still partly frozen. More rain coming in a couple of days. I’m planning on doing what I can to prep the garden beds this week. I also need to get busy patching up the old chicken coop and run so I can move the flock and use the “winter-coop” to brood the new chicks that are coming. Grand daughter was very happy to have her own little secret garden to finally plant her own stuff. I forgot to add the fairy statue and the bowl of pansies. I think it may be safe to out the pansies out today. I gave her several grow bags to start with and DD is going to take her seed shopping.
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What a sweet idea. I wish my granddaughters didn't live 1000 miles away.

When I was about 7 we moved to Connecticut and finally had room for a vegetable garden. I'm guessing it was about 15'x25', and my mother gave a small section. It was often weedy, but she let me be. I planted marigolds and developed a love for growing flowers and eventually vegetables.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not gardening here yet too wet.
Have it fenced first till done.
This is from the old coop, I have had birds like 12 years.
They where in that coop till last year.

 

[Sueby]

Doctors only know what they've studied & have been educated to know, with whatever curriculum. The surgeon will suggest surgery, the oncologist with suggest chemo, the hematologist does endless bloodwork & the endocrinologist tests hormones, etc. When they have no experience in a particular field or certain symptoms, they'll send you to another specialist, but if what's out of balance is not what they happen to test for, we just have no clue, and neither do they.

As my BFF (who works in a hospital) says 'That's why they call it PRACTICING medicine, Sue'.

Very true. I had a job in a negative environment once. Every day seemed like a month long. Time to change passwords came around, it was frequently required, and I decided to use positive type passwords for the new passwords. I had to type these passwords in multiple times a day, and it was actually a positive thing to do-a frequent positive boost in my very long days there.

I like this. I should try it. All my passwords have some type of swears in them because I hate having passwords. Working in IT, I have soooo many & then they have to be super complex - it drives me insane so when I change them I'm always bitching.

I may have forgot to mention that this was a gift for her tenth birthday. I wanted to make it portable so when DD is able to buy a house she can take her “garden” to her own backyard.

& you are THE best grandma! Way to sow the seeds of gardening with the littles! I believe I got my love of gardening from my grandmother.

Back to work so not much happening in the garden. Hoping to get another greenstalk up while waiting for the onions to arrive. Seeds n such seems to have some confusion on my order so we shall see what happens there.

 

[Sueby]

I got out and planted my canna lilies, I will be getting more... I figured out a place to put them! In front of the pool to hide it a little.

I also finished moving mulch around, got my ground level bed amended and ready.
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Planted my last two pots of blackberries, planted my lemongrass in the ground finally, it's been 6 years....
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Blueberries are starting to bloom!
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Seedlings are growing just fine.
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Your gardens look beautiful!

 

[Sueby]

We had fig trees & one did so well, but I'm going to plant one further from the house.

Thanks for the reminder, I need to have poor DH get my fig down from the unheated upstairs. Totally forgot about it, never watered it, hope it's ok. Ooof.

 

[akroberts1085]

Going to try to get some more veggies planted today. I have a ton of cleaning to get done so hopefully I can take over the backyard for multiple gardens. All will be edible of course but just try to make different than what most people do. Maybe I can bury some pots with herbs in them.

 

[Smokerbill]

Several of my tomato plants were looking a little pale. I made a diluted mix of Miracle-Gro all purpose fertilizer solution (1/8 teaspoon in a quart of water) and gave all the plants some food with their water today.

I don't use chemical fertilizers in the garden because I've read that they can harm the organisms in the soil. But I guess using a little bit on the seedlings won't be a problem.

I gave them each 2 or 3 tablespoons of the solution, and will probably feed them every couple of weeks.

 

[Swiss]

It was warm enough to get what @Sally PB calls "dirt therapy" today!!! Well, maybe it was more "poo therapy" because I spread rabbit poo from my nieces' rabbit onto my strawberries. I'm DETERMINED to get at least a bowl full of them this year. Last year, I got to eat maybe 3. I also discovered some that didn't get thinned and moved elsewhere last year, so those got moved to empty spaces in the new strawberry bed or under some of the fruit trees we planted last year.

The whole time I was out there, my dog was chasing honey bees, no matter what I said to her. When I was done in the garden and cleaning up, I found that our driveway was covered in honey bees drinking some snow melt. I let the puppy out because he was done napping, and within 15 minutes, he had been stung 3 times. Once in the lip, once on the paw (which hurts the worst for him), and once ON THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH (that was fun to remove)! The mouth stings didn't bother him at all, but the paw sting made him yelp and favor that paw. So, now we are inside to avoid any more stings for him. I guess his sister learned how to play with them and not get stung because I checked her over and there were no stingers! Hopefully, he learned his lesson about Spicy Sky Raisins, but I doubt it. He's a feisty one, so will probably learn what his sister learned: chase, but don't touch.