What did you do in the garden today?

[Happy hen lover]

Rain coming around 1 pm. Forecast now includes Wednesday rain. I need to setup my rain stock tanks. I am a fan of mosquito dunks. I used to use fish in the tanks. I plan to go back to that this year. Mosquito fish in one and Rosey minnows in the other one.

They actually have a mosquito fish?

 

[WthrLady]

Our stock tanks got to hot for fish.

 

[Sueby]

I took a walk around the garden too.
My garlic is coming up:

As is the rhubarb, all 4 plants look good:

 

[BReeder!]

Planted 40 strawberry crowns and 100 onions out in the garden. The strawberries were 20 Quinalt and 20 All-Star. The onions were Van Zyverden brand and just said "red" for the variety. I also have "yellow" to still plant. I found it odd that there was not an actual variety name anywhere on the packages on onions.

We also uppotted starts of tomatoes, watermelon, basil, cucumber, and yellow squash.

 

[jerryse]

They actually have a mosquito fish?

Yes and they are native. Gambusia Alfinis.

 

[Smokerbill]

I picked up another bag of potting soil. It's time for me to start more bok choi and lettuce seeds. I mowed a little bit yesterday, just the part of the yard visible from the road. After I pick up some fallen branches, I'm going to mow the rest of the yard today.

My yard is full of daisies, but they are low to the ground so mowing doesn't remove the blossoms. Good for the pollinators.

Edit:

Finished mowing the yard. Noticed that the onion sets I planted a month or so ago are nearly 6 inches above the ground now. And one of my parsley plants made it through the winter, it's greening up.

I had a parsley plant last year that was in its second year, and it was a fantastic pollinator attractor. It flowered all summer and was covered with tiny, parasitic wasps.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Worked on the front yard a bit this morning. Weed whacked around the two fruit trees, pruned back the hydrangea and put edging
around flower garden. I finally put my rototiller together and it works great. I zipped through 2 4 x 8 foot garden beds in a few minutes. All I need to do is rake and plant.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have a Little Joe tiller bought it like 16 years ago.
The tiller is electric just my size.
Still runs like a top the wheels have foot shift to go deeper
or just bit.
Still use it to bring the dirt up.

 

[Happy hen lover]

I have a Little Joe tiller bought it like 16 years ago.
The tiller is electric just my size.
Still runs like a top the wheels have foot shift to go deeper
or just bit.
Still use it to bring the dirt up.

I'd like to do that in my run, I have a layer of soft dirt then hardpan ? ! May have to wet some areas for the mini eggscavators to do their digging and soften things up

 

[Sally PB]

We weren't supposed to have sunshine until the end of the week, but OOOPS! we got a nice sunny day by mistake. I'll take it!

I bought a Hummingbird Vine (aka, Trumpet Vine) at TSC. Bees like them. They can become invasive, but around here, I don't think they can get the chance because they die back enough in the winter. I'll plant it somewhere in the field, where it can grow up a standing dead tree, or else by the old house to grow up the light pole.