What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Adding dirt to the tires today planting tomorrow
if the rain hold off a day?

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

Sunny and warm today.
I moved some of my compost pile to the back of the yard the other day.
Today I used some of the remaining pile to layer with rabbit tea ( poop and water that was a couple days old) and soil in a bigger bed.
Lima beans and Peas are sprouting. So are the wildflowers and sunflower seeds out by the chick's run.
My goal is to have one more bigger bed and the 4 smaller ones planted this week.
Garlic and tomato plants look great.

Hope everyone in the path stays safe during the severe storms.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Can you grow sugar beets where you live @itsasmallfarm.

wanted to say thank you! i just ordered some sugar beet seeds and going to try making some sugar from them this fall.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Took a stroll around the garden

Azaleas in bloom


This is either a peony that I swore was dead or (more likely) pokeweed.


Bumblebees swarming the wisteria


Strawberries


Grapes coming back to life


Arugula about to bolt

 

[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.