What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I managed to get some pruning done yesterday. I cut away most of the blackberry vines so my Fritillaries can grow unobstructed. I also got halfway through pruning back the trumpet / butterfly bush. I’m tossing the branches into the bed I raised up to 2 feet. The base is about done. I need to add leaves and compost before adding the dirt. Then I can finally plant there. Tomorrow is likely going to be a washout so I need to do as much as possible today.

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

Love to see what everyone is doing! Springtime in the garden
Today is going to be rainy 🌧 so I'm going to bake bread or sweet rolls. Still deciding. Attached pictures from earlier in the week.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I HATE THAT TAXES ARE DUE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!?. Why not Oct.!! @$_-+&#@$-+-_#@!!!
Question here : is there such a thing as tomato math. ?? I don't need any more canned tomato products, so why do I think I need to have tomato plants? Anyone else.

It is my personal opinion that Tax Day should be moved to November 6th.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We got a gully washer last night!


Finally!

 

[Sueby]

I love the pics too, it's so fun to see what everyone has growing. Also rainy here for the next couple days.

I found a frog stake that made me happy.

 

[Sammster]

Thanks. For anyone interested, I found this link for Clyde's Garden Planner. Here is a picture of what it is.

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I have one of these, too. ♡ Helpful

 

[Sueby]

Speaking of canned tomatoes, DP opened a jar from last season and not only did the lid not hiss when opened, I could smell fermentation when she brought it to me to check. I've had seals fail before but this is the first time I could smell it.

I hate when I forget to check the lid before I open it, I've wasted so many jars of stuff that way - when I open it I question if it felt a little easy to open & then I get all crazy paranoid & throw it out. I've been canning for so many years, you'd think I'd be better at this.

ETA: ooohhh, I tried again a couple days ago to talk DH into moving out to PNW after retiring. He's softening. LOL

 

[Minanora]

is there such a thing as tomato math. ?? I don't need any more canned tomato products, so why do I think I need to have tomato plants? Anyone else.

I think so, I only wanted 40 tomatoes... I now have 61. I'm literally inventing places to plant them. I don't know why I did this to myself. I think the chickens are going to have a few tomato plants in the orchard to enjoy. However I do need to can tomatoes. Had a bunk harvest last year so I only got two cases of ripe tomatoes canned.

 

[jerryse]

I thought about trying nettle. I watched a video and the guy said really not that bad. My mind said really not that good. Talked myself out of it. Today is 6 weeks since wart removal. Nearly healed. Walking almost normal. It made my back and left knee hurt because of walking funny. Back and knee are much better. Rain coming mid afternoon.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Yesterday was so awesome weather-wise, today we have rain coming, then very windy Friday with 50mph gusts. Humidity & wind really kick my butt, arthritis & fibromyalgia, sinus headaches, the works. Yesterday I felt & worked like I was 20 & today I am paying the price, feeling old, sacroiliac pain along with a barometric headache. Oh well, gotta take the good with the bad, right?

I can't paint on the jobsite til Sat & Sun, so today I can rake what I tilled, before it rains. (After I pop 2 Aleve). I wanted to spread the wildflower seeds in that tilled section, but with high winds I will hold off. I use straw over top of the seed so I can wait a few days, no sense letting wind blow straw all over. After raking this morning I will be washing & crating eggs for market, pickling some eggs for us, & potting about 50 house plants...my house plants had baby plants & I rooted them.


Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), and hen and chickens, is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae.

The tomato sprouts...I guess they're growing, but darn, seems like slow motion to me. I brought them outside yesterday as it was 70s & sunny. They did like sunshine, after so many cloudy rainy days here.
But "Something" ate a few sprouts tender leaves off! What kind of bug would do that? The little jerk ate a few then took off before I could see the culprit that did this dastardly deed.



I got the Brussel sprout seeds & 2 other types of tomato seeds started. Got more canning jars at Dollar General.

So...on a kind of funny note, I was in the newer chicken coop, which still is not completely finished, and I saw a visitor slither in. This 12x24 shed used to be a wood shop & I often found perfectly intact shed skins, some quite long. I donated them to Prime Hook refuge for educational purposes. Anyway, they're good mousers, so I left them alone. Rick despises & is quite fearful of them, so I figured I'd better relocate this one. If Rick has seen it, not sure if he would just run from it or kill it. So I took it for a ride, a safer place, huge natural growing area, where no one will mess with him/her. I asked Rick to drive but he wouldn't even come out of the house when he saw me holding it! I drove 1 handed & I have to tell ya, Mr./Ms. Snake was a better passenger than Rick...no backseat driving! I told Rick, he'd better be nice to his Lady Snake Wrangler, here. Lol


Too long to get whole body in 1 pic while holding, had to take 3


See ya later, hope I don't regret this...snake will be happy but I may miss a good mouser