What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

It's been kinda a lazy day. 84 degrees outside so I don't feel like doing much... I did get the tomato bed finished! Broke one of my Skyway stems trying to get the dang thing out of the netpot without tearing it up too much. Buried the broken piece deep in the dirt so hopefully it will heal itself and/or just root from there. No more netpots for seedlings! I did not care for the outcome of that experiment!



I seeded some nasturtium and calendula amongst the tomatoes... Waiting for the sun to go down some before we till the area behind the tomato bed. I'll be putting in corn, green beans, Sunflowers, and maybe some peanuts.

 

[Smokerbill]

It's sunny and in the low 60s here today so I put my tomato and pepper plants on the front porch. I pulled up all the cabbages I planted because they looked terrible. More peas are sprouting, and I think I saw a few carrots coming up too.

Just finished mowing the yard.

 

[cj2024]

I got an idea after watching this diatomaceous earth liquid spray video. I used milk, water and diatomaceous earth to add a fungicide benefit. I also plan on using Spinosad powder the same way.

 

[jerryse]

DW was talking to a friend on the phone yesterday. Friend said she saw a black bear in a crop field that is near her house. Very rare but there was one some years ago.

 

[WthrLady]

Afternoon all.
Made it to 87' today. Too early, but not weird, for it to be this warm this early. It's a dry heat. Fires popping up everywhere. People burning scrub piles and fields, but shouldn't be.
I had the brilliant idea this morning to take the horizontal boards between the old and new run out as they aren't structural.
When I took them out, this is where I realized the vertical posts weren't cemented in, just the corner posts. This left the vertical posts with no real support near digging chicken feet.
So off to town for concrete, to come home to underdig the posts and set footers. I didn't get enough concrete, but I left the molds and set rebar so topping off the molds has something to grip. They don't really NEED support, but I'll feel better with them there.
OC while I was in town I HAD to pick up a dogwood tree, and 8-quart sized herbs for the herb garden. LOL HAD TO.
So I worked outside in all this gross heat and came in and took my first, straight from the well cold shower. It was fabulous.
89-91 tomorrow

 

[igorsMistress]

I got an idea after watching this diatomaceous earth liquid spray video. I used milk, water and diatomaceous earth to add a fungicide benefit. I also plan on using Spinosad powder the same way.

DE is not effective when wet, so I don’t understand how that works?

 

[TJAnonymous]

I got an idea after watching this diatomaceous earth liquid spray video. I used milk, water and diatomaceous earth to add a fungicide benefit. I also plan on using Spinosad powder the same way.

Interesting... I always thought that getting DE wet would render it useless.... I used to apply mine with a cheap feather duster.

 

[cj2024]

DE is not effective when wet, so I don’t understand how that works?

When it dries, it leaves a visible residual. The insects that cut a ring around the soft stem of my tomato plants are very annoying. The tops break off and I have to wait for new growth. I hope this works.

 

[Smokerbill]

I stopped by Home Depot yesterday spur of the moment to pick up a rhubarb root. There were only a few left and all were like dried up twigs in the little bag of pine shavings. Maybe next year...

 

[Eagle343]

Garden is still too wet to expand, back yard is a swamp. Bees are doing well, finished three additional hives. Plants in the basement need to be up-potted before they become root bound.