What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

I planted a row of chard. That led to digging up the grass that was invading the area. That led to finding some baby grubs. I had to collect the grubs for the chickens, of course.

I whacked on some other weeds with the hoe.

 

[Sally PB]

Does anyone recognize this? I think it's a weed...?

 

[Smokerbill]

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Does anyone recognize this? I think it's a weed...?

Mayapple I think.

 

[jerryse]

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Does anyone recognize this? I think it's a weed...?

I vote weed.

 

[Sueby]

I did nothing in the garden today. I did have a random stranger come dig up a bunch of Black Eyed Susans & Purple Coneflowers that were taking over the walkways of the garden. It was a win win, she needed flowers, I needed someone to dig up flowers. LOL

 

[Molpet]

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Does anyone recognize this? I think it's a weed...?

Could be basswood

 

[Smokerbill]

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Does anyone recognize this? I think it's a weed...?

Could be basswood

I think you're right. I found this, re google image search...

 

[Sally PB]

Thank you!

Oh, how cool is that! I'll dig them and pot them up.

We have several basswood trees. If I didn't have them, I'd be buying some for the honeybees!

 

[Sally PB]

Yes, I know, by the time it flowers, I'll be... uh... about 75...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Got my fruit trees sprayed again for fungus following all that rain. More coming beginning on Thursday.

I need to figure out a way to tie up my grape vines. They have grown over and beyond their fence support and are now taking over anything and everything next to the fence. The grapes are the ONE THING that DH actually cares about in the garden so I don't really want to severely prune them back. I'm thinking about wrapping them with baling twine to try to hold them back. I wonder if that might work???


Scoured over the strawberry barrels tonight. Picked off a lot of small fruit and tiny flowers in hopes of forcing the plants to produce bigger berries. I noticed one barrel has fruit that looks a little dingy brown. Anyone know what causes that? I haven't tried to look it up yet to make sure it isn't something that could spread to the other barrels. All the foliage looks generally healthy. No blight or spotting

Edited to add... Looks like the bronzing is likely thrips or spider mites. Going to treat them with spinosad.