What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Need to venture out & try a new slicing tomato. The only one I eat is Brandywine, but I want to try something new. Anyone see anything I should try on the list?

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Like the regular ones, but not even 1/2 the size

 

[chicken opey]

Gosh favorite memories Guineas bought at auction?
Went home Ma met us at the truck she said take those back!
They stayed less than a week.

Yes. Those who still have them have a large amount of land and dogs that chase them away from house, the one I know of

 

[Smokerbill]

I believe it will be safe for me to set my tomato and pepper plants out in the garden next Friday. There will still be near a 40% chance of a light freeze after that, but I think the worst of the cold weather here will be over by then.

And if it's going to get too cold overnight I can cover the plants with something for protection.



My collard green seeds are finally sprouting so I set the tray under the grow lights this morning. And I need to up-pot my second batch of bok choi seedlings today.

Since the space under the grow lights is already packed full, I'm going to move the tomatoes next to the south-facing living room window. That should give them enough light to survive until they go into the garden.

 

[Acre4Me]

Need to venture out & try a new slicing tomato. The only one I eat is Brandywine, but I want to try something new. Anyone see anything I should try on the list?

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Celebrity. Great producer of very uniform tomatoes. Great for slicing. Not too big, not too small. Nice flavor. This will be our third year growing them.

Better Boy: also a good one we’ve planted last year. We will grow again this year.

Terracotta: nope nope nope. They nearly all rotted on the vine. It was weird. But if the ones we tried, they were just “Meh”.

Early Girl: neighbor plants these religiously. Every year. He’s very happy with these. Good producers too. Uniform.

 

[Dinogrrl]

You can have all the wild grapevines you want, come and get'em. They grow on my chain link fence.

Also, help yourself to honeysuckle, wisteria, Virginia Creeper, and privet.


(why I need goats)

Well I was bamboozled, what I thought were wild grapes of some variety are actually porcelainberry . Very disappointed. They're all entangled in my red mulberries so it's going to be fun getting rid of them without hurting the trees.

 

[Sueby]

Celebrity. Great producer of very uniform tomatoes. Great for slicing. Not too big, not too small. Nice flavor. This will be our third year growing them.

Better Boy: also a good one we’ve planted last year. We will grow again this year.

Terracotta: nope nope nope. They nearly all rotted on the vine. It was weird. But if the ones we tried, they were just “Meh”.

Early Girl: neighbor plants these religiously. Every year. He’s very happy with these. Good producers too. Uniform.

Thank you!!!

 

[chicken opey]

They're like triffids here. Right now several tall ones that are growing next to my property (but in the woods) are blooming, and it's a nasty sweet smell. Blech.

Re: privet hedge. It’s evil. Don’t do it. I think it was some government project to make us cuss or blow ourselves up (removing roots).
We had cut a good size one - big enough to be a fence post. Left it out for over a year, drying on side. When I used it not only did it start growing it sent out more!!! It’s evil

 

[Sueby]

I got cucumber seeds in the ground, worked around the dumb bunnies. Some more borage planted. Everything watered.

Got the plastic off the small run & shade cloth up. Got the fig tree outside & covered with shade cloth since it's super sunny. Next couple days should be cloudy.

5 loads of wood chips spread (1 pile saved) & then the tractor broke. DH is fixing it, I need to turn the compost & get a couple pots for flowers on the deck so hopefully he can get it done.

 

[Smokerbill]

I ended up with 17 bok choi plants in 16 pots. One is doubled up. And I found that my keyboard stand is just the right height to support the tomato plants next to the window.

When I plant the bok choi in the garden I'll cut the bottom 1/3 of the pots off, leaving the top section in place as cutworm collars.