What did you do in the garden today?

[Happy hen lover]

I went to look at garden to see progress.

pitiful germination of my pole beans . Yep that's one plant out of 7! brand new pkg of bakers seeds

3 plants out of a whole row! ( Old seeds) in all fairness my bush beans from there are doing great.

New pepper plants have done well through all the thunderstorms. Also spinach slowly coming up.

2nd year Strawberries I got from dear friend looking good.

Chard is up but no go on the spinach I have planted twice! ?

Taters in boxes.

Kept checking this pot for castor beans: DUHH wrong pot!!! (guess I'll stop watering the other one)

Mystery pepper I overwintered but lost tag for ??? We'll see.

My jungle of goji berries( I started with 6 plants like this last year.!!

 

[cj2024]

This guy grew a mango leaf, a mango scion and an unripe mango seed in coca cola and grew it to the fruiting stage. Amazing, makes me want to try. I have never rooted a mango scion before, all my attempts failed.

I am currently trying to root a mango scion in a raw egg. I saw a video of someone doing it successfully and it rooted in just 10 days. Hard to believe, I hope it works.

 

[Sueby]

One more try!

 

[Sueby]

I am getting so worn out just reading about your day. Whew! I wonder if this would help my friends who have chronic back pain?

It only helps with nerve pain, so if their pain is nerve related it's possible! Generally it's a pain management doc that deals with the spinal cord stimulators.

Garlic likes nitrogen. The bulb is actually specialized leaves, so think of fertilizing it as if it were greens.

This is a good reminder, I may give my garlic a sprinkling of bone/blood meal tomorrow. I wasn't able to plant my saved bulbs last fall & was going to give them up but decided last minute to put them in the fridge to stratify (vernalize?) & then planted them this spring. They look good above ground, but they don't have much in the way of bulbs. I don't know if this is a good idea or bad. LOL

 

[Sally PB]

I gave my garlic a sprinkling of blood meal because:

It's nitrogen, and
I had a bag of it that I'd forgotten about.

My garlic is looking pretty darn good! Above ground anyway. We'll see what I dig up in a few weeks.

 

[Sally PB]

Garlic likes nitrogen. The bulb is actually specialized leaves, so think of fertilizing it as if it were greens.

I forgot to add that it's the same deal with onions. The layers of the onion bulb are specialized leaves, so they like nitrogen too.

pitiful germination of my pole beans

Same here! 4 out of about 20. I'm going to replant some in a few days.

 

[fuzzi]

Ground hog, wood chuck, pain in the butt

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

[Sueby]

I have replanted my pole beans 3 times! I fixed that with sluggo though & they're finally big enough to survive the slugs. Some just started climbing the trellis. Little jerks would eat the leaves before they could even emerge.

 

[Smokerbill]

Does anybody know what kind of pest is eating my potato vines? It started on one plant and now it's spreading. I couldn't find any worms or other insects. Maybe they only come out at night. LOL

I sprayed them with BT (bacillus thuringiensis) because I had some mixed up for my brassica plants. Don't know if it will work for the tater pests.



I had bok choi, collards and cauliflower starts all covered underneath the same piece of floating row cover for the last couple weeks. Something loves munching on the bok choi, eats a bit on the cauliflower and leaves the collards completely alone! I sprayed them all with BT.

I won't plant bok choi or cauliflower again. I don't like having to control pest problems. I'll stick to collards and my red Russian kale as my brassica sources. Kale gets munched on a little bit by something but not enough for me to worry about.

Bok choi


Collards


Cauliflower


Bok choi on right, collards on the left.


My chickens wanted to help but I didn't know if BT would hurt them.

 

[Happy hen lover]

BlackBerry bushes loaded with blossoms , loving this cool wet spring. Can't wait till all produce. DH favorite fruit.