What did you do in the garden today?

[Justagalwithchicks]

Not far at all. I can see down valley to Gretna (had a great view of the Waverly tornadoes), shop there often, cut through all the time on the way to Omaha. Chores and plowing in this are ridiculous.
Maybe when hell stops freezing over, we can meet for lunch.

I think that is a wonderful idea!

 

[Smokerbill]

I decided to plant most of my remaining onion seeds today, because they don't germinate well if kept for more than a year or two.

I used cardboard coffee cans with the tops and bottoms cut off for pots. The open bottoms set in a heavy duty meat tray, filled with a 50/50 mix of native soil and commercial potting soil.

The seeds were dropped into furrows, covered with a light layer of seed starting mix, watered in and covered with plastic film.

 

[cj2024]

I got an idea after doing research on airborne sweet potatoes on You Tube. I will try to grow a sweet potato slip in a Kratky bucket and keep the solution level about halfway of the bucket. I am going to use a small net cup, so the potatoes don't grow in it. I have seen potato slips grow in water, so maybe a deep-water culture method with air pump might be better, but I'll try that latter if potatoes grow in the air space. Anyway, my idea is to grow one vine and then as the vine grow root them in pots, but once the potato sets in the pot stop watering the pots and let them use the solution in the Kratky bucket.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Maybe it's the loading or delivery charge

Cows gotta get PAID.

 

[Molpet]

The seeds were dropped into furrows, covered with a light layer of seed starting mix, watered in and covered with plastic film.

I tried some onion seeds covered with starting mix and some sand. The sand did better

 

[igorsMistress]

Got the lemon tree and big lilac finished, trimmed the smaller lilacs and looked at the debris pile with dread. I’m done for today, waited too long to go out there and it’s too warm in the sun already/

 

[Back40chick]

I checked on the two raised beds I planted English peas in. I have a very nice stand of them. Fresh English peas are so much better than canned. We also got compost spread over our larger garden space. We have to till it in and plant red potatoes in the next week or two

 

[WthrLady]

so far, as warm as we've got is -5'F and it's 1pm. BRRRRRR

 

[akroberts1085]

Still trying to get the raised pallet beds filled. @TJAnonymous, I thought about getting an avocado tree but I then decided that the size is just too outrageous for my little bit of property. I would love to see some pictures of it if you do get one though because that's probably the only tree that I haven't ever seen.

 

[WthrLady]

3pm and we've warmed to -4F