What did you do in the garden today?

[nayeli]

So, with the paper towel method some of the seeds germinated very well (peas, sunflowers) some didn't like the tomatoes or peppers. I planted everything but my button flowers and my garden will be a little scraggly this year but I'll improve the garden and soil over time =)

 

[lularat]

Haven't done anything in my little garden in over a week. Darn cold weather and rain. I'm sooo ready for warm weather to stay. Cabbage plants are doing okay and my mustard has come up. Need some nice sunny, warm days for them to start growing well. My tomatoes are up, but they're tall and lanky. Going to transplant them in larger containers.

 

[Sill]

Helped my DH cut a plastic 55 gallon barrel in half to make a large pot. He added drainage holes and I put in gravel then compost and potting soil. It got too late to plant it but I'll put in some sun choke (Jerusalem artichokes) tubers, purple bush beans, lavender, and calendula hopefully tomorrow. Watered seedlings and in vain tried to figure out what has been eating my purple basil seedlings. I'm suspecting a grasshopper?

 

[Fancychooklady]

More hedging for me today, while the lazy dogs laid around. It's a dogs life !

 

[Searsmom]

More hedging for me today, while the lazy dogs laid around. It's a dogs life !

Oh that's funny!!

 

[3goodeggs]

I am loving the pictures!

 

[3goodeggs]

I believe there is a difference between the poppies grown for opium, and the common poppy grown for flowers, and the one grown for seeds. Either she was growing an illicit substance... most likely by mistake, or the DEA overstepped... like they often do when they eradicate someone's plantings because they bear a vague semblance to pot.

...On the poppy seed note,
I was at the health food store this morning -because they have a really good seed rack believe it or not, and as I was picking out my leeks and basil... there it was : bread seed poppy. Hungarian Blue, Papaver Somniferum.
USDA certified organic.

I asked our dept of plant inspection inspector last year if I could grow poppy in my herb garden and she checked out for me and said as far as she saw, there were rules against it.
So the bees get to get wasted this year.

and poppies are SO beautiful!I need to get some Flanders red to go with the blue....we have native white. How cool is that?

 

[3goodeggs]

I've noticed the helicopters fly over my farm every summer about every 2 weeks. Looking for something....they won't find anything.

They are wasting my taxpayer money though.

When we were growing a quarter of an acre of okra, the sheriff's helicopter was over twice a day everyday for the entire summer. We made a little money selling it to the local vegetable stands, but I figure it cost the county THOUSANDS of dollars to keep us honest.
Maybe we should have capitalized on that and offered not to grow it the next year for say- a quarter of the cost of them harassing us.

 

[Searsmom]

When we were growing a quarter of an acre of okra, the sheriff's helicopter was over twice a day everyday for the entire summer. We made a little money selling it to the local vegetable stands, but I figure it cost the county THOUSANDS of dollars to keep us honest.
Maybe we should have capitalized on that and offered not to grow it the next year for say- a quarter of the cost of them harassing us.

Maybe they just wanted to see how many chickens I have this year. They can't bust me for selling eggs, cause it's legal!! Although, they might have kept the hawk attacks down. Too bad you can't do a trade-off with them, and then again, maybe they were inspecting the neighbors who are actually kind of scary and have No Trespassing, Attack Dogs and look kind of like a compound and fly the rebel flag on MLK day.

They can't have my horehound.

 

[jerryse]

When we were growing a quarter of an acre of okra, the sheriff's helicopter was over twice a day everyday for the entire summer. We made a little money selling it to the local vegetable stands, but I figure it cost the county THOUSANDS of dollars to keep us honest.
Maybe we should have capitalized on that and offered not to grow it the next year for say- a quarter of the cost of them harassing us.

Maybe okra looked like pot from the air.