What did you do in the garden today?

[Sylvester017]

Garden pics post #3

Jungle land inside the hoop house. Nearly everything is bolting.
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Lettuce starting to bolt. Spinach said I'm done.
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2 yr old and counting purple broccoli plants. It gave me some stalks earlier in the spring. Basically I just harvest leaves and seeds from it now.
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Sprayed some kaolin clay on the peaches that aren't bagged but ran out of spray....
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Strawberries going runner crazy.
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Dahlias and more calendula. Hollyhocks behind them but they won't flower until next year?
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Glencoe raspberries are just starting to ripen.
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Lemon tree doing well
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First canna lily of the year.
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Lilac busy decided to bloom a 2nd time.
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Divided and transplanted a bunch of aloe. It's doing well but now I don't know what to do with it. I have a bunch more inside my house too...
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Love the organized gardens & care the land is receiving from you

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm jealous! My neighbor has a huge mulberry tree that hangs over my yard. I was excited to try the berries, but the birds have already eaten all of them.

I'm going to try propogating my own from a branch...I'll make sure to cover it with bird netting when I do.

A mulberry tree can get as huge as a weeping willow so plant it in a large area. This is a couple very old photos of our neighbor's yard in SoCalif w/ a huge mulberry tree in the background. It was an enormous canopy tree & they had patio chairs & a table under it for summer enjoyment. There were so many mulberries hanging from it that it was impossible for birds to decimate all the fruit. A lot of it dropped to the ground.

c.1956

 

[Sylvester017]

Mulberries getting ripe. Nothing special but a lot of wildlife eat them. A tomato has a blossom.View attachment 4139906View attachment 4139907

YUM! Mulberries
& which Ameraucana variety did you breed?

 

[cj2024]

Too many zuchinis or marrows?

A firm family favourite as a child and also now as an adult this ‘Marrow Bread’ recipe is the perfect way to use up those large zucchinis and is a must if you are a ‘Banana Bread’ fan.​

Marrow Bread | Farmhouse Seeds

Will this work with Baker Creek Giant Black Bull Head melon?

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Welcome back @Sueby. It’s so good to hear from you. I agree on the crappy weather. We had frost on Mother's Day. I finally got the San Marzano tomatoes and onions planted. All the cooler season crops are doing well. All I have left to plant now is the corn ( I picked a short season variety this year). I’m still debating what to plant in the small round bed, and there’s still room on the hill to plant. I need to work on the mowing later. All the rain we’ve been getting is causing the grass to grow crazy fast.

 

[Sueby]

Yea, cool weather crops are good here too! We had radish chips in the air fryer last night, they were good. & a big salad. My spinach already bolted, but it always does so much better in fall anyway.

I did get out & fertilize the onion/carrots greenstalk, the peppers one & the misc one. I picked a big handful of strawberries.

The garden got a good makeover this spring, new fence with hotwire to keep the squirrels out. Moved most of the greenstalks in, behind the fence (7 in, 2 out) & put down some stone. (don't mind the mess of fencing on the right, trying to start some butterfly weed & the turkeys keep dust bathing there so I had to keep them out)

My first year growing potatoes, they look like they're doing ok to me, they're just starting to flower - but what do I know?!

and for fun, the bad boy digging for a chipmunk, he was sulking cuz I made him sit for the pic.

 

[SkyAJK]

Since I was asked, here's my recent garden pictures... Breaking across 3 posts. Apologies for the length...

Corn plot has finally dried out. Lost almost half of it.
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Squash mound... It has zucchini, pumpkin, cushaw, and watermelon growing on it.
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Pickling cukes are fighting for space amongst the calendula
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First time I've EVER been successful getting Lisianthus to germinate. Hoping we make it to flower stage
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Zombie rose is getting bigger... The yarrow next to it is supposed to be colored. I've bought seeds from Baker Creek 3 yrs in a row. Finally got it to sprout but it came out as common yarrow instead of the variety I purchased.
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Thornless blackberries and asparagus have intermingled despite my attempts to quarantine them to their own beds... For that matter, Concords have also taken over the blackberry bed too!
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Double Gold raspberries are coming back. Nearly lost ALL of them to disease last year.
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Pink lemonade blueberries
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Oh...so beautiful, thank you for posting photos of your garden plants.
Your corn plants on the ground, do you clear out weeds often? I can not plan anything on the ground as the grass/weeds take over in a blink of an eye so it seems. The soil also dried up very quickly. Might be it is just my weather here.

Is your Gold raspberries in a pot?

 

[SkyAJK]

Yesterday my chickens were very naughty, they refused to work on the garden bed I assigned to them, but instead they went for my potato garden bed, very bad chickens!

Today I will start putting winter vegetable seeds in, I will check my seeds box for winter seeds and then make sure I cover the garden bed as we recently have many wild birds and of course my chickens!

I got 2 Hawaiian purple sweet potatoes at the grocery store, I will plan them down today. They have a few roots, but those are so dried, I hope they grow.

I was in the garden most of the day yesterday, no hat, no sun cream for protection. We have very strong sun over here...high rate of skin cancer in Australia, I remember that always, but just lazy to do it. Must do it today.

Happy gardening all!

 

[cj2024]

Over the years I have been throwing out my WD40 spray cans when they run out of air pressure. I woke up one morning with an idea and it worked. I made a hole with the pointy side of the bottle opener and saved the WD40 in a jar. I use it to take off the tree insect glue from my hands. That stuff is really hard to come off without WD40.

 

[cj2024]

I got 2 Hawaiian purple sweet potatoes at the grocery store, I will plan them down today. They have a few roots, but those are so dried, I hope they grow.

Is that the Okinawan or Molokai potato? One year I had a Molokai sweet potato in a 15-gallon wicking container, and it did not form any potatoes after 6 months. This year I Kept up with fertilizing every month and I see potatoes forming near the top.
Copilot: If your goal is to grow large, high-quality sweet potatoes, consider using a fertilizer with an N-P-K ratio closer to 5-10-10 or 8-24-24. The higher potassium (K) helps promote bigger, healthier tubers. Also, supplementing with bone meal or wood ash can provide extra phosphorus and potassium while keeping nitrogen levels in check.