What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

My strawberries are blooming. I have birds nesting in boxes. The rhubarb is sprouting new leaves as are the horseradish. I have volunteer tomatoes coming up, no frost or freeze yet.

 

[dirkandlorie]

My strawberries are blooming. I have birds nesting in boxes. The rhubarb is sprouting new leaves as are the horseradish. I have volunteer tomatoes coming up, no frost or freeze yet.

Wow, your garden thinks its spring all over again!

 

[TJAnonymous]

My hatch efforts are not going well... I set a dozen eggs in the incubator. Three were not fertilized. Four were quitters. Only 5 still going...

To be fair, my incubator did act wonky one night. Temp dropped to 96 degrees at one point. Not sure how long it stayed that low though...

 

[akroberts1085]

I need to go out and take a picture of the pumpkin that I am concerned about. It's huge. It's probably going to weigh around 20 lbs if not more. It's still really green but it's getting bigger.

 

[chickengr]

I've tried moving them to a place where they get less direct sunlight, but they still get stunted. They start off vigorously green, then when they hit around 12 inches new leaves and shoots stop coming out. I am currently using organic Espoma Garden Tone.

I am doing research now and I think I have a Pepper Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (PepTLCV) problem: Resistance loci have been identified in Capsicum annuum, suggesting breeding potential.

Ancho Poblano: Listed as resistant to certain disorders, though TYLCV resistance isn’t explicitly confirmed.
Alter Ego, Amando, Anaheim, Atomic, Baron: These show resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus or other disorders, but not TYLCV specifically.

peppers in my big garden (sunny and dry) are stunted with yellow leaves. with colder weather they got new green leaves that look healthy. in my case heat and drought are problem. peppers in my small garden (partial shade) are doing well.

 

[OnlySympathy]

I don’t want to jinx it but it’s looking like we will be getting into November before our first frost. We always have a pretty good season for being zone 6b

 

[jxp]

For the second time in the one week I've been home, we've had not even enough of a sprinkle to wet the ground (seriously less than predicted). Both storms split and went north and south of us. From my understanding, there was one "rain" during the 3 weeks I was away. Even my strawberries are nothing but crisp shriveled leaves.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

The soil sample I mailed for analysis seems to be stuck in Spokane, WA. The instructions said you had to mail it within 24 hours of mixing it which implies it's time sensitive.

 

[Minanora]

For the second time in the one week I've been home, we've had not even enough of a sprinkle to wet the ground (seriously less than predicted). Both storms split and went north and south of us. From my understanding, there was one "rain" during the 3 weeks I was away. Even my strawberries are nothing but crisp shriveled leaves.

We got 1 minute of 'rain' after the most insane thunder roll I've heard in years, on Wednesday morning, at 4am. It was the loudest I've seriously heard since being back in Oklahoma. Bolt upright, out loud said "wow". It woke up every dog this side of the San Andreas.

Saw some pretty awesome lighting but no rain.


Today I turned tree branches into spider legs. Peas are starting to come up! Watered the carrot patch, waiting to see anything besides tomatillo sprouts and calendulas... And beans, and pumpkins... So many random seeds, but not what I want.

I also baked 120 cookies and bagged them individually for my son's school festival tomorrow. This is me taking it easy.

Spider legs!