What did you do in the garden today?

[3goodeggs]

...and yet, like childbirth we forget. Every time a seed catalog arrives in the dead of winter... we dream of our next one.

 

[hosspak]

...and yet, like childbirth we forget. Every time a seed catalog arrives in the dead of winter... we dream of our next one.

There is a fine line between dream and dread...lol

 

[lazy gardener]

Hosspak... you have left me ALMOST speechless... Is this a complaint from the man living in the land of perpetual sunshine? Am I hearing a complaint that you have perhaps been indulging in too much gardening? No such worries about that here. Still snow on the ground, though my deeply mulched garden has been frost free, bare, and ready for planting for 2 weeks. The soil is blacker than ever under that mulch. You have my deepest sympathies regarding your head cold... and to have a back ache on top of it. I do hope the back ache is from over exertion, and not from a back injury.

But, I did have an order of trees delivered yesterday: 2 shrub cherries, 2 Siberian pea tree shrubs, 2 elderberries, and an apricot. They were all potted up b/c we're having trees harvested from our property this spring, and I don't want to plant them until I see what the lot looks like after the guy gets done tearing it up. Oh how I wish I had a chipper, and a big tractor with all of the big boy attachments.

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Lazy gardener method works great, I start with heavy layer of cardboard first then add my layers of mulch. Only thing I don't like about the method is cooler weather snakes use it stay warm.

 

[hosspak]

Lazy gardener method works great, I start with heavy layer of cardboard first then add my layers of mulch. Only thing I don't like about the method is cooler weather snakes use it stay warm.

Well, that works fine for you snow bound people..... We are cursed with a year long spring time..... I hate gardening!

 

[lazy gardener]

I like my snakes, and am happy to see them! Unfortunately, they are not very plentiful lately. There was one summer when we had a lot of them. They'd crawl up in the vinyl siding of my house, and I'd see them peeking out from under the siding at me. A bit disconcerting at first, but then, I enjoyed looking for them. However, we don't have any poisonous snakes here. Mostly garter snakes, the occasional brown and red water snake, occasional green, brown and black ones. We have an interesting tree toad that grows about 2" long, and likes to move into bird houses. It's interesting to look up and see a toad staring out over his kingdom from the hole of a bird house.

 

[tls_ranch]

Just about finished putting in my garden I need to finish mulching and plant a few more peppers. So far I have:

4 types of potatoes: golden, red, all red, all blue ( purple).
Tomatoes: Big Beef, Better Boy, San Marzano, Sun Gold. Black tomatoes :Indigo Rose, Nyagous, Black Cherry.
Peppers: Gypsy, Orange Bell, Yellow Bell, Red Bell, Blushing Beauty, Anaheim, Jalapeño,
Legumes: Snow Peas, Bush Green beans, pole beans, dragon's tongue beans, purple green beans.
Melons: Crenshaw, Anna's, Hale 's best cantaloupe, Burpees early melon.
Zucchini: black, yellow, striped
Squash/ pumpkins: sugar pie, candy roaster
Tomatillos: purple, green, and a few volunteers from last year.
Cucumbers
Carrots: 5 types...can't remember which, LOL but standards, red core, and rainbow.
Basil- tons as it came back as volunteers all over the place
Red Orach
Tons of sunflowers came back from last year too.

 

[nayeli]

I made my husband plant some peas, radishes, and green beans since most of what I planted isn't coming in.

 

[3goodeggs]

Oh. That's what I am doing wrong.
Maybe I can make mine weed.
Do you have a magic wand, or will any old stick do?

 

[jerryse]

Got my purple robe locust tree replacement yesterday.