What did you do in the garden today?

[MEMama3]

I am hoping to get out there in a bit to plant marigolds around my potato plants. The potato bugs are chewing everything!

 

[chickenstricken]

Got aggravated, disappointed and upset

You've got a lot on your plate. Hang in there.
Also, can you screw a couple of hoses together end to end to reach the garden. Hand carrying water to the garden would get old super fast.

 

[FlySammyJ]

None of my quinoa germinated, and my Thelma Sanders squash keeled over. The quinoa may have been planted too deep. Ah well, now I need to figure out what I still have time to plant there. I've got a short (maybe 80 days left), dry season with hot days and cool nights, clay-loam soil and alkali water. I guess I could always put in some more herbs.

 

[fluttervale]

I get to visit my garden once a week. It's at my parents' house, since I live in an apartment. This week I weeded (for the first time--Dad tilled it for me) and tried to bury my potatoes a little farther. I also pinched off the suckers from the tomatoes, and helped Mom (helped = talked to. Same way cats "help.") with her morning glories, which are going mad over the dog fence.

It's my first year having this many different things in the garden. We'll be expanding the veggies next year, Mom says we'll maybe double our output. I'd like to sell in farmer's markets but I can see that these two little plots aren't big enough, even though they seemed huge when I started planting!

I have 4 broccoli plants (did not know you only get one head from each plant. Will do more next year since I love broccoli.) A row of potatoes. 16 tomatoes (I love tomatoes.) 3 pie pumpkin plants. 8 cucumbers and 4 cantelope, though those aren't as happy as the rest. Oh, onions & radishes.

I'm 32 and it surprises me more and more each year how much I am like my parents.

 

[CyndiChick]

Same here, Flutter! I used to abhor helping in the garden and now its great to see what I can do/ grow for my family. My dad always told me "one day you will see that your parents were right, and you will have kids who think you are wrong ". So true! I am looking into Aquaponics to increase my yield and produce year round... Excited to see how it goes!

 

[FlySammyJ]

I have 4 broccoli plants (did not know you only get one head from each plant. Will do more next year since I love broccoli.)

Lots of cultivars will send out side-shoots after you harvest the main head.

 

[suthrnmomto5]

Nothing til later it's too hot

 

[kimberly35042]

We dug potatoes over the weekend!

http://www.kelleycreekfarms.com/1/post/2013/06/score.html

 

[kimberly35042]

And the pest control team:

 

[Angelicisi]

Great pics! Are those tomatillos? I'm trying purple tomatillos this year...so excited, they just started growing tho- had a mole rip through the garden last week :-/ but mist recovered after I flooded it out.

And the pest control team: