What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

I finished digging a 4' wide bed, and have started planting it. so far, lettuce, onions, home made carrot seed tape. Hope to get in some beets, chard, spinnach, and peas before the weekend is over. Got the swing set trellis in place, and will put plastic over the soil to pre warm for beans. Hope to get cukes and dill planted under milk jugs this week. May even set some zucchini seeds as well.

Been running back and forth from garden to coop all day. One hen is flirting with being broody, and the others are harassing her. May set her up in the old coop so she can be alone with her hormones. Jack the roo is taking her condition seriously. He's also been spending a lot of time sitting in the nest box!

 

[Beekissed]

Awwww, now that's a sweet rooster!

I'm still tilling my garden...and will do it again Monday if it doesn't rain this weekend. Then will most likely till again on Friday next. This soil is the cloddiest, soddiest, clumpiest clay soil ever and takes many tillings to render it fine enough to plant in. Then hope to get some things in the garden next Saturday if the weather is fitting. Onions, potatoes(yes, I know they are way late but better late than never), lettuce, rhubarb, radish, peas, corn, melon, etc.

 

[Arielle]

Raked and racked and raked off area full of leaves and old raspberry canes;left a few canes. Removed a small bush that would cause shade.

Move one rock out of the way of prime garden space to a new rock wall, lol, and set up a small bed using a small old bed surround ( new phrase, lol) to be the new hot house. Tomatos are out growing the space allotted for the indoor mini green house with grow light. ( Dang they sure grew well with that grow light.) Need the space for the hot peppers and younger tomato plants.

Most of the transplanted sage died. TO be accurate, only ONE is alive. lol

 

[Arielle]

My boys and our greenhouse

precious moments

 

[lazy gardener]

Got the hoop green house propped up on PVC roller on one end, and almost got the roller through the middle. Couldn't complete it alone, so will conscript hubby to help finish the deed tomorrow after church and meetings. The trick will be to move it forward without totally trashing the garlic growing inside it, and rhubarb just sprouting in front of it.

 

[Arielle]

Got small green house set up. Plan to repot the tomatos next and get them in!!!

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Nicest day here 68 *, raked leaves, watered plants, mulched and trimmed the rose bushes sadly pulled two five year old knock rose bushes didn't make thru the winter. Theres some voluntary squash plants growing so risk it plant out warm weather stuff. Happy Gardening

 

[MoonShadows]

Moved two 8' x 4' raised gardens from one location to another yesterday. They have 2" x 10" walls and are made of Tamarac wood. Boy, were they heavy, even without the soil in them. Then, using Vermont Bluestone slate I got for 1/4 the price, I created a walkway between them and a narrower strip of about 8" all the way around both of them. I sat the both raised gardens up on this perimeter of slate so they support the wood. This way I won't have to weed wack around these two gardens. (I'm always looking for ways to reduce weed wacking!) Now, I have 4 raised gardens. I ordered some more Tamarac from a local sawmill and will probably build two more for a total of 6. These will be my kitchen gardens closer to the house. Down in the field I have a 20' x 30 fenced in garden area for my dwarf fruit trees, mellons, squash and pumpkins, but I have to replace the outside perimeter of wire since the original chicken wire has now disintegrated and the wood chucks can and are easily digging underneath the fence. Maybe I'll get started on that today.

Jim.

 

[Beekissed]

Tilling it up...for the 4th time. Will likely till another time this week. Firming up the post we set around the garden, cutting them off to the right height, mounting gates, placing landscaping timbers around the edge, and placing deer netting around the whole thing. Will also be cutting cattle panels for trellising and pounding in the stakes for that and mounting them, if we still can walk, that is.

This garden is about 48x40 ft. only, so not a real large plot but today it seems enormous.

 

[3goodeggs]

Wow, beekissed, You sound serious.

I need to get serious about vermin.
I need to make a trench, and then bury hardware cloth. But how deep to keep voles, and moles, and mice and things that burrow out?
I could grow less- if I actually got what I planted.