What did you do in the garden today?

My potatos are flowering now. They didn't do as well as we hoped. But will be happy with what we get.
Planting Red Okra today. Maybe some more corn the first of week. Trying to keep it coming thru summer. Plant about every 10 days.
Moving a fire ring to the end of garden by the lawn swing. No rain now in over a week. May have to water.

Thinking of erecting some chicken tunnels between plant rows
 
Wow-- much to think about. THe recycling of potting soil to keep it at its best is a bit stunning. THanks for the education. Much to think about.
DO you think I could used crushed egg shells instead of the dolomite lime??
yes, but you need to dry the egg shells in the oven and crush them fine do the calcium if available to the roots. A big bag of dolomite/lime is about 7 $ and goes a long way.
 
Anyone start their corn inside in seed starter pots?
I have some heirloom blue corn seed that I got from a friend and I don't have much of it. I don't want to just plop it in the ground and risk having it eaten by animals or even just rot in place before it sprouts. My plan is to grow it this year and save it all for seed next year. Then next year I can start to harvest it and try making blue tortillas.
I start my first batch of corm in the green house and plant it out the same day I start my first direct planted hill.
 
My understanding from reading Crockets Victory Garden is that these done like their roots disturbed. I would nip off the ones that dont look great a couple weeks after pl anting leaving one per pot. Hopefully you have more than one pot of each.
The transplants and the direct plants will be the same size in a few weeks anyway. You can start squash (cucumbers) with seeds anytime till mid June. Keep the unused seeds cool and that will be good for several years.
 
Awwww, now that's a sweet rooster!
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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.
We have heavy clay soil too. I stopped tilling one area 5 years ago and bagan laying on the compost, leaves, cardboard, hay grass. It took two years for that spot to right its self but I started other mounds ever years. I never till at all and I now have the best organic garden on the block and no back aches either,
 
We have heavy clay soil too. I stopped tilling one area 5 years ago and bagan laying on the compost, leaves, cardboard, hay grass. It took two years for that spot to right its self but I started other mounds ever years. I never till at all and I now have the best organic garden on the block and no back aches either,
That's my kind of gardening!

Fairly productive day. Dug and potted a bunch of garlic for a missions trip fund raiser, planted a row of sugar snaps, pole beans (about 18' of row). Set cuke, zuch, and squash seeds to soak. Will plant them under plastic milk jugs and the like. All that while running back and forth between the incubator, broody hen, and recovering from food poisoning.
 
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Corn is up, pole beans up, okra up, crowders up, purple hull peas up, Christmas butter beans up.

We got the corn weeded and fertilized and tilled up a spot for cantaloupe and watermelon. The water in my ponds is brown now (again) . We only have two more spots to till and plant. Gotta get some tomato and green pepper in.

Glad to see the gardens coming along....kudos everyone.
 
My potatos are flowering now. They didn't do as well as we hoped. But will be happy with what we get.
Planting Red Okra today. Maybe some more corn the first of week. Trying to keep it coming thru summer. Plant about every 10 days.
Moving a fire ring to the end of garden by the lawn swing. No rain now in over a week. May have to water.

Thinking of erecting some chicken tunnels between plant rows

How in the world did you get potatoes in? We missed them...too much mud..missed onions also.
 

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