What did you do in the garden today?

[A-K-A]

Planted sage seedlings, 4 kinds of peppers, parsley.  Need to transplant some self sown squash seedlings, plant some yellow summer squash, and flowers, then a few paste tomatoes, carrots, and garden will be finished.  Have 5 of my 10 trees planted.  slow going there with the "soil being heavy clay subsoil, kind of like well cured concrete... with the many boulders thrown in just to make it more challenging.  I'm amending the "soil with some loam we had brought in, and will top dress with aged tree chips in the BTE style.  Hubby made a neat little rig to use to transport those boulders across the yard.  It's 2 parallel 2 x 4's placed about 15" apart, with a piece of plywood screwed across the middle.  We lever the rock onto the plywood, and then place 3 lengths of 2" PVC under the 2 x 4's to roll the rock to it's resting place.  

The rock moving technology is useless without pictures or videos.

 

[hennible]

I'd like to see a pic too, got a thing for rocks there just so heavy... (Lol at myself)

 

[Arielle]

Moving rock is a skill like no other. lol We grow rocks here-- It is New ENgland!! lol

Planted about 10 tomot transplants: Pineapple, black cherry, sweet 1000 and Siltz. More waiting to go in. Trans planted about 20 hot peppers, 6 sweet red peppers, and watered them all. DH ran sprinkler most of the day. Very dry here and top 2 inches bone dry in some areas of the garden. DH dung 20 holes

in the over wintered manure to plant 10 kinds of winter squash:

pipan from tuxpan
Red warty thing, lol aka Squash Victor
Buttercup, viney type
Australian BUtter
Jumbo Pink banana
jaune gros de Paris
Long island cheese
Blue hubbard- a fav from my childhoos
Yokohama
Boston Marrow

Hopong for a few that the chooks will like; and looking for winter keepers!! Cant can winter squash, so will probably freeze the puree. Praying for a good harvest!!

Repurchased Dinosaur kale today-- lost 2 pkg bought yesterday!!

Kicked the buckey roosters out of the garden area-- SOMEONE left the gate open inviting them in!! lol took 3 of us to corral and shoo them out which they obligingly did.lol

Tasted the oriental greens-- tastes like mild cabbage but the texture of lettuce.

 

[A-K-A]

We have had a little over a 1/2 or rain the past 30 some hours. More on the way i am wanting to finish up a small plot i started a few weeks ago- then it got dry and hot. I'd like to get another piece of ground worked up for Blueberries. It may have to wait till next year.

Our sunflowers at the chicken coop sem to grow a couple inches everyday. I may have to stake them.

 

[lazy gardener]

Perhaps I can get a few pics. It actually works pretty slick. How ever, while my photography skills are adequate, I'm a techno idiot at getting them loaded onto the site. But, will try to make that a weekend goal.

 

[FridayYet]

Thinned the sunflowers, transplanted zucchini, weeded (of course) and sprinkled DE around my plants and on a giant anthill that's right in the middle of my garden. Might have a few leeks popping up but I don't really know what they look like so I'm not sure.

 

[vchicks]

Hand watered everything I have planted recently which includes my entire vegetable garden! I wish for rain everyday. my grandmother used to say "wishing" for rain and "its going to rain" won't water anything...

 

[A-K-A]

Okra leaves as tea? @A-K-A can you tell me more?

Sorry for confusion. I meant i would give the new okra a drink of my manure tea. That doesn't mean the okra leaves won't be in a batch of my manure tea.

We harvested Eldeberry flowers this morning from her fathers home. We will try starting some from this one. It is good and healthy. We use the flowers and the berrys for medicable uses.
Fertilized and top dressed a Fig plant that we thought died. Then some other plants.
Picked up a few plants yesterday. I am hardening them off to plant.

 

[jerryse]

Sorry for confusion. I meant i would give the new okra a drink of my manure tea. That doesn't mean the okra leaves won't be in a batch of my manure tea.

We harvested Eldeberry flowers this morning from her fathers home. We will try starting some from this one. It is good and healthy. We use the flowers and the berrys for medicable uses.
Fertilized and top dressed a Fig plant that we thought died. Then some other plants.
Picked up a few plants yesterday. I am hardening them off to plant.

Here is a useful tip on elderberry They start easily from cuttings . One year I broke off elderberry twigs for row markers . The bush was handy . Nearly everyone took root and grew .

 

[3goodeggs]

What am I doing wrong then? I can not get them to root for the life of me.
What is your soil like?
Maybe it is too hot and humid here.