What did you do in the garden today?

[jerrey]

My mother is coastal Maine and has some great black berries on the town lot next to her lot. We picked and froze quarts on a good year. Guess I need to plan a road trip this summer....

Well, were there buds below the 30 inch mark???



ROFL depends on the day. Had a couple nights in the forties last week, and now the temps are back to normal which is 20's at night. Crazy swings in temps this year. THe ducks are enjoying a spring run off, where the run off has been channeled to run parallel to drive then under via two culverts and NOT over it.

Kept the mulberries on the northside of house, in the shade to help keep dormant. Also, we are on north slope of a hill.

with temp that could at night you still plant

 

[politicalcenter]

[/IMG]. Just a couple of picks to show my progress with my greenhouse.

 

[politicalcenter]

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[Beekissed]

Planted a few sugar snap peas, morning glories and nasturtiums in my son's town garden yesterday. Will plant more when it's not snowing and cold. Need to work on getting so many things in the garden next week~onions, garlic, lettuce, peas, radishes, carrots, asparagus, broccoli, etc. Need to either remove or chop up somehow the extra thick layers of leaves there, though...can't plant into mulch that deep without a lot of headaches.

 

[lazy gardener]

My ground is still frozen solid.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: That is what I have read too.

Most of the lists include a "seedling" listing and I thought it strange given the very specific names of each of the rootstocks that the "seedlings" are not also given a specific name. IDK. I thought I was missing something....guess not.....

I just hate the idea of hours of grafting, planting and care, to have the tree be dead in 10 years. What a waste. MIght work for the commercial growers, but that seem very short sighted IMO. Especially as there is a disease that is called replant disease.....

Will we humans ever plan for the long haul..... that method seems to be forgotten......

 

[Arielle]

Doing lots of research on apple varieties.

Thought to post this as others might be interested in what varieties are suseptable or resistant to some of the common apple diseases.

https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/BP/BP-132-W.pdf

 

[Beekissed]

So, today I tried something out on the deep, matted down leaves in the garden. I used the DR trimmer on them and it's working pretty well, if I do say so myself! I'll remove the deepest piles to the orchard but the rest of them are getting chopped and churned up with this trimmer, which is pretty much acting like a leaf shredder but without disturbing my wood chip layer.

I tried a portion of the garden and was pretty impressed with the difference. I'll snap a pic of it tomorrow and show the difference. This should help those leaves break down and let air and moisture into the wood chip layer. When I get this finished I'm going to turn my worms loose in there and then I'm going to plant my sweet onions, garlic and asparagus.

Checked on the taties and they are doing great, big sprouts are starting to reach towards the sky, won't be long until I start to see green leaves out there. The rhubarb is showing a stalk now too. I'll pile some of these leaves up onto the spud rows/mounds to keep them nice and deep.
Hope to get a little load of straw~FREE~at the feed store tomorrow, just for the scooping up. I'll place some of that and some of these excess leaves in the compost bin...going to plant some more spuds in there. Just need to break up the compost in there first, it's kind of solidified.

Supposed to rain at the end of the week, so getting these things planted before then should make for a great start for the seeds.

 

[henless]

Nothing today. Just watched it rain & rain & rain...

 

[Beekissed]

Getting ready for that rain here by moving some leaves off the garden this evening, raking more up on my tater rows and then mulching the rest of them with my DR trimmer, if possible. Hope to plant my onions and garlic tomorrow in the rain or before the rain, whatever comes first.