What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

Planning. Cold and gloomy today, supposed to rain off and on all day. So nice to see peas sprouting up out of the ground. The tomatoes will go across the east wall, and part of the south wall of the CP fence. Peas and cukes along the back north wall. One nice long 2.5'W bed in front for onions and greens, with blueberries and strawberries in front of that. Raspberries are on the west, with room in front for some zuchinni or brassicas. One swing set full of pole beans, an other trellis full of squash. Love this time of year, though it's a struggle to try to fit everything in. Need to squeeze in potatoes and corn, also!!!!

 

[Bugseye]

AlHawk, I might be envious up here in Zone 4 until I remember that, come June or July, your plants may be struggling under the sun. Will you put shade over them then?

 

[AlHawk]

AlHawk, I might be envious up here in Zone 4 until I remember that, come June or July, your plants may be struggling under the sun. Will you put shade over them then?

By July my tomatoes and peppers are usually burned up. I'm debating buying a sun sail shade to extend my tomato & pepper growing and MAYBE getting in a pumpkin and squash garden for Jul-Oct. Somebody here uses one and I liked her garden.

I SHOULD have had tomatoes already but I failed to recognize that my chickens were eating all the little white flowers. Sneaky little buggers.

 

[dan26552]

I found this

 

[jerryse]

Pear graft .
Plum graft .
Some are growing .

 

[chickadoodles]

Cold and rainy this afternoon. First rain in a long while. YAY!!! Chicks moved out to grow out coop yesterday. Peas that were planted last Monday are just now sprouting. Surprising, since the soil is quite dry. Need to get some deer netting over the cattle panel fence around the garden. Waiting, not too patiently to see if my pear graft "took". Other fruit trees budding nicely.

Nice. It's always wonderful when the chicks go out to the coop!

I do the happy dance! lol

Maine--when it's dry it's dry, but only until a Nor'Easter comes. So, I didn't get outside except to feed the chicks; but I did start some things inside: peppers, leeks, cilantro, lettuce. I am also pre-sprouting: beets, carrots, radishes, spinach and snow peas, some to see if the seed is still viable, all of it to see what it produces.

Sounds like you will have a wonderful harvest!

I'm in waiting mode. Some things are getting close to the table!! Bell peppers, jalapenos, Cherokee Purple, Roma and Better Boy tomatoes. Some random pepper and BOSS & dwarf sunflowers with Zinnias.

Wow your garden looks great!
I am also growing some Cherokee purple this year. My first time, I got some seeds from a friend last year but the plants did not do well.

 

[chickadoodles]

Planning. Cold and gloomy today, supposed to rain off and on all day. So nice to see peas sprouting up out of the ground. The tomatoes will go across the east wall, and part of the south wall of the CP fence. Peas and cukes along the back north wall. One nice long 2.5'W bed in front for onions and greens, with blueberries and strawberries in front of that. Raspberries are on the west, with room in front for some zuchinni or brassicas. One swing set full of pole beans, an other trellis full of squash. Love this time of year, though it's a struggle to try to fit everything in. Need to squeeze in potatoes and corn, also!!!!

Wow sounds like your garden is going to be a produce dept. of it's own.

Pear graft .
Plum graft .
Some are growing .

They are looking great!

 

[Bugseye]

AlHawk, sounds like an interesting plan to put up a sail for that. It gets so stinkin' hot down there. I've also started pre-sprouting a number of things in anticipation of getting another seedling table set up or adding cool-weather things to what is already out there. I also want to set up my mini-greenhouse so I can harden off some things.

 

[herfrds]

Taught my daughter the proper way to plant potatoes. Cut them up, don't plant the whole thing!
Also got the onions going. Had a frost yesterday so glad we do not really anything else going except in the house.
Between the rain and snows this spring it feels like we are late getting started but I know we are right on time.

I lost several tomato plants years ago when everything was really nice and warm and we got hit with a blizzard and it froze my tomatoes.

 

[dan26552]

Nice. It's always wonderful when the chicks go out to the coop!

I do the happy dance! lol

Sounds like you will have a wonderful harvest!

Wow your garden looks great!
I am also growing some Cherokee purple this year. My first time, I got some seeds from a friend last year but the plants did not do well.

I'm growing Cherokee purple too