What did you do in the garden today?

[CapricornFarm]

I had egg salad on oatmeal bread for lunch today.
My guineas and the three chickens that live with them got put in the run of the new coop today! None of them figured out the pop door yet, lol. Tomorrow they get a ladder, even though it is only about 20" off the ground.

 

[GardenTillers44]

I had egg salad on oatmeal bread for lunch today.

Try it with a little shaved ham if you don't mind the preservatives, it adds another dimension.

 

[GardenTillers44]

We removed autumn olive and multiflora rose (my two least favorite invasive shrubs) from a hillside below our patio, picked a bucket of tomatoes and a few honeycrisp apples. My wife swapped some of her beekeeping supplies for an automatic coop door with photocell. Looks like I'll be into a new project soon. Some big thunder boomers gonna roll through about midnight, good sleeping weather!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I might actually get to work in the garden tomorrow! I need to plant more seeds. Only the second half of the coop to finish up, and the run for it. I have mulch waiting to be spread on the flower beds.

 

[User395221]

A quick google search will turn up the likelihood of being able to grow them where you are.

Oh, they grow all right. I've got the tree, it's just sorely neglected and I wanted to figure out what's going on with it. I went up to the garden nursery to get my citrus and picked the horticulturalist's brain as to what was going on (I couldn't figure out whether I had rootstock growing).

For those in hot climates trying to grow roses, do they graft them onto fortuniana rootstock over there? That's what they do here. They survive very well in our hot/dry climate. Before you give up on any roses, scratch a bit. If there's ANY green underneath, it's still alive.

 

[NanaKat]

[QUOTE="NanaKat,
Even found a choke cherry vine taking over part of the chain link

Everything is out of control with the rains, heat and my lack of attention. Had to use the limb saw on some of the sunflower stalks! .

Possum grapes are ripening in the back forty...I'm keeping an eye on them.

Wow! That had to be one thick stalk!!
So, what is a choke cherry vine? And possum grapes? Are they both edible for humans?[/QUOTE]

Choke cherry vine is inedible. The vine looks like a grape vine, is invasive and very hard to kill.

Possum grapes are edible but make a better jelly than a table grape. The fruit is 1/4 to 1/3 inch in diameter, bunch in a cluster and are dark purple.

 

[dan26552]

Picked a 25lb watermelon today.

 

[User395221]

Picked a 25lb watermelon today.

Yum. Just yum.

I went to the nursery and got a lemon tree and a tahitian lime, some bags of "poo", a little low-growing yellow daisy thing, the name of which again escapes me and a packet of everlasting seeds. These are australian native wildflowers. Every year in spring they come up in paddocks up north, just a huge display, people used to (maybe still do, I don't know) drive up north just to see the fields. And now I've got some (hopefully they'll germinate/grow) in my own backyard.
http://www.everlastings.com.au/gallery.html

 

[igorsMistress]

@potato chip roses grow pretty well here, but temps were over 100 during the day when I planted one. It's still got some green canes so I haven't given up on it.
Not sure what root stock they're on but I know they're improved for desert conditions.

 

[dan26552]