What did you do in the garden today?

[21hens-incharge]

Cold and snowing here.

We began the removal of the gigantic silver lace ivy. Hate to lose it but my new dog is a climber and I gotta get the hot wire up.

Lettuce, radish, turnip, carrot, beets and turnip seeds are nestled in under low tunnels.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Today I tried to transplant basil. Anyone who grows herbs know they get craaaazy root systems. Well since I have always had bad germination rates for herbs before, I thought I'd just sprinkle seeds liberally and hope some came up.
And some did. Lots did. I had 4-10 seedlings per pot. 2.25in pots. So today I chose 30 or so of the healthy ones and yanked them to try to transplant, took a dozen or so and just broke them off for not doing well and left 1-3 of the very best ones in each little pot. Fingers crossed they bounce back. If nah, I have PLENTY more still.
Next is transplanting the thyme in a similar way.
I hung a light over the peppers today. The purple beauty bells started to sprout. I accidentally planted both peppers and tomates in the same pots. o_o But since I have waaaay too many tomatoes and my margin for error on the peppers is much lower, I pulled the tomatoes and kept the peppers. I now have 83 tomato cups in the basement instead of 90. I only need the 60ish best ones so this is fine.

 

[Arielle2]

Peppers like the heat. Not a cool back room. ANd well, too much water.....the roots cant breathe. Do you have time to replant??? I envy your green thumb to get them to sprout... I struggle to get that far. Do I dare say I planted 3 flats over a couple weeks just to be sure some would sprout? The last flat has sprouted the fasted and higher %.....

 

[deepbluesea]

Potted up the rest of my hot peppers and bells, and the Amish paste tomatoes. That makes all of the seedling tomatoes and peppers in soil. I started hardening them off this weekend; hopefully the weather will cooperate and I can get them out under a blanket by next weekend.

My two new projects seem to be going..ok. The naranjilla had pretty spotty germination, so out of 18 I have only 10 seedlings. The strawberries germinated pretty well, but they're growing quite slowly; just started getting their second set of true leaves and it's been six weeks. These are called fresca and they're meant to be full-sized strawberries, not alpines. I hope they're good.

Cool and cloudy here today. Makes me not mind being at work so much.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Going to plant my spring bulbs that are sprouting in the bag. Better late than never!
I put in violas yesterday. Working on the top of the cold frame today.

 

[henless]

Planted 2 more blueberry bushes today and pulled down the old cattle panel fence at the end of my garden. Plan on putting in a couple of muscadine vines there. Those panels have been there for about 20 yrs. A few big roots had grown over the bottom rail. Took a while to get them loose. Hope to have those in this weekend.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We planted many bulb today more to be done but the Crocus and Dalia's also 40 Crocus
and 10 Dalia bulbs in the ground

 

[Celie]

Too wet to plant yet, rainy almost every day and ground is soaked!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cold frame finished!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Headed into Chehalis again pickup stepping stones BF putting in on the path most traveled to the barn main coop no grass slimy mud tired falling ... my food friend is moving cannot get my feed having to supplement it for an organic pick and scratch not familiar but looking it up okay is local 150 mile up I-5 god hate this