What did you do in the garden today?

[rebrascora]

I took the time to water everything today, and now of course , its raining!

Wow! It's hard to imagine having to water plants at this time of year!

 

[igorsMistress]

There's still the top to cover but the screened garden is almost done. Still need to frame the beds and I'm going to sheet compost to prep for late summer and fall crops.

The aloe is blooming so we have lots of hummingbirds. I got a rice flower plant because I thought it was pretty and it's draught tolerant. We shall see if it lives through the chickens. I've had to put pieces of edging brick around it because the girls like to dust bathe in that bed. The other things in there are something native to Australia with red orange flowers.

 

[504707]

Planted cucumbers,cauliflower, tomatoes, carrots, strawberries and melons today. Surprisingly a lot of work for a very small garden (5*7m) Phew...

 

[rebrascora]

Planted cucumbers,cauliflower, tomatoes, carrots, strawberries and melons today.

Melons! That's quite exotic! Have you grown them before? Do you grow them in a poly tunnel or greenhouse? Is there a particular variety that you would recommend for the UK's climate?
I was given a cucumber seedling last year and was surprised at how well it did, so I would like to give that a go again. I trained it up and along the frame of my poly tunnel which worked really well as the cucumbers hung down at head height.
What variety of tomatoes have you gone for? I made the mistake of growing a bush variety last year and it was chaos. I was forever pinching shoots out and the air and light couldn't get through so I had problems with them going mouldy and really difficult to support the trusses when there were so many branches. Won't do that again! I need to get some seeds bought and sown pronto.

I've been watching my bees working my apricot blossom this afternoon when the sun came out. Not sure how well it will do this year as that snow yesterday looks to have damaged a lot of the blossoms. It was good to see the bees working though after the bad weather we have had.

 

[lazy gardener]

Love, love, love your pics IM.

 

[jerryse]

Rained all day .

 

[igorsMistress]

Love, love, love your pics IM.

Thanks. I can't wait for those bushes to grow up!

 

[pennyJo1960]

we have had a drizzle here after dark went to put birds away wore my rubber bottom and leather upper called them Juneau tennis shoes in the day bought 4 starts at wallmart zucchini, green pepper x 2 and a crook neck squash fry it like a zucchini

 

[504707]

Melons! That's quite exotic! Have you grown them before? Do you grow them in a poly tunnel or greenhouse? Is there a particular variety that you would recommend for the UK's climate?
I was given a cucumber seedling last year and was surprised at how well it did, so I would like to give that a go again. I trained it up and along the frame of my poly tunnel which worked really well as the cucumbers hung down at head height.
What variety of tomatoes have you gone for? I made the mistake of growing a bush variety last year and it was chaos. I was forever pinching shoots out and the air and light couldn't get through so I had problems with them going mouldy and really difficult to support the trusses when there were so many branches. Won't do that again! I need to get some seeds bought and sown pronto.

I've been watching my bees working my apricot blossom this afternoon when the sun came out. Not sure how well it will do this year as that snow yesterday looks to have damaged a lot of the blossoms. It was good to see the bees working though after the bad weather we have had.

Never grown melons before, this is my first time. To be honest I suck at growing plants, I am much better with animals. Almost everything I planted last year died off pretty quickly. Anything that remained was promptly eaten by neighbours cat.
Tomatoes - no idea, only thing I know its cherry tomato. I didn't plant the seeds as I am sure I would kill them before they even sprouted, so I bought the spoutlings at local garden store.

 

[rebrascora]

@Nethielka
Well thanks for responding and good luck with them. Gardening is a bit different to animals in that your weather and soil conditions play into it and sometimes disasters happen.... like my peas last year. And there are some things that are easier to grow than others. You have to roll with it and diversify, so that the conditions that damage one crop might suit another. Some years I've had fantastic crops of beans and other years nothing. My Dad used to grow the most enormous onions.... like, the size of a football! I am gardening his garden but I'm useless with onions..... it seems I am very good at weeds though! You have certainly diversified with the plants you have started. I know Cambridge will be warmer than up north here but your tomatoes and melon may struggle at this time of year without the protection of being under glass I think. Cherry tomatoes are a good choice though. Hope they do well for you. I will be interested to hear how the melon works out.... you have motivated me to give that a go myself and since they like similar conditions to cucumbers from the bit of research I've just done, I'm quite excited about trying them.