What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Hi everyone


I'm so happy you guys are finally thawing out! I look foward to seeing pics in summer when I won't be doing anything but maintaining!

I've been busy with watering and weeding here lately. Have quail in the incubator due later in the week and then chicken eggs go next. I have some dill to transplant into the quail pen and need to cut some hwc for the trellis so I can plant some peas. I bought a fern to put in the garden, hopefully the shade cloth is enough shade. We painted an old closet door with flexseal to put out there, so Thursday will be a garden remodel day. I can hardly wait! We also have a coop to build before Easter.

I bought some grow bags so I can move a few things around in the garden next fall as the shade moves. I'll be trying potatoes in one, I've read late September is a good time for those here.

The oleanders made it thru the frost, and I need to put my watering schedule on my calendar today.

I'm being summoned by the paw patrol. Have a great day

 

[pennyJo1960]

Nope time to step in the kitchen start dinner lots of mixing

 

[Rhiannon_In_Nature]

Temps have really soared here, so got a lot done in the garden today.

I keep most everything in fabric pots and there was lots of moving around today. Moved the bulbs that are waking up out to their display spots. Took some plants out of the garage and placed them outside. Shifted other plants around according to how well they performed in the spot they were in last year, and where I think they will do better this year.

Once everyone was in their places I did some preventative care. Sprayed rosemary, catnip, catmint, and agastache with diluted neem oil, to try and prevent the spider mites I got last year. And sprayed the new foliage on my irises with fungicide to control leaf spot.

I have a sample pack of different sizes of a new style of fabric pot I am trying out. They are from Ruth's Tree Farm. Got a couple small guys in 1/2 gal pots and seem to be doing well. And I ordered two more irises: Inca Chief and September Sailor. Both are reputed to smell like root beer!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Nearly 100 peppers are in dirt. 8 Anaheim, 12 cayenne, 8 habenero, 12 Jalapeno. 24 each of sweet chocolate and black beauty bells. Plus a 10-cell tray each of columbines, johnny jump ups and petunias.

 

[WthrLady]

We made it to 45 today. I scrubbed out the garage. Boy oh boy, did it need it.

Cleaned a crazy amount of spilled hay and paca poo from the corral and used it to fertilize the orchard trees and then mulch them. I still have three trees to go. Phew. That manure is waiting for me in the giant 6 cu ft wheel barrow and three 20 gallon cans. I swear they are such prolific poopers!

I cleaned the garden and put down deep straw mulch on the berry bush beds. I did find signs of life out there besides the winter rye. I found two onions that escaped pulling last year, and the strawberry plant and one runner made it through winter. I also put out my earth domes to get some of my planting spaces warmer a little sooner.

That took up the whole blooming day! I am so sore and it feels great! Outside ALL day, I even managed to get some sun. It was awesome!

Tomorrow is a cooler rainy day, so I am working in the potting shed and getting some things into dirt. My berry bush starts should be here soon. Hmmmm...... Oh and please excuse the temporary fence. My plan is to get a new one started as soon as we are thawed deeper than 3 inches! LOL.

Anyway...waving from soggy Nebraska.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Historic. The scope is worse than 93, or 2011. Thousands of homes underwater. Farms and livestock washed away. Towns, big ones, under water. Businesses gone. Major roads destroyed , and the gravel roads and bridges washed out. Wells compromised , septic and sewage lagoons topped. Water restrictions.

Jusst amazing the scope of it.

Mercy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@WthrLady We had a beautiful day here also but got allot else done but yes outside most of it came in to make dinner

 

[MissChick@dee]

Beautiful day hit 65!
I had on a sleeveless shirt and thought about ....shorts.

Transplanted my bush from the corner of the yard. I think it’ll be happier in its new spot. It fit nicely into my hole. I wired the corner and will plant cosmo’s there tomorrow.

 

[pennyJo1960]

spring is perfect at 70 would not object that at all

 

[WthrLady]

@WthrLady We had a beautiful day here also but got allot else done but yes outside most of it came in to make dinner

When DH came home at 530. I told him he needed to do the last load of poo or I would have to put dinner on hold while I finished and then showered. LOL. He opted for letting me shower and making food. He loaded up the last barrow of poo for me. The power of food.