What did you do in the garden today?

[Severne]

Bought 5 more plants from the feed store for the garden!

They were out of seed potatoes, so hoping the sad ones in my garden perk up and still grow me some potatoes.

Freeze warning tonight due to temps going to 32F. Hopefully the last of the stupid cold weather.

Will be putting 30+ eggs into the incubator tonight. Finalizing temps now and debating humidity levels (dry or wet incubation). Candled all the eggs for micro-cracks and that was good as I got rid of a couple of eggs because cracks magically showed up with the candling light. We will find out just how successful the males in our flock have been in a few days when blood vessels should be apparent in the eggs.

Its funny that for most people that it’s spring right now. I’m harvesting potatoes in 2 weeks that I planted in February and January. Right now We’re getting the last rain of the year probably and in about 2 weeks it’ll be getting into the 100s degree. I’m pulling the last of peas, broccoli, cabbage and beets and carrots and potatoes and other spring veggies before the rest of them bolt like my turnips, mustard, radishes and golden acre cabbage.

 

[Severne]

I planted winter squash in the greenhouse this Jan. And I’ve already got female flowers blooming. I have to self pollinate them because there is nobody who has other squash blooming now....... And I want seed purity. I also been self pollinating my brassicas cause lost of wild ones grow here. Mainly Brassicae Râpa.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Aloha gardeners,
Trimmed my cherry tomatoes, picked 4 Heilani tomatoes and 3 papaya's. All my starts seem to be handling the temps well though did have a low show from my Manoa lettuce. I normally don't like to do any starts this late but I have more shade in my garden this year do to chicken run expansion, and with the circumstances as they are... gunna give it a try. Mango trees are heavy, looks like a good year.
DH made me a bigger better nest box w/ better ventilation so I could reattach favorite box back to mini coop and house Jazz (who showed with her brood and was ready to be domesticated) w/o getting everybody's feathers ruffled. So, same spot, better box.

I think this goes under apartment sized farming...

Feed store is unloading container and I will find out if my incubator made it or if i have to go fishing for one.
Have a good and safe day all. Congrats on all of your forward garden motion no mater how little or set back.

 

[Severne]

The peas, I froze them so I could cook up later. The dish is actually much deeper than it looks....

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to Gardeners thread @Severne

 

[NightingaleJen]

No planting today, although there's still plenty of daylight. I might try to get the last two rows of potatoes planted. I'm not so sure if I'm adding moe or planting something else next to them. It's cool out today though. May has not provided the warm weather I hoped for.

I did get an arbor build for the garden entrance. It's just two 4x4 posts spaced 4ft apart with 2x6's across and a bunch of 18" long 2x3's on top. I'm going to add gates next time I get a chance to work on it.
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That's lovely! Do you think you are going to train anything over it?

 

[BReeder!]

That's lovely! Do you think you are going to train anything over it?

I'm not sure. If I train something up the arbor, I would have to let it grow along the fence too or work diligently to keep it just on the arbor. Grapes would be neat. I will need to think more about it though.

 

[BReeder!]

I got the pathways edged in the garden with 2x3's after I finished building the arbor earlier. Here's a picture of the entire garden. Excuse the mess in front of the garden, I'm getting the yard cleaned up and seeding grass once I am done planting everything in the garden.

 

[NewBoots]

I got the pathways edged in the garden with 2x3's after I finished building the arbor earlier. Here's a picture of the entire garden. Excuse the mess in front of the garden, I'm getting the yard cleaned up and seeding grass once I am done planting everything in the garden.
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I just love how you have your raised beds divided off from the rest of your yard. Can I ask how big your property is?

 

[BReeder!]

I just love how you have your raised beds divided off from the rest of your yard. Can I ask how big your property is?

Only 1/3 acre roughly. I believe it measure 85'x150' all together. That includes the front yard, house and back yard. The backyard is roughly 85'x60' if you exclude the patio and sunroom. It is not huge, but I plenty of room to have some fun. Plus, the more garden, chicken run, etc; the less grass I need to cut. It still takes nearly an hour to cut all of the lawn though.