What did you do in the garden today?

[NewBoots]

So the ducklings are doing funny stuff again.

Last night and the day before they were trying to eat each others feet (about 1 week old).

Then they were trying to eat their own feet. Sometimes I wonder how they survived extinction so long.

Chicks make you wonder too, but happily, my 2 1/2 week olds have figured out that bad weather is bad! They are staying in the coop! Yay!

 

[Peppercorngal]

Something ate my pumpkins and watermelon. I think it was the rabbits. Damn!

 

[jerryse]

Planted squash and tomatoes . Beating the rain 2 - 4 inches coming . I use cattle panels for tomatoes . Some sawdust mulch .

 

[Alyssa-Bee]

Something ate my pumpkins and watermelon. I think it was the rabbits. Damn!

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We have rabits everywhere in our garden too! Maybe thats why we have only been able to find one watermelon sprout!
Those darn rabbits!

 

[NewBoots]

Cold and rainy all day so I just got the critter care done and called it a day. The weather is supposed to be great on Friday so I'll get more done then. Rain barrels are all full again so that's good anyway. We picked up 10 bags of some really nice smelling potting soil from Bi-Mart. You guys know what I mean, right? Smells like rich finished compost. Hopefully enough to fill all the potting bags.

 

[karenerwin]

For Mother’s Day DH and our son put up my third hog panel tunnel. Last year The pole beans were terrific on one so this year I’m doing an experiment with trying tomatoes on them. View attachment 2138266

I used cattle panels last year for some of my tomato plants. They worked great! I planted the tomatoes on the outside and let them grow up the side and then I had panels across the top as well and the tomato plants laid out on top of those as well.

 

[karenerwin]

I don’t have access to a pick up or trailer. Can it be stuffed into a hatchback?

We had some delivered to our house. Check your big box hardware stores, they may deliver to you as well.

 

[karenerwin]

Hog panels are awesome but they're 16 feet long so difficult to move. They can be folded and loaded into the back of a good sized pickup truck.

We have actually shoved them into my husband's mini van before but it wasn't easy and it wasn't pretty!

 

[karenerwin]

It is cold, dreary and rainy here. I had planned on digging out some sod, but even with my winter coat and gloves on I was too cold so I came in and took a nap with the space heater running. I stayed up too late when I got home from work last night.
Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 80's! I guess I'll be complaining that it's too hot.
I have marinated chicken breasts in the oven for dinner.
Stay well everyone!

 

[NightingaleJen]

@karenerwin We went through this with my maternal grandparents too, several years ago. It was difficult. 'Til the day he died my grandfather insisted he'd get his driver's license back. Grandma was the guilt-tripper. ;P

Thanks @Sueby! It is also nice to know we're not the only ones wrangling trees around...Ours do flower every year, and sometimes again in summer after we toss them outside into the full blast of the sun, and we've gotten fruit—not much, but it is pretty cool. The trees survived the night, thank God. They can be a pain when the temps change, but they are pretty and fun to have. Maybe we will build a greenhouse this year...a tiny heated one for our behemoths... ;D

So far as lettuce, I grow all kinds—arugula, butterheads, mixed leaf, romaine...darn...there's another type I can't remember. Spinach I figure is more of a veggie. Usually I sow the seeds around St Pat's, then again mid-April, since they don't mind the cold. We have a topsoil/compost mixture in the beds (more compost now, I top it off with and spade in multiple bags every spring). Maybe the soil is too heavy? What is the ideal sun/shade ratio? Perhaps mine are getting blasted by the fireball, too. ;P I hear you about the frost/freezes and not being able to put starts out! I winter sow, making it not a huge deal, but it feels so good to get everybody into the garden beds.

Beautiful flowers, @Wee Farmer Sarah! Very statuesque.

@Sequel, those tunnels look fabulous! We're going to use cattle panels for our tomatoes this year. Maybe the beans, too, should I decide to send some up over the garden gate-let.

Sorry about your pumpkins & watermelon, @Peppercorngal. That is always so disheartening! I had the tiniest baby spinach coming up at the end of March or so...squirrel decided to romp through the bed looking for acorns.

Had other things going on here today, and meant to sow some various seeds into the garden, but alas; didn't happen. That said, our tortie cat, Lucy, decided to eat some seedlings sitting on the window ledge. I'd popped their bitty greenhouse top off. So a great leap backwards!