What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

As long as it does not get hit with frost it should be fine. Its kind of the time of year too for all of them to be 'renewing' their leaves etc so you should be ok.

 

[BReeder!]

I had to make some tough decisions while thinning the marigold sprouts. There are a few that sprouted under the new lights and they are the best ones, not a bit leggy like those that sprouted without lights or under the aquarium light. Overall they seem healthy though. Once the stems thicken a but I think they'll all be just fine.

 

[Ascholten]

Im getting ready to try planting some Fenugreek. The seeds I use as an ingredient in my meat rubs, as the maply flavor is really nice, not to mention the other medicinal qualities it has. I hear it's also good eaten as sprouts or when full grown in salads. We will see in a few months I guess.

Aaron

 

[turkey girl 0964]

Planted a mulberry bush, fertilized the Asparagus, ran some irrigation piping to the mulberry, and re positioned an Ice Cream Banana tree closer to the house. Also contemplating which new branches to cull off the Papaya tree. Little fiddling around with the girls right underfoot of course! Still at the 'coin flip' phase of, well, do I plant the stuff now OR, remember it still is only February and we still can get a cold week, so best wait until early March? Within a few years, hopefully, I am retired and that 'concern' is the MAIN concern I have, and not just a fleeting moment concern pushed aside by the usual 'not retired' concerns of work....

Aaron

We have Ice Cream Bananas too!

 

[Ascholten]

I just got an ice cream banana to grow it here but it's been so darned wet, none of my bananas are doing well yet. I just hope the thing does not rot out before it gets started. If it does, I know the guy will give me another but still don't like seeing plants die like that.

That for some stupid reason has been my bane with bananas. They don't die from the frost, I manage to protect them for the most part, but the darned trunks sit there for a month or so then eventually wet / rot out, which of course is, you just started all over and no bananas for you this year time. I got one that I think might make it, if it does not im done and tired of screwing with them its getting uprooted, shredded and composted and time for something new in the pot.

Aaron

 

[BReeder!]

Another update on my seed starting: the kale and celery have sprouted! The celery is planted densely and will need to get thinned after true leaves form. It's in the back. The neat little sprouts in the front that are one per cell are the kale.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I just got an ice cream banana to grow it here but it's been so darned wet, none of my bananas are doing well yet. I just hope the thing does not rot out before it gets started. If it does, I know the guy will give me another but still don't like seeing plants die like that.

That for some stupid reason has been my bane with bananas. They don't die from the frost, I manage to protect them for the most part, but the darned trunks sit there for a month or so then eventually wet / rot out, which of course is, you just started all over and no bananas for you this year time. I got one that I think might make it, if it does not im done and tired of screwing with them its getting uprooted, shredded and composted and time for something new in the pot.

Aaron

If the problem is the rain can you move it under the porch when it rains or wrap a tarp around the base to stop some of the rain from getting in.

 

[Ascholten]

If the problem is the rain can you move it under the porch when it rains or wrap a tarp around the base to stop some of the rain from getting in.

Unfortunately for this one it's in the ground so no moving it. The other ones I have potted WHICH is why I think and hope I was able to save them this year. I'll know in a few weeks to a month when the thing either puts a shoot out the middle or a sucker and gets all gooey and stinky. Hopefully it's a new shoot and I get nanners this year, we will see!!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I didn't move the lemon tree outside....mostly because I was really busy with work and ran out of time today. Also it is planted in one of those big Rangeland Protein tubs they use for cattle that weighs around 125 lbs. I literally need to use a dolly to move it around. I dang near killed myself just trying to get it INSIDE the house before winter.

So yeah, once it goes out...it is staying out. There will be no indoors for a bit and outdoors for a bit. If it isn't warm enough to go out yet, I'll just have to wait and hope it is patient enough not to kick the bucket completely between now and then. It is just such a nice day today in the mid-60's. It has been in the sunroom for the winter which got down into the low 40's during our cold snap the past few weeks. It has been protected from freezing, but not indoors in an area where the temperature was set at 68 degrees.

 

[NewBoots]

DP hard cooked 3 dozen eggs (they were so good we ate at least 3 each before I even had my recipes open) and I dill pickled a pint, pickled with beets 2 quarts, and jalapeno pickled 1 pint. Then I ran out of eggs. I still want to try a balsamic recipe I've got so she'll have to cook some more. I weeded more of the raised beds (chickens were thrilled), gave away some eggs, then cooed over my chard and lettuce sprouts. Spring time is awesome!