What did you do in the garden today?

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I need to check for strawberry runners too. Mostly I let them go where they want and just step over them, but this year is a new layer of mulch, so they need moved a bit.

My brake went on my truck. There goes $2000 for my greenhouse. Sigh. It's always something.

Expecting 4 inches of rain this weekend.

Heading out to water seedling cells and rake driveway stone out of the neighbor's lawn.

Waving.
 
I was outside today & noticed all the driveway stone in the yard too. I'd much prefer it in the neighbors yard. :gig

I covered all my beds with black plastic today. It will kill off the cover crop & hopefully warm the beds a little. I really want to get lettuce out there this weekend, but its frozen solid an inch down. :lau There is no hope for the compost I bet, not even going to trek through the mud to check.
 
I moved the last bit of dirt form the old garden bed during lunch today. There's still some hardpacked on the ground, which I'll use the tiller to loosen up and then move it as well. Next I need to get working on digging up the old flower bed to level the ground for the swingset.
While I was outside during lunch, DS (4 yo) and DD (1 yo) helped me transplant 6 of our garlic plants. I am testing these 6 outdoors for a week or two before planting the others. Hardneck varieties are supposed to be frost resistant, but I want to be sure. Also, I want to make sure they are hardened enough from being in the sunroom the past few weeks now. I would hate to transplant all 60-70 of them and see them all die from frost, sun scorch or wind damage.
 
Is it wrong that I use Duckling’s old garden tools more than my own? :lol:
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Oh, I forgot to mention the compost today. One bin is mostly just cleanout from the chicken coop. I changed the bedding last weekend and put all the soiled bedding into our empty bin. That bin is smelling fowl of ammonia today. Clearly there's a good amount of manure in that bedding. It was still dry. I think the ammonia is leaching out into the air rather than getting used by microbes. I decided to soak the pile thoroughly with the hose in the hopes that moisture will bring life to the microbes and they'll go nuts feeding on the excess nitrogen that is currently just turning into ammonia. The next pile is a starter pile. We are slowly adding scraps to it and building it up. Whenever we add some scraps I toss in a fork or two of the soiled bedding to cover the scraps. After all, our scraps are mostly "greens" and that bedding is "brown" pine shavings. The third pile though... that's the magic pile! We built it up last year and it was actually two separate piles that I've now combined into one that is overflowing out of the bin. Winter froze the piles solid, but warmer temps recently thawed them out and I combined them this past weekend. Today I dug just 6-8 inches into the pile and it was PIPING HOT. I couldn't comfortably hold my hand in the hole I made with the fork. It's cooking up and with some turning should be good to go by May. The majority of the material is already well broken down. I did add about 8 gallons of manure from the poop board last week though. There's also still a fair amount of tiny wood shavings from old bedding I added last year to the piles and some wood chips we tossed in last year too. I think it's going to make some great compost mulch though come May/June, right in time for mulching around plants like tomatoes and peppers.
 
BReeder! said:
DS wants garden tools like these. They want $15 a piece at the store though! I could get a real full sized rake/shovel/hoe for that price.
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I think mine were 4.99 at tractor supply or less. I got the rakes for the alpaca and chicken manure and the short shovel for weed stabbing.
 

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