What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

Looking at the 10 day forecast, 6 out of 10 days are rain...

 

[chickengr]

send half of your rain here so that we do not need to water our gardens, lol.

 

[BReeder!]

send half of your rain here so that we do not need to water our gardens, lol.

I have never got around to setting up rain barrels. I really should though, because we get days of rain like this and then there could be a week or more of no rain. In mid-summer it still rains but not nearly is much. It could be 2 weeks without a drop sometimes. Raised beds need water from the hose in those cases, which could be coming from rain barrels.

 

[alfie10]

weather was great yesterday so i got potatoes ,peas ,onions all planted .also made a planter from spare wood think i,ll put carrots in there today .the white radish seeds I planted in pots on window sill in kitchen are up a good inch already ,also cooked a pork joint in the slow cooker so i,m going to make some soup with the stock ,that will keep me going for a few days .

 

[littledog]

Got Mr. Dog to help me re-level and attach boards along the top of the gate areas of the garden - the way our soil is (river silt, clay deep down, no rocks) even our concreted posts 2 ft deep don't stay level when getting pulled by the fencing stretched around it.
We got every corner post back to level, which helped get the wire fence back to proper tightness, then attached overhead boards to keep all the corners square so we can install the gates so they'll open and close properly. Great! except we both have to remember to duck when going in and out of the garden. I should paint something on those overhead boards to make us remember to duck, like possibly an artistic picture of a duck!

The rest of the weekend was drizzling and I stayed lazy, except going to the feed store for horse grain and chicken feed. Of course their garden section was placed in visual temptation when you're standing in the register line, so who can blame me for grabbing a seed-starting heat mat on my way out!

I started my first seeds last week (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and luffa in 4" pots, lettuce and spinach in mini pots) so we'll see if the heat mat helps at all.

 

[Acre4Me]

I would have said car port, and then only put up two sides. Lol. DS specifically asked for a garage though.

Ah! I see, he sets his sights high and has a dad who can deliver! How tall is their “garage”? They look so little inside!

 

[Acre4Me]

Another nice day today! Into the 60s. But rain chances every day starting Tuesday evening.

 

[littledog]

I have never got around to setting up rain barrels. I really should though, because we get days of rain like this and then there could be a week or more of no rain. In mid-summer it still rains but not nearly is much. It could be 2 weeks without a drop sometimes. Raised beds need water from the hose in those cases, which could be coming from rain barrels.

For us it is really worth it, because our garden, chicken coop and run are all situated in a field near the river and lower in elevation from the house, and due to FEMA flood zone rules, we can't build any "permanent structures" down there, including power and water. Fine, we just have a filtered rain barrel system to collect water from the roofed part of the chicken house - living in such a rainy area, we have two more rain barrels collecting water from the original, which gives us all the water we need for the chickens, the garden, filling smaller barrels, watering and buckets for our trees.

 

[Sally PB]

I should paint something on those overhead boards to make us remember to duck, like possibly an artistic picture of a duck!

My BIL hung a stuffed toy duck from a low beam in MIL's house. She could walk under it, but he couldn't. Everyone who saw it laughed, but knew what it was for and ducked under the beam.

 

[wyoDreamer]

want to make a small square around my mailbox and plant pink and yellow lantana.

Please don't plant bee attracting flowers right around a mailbox. Yes it looks pretty, but it can be a problem for the mailmen or yourself.

The bees can get angry when the mailman get close to open the mailbox and will sting. One of the mailmen in our town is allergic to bee stings and ended up at the emergency room one summer when she got stung 3 times at a single mailbox. The town sent out letters asking residents to remove the flowers from around their mailbox. If you didn't, the mailman had the right to refuse to deliver your mail.