What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

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[oldhen2345]

Good morning gardeners. Finally gave up waiting on Gurneys to follow up with my issue with the seed potatoes I bought from them. I called them and they are giving me a refund. Very disappointed with them. I'm going to try to get to my little discount store and see if they have any seed potatoes left. Now, if the weed whacker I ordered materializes soon I will be happy. I got the small butterfly bush trimmed back yesterday. My solar motion sensor lights needed some attention and I pulled up the old wire border fence around my cutting garden. While chasing one of the hens back into the run I fell. Good thing I still know how to fall to minimize injuries. I'm fine, although I suspect I may feel a bit achy in a few more hours. The temperatures are still warmer than normal now and heading into a three day stretch of 70F. However, the long range forecast shows a dip in temps coming so I'm still holding off on more planting outdoors. Still no signs of the asparagus yet and no signs of the neighbors rhubarb plant coming up either.

Be so careful- falling is no simple thing once you age. A friend of mine fell in her yard Monday. She broke a finger, shattered her shoulder. Now needs surgery to repair the shoulder. She is only 74 (a couple years older than me). Makes ya think.

 

[oldhen2345]

Worked in the yard yesterday. Transplanted some roses, finished repotting my plants on the patio, mowed the yard. In writing, doesn't sound like much- but I sure am tired. Still need to put out some beans and maybe corn. Thinking of changing my firepit into a garden- lol. May plant carrots in it or maybe a couple of watermelon.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Be so careful- falling is no simple thing once you age. A friend of mine fell in her yard Monday. She broke a finger, shattered her shoulder. Now needs surgery to repair the shoulder. She is only 74 (a couple years older than me). Makes ya think.

Thanks for the sentiment. I’ll be 70 in a few months but my bones are strong and having participated in gymnastics for 8 years when I was young I have learned how to fall to minimize injury. I have a lot of experience with falling and the extra “curves” I’ve added over the past few years provide substantial padding to cushion the falls.

 

[jerryse]

Planted 12 asparagus roots and stratifying some wildflower seeds . Many wildflower seeds need a cool moist period to germinate . They overwinter on the ground in the wild .

 

[igorsMistress]

Sounds like you have been busy too, igorsMistress. Good idea to start ice blocks now. I only have a 3 gallon waterer, but can put a frozen bottled water inside during the summer.

I’m using five gallon buckets for the ducks and will be making smaller blocks for those. Duck water is disgusting so I’m not putting a water bottle in my freezer after it’s been in there

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I cut some more stakes today. I’m done for the day though. Nature decided to fight back apparently I have a sunburn now and I got poked in the eye with a twig.

 

[Acre4Me]

It appears that we foiled the hunger strike/death wish of the turkey poult. All look energetic ...so hoping their last move to the larger outdoor pen (in May) doesn’t make another try to die.

beautiful and warm today!!

 

[NewBoots]

I hate blackberries with a passion. We think we've got an area cleared, and they sprout up again, and reach out and entwine our arms when we try to cut them down, or tangle themselves in the mower or brush-cutter blades. They'll grow in the middle of a tree and we won't know they're there until they take over the tree and send long shoots everywhere. And they're so much effort to get the huge, tooth-filling-destroying seeds out to make jam or whatever, that the few weeks when they're ripe and tasty are not worth it, at least here in our area where they take over everything.

And even if you make sure your yard is completely free of them, the neighbor's slip through the fence or even over it and once that growing tip touches ground it immediately starts growing roots. And then there's the seeds that the birds deposit as they fly by. Wild blackberries are terrible. Love the fruit, hate the plant.

I gotta come back and reread all this for inspiration later today! I go for my first vaccine (YAY!!) this morning, so hopefully I feel like working outside afterward. It supposed to be warm and gorgeous again today.

My arm was a little sore for both shots and I think I was a little more tired after the second one but so worth it!

Took a walk around & saw the rhubarb & horseradish peeking through. I need to make more jam so come on rhubarb!

My rhubarb is just breaking through the soil and I can't wait! I planted it in the early spring last year and left it completely alone but I am cutting some this year.

While chasing one of the hens back into the run I fell. Good thing I still know how to fall to minimize injuries. I'm fine, although I suspect I may feel a bit achy in a few more hours.

Falls are scary. I always lay there a second waiting to see if I'm actually hurt or just embarrassed.

@littledog, that was a very nice sentiment and one I echo. DP and I have been so lucky and we are well aware of it. And I have heard it said that grateful people are happier people.

Planted a bunch of my baby lettuces, spinach, chard, and even 6 conehead cabbage. I bought the cabbage seeds before I had decided to eschew all brassica except for collards. I spread them out instead of planting them together and whether they do well or not the chickens and rabbits will enjoy them. The lettuce grew like gangbusters last year and I've planted about twice as much this time so I'll be accosting the neighbors with the excess I'm sure. Wouldn't it be nice if the lettuce and the tomatoes produced at the same time? A youtube thing I was watching said to plant lettuce in the shade of your tomatoes so I'll give that a try too.

Still need to finish the mowing and mix up the rest of the compost tea and share that out and the garlic and shallots really need weeding again. A pain in the patoot but the chickens will love it.

@Acre4Me, glad to hear your poult is doing better, DP wants a couple turkeys and I'm tempted but we lack the room. Still buying lottery tickets so someday. We are in negotiations with a neighbor with more land to keep a milk goat on her property so I need to start studying goat care.

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

So the garden store trip was RIDICULOUS. In both good ways and bad. It was so crowded that deputies were directing traffic, and we had to park down the road. But it is all open air, so not too worried about germs, AND they had my pink lemonade blueberry bush as well as small krewer blueberry bushes on sale for $8.

And we also got 2 more peonies ($6 ea) and a bunch of varieties of phlox to fill in some holes in my flower beds. And a verbena. They had soooo much there, but it was a bit too crowded for leisurely browsing. I may go back after mother's day - the cops mentioned it was extra crowded this time of year, but tends to slow down then.

So...the afternoon was spent planting things. Taking a break now, then probably should get back to it!

I'm too lazy to take photos of the stuff I already planted, but here's the stuff still in pots: