What did you do in the garden today?

[BullChick]

I know the mid-west and the east are expecting a lot of strong storms this summer. Maybe you’ll get more rain.

 

[BReeder!]

I know the mid-west and the east are expecting a lot of strong storms this summer. Maybe you’ll get more rain.

I don't want strong storms!!! No. No. No. Please, no!
Why not just a gentle drizzle one a week? Why's that so much to ask for? Instead, mother nature just dumps buckets on us. I don't want a flooded yard again.

 

[igorsMistress]

Thanks!

Here's some pics from today. I feel like crap today - touch off flu possibly from working outside in the yard in cool wet weather the past few days, not thinking it's covid - but I dragged myself out of bed eventually and got transplanted the tomatoes and waterer everything. I had to run quite and string for the tomatoes before transplanting so it took me 4-5 hours with feeling like crap. It should have take me 1 hour. DW and I also planted our small block of corn with two varieties: bodacious sweet and early sunglow sweet.
Aside from the tomatoes, the other pics are not from today's labor but just same updates on things we already planted.

32 tomatoes in neat rows and trellises with the string method.
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One of our kale plants. This is the best looking one, but there are others growing too.
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The half of the herb bed that has growth right now.
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This onion was missed last year when harvesting and it survived the winter. I rejoiced it from last year's onion bed and put it here a few weeks ago. To my surprise, it's thriving. It's larger than the garlic plants behind it in this photo. Pretty soon it will be surrounded by 100 more onions, which we planted a few days ago.
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You really have a nice space there!

 

[Fishychix]

According to Picture This, it's Creeping Charlie also called Ground Ivy.

Up potted the last of the tomatoes (about 75 or so total), transplanted the bok choy into the raised bed, and watched the ladies when I finally let them out of the run. Every one of them actually came out and I love watching them do chicken stuff. What with all the rain we'd had the last couple of days (1.5 inches) there were plenty of slugs and snails, and they'd been cooped up for 3 days so they were ready to clean house.

Thanks!

 

[igorsMistress]

the heat was insane today, but it was a dry heat, and yes, that makes a difference.

I cleaned our workshop, again, and vowed that there will be no more shoving and no more piles or not putting things away. NO MORE.

I built a grow out pen for the chicks and had to use a butterfly net to catch them.

The 5 gallon buckets are now clean and dry.

The broody cages are washed and dry.

Alpacas hosed off again.

I'll give yesterday's transplants another day in the seed shed before I move them out to the greenhouse. Then the heat and food will boost their root and greenery growth.

THEN I can put all the seed and starting supplies on their old shelves and turn out the lights and put the heat mats away.

I also had a mason bee condo area in the orchard that fell apart. Now I have a post out there that is demanding some kind of wind driven art. LOL.

OK. I stink and am filthy and am heading to the shower before I put pizza in the oven.

I would say a dry heat makes a difference to degree. Eventually it doesn’t matter whether it’s humid or dry, damn hot is damn hot.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Finally finished filling in the bed and topped iff the barrels and also filled in a grow bag. I planted two rows of peas in the bad and the pitatoes and onions un the barrels and just potatoes in the bag. I put three potatoes in the bag and a barrell and for potatows in the other barrel. Is that too much?
PS
Im on my phone so i cant type tok well on these teensy buttons.
Here are pux of thd barrels. The stick
does anyone know what the purple flower is?
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Ground Ivy like someone else said. It’s a type of mint. I don’t know if it’s edible though.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Planted 100ft of green beans and 6 hills of squash. Got 1 tomato trellis half done out of 4 or 5. I had work today though so that cut into my gardening time. Chicks are a week old today.

 

[oldhen2345]

Morning . All this talk about Cushaw squash reminded me I needed to find my seed . I have green strip , orange stripe and white . Really need to save new seed so I will probably grow the white as it is harder to find . No need to hand pollinate that way . You can grow 1 variety from each of the 4 squash groups and have pure seed . That is if no close neighbors have any compatible squash . I will likely be too busy to hand pollinate this year . Finally renewed some seed last year after missing my chance two years in a row . Hand pollination required on that one .

I’m gonna stick a few Cushaw seeds somewhere in the back yard tomorrow. Let them grow up the wire chicken yard fence.

 

[oldhen2345]

Thanks!

Here's some pics from today. I feel like crap today - touch off flu possibly from working outside in the yard in cool wet weather the past few days, not thinking it's covid - but I dragged myself out of bed eventually and got transplanted the tomatoes and waterer everything. I had to run quite and string for the tomatoes before transplanting so it took me 4-5 hours with feeling like crap. It should have take me 1 hour. DW and I also planted our small block of corn with two varieties: bodacious sweet and early sunglow sweet.
Aside from the tomatoes, the other pics are not from today's labor but just same updates on things we already planted.

32 tomatoes in neat rows and trellises with the string method.
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One of our kale plants. This is the best looking one, but there are others growing too.
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The half of the herb bed that has growth right now.
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This onion was missed last year when harvesting and it survived the winter. I rejoiced it from last year's onion bed and put it here a few weeks ago. To my surprise, it's thriving. It's larger than the garlic plants behind it in this photo. Pretty soon it will be surrounded by 100 more onions, which we planted a few days ago.
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Not gonna say I am pea green with envy- maybe so, but not gonna say it.

 

[Happy hen lover]

We all know about chicken math. But nobody talks about garden math...

I KNOW!
signed potting mix is my glitter