What did you do in the garden today?

[BullChick]

This is mine. Lays outside all year round. We drain it for winter, of course.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Apex-5-...r-Commercial-Hot-Water-Hose-8695-50/202900131

 

[Fishychix]

Speaking of hoses… I hate mine because it kinks like crazy. Unfortunately, it’s the only one that didn’t break in less than a summer. It’s a 50’ orange one from Walmart, and is now showing wear at the kinks. It is not leaking yet.
So, who has a hose they actually can recommend?

I do! Mine lays across the driveway most of the time and has frozen, but is still great. I got it from Walmart or lowes. It has a fabric coating on the outside and the packaging bragged about it being rugged.

 

[Acre4Me]

B

A guy was arrested about a year ago because some feral cats ate the mothballs he put out to keep them away. I love cats, but that was the funniest news story I’ve ever seen.

Did he try to get them to eat them? As in coat them with something? Hide them in something? Grind them up and add to food? We just put them out as a repellent, all mothballs remained (none eaten), and cats stayed away. I would never try to entice them to eat them bc I would never want to poison them. But maybe the cats in our area are more savvy?

 

[BReeder!]

Catching up on the morning posts. Somebody mentioned thinning out kale. That encourages me to thin out our lettuce. It it's micro green size too and there's probably enough thinning needed to produce a small salad. DW planted it and I think she accidentally spilled some seeds unknowingly.
My first row of potatoes will be getting mounded soon, definitely before we head out of town Monday.
Some marigolds have buds on them now. Cannot wait for some flowers in the garden.
Onions are growing rapidly. So many onion greens in the beds. I am tempted to snip some for cooking while we still wait for bunching onions to come up. I don't see any of them really growing. Might be a bad pack of seeds. I think I bought them last year.
I think radishes and make will be ready to start harvesting when we return from vacation in a week and a half. The radishes are starting to fatten up and some of the kale has leaves 4 inches long not counting the stems.

 

[BReeder!]

Anybody with experience planting 3 sisters, are my beans getting ahead of my corn or can I expect the corn to grow faster than the beans? They are about the same size now, partly because I had to replant some of the corn after my drake got in there.

 

[BullChick]

B

Did he try to get them to eat them? As in coat them with something? Hide them in something? Grind them up and add to food? We just put them out as a repellent, all mothballs remained (none eaten), and cats stayed away. I would never try to entice them to eat them bc I would never want to poison them. But maybe the cats in our area are more savvy?

No, just stupid cats. People used mothballs for generations, but it took a few stupid cats to make it an issue. Think of the warning on a coffee cup that contents are hot.

 

[Beer can]

I am tempted to snip some for cooking while we still wait for bunching onions to come up.

I have Egyptian walking onions for that. Come back every yr with no maintenance what's so ever, and replant and spread on their own. Plus tons of small pickling size onions from the top and can use the bottom onions also if you want.

 

[Elyrian1]

Made me look up walking onions... They look pretty cool!

 

[Beer can]

I don't like seeing outside cars they are the worst for killing wildlife.
Neighbor has had his cat free ranging.
But I just noticed something. I waged war with chipmunks a couple yrs ago. Had Paiute deadfall traps set in the garden, rat traps in boxes, shot them with pellet rifle, couldn't put a dent in their population. As soon as the seeds would pop up the munks stole them. Stole all but five titan sunflowers and half my indian corn. I had to put plastic dixie cups over them all and pile stones around them till they got bigger or I'd lost all of them.
I was wondering what to do this yr, planting indian corn and sunflowers again. Then got thinking, where is the chipmunks? I know I saw plenty this spring but I haven't seen a single one all week. None. I wonder if that cat removed them for me? Maybe it isn't so bad after all.

 

[Beer can]

Anybody with experience planting 3 sisters, are my beans getting ahead of my corn or can I expect the corn to grow faster than the beans? They are about the same size now, partly because I had to replant some of the corn after my drake got in there.
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Not sure but you'll find out lol.
I planted the beans after the corn came up.
Mistakes I've made was first time just planted rows of sweet corn and pumpkins. Didn't have to weed or rototill once the pumpkins got going.
Well when the sweet corn was ready to pick it wasn't much fun the pumpkin vines were everywhere pumpkins even growing on the cornstalks made it extremely hard to get at the corn.
Two yrs ago decided to do it again with all three. Wanted to do indian flour corn, pole dry beans and squash (thinking they all mature same time when they dry out) but couldn't get the beans I wanted so planted red noodle. Planted in separate hills that time so easier to harvest. Those red noodle beans on painted mountain corn was too much for them to handle they only grow maybe four feet tall I had to stake every one Lol.
Planted Hopi pale grey squash that yr but didn't think it was as sweet as butternut. Did sweet meat yr before wasn't impressed. This yr giving Boston marrow a try.