What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

WOW! That looks amazing.

Thank you.

 

[WthrLady]

We got onions planted and bedded down... And now they are calling for snow (Insert temper tantrum here) But, I think I have a plan!!! I made sure that when my wonderful hubs built the boxes that we added a 2x4 flat ledge around it so I could add a hinged greenhouse to it. So... I think I'll build one this evening and get it attached!!! It'll be fine...

ILOVE those hinged covers. I'd have no where to store them and I'd have to have giant hasps to keep them shut, and I'd never keep them on the property with the winds we have here I'd open one and they'd rip off.

But am going to forward to my sister.

 

[Sueby]

We got onions planted and bedded down... And now they are calling for snow (Insert temper tantrum here) But, I think I have a plan!!! I made sure that when my wonderful hubs built the boxes that we added a 2x4 flat ledge around it so I could add a hinged greenhouse to it. So... I think I'll build one this evening and get it attached!!! It'll be fine...

How cold is it supposed to get? Your onions will probably be fine, mine have handled snow before. I think it's more cold that will get to them. Heck, I found an onion in a bed yesterday that had made it all winter here in CT! If you do make the covers post a pic, I'd love to see it.

& I do love those beds, a friend was supposed to make me one then COVID hit. I have plexiglass panels that fit my beds but they are a bit hard to move around. (I ripped my big toenail completely off last year getting one in place, lol)

So I cooked a pecan pie cheesecake in the pressure canner, looks good but won't eat it till tonight. I now have beef bones in there, started at an hour with no veggies. I will check on it & see if it needs longer to mush the bones & will decide if I want to add any veggies or herbs then. Then I'll can the broth. Then I'll do chicken. (still cleaning out the freezer here - look at me go!)

Some stupid squirrel tore through the bed with the walking onions. I knew I should have covered it, my fault I suppose.

 

[Sally PB]

It's supposed to be a nice, sunny day. So far, it's upper 30s, and intermittent sun. I have a couple of things to do (drink some more coffee is one of them, darn it!), and then I'm going to go dig up some weeds for the chickens. And scrape another thawed inch off the compost pile.

 

[Elyrian1]

Supposed to be in the 80s here. I'm about to go water while it's still cool, and get the chicks out for some air in the shade. Hopefully we can putter on the coop/run in the evenings this week and maybe get the chicks into the new coop to finish up their brooding process so I can get them out of my house.

 

[BabyGotQuack]

Been cleaning up the garden all week, got it all done except some weeding. Now that it’s nice and clean the quacks think they own it Told hubby last night he best get crackin on a new gate!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Two of the 4 Luffa seeds I planted are sprouting! I wasn't sure if they would. Wooohooo! Now I just need to keep them alive until I can get them in the ground!

If I were to wish on a garden star, here's what I'd wish for..... A gardening database that shows you pictures of plants at sprout, seedling, pre-bud, budding, and mature stages. So often I see stuff sprouting and I'm not sure if it is the plant I sowed or a weed. I have to let it get established before I can tell the difference...

ETA - the Butterfly pea I planted is sprouting too! I've never grown these before so I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them yet....but it looked interesting!

 

[Boppo]

FINALLY planted out some leaf lettuce and something new called Komatsu (spinach mustard), that are supposed to be able to go out before last frost date. Looking at long range forecast, we may not have frost again this spring So I am hoping that these take off. I will be starting the indoors seeds to transplant, and putting out snow peas, sugar snaps as soon as I get the inocculant.

 

[Sueby]

So back goes the canner. An hour & a half & it wouldn't come up to pressure (I tried twice). Called Nesco & did some troubleshooting & they said it looks like a mechanical issue where it won't recognize the pressure. Weird because it cooked my cheesecake just fine. They are sending out a new one today & I don't need to send this one back.

 

[vall]

Planted two tomatoes in the ground and up potted the eggplant and rest of the tomatoes so they can go into DM's garden when I visit for Easter.