What did you do in the garden today?

[CaroleW]

I setup a wash station and washed pots. Getting ready to pot up 18 Moringa tree seedlings later today along with at least 48 peppers and some herbs. I intend for Moringa to be planted around coops to supplement protien/vitamin content of feed. If I have too many I might sell some.

And I planted a few big tomato starts in the greenhouse beds.

 

[BullChick]

Yesterday I got a new rain gauge. It’s an (overpriced!) oversized plastic one that has a float in it. My rose trees are doing okay considering the bad storm the other day.

My friend got the mowers fixed up, and we got the grass tamed. Today she’s working on building new porch steps. From inside it looks gorgeous!

 

[igorsMistress]

I grew up in the south so I can deal with the heat and humidity but I usually have time to acclimatize. This weather is just too frenetic. Today I needed a hoodie to do the morning chores. Likely will need it tomorrow as well. Friday will be a comfortable 80F but that’s shopping and egg delivery day. I have a lot of trees on my property so that makes mandatory work outside a little more bearable. But since I’m not as frisky as I was in my younger day I’m still careful about pacing myself and staying hydrated.

Trees definitely help, I’ve planted a few to hopefully help in my yard also. I’m pretty sure I’m going through the change and right now the heat kills me, I’m grumpy enough already lol.

 

[karenerwin]

Something is loving my eggplants.
There are tiny black beetle looking things all over them that are destroying the leaves on all 5 or 6 of the eggplants.
I’m thinking of trying some kind of soap spray to try to get rid of them. We’ve been having a lot of rain though so I don’t know if it will help or not.

This picture is my beets, radishes, bolting Bok Choy and a few peas. In the back on the left are more radishes and some lettuce and a couple of peas.
I need to move the rabbit & cage so I can plant that last corner of the raised bed.

 

[jerryse]

Something is loving my eggplants.
There are tiny black beetle looking things all over them that are destroying the leaves on all 5 or 6 of the eggplants.
I’m thinking of trying some kind of soap spray to try to get rid of them. We’ve been having a lot of rain though so I don’t know if it will help or not. View attachment 3113285This picture is my beets, radishes, bolting Bok Choy and a few peas. In the back on the left are more radishes and some lettuce and a couple of peas.
I need to move the rabbit & cage so I can plant that last corner of the raised bed.

Sounds like flea beetles . Bok Choy is better planted in late July . Days are getting shorter so it will not bolt . Works for turnips and any mustard family plants . Even radish .

 

[jerryse]

Rain this morning so too wet to garden . So I built a bee box ( brood chamber ) and painted it .

 

[CNJ]

There are tiny black beetle looking things all over them that are destroying the leaves on all 5 or 6 of the eggplants.

I think the ants bring them up the egg plant. I use a small plastic pill bottle with a hole near the top. I put 1 tsp boric acid, 3 tsp sugar, and 3 tsp water in the bottle, cap it, put my finger on the hole and shake it vigorously and put next to the egg plant stem. If I see ants walking up the stem I put tree tanglefoot goo around the bottom stem. I use a small artist brush to apply the goo. I bought it on amazon, the ants that went up get stuck when they come down.

I use a tsp of dawn liquid soap and 1 tsp of neem oil with water in a 25 oz hand spray bottle to kill them. This solution is mild enough for tomato plants.

 

[Sueby]

Beautiful out today.

The blueberries have flowers & the bees have found them!

My pathetic tomato starts. I think they're stunted, they haven't grown at all:

My dill bolted already

Killing slugs in the lettuce, hopefully:

Got the strawberries covered, soooo many bees!

 

[Iluveggers]

Got the rest of my tomatoes in today! Also added bamboo poles and twine across my pea rows, a few are about 5 inches tall already and needed a trellis! Topped off my tomato bags with dirt. Do these look ok to you guys? First time trying them.

Tomorrow I’ll seed my curcubits and flowers since it’s supposed to rain all day. Friday I’ll put my peppers in, supposed to be 80, and 91 with thunderstorms on Sat!

Things are starting to come together. My favorite point in the year when the garden starts looking less like dirt and more like a garden. Pretty soon everything will be higher than me!

 

[CNJ]

Instead of using a nylon string, I used a screw to drip water on my cherry tomato plants. This little container keeps the soil on top of this pot moist. I fill it once daily, there is still water in it when I check it in the morning.

The pot has a one inch hole on the bottom with factory drain holes.. I stuck a 15 inch micro fiber cloth through the hole on the bottom and screwed it to the pot and 5 gallon cover. I made it so the soil can't fall through the hole. I drilled a drain hole near the top of the 5 gallon water reservoir to prevent root rot.

The wick on the bottom keeps the bottom soil moist, but the summer heat dries the top out, so I put the dripper on top. I have a pot with a bottom wick next to it with out the top drip to compare with. I also have a pot with an open water reservoir to compare with. But the water reservoir needs to be refilled twice a day verses once a month with the 5 gallon water reservoir.

I have a lot of experiments going on the other side.......There is a 5 gallon bucket filled with 4 inches of lava rock, couple of inches above the drain hole, with a 15 inch micro fiber wicking cloth. I put a Walmart bag filled with potting soil on it. I was too lazy to drill air pruning holes on the side of the bucket, maybe next time.

I also have a wicking pot that I bought from Home depot, there is a water reservoir with 3 indentions that hold soil in contact with the water. The problem with the design is it is hard to fill the water reservoir from the bottom, so I attached a 3/8 inch 90 degree fitting to it and ran a 3/8 tube to a small plastic coffee container, now its easy to fill the bottom reservoir with water.