What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Watered the garden this morning even though it's supposed to rain tomorrow. Everything was looking really thirsty and I didn't want to gamble my garden on the weatherman's accuracy. I went ahead and pulled the lettuce in the hoop house. It was a flattened slimy mess. I've also got a feeling my romaine is going to bolt. My alpine strawberries look really awful. I think some disease is taking a toll on them. I'm really tempted to pull the whole bed and redo it as a self watering container.

Pretty sure my cukes have a blight of some sort. Going to have to treat them this evening. Too hot to do it now....


Everything else is going gangbusters and looking good!

 

[Acre4Me]

It’s Hot!! Out early again to treat the tomatoes…some are looking bad. Not wilted but yellow and purple. The worst ones are the 4 (all different types) that I purchased from a farm store. I was even there a few days ago and the left over toms still there all look great. So I dunno- my soil? Transplant shock? But, I used some little tomato fertilizer stakes on them and also used a liquid strawberry fertilizer that’s high in P yesterday, and then sprayed epsom salt diluted on their leaves early this morning. Hopefully they will produce new healthy foliage.

Checked on my sweet potato order and it won’t ship until next Monday at the earliest, which is fine bc the night temps are a bit low later this week. I’ll put clear plastic on the planting area a few days before they arrive so the soil is nice and hot for them.

All beans are up! Looking forward to them filling up the bean towers. Carrots in one bed are nicely sprouted, in the other bed, no sprouts yet, but I planted those later.

Refreshed on more fruit tree. I dug out all the grass and weeds from around the tree in a circle. Added new dirt to make up for what I removed, pressed it all down then added mulch and a support stake. Each tree takes awhile bc grass makes such a mat. But, the 5 trees I’ve done so far look much better.

 

[Sueby]

Soo much to catch up on! I will try.

I have to water the garden & I see some strawberries need to be picked. I also desperately need to cover the beans, they are sad.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. Got a little weeding done in the big garden this morning. I thinned my kale so I have my first baby kale of the season. I also picked some of the red lettuce. Everything is looking pretty good despite the up and down temps. It started out hot and humid this morning but managed to do the morning chicken chores. I just finished hilling dirt on my potato plants. We're supposed to get rain later this evening and overnight so I will likely have to hill them again. When I was at tractor supply the other day I noticed they had bales of the chopped, and I think baked straw. I was in a hurry and had no room in my car so I didn't get any. I think the cleaned straw might be an option for the potatoes next. I need to go to my regular feed store this morning for chicken feed. I'll see if they have it there. I'm still working on my Spring cleaning. The backyard is nearly finished. Today my little buddy Max gets a bath. Tomorrow will be rainy and cool so I plan on making bread and working on indoor cleaning. Sounds like you are doing really well @jerryse. That's so good to hear. After tomorrow our temperatures should be a bit more normal for a little while. Fingers crossed on that. Have a great day all.

My little potato patch. I'll be planting carrots down the middle.

Tomato plants holding up through yo yo temperatures. And yes I need to run through with the weed whacker again

baby kale

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Went outside for over an hour in the rain. Cutting old wood out of the black raspberries and pulling weeds. They look really nice now. I noticed they have some berries starting to come on.
I'm sure people driving by wondered why I'd choose to do that in the rain, but it's easier to put weeds when the ground is wet, as we all know.
I threw all my sopping wet clothes in the washer and now I'm all dry and satisfied that it got done.

 

[WthrLady]

30 tomatoes in - 15 to go
I had to come in an let the fluid in my head settle. Phew, up and down and up and bend. BLEH
Once they're in, I take another break and then turn on the irrigation for the garden and hoop house and adjust all the heads. That should water them all in.
Only in the low 70s today, so I can't pass up that weather.

The night battle of the mice in the run rages on. Destructive beasts.

 

[SheaLoner]

30 tomatoes in - 15 to go
I had to come in an let the fluid in my head settle. Phew, up and down and up and bend. BLEH
Once they're in, I take another break and then turn on the irrigation for the garden and hoop house and adjust all the heads. That should water them all in.
Only in the low 70s today, so I can't pass up that weather.

The night battle of the mice in the run rages on. Destructive beasts.

Have you tried a bucket trap for those mice yet? Had good luck with them.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I just signed an agreement to install a solar panel system with backup generator for our property. My monthly bill will actually be around $50 LESS per month than I am paying to the electric company right now.... And I will no longer have to be concerned about rolling blackouts that they are already saying are coming to a grid near you.

 

[DParker75089]

Our salad bar visitor is now coming out in broad daylight (ignore the timestamp on the photo...I forgot to reset the camera's clock when I replaced the batteries recently...this is from yesterday around 7:00am, judging from the temperature). New hoofprints were in the garden this morning, but still no new damage. I think that stuff I sprayed might actually be working.

The corn and sunflowers are around 18"-30" tall.

The "Painted Mountain" corn stalks are a dark shade of crimson. Kinda' cool.

I am having some trouble with getting herbs to germinate. I planted a bunch 3 weeks ago, and although the Basil and a few Dill plants have finally sprouted, I'm not seeing anything out of the Thyme, Rosemary, Sage, Oregano or Chives. And while the tomato plants that survived seem to be healthy and growing, I'm not seeing any blooms on them yet. Normally they'd be covered in them by the size they are. The cantaloupes are in full bloom though, and are keeping a small squadron of honey bees busy.

 

[DParker75089]

I just signed an agreement to install a solar panel system with backup generator for our property. My monthly bill will actually be around $50 LESS per month than I am paying to the electric company right now.... And I will no longer have to be concerned about rolling blackouts that they are already saying are coming to a grid near you.

I'm assuming that's without a battery bank, so you'll only be offsetting some/most/all of your grid usage when the sun is shining, correct?