What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

Congrats @chickengr - how exciting!

I hope everyone is hanging in with the cold & snow. We are prepared for the power to go out, generator is ready.

i have 0 luck with lavender, I have given up. It will live a year or 2 then die one winter.

2nd surgery is tomorrow, see y’all after that! With my luck the hospital will lose power in the middle of it.

good luck with your surgery. hospitals should have generators at least for the surgery rooms.

 

[chickengr]

So far lots of congrats but nobody has offered to help @chickengr move! I would but I couldn’t get my passport renewed in time. Greece in January sounds pretty good to me!

january is the coldest month here. it may snow as well. summer is better, lol.

 

[WthrLady]

January is our coldest month as well. Hopefully, it won't be colder than this.

 

[Mr Spot]

Nothing, It's to cold !!

 

[Sequel]

I picked some frozen cabbage leaves for the chickens yesterday.

 

[CNJ]

I just read a book on how to grow a strong Better Boy tomato plant and it gave me some ideas. I will prune all the suckers and flowers off my Better Boy until it reaches 3 to 4 feet and let it bush out from there, up to the top of my 10ft cage. I will try feeding them once a week with 5-1-1 Alaskan fish emulsion and 0-10-10 Alaskan Bloom on different 3 day intervals. This is in addition to the 10-10-10 chemical fertilizer and granular lime I mixed with my potting mix. I tried testing the ph of the granular lime and peat moss separately and both came out neutral 7, so I will add 1/4 tsp of citric acid to the 2 gallons fish emulsion water mix to drop the ph to 6. I am also adding pressure cooked garlic water. Hopefully, the tomato plant will absorb the garlic water and repel the aphid and white fly.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning all. For those in the storm zone I hope you all stay safe and warm! Hubs dug a hole for me and I planted the new Arabian lilac I got through Etsy. That place is DANGEROUS, I could spend some serious bucks on plants there. The boys got new beds so that’s our project for today, but I do need to water as well. I’m off work until Jan 3 so I’m hoping to spend at least a few days next week getting the lemon tree trimmed and a few other things also. However our forecast has changed and there’s some rain coming too hopefully. I’m good with that, we need it so bad!

 

[Eagle343]

Just got the fire place started, as a back up. The winds here are quite strong. About 4 inches of snow or so, although with drift I could be off...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Our temps are just starting to drop here in the south too. I'm going to need to get out there and harvest all of my satsuma oranges before the end of the day if I want to save them.

 

[Ascholten]

Our temps are just starting to drop here in the south too. I'm going to need to get out there and harvest all of my satsuma oranges before the end of the day if I want to save them.

Doesn't the frost help them get a bit sweeter. We usually leave our citrus on the tree for a good frost or two to sweeten them up.

Aaron