What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Gardeners you’re all an adventurous bunch. Does anyone here use sous vide as a cooking method?

My son does, has a machine an all.
He enjoys it as he can bag meals and pop them in the machine as he gets home and have them ready by the time he's done washing up.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good afternoon gardeners. There’s a lot happening around the Wee Farm lately. I may have mentioned it before but the owner of the land behind my property is having the trees harvested. I was really concerned they were putting in a subdivision but apparently they’re just harvesting the trees and letting the forest regrow. This has turned out-to be an opportunity for me to have the massive old pine trees removed at a fraction of the cost of having them removed at a later date. They’ll be leaving the healthy hardwood trees. So this will also be an opportunity to plant some trees I would really love to have like dogwoods, pear and hazel nuts. I’m also planning on fencing it in to discourage the bobcats and coyotes from getting too close to the house. I should have room for another raised garden bed or two. Yay!

 

[CNJ]

instead of spending money on those clips you can just use the tabs from loaves of bread too. Feed the chickens the bread, the chickens fertilize your tomatoes, you tie the tomatoes up and at the end of the season you have an egg n tomater sammich with the heels since chickens only eat the good bread

Aaron

I got a bunch of these clips sitting around in a box, so I want to use them up before they turn brittle. They are cheaply made and can only last one season out in the sun.
I thinking about forming #12 solid copper wire into a U shape with the
two ends formed into a spiral hook to clip on the horizontal string. This can be reused for many years if it works.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good afternoon gardeners. There’s a lot happening around the Wee Farm lately. I may have mentioned it before but the owner of the land behind my property is having the trees harvested. I was really concerned they were putting in a subdivision but apparently they’re just harvesting the trees and letting the forest regrow. This has turned out-to be an opportunity for me to have the massive old pine trees removed at a fraction of the cost of having them removed at a later date. They’ll be leaving the healthy hardwood trees. So this will also be an opportunity to plant some trees I would really love to have like dogwoods, pear and hazel nuts. I’m also planning on fencing it in to discourage the bobcats and coyotes from getting too close to the house. I should have room for another raised garden bed or two. Yay!

Wow Sarah, super happy for you! Dogwoods are so beautiful, wish we could grow them here.

 

[igorsMistress]

My son does, has a machine an all.
He enjoys it as he can bag meals and pop them in the machine as he gets home and have them ready by the time he's done washing up.

I’m going to give it a try. I’m always looking for alternatives to help keep the heat down inside in summer.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's nearly 70 degrees today! I finally got out to the garden to do a little winter cleaning. I have a lot of stuff to burn but doubt I'll get to that today. I want to put down some compost too which can degrade over the winter into the soil. I finally managed to get the thornless blackberry planted that I picked up on the clearance rack. I still have a Glencoe raspberry to plant but haven't decided where I want to put that one. I have 3 raspberry beds but they are all full already. I'm debating on whether to put it in my backyard by the apple tree except that I have a lot of wild raspberry over there that I've been trying like hell to eradicate. The Glencoe is supposed to be thornless but knowing my luck I'll accidently pull out the wrong one. Of course, I'm also worried about potential pests or blight too from the wild raspberry.

Lastly, I took a measuring tape down to the garden. Prior to us bringing in the tire beds and building up the hoop house, my garden was 20 ft x 20 ft area that we tilled every spring. Now I have some permanent structures there which have broken up my planting space a little bit. I have a little less space than I laid out on my garden plan but I should be able to adjust pretty well. This warm weather is giving me garden fever....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Oh....I also picked up some Dormant spray this morning. I need to use it on the apple, peach, and plum trees anyway. I sprayed the heck out of the lemon tree too. I pruned some of the lower branches (needed to do that anyway) and used a toothbrush to clean off any citrus scale I could find. I will do it again in a few days just to say I did. I'm also still going to use some pyrethrin fogger on it to kill any mites that might still be hanging around. Come hell or high water, I am going to save this damn tree if it kills me. Hopefully it will actually give me lemons this year.

 

[Ascholten]

Good luck with your lemons, hopefully it survives. I think my Myers lemon is going to be pushing up daisies after this last bout of hard frost sadly. I need to do my strawberries too, the patch is just getting scraggly and the girls tearing thru it all summer did NOT help it one bit either. I may just mulch the whole thing under. If any survive, well good for them, and replant something else there.

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

So far today I’ve planted carrots, lettuce, peas and radishes in pots and some collards and icicle radish’s in the new strawberry bed. Also weeded the blueberry bed. I still need to go out and did the old strawberry bed and mulch that whole section of the garden.

I have so much i need to get planted too but with a busted foot, No motivation and it starts throbbing if I do anything on it so, probably not much for me. The blueberries are already inand established, so probably throw more mulch to boost that up a bit for the spring time and the annuals. oh well, maybe next year..

which reminds me i still need to put the garlic / vidalias in sigh

Aaron

 

[muddy75]

I started cleaning up dog poo and picking up leftover garden vines etc while outside today