What did you do in the garden today?

[BeefQuesoritto]

I planted some hybrid willow trees for a windbreak and some much needed shade. In the fall I'll have another layer of evergreen trees planted just behind these ones.

For the garden proper, I'm talking myself into trying drip irrigation. I still haven't even prepped my beds... Really need to get going. But I also don't want to be out there watering all day!

 

[igorsMistress]

Picked up strawberries, a couple of buckets for DWC under the grow lights and a new fan. I’m going to use 3” net cups but not sure about medium yet. The English thyme is for the shade garden, I just love the way it looks, I rarely use it. Headed for Walmart so I can get some more wire fencing.

 

[fuzzi]

-four tomato varieties setting fruit! Cucumbers and squash are doing well. -harvested the last of the cabbage this morning. Bell pepper, salad pepper, and jalapeno plants are growing! -will harvest the rest of the lettuce later today.

All of the perennial gardens are blooming in cycles. The different iris varieties are showing off nicely. Society garlic and daylilies will be in bloom in a few weeks. Gaillardia, Scabiosa, and Coreopsis are blooming! (will weed these gardens after bringing in the lettuce) I planted elephant ear bulbs in large containers, and planted the tiered fountain/planter with asparagus fern.

-saw the first hummingbird yesterday!! Cardinals and sparrows are nesting in the Carolina Jessamine vines. I love this time of year!!

You're a few weeks ahead of us. We just had our last frost, a little later than the usual April 1st.

My Coreopsis won't bloom for a few weeks, usually in May along with the Canna lilies.

The Amaryllis are budding as are my Stella d'oro lilies. The other day lilies will be budding soon.

However, my pond iris are putting on a gorgeous display:

Find the Leopard frog in the picture!

 

[fuzzi]

I did that last year. This year I'm not using mulch because it was a pain to clean up

I use Cypress mulch. It decomposes, but slowly.

 

[jerryse]

My pear trees are finally blooming about 3 weeks late. Woodland Phlox is starting to bloom. Saw first snake of the season. Transplanted blackberries and a pear rootstock. I put some cuttings on April 4 and the silver maple has callous tissue. So roots soon. These are from a seedling that has a yellow-bronze color in the fall. It was just to see if it would work. The seedling is in a poor spot and needs moved. It may be mixed with the Autum blaze maple. I need to move 1 more pear rootstock. These are Harbin pear species.

 

[fuzzi]

One of my projects today was to remove the hose from the outside faucet (fused/stuck), attach a four way valve and then attach a new hose that I am running out to the vegetable beds and coop. I bought a hose stand with faucet and am planning on burying part of that particular hose so we don't need to move it for mowing.

The old hose was "frozen", so I decided to cut it off the outside faucet with a small hacksaw (as seen on YT). After I removed the remains of the hose connector I added Teflon tape to the threads. Turned on the faucet, water went spraying everywhere.

Tried again, more Teflon tape, still leaking. Tried just attaching the new hose, major leak.

I took the new hose over to another outside faucet. No leaking. I must have damaged the faucet threads even though I was trying to be careful.


It's an older house, there's no way to replace the faucet without crawling underneath and cutting the copper pipes.


Oh well...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Home Gardeners. We will get to plant by May if the weather holds.
May go to town buy strawberries.

 

[WthrLady]

90 yesterday and now only 38 and still falling for the day.
We only had .09 inches of rain. ARGH.
Inside day today, and Sunday is feed and check the lamp height on the tomatoes. The cukes, squash came up yesterday and I moved them in with the tomatoes. Still waiting on the second batch of vine tomatoes, strawberries, and luffa.

 

[Jenbirdee]

I just planted red and purple potatoes in my no-dig / ruth stout combo garden last year i grew pumpkins in that spot using just the no dig method (cardboard over the grass/weeds and compost/soil on top of the cardboard then mulched with poopy duck/goose straw) Over winter I dumped a LOT of goose poopy pine shavings on that spot. Now I tossed a couple wheelbarrows of compost (that I made out back) on there and planted the potatoes !!

 

[WthrLady]

One of my projects today was to remove the hose from the outside faucet (fused/stuck), attach a four way valve and then attach a new hose that I am running out to the vegetable beds and coop. I bought a hose stand with faucet and am planning on burying part of that particular hose so we don't need to move it for mowing.

The old hose was "frozen", so I decided to cut it off the outside faucet with a small hacksaw (as seen on YT). After I removed the remains of the hose connector I added Teflon tape to the threads. Turned on the faucet, water went spraying everywhere.

Tried again, more Teflon tape, still leaking. Tried just attaching the new hose, major leak.

I took the new hose over to another outside faucet. No leaking. I must have damaged the faucet threads even though I was trying to be careful.


It's an older house, there's no way to replace the faucet without crawling underneath and cutting the copper pipes.


Oh well...

Exactly how I ended up replacing the line from my workshop to a splitter on the hose outside. Same problem too. It rusted and seized to the male part coming from the shop. Didn't cost me as much as I thought it would to replace, but ARGH. So annoying. I feel your pain.