What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Hey gardeners been very cool with rain here some of the berries we will plant in like a week.

 

[Acre4Me]

Leeks are planted now. The seeds were planted in cells on Jan 30, planted outside today, so almost 3 months of growth.

We decided to also plant some carrot and beet seeds. First time planting them this early.

Fruit trees were all mulched too! Lots of sun today, plenty of wind, which means the carrot seeds may be in more locations than just the planting bed.


Rhubarb is flowering. Interesting, but I looked it up and every source says to cut them off.

Asparagus bed is looking good. Planted last spring. Unfortunately, voles are in this bed. So I found “Vole-X” at Walmart and put some in their tunnels. Hopefully this will work to get rid of the voles.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Literally crying right now.
My 14 year old thought he was helping and cut down my grape vine by the sweet corn patch.
It looked the best it ever had and was five years old.
Feeling gut punched.

I stayed calm around him but told him to never cut anything down in the yard without asking every again. I told him that I spend a lot of time and money on trees/vines/plants and that he needs to ask first.
He was upset that I was sad and helped me by doing some extra chores outside.
Just emotional lately anyway.

 

[Acre4Me]

slight rant...

speaking with older relative. Apparently a bush or two in front yard were replaced by yard guy (someone who does general landscaping/trimming). Now they are dead, a few others planted same time, but not in exact spot are ok and still alive. Anyway, somewhere on the internet or some random video was seen by older relative and now every. single. time I speak with this relative they tell me about their new found knowledge: Dirt can go "bad" or "rancid" and needs to be replaced. Up to a whole foot deep. Now the relative is going to try to convince yard guy that the dirt is "bad". Yes, I have explained a few things to this relative about this topic. So, I’m sure I’ll hear about this a few more times.

 

[BReeder!]

Leeks are planted now. The seeds were planted in cells on Jan 30, planted outside today, so almost 3 months of growth.

We decided to also plant some carrot and beet seeds. First time planting them this early.

Fruit trees were all mulched too! Lots of sun today, plenty of wind, which means the carrot seeds may be in more locations than just the planting bed.


Rhubarb is flowering. Interesting, but I looked it up and every source says to cut them off.
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Asparagus bed is looking good. Planted last spring. Unfortunately, voles are in this bed. So I found “Vole-X” at Walmart and put some in their tunnels. Hopefully this will work to get rid of the voles.
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On the rhubarb, if you are wanting to harvest then cut it so the plant keeps putting energy into stalks. Also, if these are newly planted crowns cut the flowers so the plant grows more stalks/ leaves to feed the crown so it grows big and healthy to survive the winter. If the plant is established though and you are done harvesting rhubarb then I don't see how it hurts to leave the flower - it could even lead to propagation, giving you additional crowns to dig up and plant elsewhere in the future.

 

[Paz]

Applied compost in a new bed and threw chicken poop around the trees.

 

[Paz]

I found the most delicious fig tree ever. I now need to find the owner and bug him about letting me air graft it. I COULD just steal a branch… but I’m SO bad at multiplying plants. LOL

 

[Sally PB]

We have 4 nights of 30s coming, and one of them will be below that, around 28. I'm not too worried about my fruit trees, but there are lots of farmers in the area that might be.

 

[Sueby]

@Acre4Me I was walking around the yard yesterday & spotted one rhubarb that is flowering too. Of course I can’t bend to cut the flower off. Oh well, I can’t harvest any this year anyway. But you should cut it off, especially since yours are so new.

I woke up with horrible vertigo today so no gardening for me. On hold with the doc to see if they will call me in some anti nausea meds.

 

[littledog]

You should check out You Tube, we are in the information age where we don't have to buy a cooking book for recipes, its free on the internet.

I admit I'm ancient, but I'm quite familiar with YouTube and have learned many things from there, including how to fix the 12-volt battery in my electric car, what graphics card to install in a basic PC to play a few games, how to fix my ancient dryer, various methods to train a pony for driving, the best time to plant dahlias according to the weather.
Sometimes I just want to experiment for myself, right? This mistake I made, ended up becoming a new, different dish, but we all liked so I'll definitely make it again.
Still, I'll for sure look on YouTube , and other sources, for how to correctly make fried rice,