What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

We picked up our extra fridge and freezers from DS1 house today and I hit the truckload meat sale at our local IGA We should be pretty stocked for a while!

Oops…..not the thread I intended

No problem. I was running low on meat and bought about a hundred bucks worth of meat at Fred Meyer a couple days ago. It's nice having a few months worth of food on hand, just in case, you know... of armegeddon. LOL

 

[Smokerbill]

You mean, you're not all goofing off in your garden all day???

The way my body aches, gardening isn't goofing off. It's work.

 

[BReeder!]

I don't sleep well... so I decided after 9pm to go out and transplant 35 pepper plants. The tiered bed looks great loaded with pepper plants! 2 tiers of Candy Apple bell peppers, 1 row of Costa Rican sweet peppers and 1 row of Fish hot peppers. Kept the hot ones in the top tier so their a little more challenging for the kids to get to. That was DW's call as I was actually wanting to plant the hot ones in the lowest tier to deter rabbits that sneak into the garden - I find they tend to stay away from the hot peppers every year. Kids having a hot pepper ordeal is worse than losing a few peppers to rabbits though so I will have to try deterring with hot peppers in a few years when the kids are a bit bigger.

 

[TJAnonymous]

You mean, you're not all goofing off in your garden all day???

OK, I'll confess to being annoyed that my actual paying job interferes with my gardening time.

 

[igorsMistress]

I'm so sorry it's taking so long for you to get help. I know all too well what you're going through. We've been dealing with the same here and my husband is currently out of work. Different health concerns but the wait to see every specialist is sooo long that we're going on almost 7 months of my husband trying to get help. They're still trying to figured out what is happening. PCP, cardiologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, it has been very challenging and stressful to say the least...If the exploratory GI procedure they're about to do on him next week doesn't provide answers we're going to get a second opinion from another cardiologist but I may be irreparably upset with his original cardiologist if it does end up being related. We have seen him more than 10 times in the past 7 months and he keeps saying he doesn't think it's heart related even though all of this started after his emergency stent procedure in October. I'm really hoping the GI doctor finds something simple in this upcoming procedure so he can get help.
Prayers for your relief as well!

Oh my goodness, best of luck to your hubs! Nobody wants to get sued so they don’t help at all I guess. Pretty sad.

 

[gtaus]

Have you seen James Prigioni's Youtube channel? He calls trellised tomatoes tomato trees. Pretty informative stuff. But kind of a goofy guy. LOL

His dog eats vegetables out of the garden. I'm not sure that's a good thing. I guess I'd rather have a dog that eats rabbits that try to get in the garden and eat the food. Seems like his dog skipped a step!

James Prigioni's YouTube channel is one of my favorite gardening channels and I have learned a lot of good stuff from him. Having said that, I watch lots of gardening channels and learn from all of them. Maybe that just reflects my lack of knowledge and experience in gardening.

 

[Sally PB]

SuperSauce toms

A friend sent me some seeds from his Super Sauce toms from last year. I don't know if he knows they're hybrids. I planted 4 pots' worth, just to see how they do. He said the tomatoes blew Amish Paste out of the water, so I thought I'd see.

Their meat all comes from their own farm. It's a premium price, but I know where it comes from, how it was raised, and how the meat was handled.

That, right there, is worth it. There's a local meat farm near us, but DH doesn't want to support a "factory farm." Uh... what do you think we're doing, buying meat at the grocery store? SMH.

 

[Sueby]

Well I’m officially unemployed. This stupid vertigo has kept me out of work for two weeks now and the employer won’t hold off any longer. I go see an ENT in June so hopefully I’ll get some sort of diagnosis and then can move on and find a new job. In the meantime I feel like I’m living on a boat and don’t have my sea legs yet. All I did was water the apricot tree, haven’t even been out to check on the tomatoes.

Oh IM, I’m so sorry the vertigo is still so bad for you. I hope you get relief soon & can get back to life.

 

[Sueby]

I watered the bean seeds in & spread a bunch of wildflower seeds in the garden beds since I won’t be planting anything but the beans.

DH is digging up all the beds that surround the house to put in mouse guard around the base of the siding (were on a slab & the siding is underground on 2 sides of the house, hence digging). He’s trying to save the hydrangea by digging them up & planting elsewhere for the season & then moving them back in the fall. I hope they make it, but I have my doubts.

 

[igorsMistress]

His dog eats vegetables out of the garden. I'm not sure that's a good thing. I guess I'd rather have a dog that eats rabbits that try to get in the garden and eat the food. Seems like his dog skipped a step!

James Prigioni's YouTube channel is one of my favorite gardening channels and I have learned a lot of good stuff from him. Having said that, I watch lots of gardening channels and learn from all of them. Maybe that just reflects my lack of knowledge and experience in gardening.

I think videos are a great way to learn, and there’s always something to learn when it comes to gardening.