What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

Watered the garden and DD helped me finally start the super sweet 100 tomatoes that I forgot to stay back with the others in Feb. Its OK, they'll be behind but they'll catch up eventually I am sure. Cherry types tend to fruit earlier and abundantly so no worries.

Need to get back out there in a bit and sow the yardlong beans and sunflowers. I'm thinking of using some old tires to create "mounds" for the melons. Might plant the sunflowers in one too.

Edited: "watered the garden," not "wasted the garden." LOL.

 

[Sally PB]

So sorry about your Rose of Sharon. Dang.

I moved everything out of the green house today. The spaghetti squash and marigolds have been out for a couple days; I put upside down clear totes over them at night.

Now everything, all the tomatoes, peppers, onions (from seed) and loofa are out in dog crates with a sheet clothes pinned over. Unless they threaten nights below about 42, they'll stay out.

After this week of warm weather, we go back below normal, so I could have a chilly night. I will also lose one of the dog crates, as it will be my chick brooder in a week!

 

[Sally PB]

We saw one of the owners of our favorite local farmstand when we were in TSC. He said he's not putting out any more than he can cover. Sounds wise to me!

I think I need to get the tiller running. It sure would help knock down the invasive grass that comes in the garden.

 

[WthrLady]

Although the person who bought that property and made it into an Air B'n'B might be making some money, the rest of us have certainly lost value in our properties in terms of security alone. It's really hard to look out for yourself and your neighbors when you don't know who is coming on going in your neighborhood.

You could always go to the air bb site and see if it is rented out.

 

[WthrLady]

potted a horseradish that was popping up where I didn't want one.
I might give that to DS for his apartment deck.
Potted up 7 new air rooted trees saplings. (Not ones I air rooted.) They're in pots in the garden with their own little drip lines.
Spread some more mulch in some low spots. OMG so moldy and one bag had rocks the size of a fist in them!
So that's a lot for a day that is supposed to be kicked back after allergy shots, outside in the pollen, dust, mold, and grasses. LOL.

 

[jerryse]

DH and I got into a big fight last week. I had mentioned to him when we were out at the barn that we (he) needed to cut down a sapling that was growing next to the side door into the barn.

He was only half listening to me.

On Thurs or Fri, he comes inside the house and tells me "hey, I cut down that tree in front of the HOUSE (emphasis mine) that you wanted cut down...."

As I was running out the front door, I hear him call from behind "I wasn't exactly sure which tree so I hope I picked the right one..."

I could have killed him. He cut down my Rose of Sharon tree. At least I THINK it was a Rose of Sharon. It was here when we bought the house and looks like a Blue Azurri Rose of Sharon but as a tree with a single trunk, not a bush. It was around 7 - 8 ft tall. I couldn't help it... I was so mad and sick at the same time.

He said he'd pay to replace it but....

It will probably send up new growth. Just shape to grow a single trunk. It has a good root system and likely will grow fast.

 

[WthrLady]

@TJAnonymous sorry about the ROS. But I agree, it will probably send up shoots. Silly how attached we get to our trees.

 

[Smokerbill]

Since it's getting warm in a few days I figured I better cover the brassica/lettuce bed with a floating row cover to keep the cabbage moths off my green beauties!

My dang rhubarb is doing like crap. I think the two crowns I planted got root rot because all the stems are loose and limp. I gave up on one of them, the remaining one is starting to bolt, which I guess is normal for this variety. But you can see in the pic how the leaf stems are floppy. I'm giving up on rhubarb this year. If it is root rot, my understanding is now that bed is contaminated and unsuitable for growing rhubarb. I'm going to yank 'em out and plant something else. Might try rhubarb next year. I yanked the bolting flower cluster off the plant.

My peas are beginning to latch on to the butcher's twine trellis I put up a week or so ago. I love fresh peas, pods and all!

 

[Smokerbill]

Pics of my sprouting seeds.
Turnip-
Beets-
Rainbow Chard-
Carrots- ( which are small and difficult to see, but they're there.)

They'll all need to be thinned out, and go into a nice salad.

 

[CountryCuratesWife]

Enjoying our first harvest of the season. Needed some new potatoes to go with dinner.