What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

I got tired of watering my Apple, Gran Nain Chiquita and Ice cream banana trees and let them dry out. However, the Ice cream and Gran Nain banana trees are still alive, I should make a clone of the Ice Cream banana tree before it dies. I already moved the dwarf Gran Nain Chiquita Banana tree to my front yard where I can take good care of it. The stem is really thick, I am pretty sure I am going to get a giant cluster this year, Its my baby.

bury a piece of cloth near the tree roots and it will keep water. that's how my almond tree survived. nobody has watered it since I planted it 4 years ago.

 

[chickengr]

I'm curious about - EVERYthing. LOL

Viper is another word for venomous snake, so I looked up what you have there. You might be interested in it - or not. LOL

You might have seen a Common European Adder, or Milos, Ottoman, Nose-horned, or Meadow vipers. The Eastern Montpellier is mildly venomous, but the fangs in back make it not much of a threat.

https://travelsnippet.com/europe/greece/venomous-snakes-in-greece/

they were nose horned vipers.

 

[BReeder!]

Need a little advice....

This is my first year attempting to start seeds for transplanting later in the raised beds. I bought a 50 pack of 3 inch net cups. The seedlings are doing fine, and I have started bringing them outside during the day. My question, if it rains outside and the storage bin lid fills up with 1 inch of water, will it drown out my plants in the net cups? I think I would be in real trouble if I used regular pots with solid walls, but will the slots in the net cups prevent the roots from drowning because they have so much access to air all around the cup?

FYI, I am using these Hefty Hi Rise 72qt storage bins as mini greenhouses. I turn the bin upside down, using the lid as the tray to hold the plants and the clear bin becomes the greenhouse if needed. However, like today, I just let the plants stay outside without the top on. If it rains and the lid fills up with as much as 1-1/2 inches before it overflows, will it drown out the plants in the net cups?

FWIW, I have been bottom watering the plants by putting 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water in the lid, allowing the net cups to soak up the water over a day or two. Then I wait for a few days until I see the top of the net cups drying out. Then I bottom water again in a day or two. It seems to work for me. But I have seen other people recommending that all water not absorbed by the net cup's potting soil should be removed after 20 minutes.

I really don't know what is best. It seems to me that the net cups with all those slots are just different than pots with solid walls and I don't know if the net cups are as prone to overwatering. Anyways, that's my concern and my questions. Thanks for any help in advance.

How big are the plants? I had to put almost an inch of water into my tray of tomato starts regularly as they were heavy drinkers. A lot of herbs don't like to be so wet though. Most other plants will be find, just drain off the excess water after the storm passes.

 

[BReeder!]

Good morning all. I’m finally getting around to changing the strawberry water today and I noticed lettuce sprouts already popped up. Our weather is beautiful today, cloudy with a breeze and only 81 for our projected high. Tomorrow will be watering to prep for warm temps over the weekend though. I can’t complain about our weather at all, we’re about to have the second 100+ day this year but then it drops back into the 90’s. I’m going to have to enlist the teenager and hubs for yard work help over the weekend, primarily the chickens. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep them, guess I’ll have to wait and see how this vertigo crap works out. Anyway, that’s it for me, have a good day all.

Do you grow lettuce in the shade? What tactics do you use to prevent it from bolting in your heat?

Edit: "shade" not "shed"

 

[BReeder!]

I filled a tire in the garden and transplanted watermelon and charentais melon into it. I need to do one more. I'm sifting rocks out of a pile of soil from leveling three ground where the duck run used to be though, so it takes a while to sift enough dirt to fill a tire. These are tires from my old pickup, so they're a decent size and take two wheel barrows of dirt to fill.

 

[Sally PB]

I got a lot done today. Then when I sat down in the chicken run to rest, I saw this:

My poor Snowbird!

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

There's actually one made for this purpose. It's less than $50, and it's its only job. So no need to find an old fashioned tall jack, nor can you loose the plate attachment. Also, I have found a piece of 3/4 inch or a good chunk of 1x6 decking to put under the jack a must. It keeps the jack from sinking in soft ground as you jack.

Lately I've been having to use the tractor as the posts I'm jacking are less than 3 feet tall. Originally 8, but between resetting and ground rise....that's all that's left. Cattle look at a 3 foot fence and say , "Challenge accepted!"

I've seen those. I'd like to see which is easier to use.
Looks like a lot of force might be needed in super hard ground?

I wish I had a tractor.
I may be the only girl in town that passes the tractor sales yards and cranes my neck, counting all the ones I wish I could buy. LOL

I loved using them on the ranch when I was growing up.
Buckets, backhoes; we had an old DC-9 crawler tractor, too.

SOOO handy to have tractors!!

 

[TJAnonymous]

My little goat FINALLY had her babies today!

A little boy

And a little girl


Between that and the rain, I didn't get the replacement strawberries in....

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

My little goat FINALLY had her babies today!

A little boy
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And a little girl
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Between that and the rain, I didn't get the replacement strawberries in....

Aw!!
Little Pygmies?

I used to have a lovely herd of Pygmies.

 

[WthrLady]

I've seen those. I'd like to see which is easier to use.
Looks like a lot of force might be needed in super hard ground?

I wish I had a tractor.
I may be the only girl in town that passes the tractor sales yards and cranes my neck, counting all the ones I wish I could buy. LOL

I loved using them on the ranch when I was growing up.
Buckets, backhoes; we had an old DC-9 crawler tractor, too.

SOOO handy to have tractors!!

yep, had to pull my mower out of the ditch twice today. I bottomed out. SO nice to have the tractor. LOL