What did you do in the garden today?

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

We got a GOOD gully washer last night! I'm so thankful! We needed it badly!

Got a break in the rain so I went down to the garden to snap a few pictures. DH is going to be griping at me to bury the poly line so he can mow.

Open side of the the garden proper:
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From the other end:
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Inside the hoop house (cucurbits, lettuce, corn, beans, and cauliflower):
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New beds for vertical watermelon, cantaloupe, and pumpkins. Still need to put in the cattle panel:
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And on the perimeter...that asparagus is over 6 ft tall!
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Grapes are going crazy! All the way down the fence...
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First raspberry of the spring and the new strawberry beds. Still have to put in the replacements that Stark Brothers sent:
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Onions and garlic:
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And lastly - peach & plum trees, aronia bush, and some flower seedlings mixed among the weeds.
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All that hard work sure shows! Beautiful gardens.

 

[CNJ]

I found a full spectrum adjustable height 2ft grow light on Amazon, I think its better than the un-adjustable Ferry Morse light. I need one to get my tomato seedlings big enough to graft. I have to stack books under my seedlings to prevent them from getting leggy under the Ferry Morse grow light.

I got the amazon 3 year protection plan for $5, its about the same price as the Ferry Morse grow light without the protection.

https://www.amazon.com/Soligt-Start...e70-41b5-be1f-5f3202c83bb7&pd_rd_i=B0BLRXV6HP

 

[Sueby]

Looking good @TJAnonymous!

 

[CNJ]

I won't be growing Tim's Taste of Paradise and Blue Berry from Wild Boar Farms again, the tomatoes are too small.

Tim's Taste of Paradise taste sweet like a tiny Sun Gold, but the tiny Blue Berry is too tart and takes too long to get ripe. Its not worth the effort, in my opinion.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

I won't be growing Tim's Taste of Paradise and Blue Berry from Wild Boar Farms again, the tomatoes are too small.

Tim's Taste of Paradise taste sweet like a tiny Sun Gold, but the tiny Blue Berry is too tart and takes too long to get ripe. Its not worth the effort, in my opinion.

I have a Blue Boar planted this year. I'd had the seed packet for a few years and finally put one in. It will be interesting to see if it's any good after hearing of your experience.

 

[Paz]

A building has been hit by rockets. Two farmers were killed at the southern fields. A bunch of houses were hit as well.
Older brother will stay in the base this weekend. He usually comes back every weekend.
I exchanged about a 1,000 corn seeds, to grow as a trellis in my small farm, the other guy received beans.

 

[CNJ]

I have a Blue Boar planted this year. I'd had the seed packet for a few years and finally put one in. It will be interesting to see if it's any good after hearing of your experience.

The orange ones are Tim's Taste of Paradise, the sales pitch on them were, "People who tried them like it better than Sun Gold, hands down." The red one with the back blush are the Blue Berries, they taste sour half ripe and gets mild when fully ripe. They are kind of blue when not ripe and turn red when ripe. However, its hard to tell when they are fully ripe, only one in the picture was ripe, the rest tasted sour.

 

[CNJ]

My pineapple tomato scion is starting to grow on the spoon tomato root stock. Notice how fat the scion is in comparison to the the spoon tomato root stock. They were the same size when I joined them together. I hope they balance out. You may need to blow the picture up to see the join.

This is my baby, I love this plant, since this is my first successful graft.


The key adjustments made for my spoon tomato root stock graft were.................

1) Used a mature root stock with two leaves to keep the plant alive during the healing process.

2) Did not water the root stock during the healing process.

3) Covered top of the root stock's pot with dry peat, so mushroom fungus didn't grow.

 

[BReeder!]

My neighbor has raspberries planted near the shared fence. They are coming up in my garden now. I have never grown them, so didn't realize just how thorny these plants are! Right now we are resorting to pulling the plants on our side. Mulch alone is certainly no barrier for raspberries. Will a double layer of better-quality landscape fabric ripped with pea gravel block these things from coming up?
The neighbor is nice and I don't want to ask them to relocate the plants, especially since they have several of them in this area. I just want to keep the plants from creeping into my garden path that is right along the fence. Our kids go in the garden a lot, so a bunch of thorny stems in a pathway is going to result in more tears, pricks, cuts and bandaids than bearies.

 

[TJAnonymous]

My neighbor has raspberries planted near the shared fence. They are coming up in my garden now. I have never grown them, so didn't realize just how thorny these plants are! Right now we are resorting to pulling the plants on our side. Mulch alone is certainly no barrier for raspberries. Will a double layer of better-quality landscape fabric ripped with pea gravel block these things from coming up?
The neighbor is nice and I don't want to ask them to relocate the plants, especially since they have several of them in this area. I just want to keep the plants from creeping into my garden path that is right along the fence. Our kids go in the garden a lot, so a bunch of thorny stems in a pathway is going to result in more tears, pricks, cuts and bandaids than bearies.

They spread via rhizomes which can travel quite far when determined. I've got some popping up 5-6 ft away from their designated bed.