What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

Pole beans are growing really fast. Road trip today to drive DD to hospital for a procedure.

it is too cold here to start beans outside. I still cannot believe it. in previous years I had bush beans matured by this time of the year.

 

[Sally PB]

I'm still hoping they moderate the low of 39 for next Tuesday night. That's the only 30s in the 8 day forecast.

I bought another XL dog crate today. I'll be getting chicks next Tuesday (or Wednesday) in the mail, and they need a brooder. I have an XL crate and a large crate up in the garden, to harden off the plants.

Under the covers:

 

[Smokerbill]

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.

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Why do you use the spoon tomato as a rootstock? Does it impart disease resistance to the scion? Does it help it withstand cool or hot climates? I think I see where the pineapple tomato is attached. Its stem is kind of brown looking, right? Anyway, good work! You definitely enjoy your tomatoes!

I'm still hoping they moderate the low of 39 for next Tuesday night. That's the only 30s in the 8 day forecast.

I bought another XL dog crate today. I'll be getting chicks next Tuesday (or Wednesday) in the mail, and they need a brooder. I have an XL crate and a large crate up in the garden, to harden off the plants.
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Under the covers:
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Wow, the upside down yogurt container as a pot is genius! Just pop the lid off the bottom and the rootball slides right out when you plant them. At least, that's my guess. LOL
Cool! I'll try that one next year.

 

[Smokerbill]

I forgot to mention, I bought seeds today. A pack containing a variety of summer squash, from the picture it looks like it has a couple types of zucchini, straight and crook neck yellow, and patty pan. And a pack of rattlesnake pole beans. Never grew 'em, but the pic on the pack looked cool so I got those instead of the Blue Lake pole beans.

I also have cucumber seeds to plant. Need to rig up some kind of wall/trellis for them to climb.

It's time to plant the warm weather seeds where I'm at now. Starting tomorrow, highs at mid to hi 80s, overnight lows mid to low 50s. The seeds should sprout quickly.

I made a simple support for the floating row cover I put over my brassicas. They seem to be doing well. They're in a spot that gets morning sun, up to about 1PM. Then they are shaded for the rest of the day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am letting it go a bit turning it to flower bed @karenerwin

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

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.

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Soooooooooo... Not blue at all.... LOL

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

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.

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Nicely done!!

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

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.

It's sad that such a lovely thing as a raspberry is causing trouble.

Landscape fabric and gravel should help, but you may have to lay a lot of it down. The other option is possibly even more expensive. - burying a barrier to keep them from growing over, then killing what is on your side. I also wonder about spading down along the fenceline, and painting the sprouts on your side with some weed killer as they come up. No matter what, it's going to be a bit of work.

I finally took out one stand of raspberries I've had. It was so much trouble, very long trailing canes with a lot of prickly thorns, and it rarely gave fruit.

I kept another variety that is more upright, has fewer thorns, and produces lots of raspberries.

 

[chickengr]

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.

if I were you I would keep the raspberries and put hardware cloth or similar so that kids cannot go near.

 

[chickengr]

I grew up knowing that raspberries are red. 8 years ago I learned there are yellow raspberries but always sold out. from this thread I learned there are black raspberries as well. yesterday I got lucky. returning from athens I stopped by a nursery and got 1 of each: red, yellow and black raspberries and 1 blackberry.

I am happy now to learn that they spread out as they are a bit pricy so only 1 plant of each raspberries allowed this year. I have to do too many things about my new place and house so fancy planting has to wait.

as for blackberries they are easy to propagate. wherever they touch the ground they root.