What did you do in the garden today?

[littledog]

Whew, it got up to 90 degrees this weekend! We're not used to anything like these temps, this early in the year.
I set myself up in a shady area and stained my new 8 raised beds, cleaned out the chicken feed/supply area, and planted some Kinnikinnick shrubs on a slope to stabilize it.
I held off planting any of my seedlings outside, the sudden heat would be too much for them. Amazingly, two luffa seedlings have sprouted! I'd given up on them, they took 3 weeks to decide to show their faces!
Mr Dog got out the brush cutter and mowed around the existing beds, then I weeded the tires. Strawberries and chives are doing good. One of the tires I planted last year with dill didn't grow, so I said "oh well" and reseeded it with parsley. Now, the tire has both dill and parsley!

 

[Paz]

I'm not that hardcore. I sleep good at around 55 degrees or so. But I chopped all my hair off today so I might need it to be a little warmer tonight.

I'm not sure what else I'll be planting in the garden now. All my brassicas are growing, lettuce too. Artichokes, herbs, beets and chard. Onions (started from seed and not doing well), turnips, carrots, peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers. Kale, chives. Summer squash, cucumbers.

What am I missing? I still have some space left for planting. Suggestions?

Of course, you are missing DILL. How can you forget DILL?! Ha? And garlic.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

I think this full spectrum two lamp grow light I got from Amazon is better than the Ferry Morse single fluorescent grow light and they cost the same with free Prime shipping.

The tomato seedlings started off under the Ferry Morse grow light, but they were getting leggy, so I took them outside for a few days before this new light came in the mail.

The reason I wanted to grow them inside is because I don't want them to get bitten by an insect that is carrying the TYLCV virus. I plan to graft a Mochi Cherry onto a resistant Yellow Apple cherry plant.

I started some French lettuce in one dome tray and 6 Jolene and 6 heat loving Roma tomatoes in another dome tray, both have the TYLCV resistance. I got the Roma seeds from a local seed company.

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Very interesting about having to deal with a TYLVC virus.
Good solution!

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Highs in the low 90s in north Florida. First crop of tomatoes are almost ready. There’s some ripe ones now but I’m going to let them sit. Not only does it make them sweeter, but it also lets the birds get a few to spread the seeds.

The blueberries will be ripe in a few more weeks. Sweet potatoes are coming up. Seminole pumpkins are spreading. I have one lone okra plant doing well in some chicken dirt. Goji berries are ripening. The lettuce has seeded out. The cow peas are leafing out. I’m trying a new variety this year right out of Africa that’s supposed to prefer staying on the ground to climbing.

Our normal gardening season will be over about the time the blueberries come in. In the height of summer, we can only grow peppers, some tropical crops, and certain Florida-adapted varieties. We then have a shortened fall growing season and a long winter growing season.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Back to work today. I really needed the break. After I fed the chickens earlier I planted the pansies I bought for the last planter in front of the chicken yard. I bought some petunias to plant with all of them, however, there is a hard frost forecasted for Thursday morning. Wah! Nothing else is going into the dirt until that's over. I picked up some zinnias and celosia at the nursery nearby on Saturday. DD found some chocolate tomato plants so she bought 2. I'll keep them safe until she can plant them next Sunday. The blueberry bush I ordered from Amazon came a week early and good golly, it's 2 feet tall almost. It's also blooming. LOL! I have to be careful where I plant it so it doesn't block out the sun from the other blueberry plants. I'll be securing and straightening the chicken wire around the new garden bed later this morning. Hopefully it won't take long because I need the excess wire to cover the herb beds. Chloe has decided there must be a bunny hiding in there. Not funny. This afternoon I'll be mowing the front yard, if there's enough gas left in the tank. If not, there's tons of weed whacking that needs to be done.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Forgot to mention. My oregano desperately needs to be tamed a bit. It's taken over half of one herb bed. I'll be transplanting some of that to the back slope. I have English lavender sprouts coming along to plant out there as well. I need to find some creeping thyme plants then get the mustard seed into the ground out there. I don't want any grass or anything I need to mow growing back there. I have an area that is covered in poison ivy so I think the best thing for that is to smother it with cardboard and mulch or rocks.

 

[Sally PB]

Everything came through last night's cold temps just fine!

Whew!

 

[Swiss]

I had a couple of things under the sheets get damaged by the frost, but everything else pulled through! YAY! A couple of marigolds outside of the sheets are probably dead, but I only planted a couple, and am not too upset about it.

Also, I used the yogurt containers with their lids on as little greenhouses/frost protectors. So, at least 2 uses!

It looks like a mouse may have scratched in one single cell, but nothing else got damaged! If I have to bring them in again, they will come in the house.

 

[BReeder!]

Transplanting some herbs today that a fellow BYC member gave me from a perennial bed alongside her house. There's some different chives than what I have, oregano and what might be a basil that is perennial in zone 5, which is surprising.
Yardlong beans are up in the greenhouse and cucumbers MUST get transplanted. I need to prep their beds and repair the tunnel trellis to get those transplanted.

Rained yesterday so I shouldn't have to water much today at least.

 

[BReeder!]

Anybody grow 'purple hyacinth beans'? Wondering if they get invasive with their self seeding, and how seeds many I should plant to have them climb a garden gate arbor 4x4 post on each side with roughly 4ftx1ft 'roof' of 2x3 slats.