What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Can you use vinegar on it?

It laughs off vinegar soap salt solution.

 

[fuzzi]

It laughs off vinegar soap salt solution.

Spray leaves with vinegar, then sprinkle baking soda on them...

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I've been weeding the last 3 days, today my husband helped me weed the sweet corn patch. We planted the squashes, pumpkins, melons and cucumbers today.
Still have a few cilantro seeds to put in some dirt.
I didn't have to buy any vegetables at our local greenhouse small business this year, but I still spent $200. I got some various things including another large blueberry bush, but I mostly bought flowers.

 

[WthrLady]

Spray leaves with vinegar, then sprinkle baking soda on them...

ALso doesn't work.

 

[WthrLady]

systemic glyphosphate is the only thing that kills bindweed. I've been after this stuff for 10 years. It can grow a whole new plant from just a piece. It's a nightmare.

 

[muddy75]

Trying to figure out how to get some semblance of a garden in this week

 

[karenerwin]

I worked at the farm garden this morning and early afternoon. I weeded the strawberry patch and found a lot of grubs which I collected to bring home for my chickens. I added 4 pumpkin seeds in 1 corner of that bed. I worked on building another raised bed from the used corrugated tin panels I got off marketplace. Not done with the first one of those beds yet. Weed eated some more. Cut the little bit of asparagus that was there. Tied flappy bits of fabric to the wires I strung the other day for the blackberries. I’m hoping the floppy bits will keep the deer from trying to walk through those wires.
I also strung wires for the table grapes and then watered everything.
Went home, took a shower and then bought Chinese food and went up to see my son at the hospital and take my DIL something to eat. It was a good day for my son. The doctor said they can go down to changes his bandages just once a day and his sodium levels are normal now!
Happy Memorial Day weekend to everyone in the USA. ( I don’t think they celebrate this in other countries or at least probably not the same day(s) that we do)

 

[gtaus]

Here is another gardening related cross post from the thread Show Me Your Pallet Projects! Hope you like it...

Got my new pallet wood hügelkultur raised bed planted with cherry tomatoes that I started in the house - on my pallet wood seed starting shelf - earlier this spring.

I like to use the square foot gardening system in my raised beds, but I was unsure of the spacing for cherry tomatoes. In the past, I have planted tomatoes one per 4 squares, so my 4X4 raised bed only had 4 tomato plants in them. But when I looked up cherry tomatoes, it said to plant them 1 per square foot. That sounds really cramped to me to have 16 tomato plants in a 4X4 bed. After some thought, I planted these cherry tomato plants 16 inches apart giving me 9 plants for this 4X4 raised bed.

In keeping with the low cost of this bed, I got that white twine for free from the Menards load out shack. I just staple it to the wood where I want and presto, the grid is done! I added the tomato cages later, so everything is done in that bed.

I had 4 cherry tomato plants leftover, so I planted them in one of my older 4X4 foot raised beds but spaced them out 1 plant per 4 squares. That should give me a good idea of what spacing works better for the cherry tomato plants. 4 or 9 plants per 4X4 foot bed.

FWIW, I really like the design of this new pallet wood raised bed and even more so now that it is filled with topsoil/compost and I have plants growing in it. It looks even better in real life than in this picture.

 

[Acre4Me]

systemic glyphosphate is the only thing that kills bindweed. I've been after this stuff for 10 years. It can grow a whole new plant from just a piece. It's a nightmare.

Yes, I agree. It’s really frustrating and tough.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

systemic glyphosphate is the only thing that kills bindweed. I've been after this stuff for 10 years. It can grow a whole new plant from just a piece. It's a nightmare.

I hate those vines! I didn't know they were called bind weed.