What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

I planted one tomato plant in a 5 gallon bucket here at the cabin. It will stay on the deck because of the deer. I looked at a old dock section to extend my dock. It is shallow where my 24 foot dock is. Need to get out a little further. Going cheap. Old steel frame to add to my old steel frame dock. Basically some doc guys discard pile. At a $100 I could not resist. Need to haul it. With some cutting and welding plus new boards a doable project.

 

[fuzzi]

I've been searching the net for shed storage ideas. I found some ideas that look interesting but the pictures often don't come with anyone talking about how practical they are. For example, t posts and/or long-handled tools stood upright in a pallet looked like a good idea. It doesn't work very well in my shed because the horizontal parts get tangled. That might not matter except my roof is only 7' high at the top of the walls so there is just barely enough clearance even if they didn't get tangled. There isn't enough floor space to have the pallet away from the wall.

How do you store your long-handled tools?
T-posts? Step in posts? flags?

Edited to add my build post link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/show-me-your-pallet-projects.1541562/post-26696209

 

[chickengr]

The United States Agriculture department called me today, it was about the Brandywise tomato seeds I purchased from Fruition Seeds. They called to inform me to get rid of the seeds, plants and soil where I planted this variety. It has been infected with the TOBRFV virus, its like the stunting TYLCV virus, but worst, the fruit gets blemished and are unmarketable and the virus can live in the soil.

I found two foreign seed companies that started selling TOBRFV resistant tomatoes, but they are not available in the USA. I think Bayer is working on this problem and they may have some resistant varieties for the USA by next year.

I am thinking about watering my infected potted soil with a Clorox solution and then let it dry out to get rid of the clorox.

how did they get your phone number? do they have time to call every single person who purchased seeds? wouldn't they make a public announcement? I would call them to check if they made that call indeed.

there are too many dirty games in trading business.

 

[WthrLady]

Oh my goodness that sounds delish! I may have to try it, thanks guys!

My shovels & stuff hang on a cheap plastic tool holder where they snap into tension slots. I hate it. Bigger handles don't fit, they pop out sometimes. The rubber things on them fall off & the plastic hooks underneath break. I'll try & find a pic so you know what not to get, lol. My garden stakes - they are in between the studs with a chain across held in by eye hooks. That works ok. My t-posts sit outside the shed in a back corner where all the scrap fencing is. A big mess piled where my shame is hidden.

ETA: This - this is what I have & hate it. But not enough to do anything about it. You have to stagger the tools because they all hit each other on the bottom (like the actual rake or shovels hit) & pop themselves out. If that makes sense. Just way too crowded.

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Most everything else is hung on these:

Then the rubber dry rots and things come crashing down anyway.

 

[Sueby]

Then the rubber dry rots and things come crashing down anyway.

Sounds like experience right there.

 

[WthrLady]

Pretty much. We have one still hanging, but useless, in the garage. It holds the tools and peels for the pizza oven. Noisy when they would come off the rack.

 

[Sueby]

I regret saving the 2 bunnies from the dog. Those little shits are eating all my flowers. They have eaten all the coneflowers, all the black eyed susans & my dahlias! They've also chewed holes in my strawberry netting to get to the berries. I told DH he needs to start bunny hunting!

Think I overdid it on the wildflower seeds?

All the volunteer dill (& a couple cosmos), I should have plenty this year. Ha!

My lettuce is finally sort of growing. Not a very good variety in this pack, won't buy it again.

& for fun, DH is out playing in the woods up by @Wee Farmer Sarah, looks like he's already rolled. Least he took the hood off before going out.

 

[WthrLady]

In grand anticipation of incoming rain, I weeded, mulched and dry fed the garden.
The mulch, which has been waiting for me in the garden for a month and never rained on was wet, full of mold and ants. I have spent the remainder of the morning, despite a shower, remembering how to breathe like a normal person.
Seriously, what is the deal mulch people. I'm in exceptional drought and the bags are so wet inside they grow THAT?!
Oh well.
I also lowered my sewing table 4 inches this morning.
Taking a power saw to an antique library table was a tough decision, but it is my sewing table, and it really needed lowering, it was causing leg and shoulder problems.
Anywho....here's the garden as of the finish of work this morning. I do need to get out there and get some mini pots going for the strawberry runners rooting. These are flamingo strawberries, and very hard to find.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have rain! Morning Gardeners.

 

[TJAnonymous]

So I took the advice and put kaolin clay on the pumpkins and the squash inside the hoop house this morning.... And wouldn't you know it.... It rained this afternoon. Like hard rain. I'm super happy about the rain but now I'll have to redo the kaolin clay.

I repotted the goji berry starts since they were outgrowing their starter pot. Has anyone ever grown them before? I read that they are very slow growers.

I harvested a virtual cornucopia this morning - blackberries, raspberries, potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, broccoli, and a handful of green beans. Some of the blackberries were bigger than my thumb! I'll have to check the tag this winter to see which variety of thornless blackberry it is... It's currently buried under all the foliage.