What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

is there any song: I am falling in the rain/mud?

There’s a song that goes “…slip sliding away….” That’s all I remember. It must have been from the 70’s. Lol!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

It was a Paul Simon song.

 

[Sally PB]

…slip sliding away…

"You know the nearer your destination,
The more you're slip sliding away."

 

[Acre4Me]

I was momentarily excited - Meyer has the jumbo foam carton bundles back in stock, so they called me to let me know. When I got home I went to place an order. One bundle of 75 is $48.60 (good price), But shipping is $24.41! If I put two in my cart (two bundles of 75), the shipping only goes up a few dollars to $30. Their website indicates shipping by weight, but I’m guessing box size may be playing a role…who knows.

We ordered regular cartons from egg cartons dot com, free shipping, so definitely a better deal, but having some jumbo cartons would have been nice.


Overcast and lightly rainy here. I did send in one more seed order, so that was as much gardening as I got accomplished.

 

[Jakemedic]

I got the gator back to the garden area and deposited chicken manure onto the spot where the garden will be, well once the snow melts that is. Beautiful day today, high of 45 degrees! That is a whopping 66 sdegrees warmer than 2 weeks ago. Gotta love Iowa weather!

 

[CNJ]

I let this 17-inch okra variety get up to 12 inches. The smaller one is from another variety. I will put them in my saimin for lunch.

I got some heavy hitter okra sprouts from Bakers Creek coming along, they should be regular size okras, with heavy production. However, it should be a while before I get to try them, since they are only 2 inches at the moment.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Started soaking some broccoli and cauliflower seeds tonight. Wish I had more room for more plants! I am trying very hard to stick with 5 broccoli and 5 cauliflower plants. I'm going to try to keep them alive over the hot summer and see if they get a 2nd crop in late fall/early winter. I did that (by accident) with a purple cauliflower this past season. It didn't die until we got down to zero about 2 weeks ago. I wish I would have harvested the florets off of it before the freeze. All ruined now. Oh well...

 

[jerryse]

I had some afternoon sun. First sun in 8 days. Picked some redbud tree seeds and prepared them for germination. Redbud is rated to zone 4. My cabin is in zone 3b. I think they will survive there.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I gotta QUIT buying flowers and seeds. I ended up buying 4 more flower seed packets from Baker and about 10 more Dahlia bulbs from Brecks. I already have a bunch more Dahlias that I ordered a couple of months ago... I have no freaking clue where I'm going to put all of this... . This is worse than chicken math, I think.

 

[Ifitaintbroke]

I gotta QUIT buying flowers and seeds. I ended up buying 4 more flower seed packets from Baker and about 10 more Dahlia bulbs from Brecks. I already have a bunch more Dahlias that I ordered a couple of months ago... I have no freaking clue where I'm going to put all of this... . This is worse than chicken math, I think.

Seed math is a far worse condition than chicken math. You may be beyond hope already...