What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I used to want to grow everything. after so many failures I decided to grow only what's suitable for my climate.

I do try to stick to what is climate friendly... I only have a few things that are not and I keep or bring them indoors in the winter. Since I am limited in indoor space, I try to be particular about what I have...

 

[TJAnonymous]

I have read that apples can be pollinated by wild apples and crabapples too. I don't know if that applies to all varieties, though.

I've heard that too but don't have any of those either...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Received my flower seeds from Bakers today. The free seed packet is lettuce. I wish they would give away free flower seed when you are buying flowers and vegetable seed when you are buying vegetables. Would seem like a no-brainer.

 

[saysfaa]

Nearly all the time, the reason one variety of apple can or can't pollinate another kind is bloom time. They have to bloom at the same time or at least have bloom times that overlap. For a very few varieties or pairs of varieties there are other factors involved.

Crab or not doesn't matter.

 

[jerryse]

I was thinking of trying elderberry's any suggestions?

They grow wild here. Dormant cuttings root easily. I found that out using them as row markers in the garden. They grew.

 

[akroberts1085]

Well I guess the weather decided that I need a break from the rain so it's windy but not raining so the ground should be able to dry out a bit before the next storm comes in. Thank you for all the prayers. I also appreciate the responses about the pineapple plant. I'm going to try to start around 20 of them. My mom said she would definitely take some.

 

[Smokerbill]

Beautiful day here today. Lots of sunshine, light winds and close to 60 degrees. Shirt sleeve weather if I'm working a little bit, which I am. I hauled chicken run compost to two more of my garden beds and have them amended. There's only one raised bed left to go, which I might get to today!

 

[CNJ]

I ended up ordering 3 different pineapple plants. I really enjoy fresh pineapple so I don't mind the effort.

I thought you had pulled all your pineapple out of your garden because you were frustrated with their lack of progress?

I put four in wicking bucket and moved them to a sunny location, in my back yard. I left 3 on the side of my house in the same pots and used calcium carbide on two plants, but only one has fruit forming. They are about 2 years old, so the bigger plants should be ready. The plants on the side of my house only gets about 5 hours of morning sun, so I didn't think it would flower, but it did. It seems flowering is more of a survival and maturity instinct and not dependent on how many sun hours it gets.

I can't insert an image of my pineapple until my computer resets itself to another time. My new Bitdefender virus protection is too extreme. It blocks my camera and window calculator. It's also blocking my Dell computer's maintenance application, so I can't download updates. My reset program says it will take 2 hours to gather information, but I am not sure if my Bitdefender will override the program. Lol, it's going to be a long wait.

 

[Acre4Me]

Received my flower seeds from Bakers today. The free seed packet is lettuce. I wish they would give away free flower seed when you are buying flowers and vegetable seed when you are buying vegetables. Would seem like a no-brainer.

Me too!!! I ordered many seeds, all flowers (except 2 veg). But, 2 kinds of lettuce for me too. We will try them, but I was hoping for another packet of flowers!!

 

[Smokerbill]

I got the last raised bed topped off with chicken run compost. Now I can start working on my gardening plan for the year.