What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

DW had a blood draw today. In town anyway so I browsed the big box stores garden center. Bought a package of bare root Goldstrom daisy. Clear package and picked one showing life. I will not buy what I cannot see. Looked for pro mix. Lowes had Sunshine mix in bales. It has aggerate in it. Seemed sandy. I passed. Checked Menards online for pro mix. 2 stores had some and marked discontinued.

It's marked that way every off season online.

I'd be shocked if it were, it's pretty popular. I hope not. I have 2.5 cubes left but that won't go far.

 

[Sally PB]

I pulled a bucket of weeds for the chickens today. I saw a few of our bees out and about.

It's too warm. Please, please, don't bud out, fruit trees and blueberry bushes. Please.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's 'stupid hot pepper sauce' day, or as DH calls it -SuRacha.
9lbs of mostly super hots, the least hot ones are jalapenos & it goes up to the hottest you can grow. Please pray for me, I just put them on the stove. I was choking just washing the cutting board.

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One year I decided to make organic pesticide spray with habanero peppers. I was careful to wear gloves when making it but thought I didn't need them when actually spraying it on my plants. Oh, how WRONG I was... My hands burned for days.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I pulled a bucket of weeds for the chickens today. I saw a few of our bees out and about.

It's too warm. Please, please, don't bud out, fruit trees and blueberry bushes. Please.

I found a honey bee in our driveway yesterday. I kept trying to pick the little fella up but he kept falling off my glove. I managed to get him into the grass and I walked back to the house for a minute. As I returned I realized I'd made a huge mistake leaving him there. I scared off a good half dozen sparrows. I looked through the grass for the little guy but couldn't find him. Pretty sure he became someone's dinner.

 

[WthrLady]

I walked the garden. There are little, tiny, green leaves hiding deep in the overwinter foilage.
All the herbs, strawberries, and horseradish and perking up.

 

[Sueby]

One year I decided to make organic pesticide spray with habanero peppers. I was careful to wear gloves when making it but thought I didn't need them when actually spraying it on my plants. Oh, how WRONG I was... My hands burned for days.

Yikes! What did you spray with it? & did it work?

I'm saving some of the millings from my batch to make red pepper flakes, then the rest will go to the chickens.
DH tasted it & said it was the hottest sauce he's ever had & he has a jar of Mad Dog 357 (the hottest sauce in the world). I'll have to ask him tmrw, I can't imagine mine is hotter than that. But I'm going to tone it down a bit tmrw & can it, I have no room in the freezer.

We are supposed to have a big warm up next week too. I need to prune the peach tree still.

 

[Nym]

We are hitting the high 30s today currently 36.7C / 98.1F so I watered early, cleaned dog buckets, and rescued 2 water dragons from a garbage bin that is used to collect rain water. I wonder how they got in there! I could hear a banging while I was sorting kale; it was the lizards jumping up the sides of the bin. The poor creatures would have roasted in there today.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Yikes! What did you spray with it? & did it work?

I'm saving some of the millings from my batch to make red pepper flakes, then the rest will go to the chickens.
DH tasted it & said it was the hottest sauce he's ever had & he has a jar of Mad Dog 357 (the hottest sauce in the world). I'll have to ask him tmrw, I can't imagine mine is hotter than that. But I'm going to tone it down a bit tmrw & can it, I have no room in the freezer.

We are supposed to have a big warm up next week too. I need to prune the peach tree still.

I sprayed my tomato plants that were covered in aphids. That was back when I was an absolute neophyte to garden. My plants ended up dying that season but it's hard to say whether it was the habanero spray, pests, too small of a growing container, or over- or under-watering.

 

[Molpet]

We are hitting the high 30s today currently 36.7C / 98.1F so I watered early, cleaned dog buckets, and rescued 2 water dragons from a garbage bin that is used to collect rain water. I wonder how they got in there! I could hear a banging while I was sorting kale; it was the lizards jumping up the sides of the bin. The poor creatures would have roasted in there today. View attachment 3754828View attachment 3754827

Glad you heard them.
Are you having fires near you?

 

[fuzzi]

My peas are popping!