What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Another rainy day, no gardening.

I was cleaning up my iPad, deleting duplicate photos and found a photo of my backyard from April 2022 when I started vegetable gardening again using raised beds.

2022

2024

I now have five raised beds, two still being prepared.

In the 2022 photo the raised beds were not quite ready for planting. The carpet is covering where trees were removed. The little square planters are fairly worthless, and were full of fire ants. I might reuse them for very shallow annuals or vegetables like lettuce.

 

[Sammster]

Then, I expect to be gone for several weeks at the drop of a hat

hugs

 

[jerryse]

Potted 2 bareroot garden phlox plants. Very small starts that will need some TLC. Potted up some squash sprouts from a germination test. Rather than throwing them out. I thought grow them awhile and practice grafting.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Well we started winter disaster zone cleanup and repair, we decided the chicken coop and pens take priority. So we broke down the largest of the three damaged coops, built a new Run/Pen. Tomorrow we plan to break down the medium coop and build a new medium coop and build a larger second Run/Pen… then we will get the damaged security and privacy screening torn out and replaced, build nesting boxes, roosts, add automatic waters, and feeders in. Once chickens are 100% contained then we can start repairing all planting beds, broken yard fencing, watering systems, digging up and cutting down severely damaged trees and hacking back jungle brambles. Not to mention power washing stuff. Wish us luck. We gots a lot to do.

 

[akroberts1085]

Got 4 new babies today.1 WL 1 BSL and 2 EE. They're so adorable.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I forgot we also have to repair or replace the garden tool shed it’s doors were ripped off in the high wind storm and it’s leaning sideways.

 

[akroberts1085]

Well we started winter disaster zone cleanup and repair, we decided the chicken coop and pens take priority. So we broke down the largest of the three damaged coops, built a new Run/Pen. Tomorrow we plan to break down the medium coop and build a new medium coop and build a larger second Run/Pen… then we will get the damaged security and privacy screening torn out and replaced, build nesting boxes, roosts, add automatic waters, and feeders in. Once chickens are 100% contained then we can start repairing all planting beds, broken yard fencing, watering systems, digging up and cutting down severely damaged trees and hacking back jungle brambles. Not to mention power washing stuff. Wish us luck. We gots a lot to do.

I got the seeds today. Thank you

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Got 4 new babies today.1 WL 1 BSL and 2 EE. They're so adorable.View attachment 3768078

Darlings

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I got the seeds today. Thank you

No problem hope they grow you lots of yummy pumpkins

 

[akroberts1085]

Darlings

The BSL kept trying to jump out of the box through the holes in the top of it. 2nd to the youngest grandson wanted to feed them some