What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

As others have said, it's an annual but reseeds very freely. The seeds are large so they don't pop up too far from the parent plant. I planted it years ago when we first moved in and we have plenty growing here and there. It's one of the first things to bloom in the early spring and it attracts honey bees like crazy so I let grow anywhere it wants to. I've never had any problem with sick critters and the hens get the plants when I thin them out in the spring. I give the young tips to the rabbits as well so maybe just good luck on my part. I also use borage for compost/green tea, that and comfrey are my go to natural fertilizers.

It sounds like a good candidate for me, I will def plant it.

Sorry I may seem a bit grumpy...but we were supposed to see sunshine today.
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I hear ya, same here! We are redoing our roof, right now it's all plywood & sprinkling.

All the tomatoes are now up 1-1.5 inches.

Wow, that happened so fast!

I got another GreenStalk filled yesterday, one more to go. I'd like to start some radishes & carrots out there - just so much to do. At least the weather looks like it will cooperate this week.

 

[Sueby]

Does anyone know why some pepper seedlings don't develop after this point, the one in the middle? Am I taking them off the heat & to the light too soon? This is like the 3rd one. What am I doing wrong with them? (they are this wet because I just watered & I'm sloppy at bottom watering, lol)

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Ah, it hailed, it rained, it's still raining. But we got a rainbow and the flowers are still pretty!View attachment 3792823View attachment 3792824

I watered plants in the hoop and fed the kale some blood meal.
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View attachment 3792828 The carrots are starting to look like carrots!
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The broccoli is really getting big!
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Just beautiful! Garden of my dreams...as I now gaze at mud, here lol.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I've read that reconstituted eggs are pretty much only good for baking. They don't make good scrambled eggs, etc because they come across gritty. That's probably fine because I am just experimenting and would probably use them for baking anyway....

Scrambled eggs of the astronauts! NASA sent me samples of them along with Tang, after I wrote them a letter, for 4th grade show & tell. After tasting them, I lost my desire to go to the moon. Lol

 

[Minanora]

I'm a bit nervous to go outside. I looked at the weather. 33 degrees, "that's a close call", I scrolled down... Looked at the last 5 hours.... 32,31,31,31,31°.... I hope I didn't just lose all of my fruit.... And I really hope everything in the hoop house survived. Wish me luck.

 

[igorsMistress]

Borage...I've never grown it but bought some to try. Is it as bad as mint? LOL. Would it do good in a border, one side against chicken fence & the other side lawn that will just get mowed over if it creeps? Or bad idea?

Borage is not like mint in my experience, shouldn’t take over everything else.

 

[igorsMistress]

I'm a bit nervous to go outside. I looked at the weather. 33 degrees, "that's a close call", I scrolled down... Looked at the last 5 hours.... 32,31,31,31,31°.... I hope I didn't just lose all of my fruit.... And I really hope everything in the hoop house survived. Wish me luck.

Good luck!!

 

[igorsMistress]

G’morning gardeners. It’s a cool morning here but sunny. Not doing much outside today, errands and laundry instead. I checked on the garden earlier and the biggest tomato is growing but not turning red yet. I feel like that lady in those old Mervyn’s commercials waiting lol. Left my new sourdough starter next to my kombucha on accident; it overflowed the jar and is sour smelling after just two days I’m going to feed it and set it inside a cabinet and hope I didn’t just ruin them both. Temps are warming up next week again so it’s a good time to make some ginger ale too. Hubs keeps telling me he’s scared to open kitchen cabinets because he doesn’t know what science experiment he might find Speak of the devil, he’s home from Home Depot so it’s time for groceries. Enjoy your day all!

 

[Minanora]

G’morning gardeners. It’s a cool morning here but sunny. Not doing much outside today, errands and laundry instead. I checked on the garden earlier and the biggest tomato is growing but not turning red yet. I feel like that lady in those old Mervyn’s commercials waiting lol. Left my new sourdough starter next to my kombucha on accident; it overflowed the jar and is sour smelling after just two days I’m going to feed it and set it inside a cabinet and hope I didn’t just ruin them both. Temps are warming up next week again so it’s a good time to make some ginger ale too. Hubs keeps telling me he’s scared to open kitchen cabinets because he doesn’t know what science experiment he might find Speak of the devil, he’s home from Home Depot so it’s time for groceries. Enjoy your day all!

I literally fed and sat out my sourdough starter last night.

I bet your new starter is going to be amazing with the influence of the kombucha culture nearby!

 

[Minanora]

Good luck!!

Everything appears to have survived! Hooray! If it had not rained, I'm sure I would have lost a lot of fruit.