What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

We were infested with storm chasers today. I had to redirect two, on my country road, one was lost, the other was trying to stay on pavement only. LOL !HA! Pavement.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We were supposed to get more rain today and I really needed it
But of course, the stupid system SPLIT and is missing us completely. I'm so annoyed.

 

[fuzzi]

We were supposed to get more rain today and I really needed it
But of course, the stupid system SPLIT and is missing us completely. I'm so annoyed.

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That happens a lot to us.

 

[fuzzi]

I spent about three hours weeding the beds in the front yard, removing little trees, honeysuckle, wisteria, and poison ivy. I also pruned last year's hydrangea blooms and dead wood on one of my gardenias.

These irises haven't bloomed in 15 years. After I weeded the bed I dug up some of the plants and put them aside to transplant to a sunnier location.

Potbound monardas. I decided to transplant them into the ground as well.

When I removed them from the pot I discovered a fire ant nest...

As I dug holes for the iris I added some peat moss. That's sedum on the right.

Irises on the left, monarda on the right.

Red vinca for hummingbirds and butterflies.

I'm hoping to get more done tomorrow, I still have a lot of annuals waiting for a place to grow.

 

[Smokerbill]

I didn't do much in the garden today. Chopped out a few weeds with the hoe, and saw that some of the poppy seeds I planted a few months ago have turned into little plants with 2 inch long leaves.

The leaf buds on couple of the native red huckleberry cuttings I'm trying to root are starting to green up and open. Hopefully at least one will be a success so I can plant it in the rotting fir tree stump in the yard.

 

[Sally PB]

I got all the frost protection stuff picked up. It's not all put away yet. All those garbage bags need to be smoothed out and folded up. I'm not tossing them.

I didn't see some new asparagus seedlings when I was covering the rest of the asparagus, so they're probably not going to make it. The spears I covered looked fine.

I had a lot of other things I wanted to get done today, but instead hubby and I went to the new location his company is moving to. (He works part-time, on call, at his old job because it's fun.)

The place is 4x the space and a MUCH better layout. They'll be needing him some in the coming weeks/months. The person they hired to replace his replacement didn't work out. So he'll be doing his old job, and when they find and hire someone, training him/her.

 

[Swiss]

I just saw this and it got me thinking and wondering!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Collected a little mess of strawberries


Ordered some Lisianthus seeds. Tried them once and unable to get a single one to germinate. I've read they are very tricky. Going to try again...

 

[TJAnonymous]

@WthrLady - daaayum!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783949373660971141

 

[Old farmer at bFADFarms]

What do you mean by that?


Hilarious!

I like to start fermenting different spring plant to make either a topping for salads and the like or just use up some of the produces which I had stored to much for the winter into usable items for summer like cabbage to kraut, broccoli and cauliflower with ramp and spring onions, adding a jar of fermented dill pickles and other ingredients, that I try like pickling winter squashes, an apple or two, even a crunchy potato for a variety, gives me a nice lunch time flavor addition with my HM soup and sandwich or just having a pint handy for a fun salty pick me while taking a break in the spring garden activities, replacing the door on the pig pen, rebuilding my 40 year old rabbit cages, designing a new nesting box design so the hens won’t eat the eggs. At my age things go a little (lot) slower so a pick me up is appreciated, and yes usually they don’t make it through till summer let alone fall (and sometimes only a matter of weeks). And, they don’t seem to add to the midline. Without electricity and running water fermenting helps use up items that a pressure cooker on the wood-stove, on a warm spring day just makes the house unbearable.