What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Do any of y'all cut your onion tops back? I'm talking large sweet spanish bulbing type. I always have when they're little (couple inches) but have never done it when they're big. Seems like a lot of people are either YES, for sure or NO, don't be dumb. LOL. Opinions?

The rabbits do that for me.

 

[Happy hen lover]

I also took a big break, watched the needed rain fall.
And evidentially fell asleep this was yesterday's post!

Today put fake flowers in 2 pots out front that get intense heat. I put seeds starts in oven with door open ( it's a gas oven w/ pilot on) see if they'll hurry or help germination. We have rain gutter water barrels that need hose on them. I've soaked some zuch. & yellow crookneck seeds to see if they'll germinate better might just have too old of seeds. I need to plant them too. I need to start 2 more wicking mineral tubs with soil, etc. I hope warm weather and rain helps my taters, I only have 3 plants out of a whole bag of seed taters! I won't grow those again. I sent off for sweet tater slips but they didn't make it to plants. I might try another website and order more. Last year my daughter grew them as flowers and accidently ended up with nice size taters!!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

My house would look like this if I didn't severely prune those invasives!
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I think I saw Shrek peeking out of there!

Is this the brome weed? Yup, I've got tons of this, too.



Full can has shrunk down some but wow, it was to the brim Sat night! And there are still many to pull yet.

 

[Jenbirdee]

got my cucumbers and basil in !! finally !! praise the Lord, everything is planted

 

[Sally PB]

THIS is why I hate brome. Those white pointy root looking things? Those are called stolons, and are underground stems that can travel up to 3' or more, looking for a place to pop up a new plant. They don't pull up well in heavy soil. The plant breaks free, leaving those to keep growing.

 

[Sally PB]

More digging and weeding. And, I found asparagus beetles. I have never seen them this early. But everything is about 2 weeks ahead of normal, so I guess they are too.

Add another daily chore to my list: Debugging the asparagus. Yeah, I need another half hour chore to do.

 

[WthrLady]

We grow brome on purpose, LOL

 

[lagrange chicks]

Beans, corn, zucchini and gladiolas planted today. Cucumber, pepper and tomato plants will go in in a few days. Seeing a few radish coming up.

 

[Smokerbill]

Transplanted a few leaf lettuce starts into the garden today. I was going to set out a few marigolds but I couldn't decide where to put them.



I also set up a temporary deer/chicken fence that will give the winter squash space to spread out over the side of the bed when they start vining.

 

[cj2024]

Does anyone know what to do with an over risen dough? I had my dough proofing in my Brevil oven at 85F for 30 minutes, but I didn't hear the buzzer go off, so it must have gone an hour.