What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

No one mentioned Quack grass. I used to fight it all the time. I moved and no longer have it. That is not why I moved.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I finally got the green bean seeds in the ground. The sprinkler is running now. It’s so dry out there. I had to cross a newly grown patch of poison ivy to get the hose up to that garden. I’ll be jumping into the shower shortly. The plan is to set up the sprinkler between the grape vines and the rock garden tomorrow. Then I’ll focus on trimming up the grass. I only have 2 more small gardening areas left to prep and I won’t need them for another two weeks for the warm season crops. Time to catch up on other stuff. The mustard I planted last week is coming up already. That’s up with the grapes, oregano and lavender. Time to wash the poison ivy off.

 

[cj2024]

What's interesting is how much more impressive the volunteer plants are compared to my indoor started ones. Stalks are double the thickness, at least. I can hit them with the hose stream and they don't even budge.

I agree with this statement. I have a Black Truffle cherry tomato that grew between two cement blocks straight in the dirt. I water it through the two holes on the cement block. It grows more vigorous than my self-watering kratky tomato plants growing next to it. I am using it as a mother plant to make clones, this Black Truffle cherry tomato seem to be resistant to the TYLCV in my yard. It produced a lot of fruit for me last year.

 

[Eagle343]

I finished out the majority of the main garden, still need to staple the fence edges down and add rocks.

 

[Sally PB]

Chilly, grey day. I got another 15' of clay dirt dug out of the perimeter. I should have taken a "before" picture.

I'll be getting the dog crates out tomorrow to begin hardening off the starts in the green house. We have mid-high 70s for the next 8 days, and lows in 50s.

If we're threatened with frost, I have a contingent plan for the plants if they're in the ground. If they're still in pots in the dog crates, I can move them back to the green house.

 

[cj2024]

I got this gluten from amazon today, it supposed to make my bread taste better. I have never tried it, but I saw a video saying just a tsp of it will turn my regular flour into bread flour. I'll try tomorrow and see if there is anything special to it.

I am 3 days into making my San Francisco Sour dough starter from amazon. The instruction says to keep adding water and flour until I see a lot of bubbles. It takes just as long without it, so I don't see any benefit of using it, unless it has a different taste.

I am using my home-made mushroom grow covers for my pickles and this starter, pressure from the fermenting gases doesn't build up with this cover.

 

[Witchychickens]

Yesterday I planted more seeds, I’m not sure how many of my starts are going to take off. I didn’t harden the first set off (I was frazzled with completion of our coop. Thankfully I seeded for a lot of them prior, then put in starts and then reseeded for them again.

Today I brought out my warmer weather stuff and started hardening those off. On Saturday, I weeded. Yesterday I put out seeds for bunching onions, celery (my starts are dismal at best), more red peppers, two types of bush beans, corn, black sunflowers, black hollyhocks, I weeded and collected some leaves and gave them to the chickens to forage in, I cut back my sweet autumn clematis to where it stopped producing foliage and directed some shoots elsewhere, I seeded for zinnia, marigolds, wildflower mix, nasturtium and also planted my nasturtium starts. I also added more dirt to my potatoes in grow bags.

Today, I cleared 10 wheelbarrow full of rubber mulch I made the mistake of ever using from the area behind the coop, trimmed the shrubs, laid bricks along the base of the fence, and put up a small chicken wire fence for a pasture area for the girls and prepped a pumpkin patch bed for the kids to plant their pumpkins. I still have to figure out what I’m going to do with the potatoes I have left to plant. I need more large grow bags. I also have to figure out how I’m going to lay out the warmer weather stuff (squash, cucumbers, watermelon, and tomatoes).

It’s going to rain tomorrow. I’m sad but also happy I won’t have to water.

 

[Swiss]

I'm so skeptical of unbelievable good prices online.

Hooray!! I'm so glad I could help you get what you needed. If anything leaks in shipping just take photos and email them. They make it right. I've only ever had one thing leak.

The price on the brand's website was good, but not unbelievable. It was their whole website that had me skeptical.
And a huge THANK YOU for the help! I couldn't remember who gave me the tip...

Chilly, grey day. I got another 15' of clay dirt dug out of the perimeter. I should have taken a "before" picture.

I'll be getting the dog crates out tomorrow to begin hardening off the starts in the green house. We have mid-high 70s for the next 8 days, and lows in 50s.

If we're threatened with frost, I have a contingent plan for the plants if they're in the ground. If they're still in pots in the dog crates, I can move them back to the green house.

What are the dog crates for?

I tried mowing the lawn yesterday, but rain decided to appear... I got a little done, though. Today, I was going to toss seeds in the garden, but got distracted by a lot of other things.
One of those distractions was the chicks. I brought them out to the temporary outdoor pen (chicken wire wrapped around 3 of the 4 legs of a canopy frame) for about an hour, and because I didn't put a tarp on top of the canopy frame, I stayed next to or inside the pen the whole time. Almost as soon as I got them in and the pen closed up, I heard a weird noise, turned around and one of our resident sharp-shinned hawks (we have named him Krivaan) flew directly over us.

When I brought them back in the garage, I decided to fluff up their bedding. Then, I decided to raise one of their roosts up higher. And THEN, I decided to take out their brooder plate and clean it because it was disgusting, and then, I decided to keep it out of the brooder (but still on) because I don't think they need it anymore. They haven't seemed to need it, yet, and they seem to appreciate the much needed space!!

Their colors are coming in:

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[Smokerbill]

I figured out where to plant my dill and okra. I dug out a new bed on one side of my woodchip pile and planted the dill there. It's only around 3'x3', which should produce more than enough dill for me. I saved the dill seeds from last year's plants I grew. I hope they're viable. I didn't do a germination test on them.



For the okra I dug out a strip of lawn in a spot that will get direct sun all day long. I put the sod in the bottom of the trench, grass side down then piled more dirt on top of that. The row is a little crooked, but that's ok with me. The okra seeds are soaking in water and I'll plant them tomorrow.

I am beat!

 

[Happy hen lover]

they are not invasive in my climate. we have to water them here. I would like to have wisteria like this (internet pic):

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Mine died year of drought, never did bloom much. Replaced with castor bean plants.