What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Who knew!? That's probably why I don't have it here, we have so many deer.

The deer and rabbits here have not eaten our poison ivy.

 

[Sally PB]

The third time WILL be the charm, er, chard, right?

This time, I soaked the chard seed overnight, used a different variety, and planted them in pots full of compost. If these don't sprout, I will figure that the garden gods do not want me to have my own chard.

 

[Smokerbill]

Bean towers are strung. Need to plant some more bean seeds.

Following the carrot video (posted by @Smokerbill i recall), I soaked carrot seeds in water for a few days. Today made cornstarch gel and mixed in the carrot seeds. Then, using a plastic bag, spread them in a trench. Usually one doesn’t soak seeds for days, so they may be dead. But, carrot seeds are notoriously hard to get going bc they really are sensitive to drying out, which this method helps to bypass. Anyway, here’s the last row before being covered with dirt. There are 5 rows, one row per variety.
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If all the carrot seeds I planted take off, well, I’ll be in carrots thru 2025, I think.

I'm just about ready to try the soaking/cornstarch gel method to plant carrot seeds in my garden. I need to start soaking some seeds in water today.

Hope it works out for us!

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I was going to start installing my drip irrigation system a few days ago but found that I still needed a few things. I returned a couple items to Amazon that I didn't need and bought a few connectors at HomeDepot today. One more item (1/2" end caps) are arriving tomorrow, and I hope that's the last thing I'll need to buy.

 

[PopoMyers]

Soaking bean seeds and will get them pre germinated before planting out. Weeding is always on the end of my 2 do list. Strung wires for the bush raspberries, cut off root suckered from fruit trees and pruned off some head whacking hat stealing branches from fruit trees. Replanting sunflowers that got eaten by a critter.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My cats are the same

Have one named Bob he is like 14 now.

 

[Swiss]

@jerryse
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Well, goats don't eat deer and rabbits........but goats and rabbits also eat poison ivy

That was how I read it at first, too and it made me chuckle!

Bean towers are strung. Need to plant some more bean seeds.

Following the carrot video (posted by @Smokerbill i recall), I soaked carrot seeds in water for a few days. Today made cornstarch gel and mixed in the carrot seeds. Then, using a plastic bag, spread them in a trench. Usually one doesn’t soak seeds for days, so they may be dead. But, carrot seeds are notoriously hard to get going bc they really are sensitive to drying out, which this method helps to bypass. Anyway, here’s the last row before being covered with dirt. There are 5 rows, one row per variety.
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If all the carrot seeds I planted take off, well, I’ll be in carrots thru 2025, I think.

I should definitely try this! It probably would have made planting my soaked beet seeds easier, more uniform, and less crowded.

Today, I went into the garden and moved all the seedlings to where they will be planted. I counted my pepper plants, and discovered I have 36 plants. My garden plan only calls for 19, but I know I'll be able to move some things around and get them to fit. This is the only problem with having to thin out seedlings, but not having the heart to kill them. My strawberries are beginning to ripen, and I am so excited to eat them!! I have definitely made the decision to toss a lot of seeds all over in the fall so they pop up in the spring. I have volunteer marigolds, borage (unsurprising), calendula (also not surprising), mustard, nasturtium, dill, cilantro... it has me curious how much stuff I could plant in the fall and have pop up once winter and snow are done!

I saw a low of 40° in the forecast for Thursday, and I don't really want to plant everything, and then have to cover it if that number isn't currently accurate... but everything needs to be planted...

 

[Sueby]

Today, I went into the garden and moved all the seedlings to where they will be planted. I counted my pepper plants, and discovered I have 36 plants. My garden plan only calls for 19, but I know I'll be able to move some things around and get them to fit. This is the only problem with having to thin out seedlings, but not having the heart to kill them.

Peppers like to hold hands - you can fit em! LOL

 

[Smokerbill]

That was how I read it at first, too and it made me chuckle!

I should definitely try this! It probably would have made planting my soaked beet seeds easier, more uniform, and less crowded.

Today, I went into the garden and moved all the seedlings to where they will be planted. I counted my pepper plants, and discovered I have 36 plants. My garden plan only calls for 19, but I know I'll be able to move some things around and get them to fit. This is the only problem with having to thin out seedlings, but not having the heart to kill them. My strawberries are beginning to ripen, and I am so excited to eat them!! I have definitely made the decision to toss a lot of seeds all over in the fall so they pop up in the spring. I have volunteer marigolds, borage (unsurprising), calendula (also not surprising), mustard, nasturtium, dill, cilantro... it has me curious how much stuff I could plant in the fall and have pop up once winter and snow are done!

I saw a low of 40° in the forecast for Thursday, and I don't really want to plant everything, and then have to cover it if that number isn't currently accurate... but everything needs to be planted...

I'm a little concerned for my peppers. They've been in the garden for a few weeks now and have endured several upper 30's- low 40's nights. The tomatoes are looking good and growing, but the peppers are just standing still.

Next year my peppers won't go into the garden until after June 1st. I'll plant the seeds indoors early March.

 

[fuzzi]

Weeded my melons in between showers...

...and despite the swarms of mosquitoes that appeared. I had a couple dozen circling my head and arms. Ick.

 

[fuzzi]

Nothing much today, it's been thundery, storms on and off. I did trim some weeds with my hand pruners, pulled more wisteria and Virginia Creeper. And some other stuff trying to take over the yard.

Here's a couple weeds that are spreading through all my beds. Anyone know what they are?

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And these:

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(had to reload the images, BYC is having issues I guess)