What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Arugula has a lighter flavor, I love it fresh, in salads. I cannot eat raw kale, tastes better cooked. That just me, & my PITA tastebuds.

You're the second person here who has recommended arugula. I guess I will try it.

 

[fuzzi]

Somehow I never can read the tags. I have had better luck with a map with a few dimensions , type and date to jog my memory

I take photos of the newly planted area with tags or seed packets placed appropriately.

Then I can update my garden diagrams so it's on paper.

 

[Jenbirdee]

You're the second person here who has recommended arugula. I guess I will try it.

I love arugula!

 

[Molpet]

I love arugula!

I thought it was peppery

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I love arugula!

In addition to being a lovely salad green it grows very fast! But the seed pods do break apart easily.

 

[Smokerbill]

I snipped off four red Russian kale seed stalks and separated a tablespoon of seeds from the dry pods. That's more than enough. I'll pull up the plants now and give the chickens a treat.

 

[Smokerbill]

In addition to being a lovely salad green it grows very fast! But the seed pods do break apart easily.

As do kale seed pods. I learned that they're kind of spring-loaded when dry. Touch 'em and they pop open, throwing seeds everywhere. There are kale seeds all over the kitchen now. LOL

 

[jerryse]

I see a couple of wild common persimmon trees sprouting up in the farm field...tempted to relocate them to my place, before they get plowed over.

Some facts I learned about persimmon trees. There are male and female trees plus some that have both sexes of flowers. The ones with both sexes when self-pollinated will only grow self-pollinating trees from the seed. Just learned that this week. When digging up trees if you miss some of the root a new tree will grow from the root. Male flowers form in clusters and female flowers single. Easy way to sex trees in bloom. Some are parthenocarpic and have seedless fruit if not pollinated.

 

[PopoMyers]

Weeded between the bok choy, spinach, and choy sum. Some thing is making Swiss cheese out of the leaves, and I think a chicken is getting in the garden and eating the choy sum leaves making them raggedy. I just have caught her in there yet. I had had a frequent flyer escapee, I took away her mileage card. (Clipped her wings). She hasn't gotten out since. Now to catch the other one...except she is a white leghorn and all 5 look the same. The only solution is to clip all their wings. That is a tall order.

 

[Sally PB]

but the rainbow chard was a total bust, none germinated

Was it Baker Creek seed, by chance? I had zero -- ZERO! -- germination on my BC rainbow chard. Some red stemmed chard seed from the grocery store (Burpee?) grew very well.

I had VERY poor, but not zero, germination on my BC collards. Two different plantings.

Some bug gnawed the collard leaves down to the main vein on both plantings. Left the chard alone, so I guess I'll take that as a semi-win.