What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

Hello everyone! I haven't been active on BYC in a while, and as a result it has been the better part of a year since I checked in on the Gardening Forum! How have you all been??
I live in a zone 6 area, so it's not quite the gardening season for most crops yet. Pretty soon it'll be time to start growing some seedlings under grow lights in the house, though.

I'm in 6, was 5b and I have started onions last month, they just sprouted

 

[cj2024]

I stuck a cucumber, sweet potato, and determinate tomato in water, and this is what I noticed. Roots came out of the cucumber and sweet potato by the leaf node and no roots came out of my tomato yet maybe because there were no nodes on the stem in the water or it takes longer than 4 days to root which is most likely the case. Anyway, from here on out I will cut my clones an inch close to a leaf node.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I set my sweet potatoes in water today to get the slips started. still searching out rocks for my new path, dumping about a bucket a day in there. Should be finished with that project before all the heavy spring work begins, and ill have a nice dry, not slippery muddy space to walk.

 

[GardenBlooms22]

I stuck a cucumber, sweet potato, and determinate tomato in water, and this is what I noticed. Roots came out of the cucumber and sweet potato by the leaf node and no roots came out of my tomato yet maybe because there were no nodes on the stem in the water or it takes longer than 4 days to root which is most likely the case. Anyway, from here on out I will cut my clones an inch close to a leaf node.

Oh interesting, I have never tried rooting a cucumber plant in water!
I tried rooting some tomato "sucker" clippings in water last year, and I think they took about a week to start growing roots. I had them in a cup in a well-lit windowsill, and I changed the water frequently to keep it clear. It took a little while for them to get started, but I found once the roots started growing they grew quite quickly.

 

[ShesSoPecky]

I also shopped for scions/cuttings grafting wood. Do you graft?

No - I'm looking for scions I can root.

I have one cutting from my ex husband's fruit tree. I'm only browsing, looking at costs ya know? It's a trade-off. The scions are less expensive but they take a long time to produce, I think (?)

 

[ShesSoPecky]

I'm in 6, was 5b and I have started onions last month, they just sprouted

 

[ShesSoPecky]

@Molpet and @GardenBlooms22
I have yacon and zinnias as sprouts (yacon from crowns). I'm in 8b.
Edit: inside sprouts

 

[Molpet]

@Molpet and @GardenBlooms22
I have yacon and zinnias as sprouts (yacon from crowns). I'm in 8b.
Edit: inside sprouts

Ah I thought 6.
Yes mine are inside too

 

[Smokerbill]

I just bought beet and cabbage seeds, Bull's Blood beets, Golden Acre cabbage. I'll start some of the cabbage seed inside in a couple weeks.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Gorgeous day today in the low 70s. Garden time... Pruned fruit trees and roses. Trimmed up strawberries... Still have more to do on those but I have to put together the turnstiles for the barrels first so I can access everything more easily. Cut down invasive vines and cleaned out some dead brush. I thought all my peonies died but they are poking their heads up from the soil. Hopefully the cold snap next week won't damage them.