What did you do in the garden today?

[gtaus]

I gave my onions another haircut instead. The ones in the repurposed cardboard egg cartons are doing well but the ones in the actual seed starting tray keep dying off (I suspect root rot). Must remember that for next year.

I tried starting seeds in repurposed cardboard egg cartons one year and was not very successful. I think I overwatered them and they died. My fault, no doubt.

I switched to using 3-inch net pots with slits in them, and then bottom watering the pots in trays. That works better for me, and I have not drowned my plants since I started bottom watering.

Not only do the roots breath better in the net pots with slits, but the roots will actually air prune and new roots will grow, making the plant root ball stronger. No worries about the plant getting root bound with roots spiraling around the inside of a solid walled pot.

 

[akroberts1085]

Update on puppies. Mom had another but it was still born. She still has more to get out but I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any info on what I can do so that hopefully we won't lose Bella.

 

[akroberts1085]

I have decided to just let life happen and hopefully in the morning Bella and her 5 babies will be doing better. Bella had another still born and then had a live puppy. I was amazed.

 

[akroberts1085]

Mommy and baby are tired

 

[chickengr]

Thats wonderful!! fruit trees are so nice.
My sister in-law and her family live in Athens- been there for ?50yrs her husband was a Crete. They had a restaurant for years and now their sons have it in a new building.
Last name Tsapatakis, at the moment I don't remember what my nephews call it now, maybe Evans, but I think their dad Andras, when he bought it it was Evangelos.
( I found it!! Evans Taverna,,, Afroditis 57, Paleo Faliro 175 61, Greece,, thats my Nephews ) https://www.facebook.com/evans.taverna/photos/?_rdr
DH and daughters are going in May to be with the family.

they are placed in one of the best places in athens/piraeus. food looks yummy.

 

[Minanora]

Started flower seeds yesterday, still need to start more. All the seedlings are doing well.

Fertilized the garden today.

garlic, then the main potato bed. Didn't fertilize the garlic but had to share.

Got chicks! Got to the feed store at 7:50. They opened at 9. I was 9th in line. 4 for me, 6 for my MIL.

I don't usually nap but the pollen has made me take two naps today. Plus just exhaustion from mowing on Friday. Weeds in the orchard were over 2ft tall in some places. I wheelied the mower up over all of it. And bagged it all. Now the chickens have more than double the room.

Mowed the clover as well.

 

[Minanora]

I tried starting seeds in repurposed cardboard egg cartons one year and was not very successful. I think I overwatered them and they died. My fault, no doubt.

I switched to using 3-inch net pots with slits in them, and then bottom watering the pots in trays. That works better for me, and I have not drowned my plants since I started bottom watering.

Not only do the roots breath better in the net pots with slits, but the roots will actually air prune and new roots will grow, making the plant root ball stronger. No worries about the plant getting root bound with roots spiraling around the inside of a solid walled pot.

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I've moved to bootstrap farmer trays and pots almost exclusively. I had some cow pots left over from last year that I'm using up but I'm very happy with the bootstrap farmer seed starting hardware. I wash my trays in the dishwasher once a season as well. Even their 120 cell tray has held up for many crops, even with smooshing the bottoms pretty good for seedlings that weren't quite ready to move yet.

I do like the netted pots for peppers though!

 

[Nym]

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Beautiful! Congrats!

 

[cj2024]

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Mommy and baby are tired

The mommy dog look like old yellow, but what happen to the babies. They don't look like her.

 

[jerryse]

100% chance of light rain this morning. I noticed my plum trees blooms were partially open late yesterday. Wild plums not ready yet. Bradford flowering pears should open soon. I do not have any and not been out driving in a few days to see. On Kiefer pears they self-pollinate and are fire blight resistant. A late pear and hard due to being part Asian pear. An old variety as my grandfather planted some in the late 1890s. Grew up with Kiefer pears around. Often canned.