What did you do in the garden today?

[Ponypoor]

I have not had a ‘garden’ at the barn since I bought the chooks over 4 yrs ago. They managed to completely finish off 4 Beef Steak tomato plants (just left me the stalk) in the space of a couple of hours while I was hard at work inside the barn.

Couple days after that they finished off my petunia hanging baskets when I took them down to water and didn’t rehang immediately. They also trashed my geraniums. Brats!

This year I will enclose the area in front of the barn where I plant stuff, and hope the brats don’t fly in and ruin them!

I usually plant a wall of pole beans, it keeps the west wall of the barn cool helping keep the inside from heating up. So today’s work is to get the beans in the ground, and the tomatoes also, I will need a plastic covering to protect from frost - easily done with some clear plastic.

Hopefully in a couple months I will have some fresh produce.

 

[catsndogs4us]

This year I will enclose the area in front of the barn where I plant stuff, and hope the brats don’t fly in and ruin them!

Had to laugh at this. One of our gardens is "hidden" from our chickens. We call it the garden that must not be known .

Sorry to hear they got your tomato plants luckily our flock doesn't seem to bother tomatoes....so far!

 

[Ponypoor]

Had to laugh at this. One of our gardens is "hidden" from our chickens. We call it the garden that must not be known .

Sorry to hear they got your tomato plants luckily our flock doesn't seem to bother tomatoes....so far!

Oh that’s a great name for The Secret Garden.

I am keen to get the beans in the ground and start the wall of beans, it gets so hot in the barn in that north west corner with the summer sun.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Going to (kinda) take it easy today. I plan to tie up grapes and plant the Pawpaws finally. The girls stall clean out can wait until tomorrow... My body is SORE today. Might replant more corn if it's dried out some...

 

[jerryse]

Bought 9 tomato plants today. Local person selling. I did not start any from seed this year. Cloudy cool day here. Mowed about half of my area. Since the 3 rainy days didn't happen, I watered some trees. Temps in the 70s starting Tuesday.

 

[akroberts1085]

I showed my garden to the lady that buys eggs from me. She was very happy to see it. I will be offering her some food when I get it done.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The neighbors are happy I grow extra everything.
and have the girls that lay eggs of course.

 

[cj2024]

What this variety called? I'd like to give it a try. Thanks.

Baker Creek, call it Giant Bullet Head winter melon. The stem above the melon is really strong. I tie and half hitch a cord around the stem and secure it to a wire, fence or trellis. They are monsters, but we can pick them whenever we want like 10 inches.

If I was going to use cross wood stands like in the video, I would trim off all the side branches and coil the vine until a fruit set, then I would hang it on the wood stand with a cord.

 

[TJAnonymous]

If you are like me and have no idea what you are doing when it comes to pruning your fruit trees, watch this video! I wish I had found this 2 years ago...

 

[Smokerbill]

Picked a whole lotta leaf lettuce this morning when it was cool, and just finished watering the garden. I found sections of 3/4" galvanized conduit that I can attach to the t-posts around the pepper/tomato patch. That will get the posts up to 8+ feet tall, then I can put up the deer barrier fencing.