What did you do in the garden today?

[dirkandlorie]

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.

I'm confused, is it a melon or a squash?

 

[cj2024]

I'm confused, is it a melon or a squash?

It's a squash...........that's called winter melon. It can be stored at room temperate for a long time like 3 or more months.

 

[Sally PB]

I did some hand and knees weeding today. I found nearly all the plants that I planted last year for the bees. It was too windy to try to move leaves for mulch, so that will wait a couple days.

It's raining now!

 

[WthrLady]

I watered everything and set up the underground irrigation to the orchard, wildflower meadow and garden.
The hummingbirds have been fed.
And the tomato plants have graduated to what is left of the poor greenhouse.

 

[Acre4Me]

Isn't mt. Healthy the Amish run hatchery? Our stockdales uses them, and I've got some incredible chicks from them. Even my sex links have lived 10 years. Can't say if it was diet and care or their genetics, maybe a bit of both, but dang they've been some great chickens.

I am not aware that they are Amish. They are located within the I-275 loop around Cincinnati and are not rural- they are located in Mt. Healthy, Ohio. But, I’ve never purchased from them. My local feed store, where we buy our feed, gets their chicks from Mt Healthy.

 

[Acre4Me]

Nothing as we need wader boots to access it. The ark is in progress.

I’m west central Ohio. One fruit tree drowned bc of all the rain not allowing ground to dry and standing water around it roots for too long. Another fruit tree is showing signs of too much water too, but in another area- it should survive though. Rain all this past weekend and for the next 2 days.

 

[C Siena]

I’m west central Ohio. One fruit tree drowned bc of all the rain not allowing ground to dry and standing water around it roots for too long. Another fruit tree is showing signs of too much water too, but in another area- it should survive though. Rain all this past weekend and for the next 2 days.

Ugh, more rain. It's messing up our integration plans more than garden plans. Young Pullets caged separately in the coop have only been with adults for 1 afternoon. Before that afternoon the run was a muddy mess, after, that run is again a muddy mess.
Our 2 apple trees, have a little drainage, so far so good.

 

[Minanora]

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.

How hot does it get up there in the summer? I know you guys have longer days in the summer, and the a sun angle is much more east to west, right? Is it humid?

If it isn't humid you could set up an evaporative cooler out there. We use one in the house and one in the garage. A few years ago it got up past 35° in the house and it was 45° outside every day for almost a week. When we lost power I was able to run the coolers on mobile jumper kits for several hours. I Keep our detached garage cool to make it so my freezers don't have to work as hard in the summer, and to store my pumpkins and winter squash.

Going home today. We walked almost 11 miles yesterday. DS did amazing. I was shocked. He never asked to get carried or complained at all. What a trooper.

 

[Smokerbill]

I moved my tomato seedlings to larger pots yesterday, and used the correct soil mix this time. When I up-potted my first batch of tomato seedlings I used poor quality soil, and transplanted them when they were too small. Those seedlings didn't grow at all.

My new batch of plants are looking great this morning, 24 in total, and all from seeds I saved from my garden last fall.

Twelve are from a volunteer Roma type tomato that made huge fruits. Six are from a Black Krim plant that produced bright yellow fruits instead of black/red fruits. And six were from a plant I grew from a packet of standard Roma seeds, but unlike the others the plant was very short and its fruits were very small, dwarf-like.

Before repotting. The plants on the left are from the first batch, and all the same size they were three weeks ago. They were trashed. On the right, those seeds were planted April 22nd.



And after...

 

[Smokerbill]

While watering the garden I saw that there were a dozen or so dill plants growing, volunteers from dill I grew in 2022 or 2023. I guess dill seeds remain viable for a long time.

I wasn't planning on it, but now I'm going to have to grow some cucumbers so I can make dill pickles.