What did you do in the garden today?

[Grandmas Coop]

is there any veggie that does not like a lot of manure? I want to plant something between olive trees and olives don't like manure.

Blueberries,

 

[chicken opey]

I got a fig tree for Mother’s Day! Our last one was devastated by fig borers. I’m planting this one in a totally different area. Thinking of planting comfrey around it too.
Any natural suggestions to keep those fig borers at bay?

 

[Smokerbill]

Since the last five of my daikon plants were bolting I pulled them up, cleaned them up, chopped them up and have them cooking in a pot of water, roots, leaves, stems, flower buds and all.

Now the kale, cabbages, collards and lettuce have more room to grow. I have space to plant something where I pulled up all the bok choi plants but I'm not sure what. Definitely not radishes of any kind. Maybe more cabbage.

The little pullets slept on the coop floor underneath the roosting hens, huddled together in a cozy group. I went out at 4:30 this morning and looked.

 

[Sylvester017]

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Finally got ( one) of my raised beds done I must admit, i bought the tomato with tomatoes hanging on it

I spot your tomato but what are the other plants? I never planted flowers among our veggie beds cuz the veggies get so tall & block the sun.

One tomato plant can produce so many tomatoes to harvest that its ok to buy started plants already budding or growing fruit. Our tomato plants, especially Roma & most cherry varieties are very prolific. Mortgage Lifter has been disappointing both in the quantity output & gave misshaped fruit so we returned to planting Better Boy instead. We like Roma cuz the fruit is less watery & has more flesh for processing. The cherry tomato varieties are for the chickens who have developed a real taste for the tiny fruit.

Tomato plants really grow huge & unruly but I let them grow into their square tomato cage without touching them ~ I get more harvest that way. I used to use round tall tomato cages but they are too flimsy at the base & don't support a big tomato plant & start to lean so I switched to more stable medium height square tomato cages ~ way more stable to support heavy water-filled tomato vines.

Tomato bushes last year

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Wow, love your tomatoes!! I plant basil, marigolds and rosemary to keep pests away from the tomatoes

 

[Sylvester017]

I got a fig tree for Mother’s Day! Our last one was devastated by fig borers. I’m planting this one in a totally different area. Thinking of planting comfrey around it too.
Any natural suggestions to keep those fig borers at bay?

Plz let me know how it goes w/your fig tree.

My Mom gave me a twig cutting I planted about 8 ft away from a window which I hoped to shade from the summer sun. That gorgeous tree grew about 8 ft tall over 4 years...I did not prune it since I wanted it a bit tall. However, the tree attracted heavy June bug infestations, ants birds & rats destroyed the beautiful sweet fruit. It wasn't worth it attracting so many pests so chopped it down.

In future we did not plant any more sweet fruit trees. Instead we planted less sweet & thick-skinned citrus like lemon, grapefruit, & pomegranate trees for our planting zone.

 

[Panamom]

What did you do in your garden today?

I picked a bunch of Rattlesnake green beans and Cherokee wax beans, a few tomatoes, three eggplants, some broccoli shoots, and jalapenos. Pretty happy with today's harvest!

Potted some cukes, peppers, eggplants...checked tomatoes for suckers...Put my two turkeys back in their brooder! they rambled out of the coop, not sure how they got out. It is too hot now to figure that out.

 

[akroberts1085]

Nothing. It's too windy cold and wet. One of the cockerels is attempting to start crowing.

 

[Birnenhof]

Just did a small piece of fence and went to the store and got paint for the next piece that had collapsed.

This is the part of the fence that keeps the sheep out of my herb garden. It wasnt doing that which was perturbing me to some degree.
I like my sheep. I also liked my sage seedlings.

 

[Rick589]

Weeded, planted yet a third type of watermelon, harvested a few more sweet potato slips (think we have about 30 so far) and will be planting in the next few days.