What did you do in the garden today?

[SkyAJK]

I am wanting to put my precious Fig tree in a new pot, it out grown the pot it came in from the nursery. If it does not rain today then I can do this.

Cherry tomatoes make my chickens go crazy, they love it. Many of those self seeded everywhere in the garden, but it is hard to do anything as the rain is soaking them to destruction.

 

[catsndogs4us]

Planting, planting, planting! It's time, everything can go in. I can stop tending seedlings in pots. Love this time of year but it is work! I'm 23 pages behind in reading this thread but 90% of seedlings are planted and I've started on putting seeds in the ground for squashes, cucumbers and such. This year I'm adding a much more organized medicinal garden too. I'm excited about it and excited to learn. Hopefully I can keep it organized. Last year I did it rather haphazardly and lost plant markers or the sharpie faded too much to read. This year I'm using paint markers for the labels.

 

[WthrLady]

Severe weather for the next three days, so mowing and planting will wait until after that.

I delivered 20 inch tall tomato plants to all my online local customers. One left, who will be picking it up tomorrow from the UPS shed out front. After that I have 20 plants that are mine, and only 15 left over for planting deaths, planting injury, or neighbors that forgot to order.

The chicks went on their first outdoor field trip today. They'll move into the broody coop after the terrible weather this week too.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Well the weather forcasters are promising rain within the week - so we live in hope. Then I can go mad potting things up, instead of watering to keep the seeds alive.

 

[Sally PB]

Well today we continued our planned assembly of a pvc framework around our blueberries so we can net them against the birds more effectively than in years past. After several years of getting almost nothing because of the birds (little takers get all the birdseed they want PLUS they dip into the chicken feed/treats from time to time) we started to cover them and as if by magic we began harvesting 20 to 25 lbs. a year. I refuse to give the berries up to the birds, they get plenty from us already. I think this frame will end up being the size of a small house when done.

Please post pictures! I have never gotten a good harvest from my blueberries. Birds get most of them, and the cheap plastic netting doesn't do a great job.

 

[Sally PB]

I dug up some weeds, and I also dug up a LOT of grubs! Chickie snack!

But that means if I'm finding that many... how many are there?? I'm only digging up the weeds, not turning the entire garden.

It would be great if I could spend a few days up there with the chickens, turning the soil, letting them dig. But the chickens stay in the run where it's safe. They have never been out of the run, and trying to catch them to carry them would be a disaster/nightmare.

 

[Molpet]

I'm still planting onions
Going to be in the high 30s at night later this week so I have not transplanted the tomatoes and peppers plants yet.

 

[Sally PB]

Lows in the 40s, highs in the 50s/60s. Too cold to start hardening plants off, but man, are they getting big!

 

[TJAnonymous]

My peach tree ( 3. season it has born fruit) is so tall ( well, I am no giant ) I can forget about bagging the tiny peaches, it also has so many, it would cost a fortune to bag them all…

Yeah, my trees are really tall too... Probably 15 ft at this point. I am using a ladder to bag as many as I can... Hoping the bugs will focus on the exposed fruit and it'll be a good compromise. I will still spray occasionally but I'm really trying to limit chemicals and be as organic as possible. Last year ALL the fruit dropped except for 3 peaches on one tree. Those peaches were so wormy there was NO WAY I was eating that... Right now it looks like I have a bumper crop of fruit but, of course, June drop has not yet occurred so I'm trying to not get my hopes up too much. I'd LOVE to know how our ancestors managed to get enough peaches to make a pie... Heck, I'd love to have just a couple of peaches that are worm free. That'd be a start...

 

[chickengr]

Good Morning BYC Good Gardeners...

I am mighty happy that I am now a proud owner of a 1.2m high Black Genoa fig tree. I found a nursery still stock it in this cold weather. It is in dormant and today I will put it in a larger pot.

This baby fig tree will be sleeping in the shed at night and out in the sunniest spot during the day... "My Precious"...

This nursery told me that in my state's climate it is not ideal to grow starchy apple and they do not stock starchy apple type, only crunchy one. My family love apple with starchy texture, I love the crunchy one.

Now that I found this Mom&Dad nursery, I will be going there to buy my plants/trees there. We used to have many nurseries like that, but this one time we had this prolong drought that many small nursery went down, now mostly corporate own nursery.

Happy gardening....

figs like to be outside. moving it in/out might kill it. what is your night temperature?

I mean my chickens go gang busters for grubs (encapsuled gems) and mini milipedes that grow here up to 12" (not to be confused with centipedes) carried by ants!

They chase after them, and eat the ants as well. My chickens are helping me garden... It is dinner and exercise

my chickens don't eat stinky millipedes but my muscovy ducks do.