What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Some of my plum grafts are growing. First one was done a week before the second one.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

 

[Smokerbill]

Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

I have a nice volunteer dill patch, and I found a single volunteer tomato when I weeded my onion/shallot bed. I'm leaving the tomato just to find out what kind it is.

I need to look closer, but I should have a lot of parsley plants coming up. I let one go to seed last summer.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I mowed the front yard, and did some trimming. DD came over with GDs. DD mowed the backyard while the girls planted more flowers. Tomorrow will do more trimming and clean the patio a bit more before our cookout. I may set up the fire pit too. I’m going to plant some flower seeds in the pots the girls planted so they will get a surprise in a couple of weeks. Warmer temperatures moving in this week. I’m hoping to finish planting out the big garden area by weeks end.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

I'm getting marigolds and amaranth all over my yard, one tomato in a pot way too small for it, and a dill down in the veggie garden.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I picked another 6 cups of blackberries today. Picked up some peaches at the store and am currently in the process of making blackberry-peach fruit leather. First time I've ever made it so we'll see how it goes.... I also made more blackberry simple syrup. Then froze the rest of the unused blackberries. There's still tons more berries coming ripe and developing. That's not counting the bushels of wild ones. I'll use those to make seedless jelly, I think.

I wish I had enough strawberries to make jam but I never seem to get enough at the same time. I really should try harder to pot up the runners and actually create a strawberry patch in some corner where they can spread out to their hearts content... Maybe then I'll actually get a decent amount. Currently I get enough in the first batch to do something small... Like make ice cream or syrup.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Got the lettuce, kale, and Swiss Chard in the ground, and got the tiny chitted potatoes into a pot. All the potatoes in the same pot, which is probably too small for that many, but I’m out of space in anything bigger so they will have to make do. A lot of the greens were root bound or getting sickly looking and I didn’t have time to get them hardened off like I should have either but I am rapidly approaching it territory as far as waiting.

All the viney plants are also looking a little pale and/or sickly, I hope it’s just the relative cold and they’ll do better once the weather warms up, which it’s supposed to for the next week.

On the bright side, the initial potatoes seem happy as do the peas. Some of the Trail of Tears beans came up looking like they’d been munched on but most of them seem to be in a holding pattern waiting for warmer weather - healthy looking but not growing much - ditto for the peppers of both varieties.

Got some seeds off my sole first batch marigold survivor, and it looks like some of the second batch might possibly bloom soonish. The Iroquois Cornbread beans are almost spent, not a great harvest but I ended up with more seeds than I started with so I’m going to count that a win. The Calypso got restarted somehow - they mostly died off, lost their pods and then started new leaves and new blooms, so I’m experimenting with hand pollination with a Q-tip to see if they get better pods than the Cornbread beans did that way. The Turkey Craw beans got a little battered when I tried to harden them off; too much wind but they aren’t dead yet so I guess we will see!

Still need to up-pot the herbs, cut up another cattle panel, put netting over the lettuce and get some new railing hooks, mosquito dunks, and I think harvest some catnip but most of that is going to wait until tomorrow.

Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

Not unexpected because it happens every year but I had some leaf lettuce come up. I moved most of it into the same section as the lettuce starts of the same variety.

 

[Sally PB]

Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

Potatoes... always have volunteer potatoes!

 

[WthrLady]

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Speaking of volunteers.... Which ones have popped up in your garden unexpectedly this year?

I've had lettuce carrots, asparagus, raspberries and a surprise sunflower.

including the ragweed that came in the bags of mulch? I've got a pair of milkweed in the herb bed. Fluff must have been brought in by birds for a nest and they dropped it. I have several nest boxes in the garden. The birds help with the moth situation.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

10-4, I got it done, sort of I still need to water . I have a few things that didn’t come up, the basil ?? a few but it’s still if’ie cucumber, celery. I am waiting on the parsnips and I see a few carrot hairs.
I am not worried if some things don’t , no big deal.