What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

In the 70s and 80s, sunscreen, WTH was THAT?! LOL. Only life guards wore white zinc on their noses. Otherwise it was tanning OIL, the best SPF on the market, even in the mid to late 80s was SPF 4 FOUR! OMG it smelled so good. Sea and Ski clear, smelled like lemons.

Oh no! Hawaiian Tropic tanning oil smelled amazing back then... I was never one to worship tanning (thanks to my Irish & English heritage) but there were always older teens and younger people in their early 20s "laying out" in our neighborhood. You could smell that tanning oil everywhere!

 

[TJAnonymous]

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Pulled my scapes off my garlic.. saving to put in an omelet then will process some for garlic scape pesto. I just make my basic pesto in food processor but a lot less basil and use the scapes. I freeze it in smaller portions for later use. Will dry some, grind or and ad to a good course salt for later use also.

Keep forgetting to collect mine!

Edited to add - I went down and harvested mine. They are pretty straight (more like a candy cane or shepherds hook) so likely to be woody. Trying to decide if I want to try to blanche them and make pesto or use them some other way... Wish I had gotten them when they were tender! Grrrrr

 

[Sylvester017]

prickly pear would deter kids better.





I have aloe in full sun. it is just like any cactus here, shrunk in summer and plump in winter.

TY for your advice on your Aloe

I thought about prickly pear except I don't want to hurt myself either . I'm still leaning towards Aloe Vera since it's not a pleasant succulent to walk around yet not lethal like prickly pear !!!

My concern was whether Aloe Vera could tolerate our hot summer sun & wonder how fast it tends to spread. I have lavender rosea succulent ground cover that spreads fast where I have to prune it 3-4x a year so I wonder how fast Aloe would spread?

I need a succulent that requires little water or maybe an evergreen like a small juniper variety. It's so hard to find something stickery that takes full sun, requires little watering, doesn't grow tall, and doesn't spread out so fast.

We have Armstrong Gardens here & they have a lot of plants to choose from. Their educated advice has been pretty accurate so far on other foliage/trees we got from them. I just feel better talking w/ owners who have had actual experience w/ plants in their yards.

 

[Sylvester017]

Ty. I’ll look in to that. I thought about crushing an aspirin and giving to them. Half joking/half not

Aspirin! Teehee!

B1 transplant shock is usually a capful mixed in a gallon jug of water that's used immediately to water a transplanted seedling. If there's still liquid remaining in the jug we use the rest of it the next day to continue watering the new seedling. I don't know that B1 will work on saving a sad seedling later that has already wilted.

B1 is to be used at first transplanting.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

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Keep forgetting to collect mine!

Edited to add - I went down and harvested mine. They are pretty straight (more like a candy cane or shepherds hook) so likely to be woody. Trying to decide if I want to try to blanche them and make pesto or use them some other way... Wish I had gotten them when they were tender! Grrrrr

Shoot- try up by the bend part, maybe they will be tender there.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Took the covers off of my peppers, weeded the peppers and cucumbers.
Something put holes into all of my radishes. I've never had that happen before.
Anyone have a tool they can recommend to weed in between rows of sweet corn? I don't want to damage corn roots.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Wow, my sunflowers grew like a foot over night! And I planted a shorter variety, 8 foot instead of 10-12. At this rate of growth, I'm not believing that seed packet! Any way picked more green beans, huckleberries, strawberries, and plums. Saw the first ripe blueberry on the bush. Mine, yum! The first of anything grown is the best ever! Lol

 

[dirkandlorie]

Took the covers off of my peppers, weeded the peppers and cucumbers.
Something put holes into all of my radishes. I've never had that happen before.
Anyone have a tool they can recommend to weed in between rows of sweet corn? I don't want to damage corn roots.

Hope someone has a suggestion for you, I've always hand pulled weeds in my gardens. No tool can I wield as carefully as my fingers.

 

[SkyAJK]

Did this have anything to do with the US Postal system? It sounds like how our inept system works.

I don't remember it mention the US, but it was the parcel that for Australia ended up in Austria, then back to Austria and so it went....What most amazing is that it went back and forth so many times...how did that happen? The sort of mistake that one think it never possible, but here it is....so the impossible is not only possible but possible many times over

 

[SkyAJK]

This morning I checked on a few of my baby chilly plants, 1 that was planed in the corner is not looking good, the other two I planed in the my garden bed are looking happy. I will cover this one tonight so it will not feel so cold.