What did you do in the garden today?

Pics
Date sort Score sort
I pulled/dug a lot of weeds today. There are a lot more.

I picked the last of the snap peas. I planted half a row of Sugar Snap, and half a row of Sugar Bon. Bon grew shorter and bore first. Snap grew MUCH taller, bore later, bore more, and they were sweeter. I'll grow them again next year and skip Bon.
 
Sally PB said:
I pulled/dug a lot of weeds today. There are a lot more.

I picked the last of the snap peas. I planted half a row of Sugar Snap, and half a row of Sugar Bon. Bon grew shorter and bore first. Snap grew MUCH taller, bore later, bore more, and they were sweeter. I'll grow them again next year and skip Bon.
Click to expand...
I've planted peas in the same spot for the last 4 years now and each year they do better. I'm thinking that the mycorrhizal fungi that peas need has built up in the soil in that area and has helped the peas do better. Just my theory.

The snow peas I planted this year are over 5 feet tall, and they're supposed to be a bush type. Producing like crazy too.
 
Last edited:
I soaked some 2year old Super sauce hybrid tomato seeds in warm/hot water for 5 hours and threw out the floaters. I sprouted them on a damp paper towel and placed the sprouted seeds on top of filled seed cells and covered them with a small square piece of toilet paper and covered the tissue with about an 1/8 inch with fine coco coir.

I did it this way so that the seeds would not get washed around too deep or shallow. I like this method because it doesn't need a humidity dome, and the sprouted seeds popped up in a few days out in full sun light. I had my doubts that the sprouted seeds could break through the tissue, but it did.

I also sprouted lettuce seeds this way without soaking them in hot water and I used two pieces of toilet paper instead of one. I place one tissue on top of the seed cells and placed seeds on top of it and covered it with another piece of tissue and lightly covered it with fine coco coir.

I think the tissue help keep the seeds moist and in place. The seedling is visible when the picture is blown up.

DSCN0055.JPG
 
Last edited:
Lost a zucchini plant today. It was covered in squash bug nymphs late yesterday. I went out to spray it tonight and it was collapsed. Could have been SVB too that did it in... I did spray the rest of the plants with spinosad... My tomatoes and cantaloupe too. Oh, and my kale which has been decimated by cabbage loopers and harlequin beetles.

On a positive note, I picked another large pickle, a couple of tomatoes, and a handful of green beans. Probably need to plant more green beans because my current ones are nearly tapped out.

And I DESPERATELY need to weed the garden. It's just so stinking hot and the bugs/mosquitoes/biting flies are brutal right now. But the weeds and grass are just RIDICULOUS. I mowed around the barn with the brush mower on Saturday. It ALREADY needs mowed again... I've never seen stuff grow up this fast but we've had a foot of rain in the past 30 days...
 

Similar threads

Bock-Bock-Bagock
    • Like
    • Love
Experimental Garden. Will Anything Grow?
2
Replies
13
Views
2K
Rillowen
R
QChickieMama
My cover crop is thriving in random spots in the garden
Replies
1
Views
1K
Sally PB
S
BigBird 2025
    • Like
What did you do in the garden today?
Replies
8
Views
1K
Supercow
Supercow
N
    • Like
Gardening in fertile heavy green areas compared...?
2
Replies
12
Views
3K
Karlkurla Chooks
Karlkurla Chooks
N
    • Like
Bush beans and pole beans question?
7 8 9
Replies
80
Views
24K
TheFowlLine
TheFowlLine

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom