What did you do in the garden today?

[jxp]

When we get pineapples, we'll always start the tops in a quart (~1L) size yogurt container with holes drilled in the bottom. The ones that take get moved to a sturdy US-#1 (gallon) /UK-c3 nursery pot within their first year. Then on to a three gallon (UK-#10) as they grow and finally a five gallon. We put in 8 fruit trees a few years back and a couple more this year so, luckily, I have a number of them. Your post gives me hope that all of DS's care will pay off for him.

I chuckled to myself when you mentioned being tempted to leave them outside over winter. I went through that exact feeling with my plumeria trees. I got so tired of dragging them inside and outside and all of the room they take up. For over 20 years they've been coming in when it's projected to go below 50F/10c. This year I thought I'd be done with them but when our first frost hit and they still had green leaves despite several nights of chilly temps, I ran out in the dark and rescued them. They'll probably self prune a few branches when I bring them out of dormancy but the most part of each of them is still firm.

 

[chickengr]

I got chickens because of the egg prices during COVID and I asked if my kids would eat the eggs but I didn't know they wouldn't eat them. I have started my garden for the fact that food prices are so ridiculous right now and I don't see them going down, only up. I wish I had enough property for animals other than birds. I can only hope that my kids change their minds about their food not coming from a store.

sooner or later everyone will try to grow food. even on the balconies.

 

[Minanora]

I'm slow sometimes. What is "opal inclusions"?

Finding any opal in our rocks in the cliffs and surrounding area.

 

[akroberts1085]

sooner or later everyone will try to grow food. even on the balconies.

I wish my kids would start a garden. The benefits of gardening so out weighs the negative of them. My 2nd youngest grandson is autistic and he is always talking about either growing something or chickens or hatching eggs so he can have his baby chicks. He watched me dump the pool for the ducks and found the egg so he said he was going to take it in the house and hatch it so he could have his baby duck. I'm going to love life when they come down and I can take him out to the garden and get food from it.

 

[Minanora]

Didn't plant seeds.. My seed starting mix was waterlogged. And not enough there. Getting more materials to make soil later this week

 

[pennyJo1960]

I planted many seeds in the chicken yard we haver temps in the high 40's best time to let them germinate just clover.

 

[jerryse]

Old seeds are starting to germinate day 5. Collards and spinach. Next trip to the city I need to get potting mix and seed snail material. I think I will buy a roll of 5 1/2 inch sill plate foam to make the snail. Since these are cold hardy crops I will plant them in the snails now. Scratch the itch to grow something.

 

[jxp]

Finding any opal in our rocks in the cliffs and surrounding area.

Ooh. Sounds like a treasure hunt. How many have you found and was it on purpose or did you just come across them?

The only sorta interesting stones around here are rose rocks.

 

[WthrLady]

I counted 63 bald eagles on the lake on my way home today, and that's only half the lake! LOL
They went forth and multiplied this year!

Gypsum roses!!! Lov those!

 

[jxp]

I wish my kids would start a garden. The benefits of gardening so out weighs the negative of them. My 2nd youngest grandson is autistic and he is always talking about either growing something or chickens or hatching eggs so he can have his baby chicks. He watched me dump the pool for the ducks and found the egg so he said he was going to take it in the house and hatch it so he could have his baby duck. I'm going to love life when they come down and I can take him out to the garden and get food from it.

Way back in the day, my mom started my love of growing things by giving me a small strip of dirt between the house and sidewalk along with my "very own" hand trowel and flower seeds (easy, quick growing ones like marigold and zinnias). It worked on me. A couple decades later, it worked on my own children, and more recently my grandkids.

I hope your grandson's duck eggs hatch for him. LMK if you're going to do a hatch along so I can follow and root for the babies.