What did YOU do in your garden today :P

This week in my garden I have managed to get beans planted, sweet potatoes set out, and several weeds put to rest. I've been picking strawberries daily, and enjoying them mightily. Also, in the flower bed, got some lavender planted and a bunch of turf lily and snow-on-the-mountain dug out of the rock garden.

I really like the deck!

I planted 12 tomatoes, 4 Early Girl, 5 Siberian Red, and 3 Delicious.

so lucky said:

The deck looks great, but too bad about all those trampled plants! any chance they might come back?

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Nope! That was the year they redid the soffit. They stomped all over the plants then and DH hoed down anything that tried to make a comeback two years running. I do have one wisp of white iris (where I had three) -- smaller and thinner than a blade of crabgrass -- that did come up. I have it FORT KNOXED at the moment. DH will need a hummer and a Patriot missile to get anywhere near it.

Between babysitting my niece again today, I prepped a new bed to put two new roses in that I got for Mother's Day. Ran out of daylight, but I'll plant them tomorrow.

Perfect weather in the forecast for the whole 4 days of Memorial Day weekend. I am determined to get the big garden in...all of it this weekend. I'm a little nervous though, because I need DH to till for me and he is helping my sister and BIL move this weekend. Surely they won't keep him the whole 4 days.

My PoultryNet electric fencing came yesterday. I have everything purchased and ready and I think I can hook it up by myself tomorrow. I'll be moving the chickens into rotation over 1/4th of the big garden (~625 sq. ft.) and I'm going to pile manure and compost all summer long on another 1/4th and plant the remaining half. In winter they'll go over the half and next spring onto the manure/compost section and I'll just keep rotating each from there. I think this is going to really work out great. I can't let them free-range anymore. They are getting into everything, crossing the road, hanging out on the carport and just generally driving me nuts!

Gardening with Rabbits said:

Marmots, my gosh that is even worse! . . .

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Problems from garden pests probably can be rated by the pound. A thousand pound vegetarian will probably do more overnight damage than 20 pounds of marmot.

For those of you unfamiliar with marmots, they are just large groundhogs. They are both Marmota.

I have all but 7 of the tomatoes out. Those need a little more time in the backyard before all that open garden exposure. With a lot of variety out there, I think this will be a fun year. I'm also looking forward to 2015 and trying more of what Marshall was working on in his tomato patch.

I've nearly given up trying to replace Early Girl but I have now set my sights on Big Beef. Gotta do it! Cannot lounge in the patch with the saladettes just because it's easy and comfortable.

Steve

Some pictures of the garden. Half-mulched and mostly planted. It will look a whole lot nicer once things start coming up and growing. So far I've planted: lots of bush beans, cowpeas, garbanzos, peas, radishes, muskmelons, tomatoes, sunflowers, some lentils. What I need to get planted: summer squash, tomatillo (which apparently isn't recognized as a word), and I need to get the pepper starts out. Oh, and the perennial sweet peas, need to plant those too. Ah! That and I need to get the Litchi tomatoes out once they germinate, that and since the moth beans dies early in a frost I'll have to replant.



Pictures of the peas.

@TheSeedObsesser , it looks like your scarecrow is playing the guitar.

I thought he was holding a gun....

It Is a gun, not a guitar (that might be a fun idea though, imagine having a whole band standing next to the garden were people can see). Pa made both the scarecrow and the gun, according to him you can't have a garden without a scarecrow. For the frame he used a chicken-wire mannequin that we found out back (landlord's an artist, was going to use it to make a copper sculpture), and then just covered it with old clothes and hole-y boots and gloves. He used a Halloween mask for the face, the mask looks kind of like the KFC guy... so our nickname for the scarecrow - Kernel Sanders!