What did YOU do in your garden today :P

[ducks4you]

Weeded through the flood.

 

[897tgigvib]

Working on BED 11 now. Yesterday I dug 6 post holes.
Today I cut a Pecker Pole to use for posts. It was tall and wide enough that I got 6 good 4 foot poles from it, 5" to 7" wide. It also left me a 10 foot length 4" to 5" wide, and a 7 foot length 3" to 4" wide. Cleanup of a tree felling takes the most time.
Pecker Poles are trees that need to be cut for other trees to grow better, or for safety/hazard reasons. This tree was part of a cluster of 5 trees all too close together. 8 feet apart is considered minimum. It was also a Fir tree that was developing a forked crown, and those never Patriarch around here. It felled nearly perfectly. Nearly, because it did take out a smallish branch of a nearby Madrone tree on its way down. (Missed my top fell mark by inches.) So I have a little Madrone kindling for next winter's woodstove in addition to a good quantity of drying fir kindling and tinder. (I do not use paper to start my woodstove fires. That's what city folks do. )
Taking a coffee break right now, then back to the garden.

I plan on having those 6 poles set tight in their holes, and hopefully even have the bottom tier of siding nailed in place by the end of the day.

Whooo, cleaning up after a tree felling is the most work of it. I try to make it look like nothing happened.

 

[ninnymary]

Your a good keeper of the forest Marshall.

By the way, I send an email to the curator on Tuesday night. Been checking every hour for a response. Nothing

Mary

 

[baymule]

@bucknercrestfarm Welcome to the forum! Draw up a chair and set a spell, tell us all about your garden. Glad you are here!

 

[digitS']

I didn't do much other than run sprinklers the last 2 days. Lots of sunflowers are now in the garden and I only have a little left to weed/till.

What I tilled yesterday morning, I did not water. I guess that the sweet corn location has just been determined by where I could disconnect the sprinkler pipes and leave for the heat and wind to kill those tilled weeds.

I wish I could have avoided irrigating a little piece of ground in the Shady Corner. The basil will go in sometime and I bet the chickweed is setting seed in there! Darn stuff.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

DS, DD, and I planted bush beans, Jade and Rocdor. DS helped me get the ground ready for the cucumbers and squash. I planted a few cucumber plants I had started that are small and seeds. I planted squash seeds. I am wondering where I am going to put the basil and the celery I started from seed. I do not have a lot of room for squash, but that is okay. I took up too much room with garlic and onions. I will try to plant bush beans aft

er the garlic is gone. I transplanted Kong sunflowers out of the garden and left the biggest one. It is sitting about 6 inches from its mother from last year. DD, picked rhubarb this morning and made a crisp and froze a bunch. This is a picture of her and a rhubarb leaf.

 

[canesisters]

That is HUGE
(or she is really, really tiny)

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

That is HUGE
(or she is really, really tiny)

She is 5' 9". This is not the biggest leaf. I had already cut rhubarb a week ago.

 

[Wishin']

I just finished transplanted 30 of my sunflowers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Just a picture of the pocketbook flower that I bought this week. It's a annual, temperate, terrestrial orchid native to the southern end of South America. Willing to share seed but don't want to make many promises until I see how much I end up with. Definitely my new favorite flower!

@Wishin'
What kind of sunflowers are they? I have a few varieties coming up now - Autumn Beauty, Vanilla Ice, and "Il Tore" (originally from Italy).

 

[baymule]

DS, DD, and I planted bush beans, Jade and Rocdor. DS helped me get the ground ready for the cucumbers and squash. I planted a few cucumber plants I had started that are small and seeds. I planted squash seeds. I am wondering where I am going to put the basil and the celery I started from seed. I do not have a lot of room for squash, but that is okay. I took up too much room with garlic and onions. I will try to plant bush beans aftView attachment 2454 er the garlic is gone. I transplanted Kong sunflowers out of the garden and left the biggest one. It is sitting about 6 inches from its mother from last year. DD, picked rhubarb this morning and made a crisp and froze a bunch. This is a picture of her and a rhubarb leaf.

Goodness gracious! That is huge! Will rhubarb grow in Texas?