What Did You Do In The Garden?

Spouse and I weeded almost all the garden today. Spouse weeded the carrots first. No carrots left in the closest spots. Then he weeded the baby onions planted between onion sets. Not very many grass-like onion plants left either.
Then he helped me weed a garden bed with nothing growing in it except a few volunteer tomatoes I'd intended to move to the tomato bed and replace those that I cooked after the last frost. Yep! He carefully left the Queen Ann's Lace and pulled the tomato plants around them.

Not a big problem as problems go. He did manage to get rid of quite a few real weeds with me and it kept him busy and close. Since I don't know if I'll be cooking when the veggies are ready for harvest, there really isn't reason to get excited over losing a few carrots or onions.

Tomorrow I hope to plant the sweet potatoes.
 
DW and I did a pretty good job getting mostly purslane out of some onions. The onions are closely planted and have begun to grow so it's difficult to reach between them, especially for that ground-hugging purslane!

However, those onions were the earliest things we set out in the big veggie garden. The onions certainly are incapable of slowing them down and those weeds have had awhile to grow. Where they haven't crowded each other -- I saw just a few yellow blooms! Well, it's time for them to go!

Out there again, tomorrow.

Steve
 
I decided to plant bok-choy later. I think it is going to be too hot and I am running out of room. I planted 3 tomato plants, some Swiss chard and more onions. I did a lot of weeding and I brought in a bunch of rhubarb. I had to replant a lot of the bush beans. Some not coming up, some have just the stem left. I am not sure if it is the birds again. More weeding tomorrow, last of the onions to plant, maybe some lettuce and beets.
 
bean seedlings are much-loved nibbles for ..

. rabbits, gardening with.

;)

Steve
 
digitS' said:
bean seedlings are much-loved nibbles for ..

. rabbits, gardening with.

;)

Steve
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I am wondering if wax bean seedlings taste better. There are no rabbits running loose that I know of. Actually, the bean is cut pretty low to the ground. It was not like just the top was gone, but most of the stem too. I guess I should get the netting out and cover that row and where the pole beans will be.
 
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Got my plastic up over my garden so all my veggies don't drown over the next couple days! Picked some eggplant, cucumbers, green beans & cherry tomatoes. Hoping the rain is not gonna be as heavy as they forecast!
 
That's quite a protected growing area!

Good job!

I can hardly imagine protecting from rain rather than cold ... and, maybe, bright sunlight!

Steve
 
This is the first year I'm trying it out, still working on a roller system to make the pulling the plastic over the hoops easier... But that's still a work in progress!
We get so many of these storms that just sit over us for days & flood everything so in trying to protect as much as I can atleast.
If we ever have another winter it might get some use for that too, but honestly last "winter" we had only 1 day that it got to 34 so I never covered anything & I had tomatoes, eggplant & peppers & all my herbs from the summer before that produced all through winter & all of those plants with the exception of the tomatoes are actually still in the garden still producing.... Like I said haha we don't have seasons
 
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