What Did You Do In The Garden?

One of my garden favorites is okra. Planted it early, nothing. Tilled spot again, planted okra. Turned hot/dry. Nothing. Finally it rained last week. Tonight I saw the first few seed sticking their heads up. IF I had to replant again, I was going to have to use some Clemson Spineless seeds. Don't like that variety as it gets woody as soon as pods get 1/2 too long or temps drop to below 50 degrees at night.
 
All the weeds pulled from beds and dropped in the big veggie garden paths had a very difficult morning.

I ran the big tiller repeatedly up and down the paths and ground those weeds into the dirt! That included all those nearly-immortal purslane plants.

Oddly enough, they are the ones easiest to kill by burying. Days left on the soil surface probably was fatal for only the smallest purslane. I once left a purslane weed lying upside down on a concrete block ... in July! Three weeks later, that weed was still alive, had righted itself and was blooming!

It amounted to "suppression" and not eradication. The seeds are in that soil. Some weeds, like the dandelions, will grow back from their roots. Some were missed in those recent weeding expeditions. And, some of that purslane had a lot of life to it and wasn't completely buried - it will be back, and with luck and good timing, so will Rogue the Rototiller and ...

Steve
 
Picked strawberries, suckered tomatoes and wove them into the cattle panel trellis. This evening will be side dressing the corn with blood meal, epsom salts and coop litter and the rest of the garden with epsom salts and pelleted lime.
 
Picked cherries off the Stella cherry tree, planted some more lettuce, hoed the weeds in the tomato rows, started some 5 gallon buckets of rabbit manure tea, cow manure tea, and some composted chicken manure tea. Watched videos about bok-choy and boy do I know nothing about bok-choy.
 
Thinned okra, weeded tomatoes and peppers, transplanted lettuce, hoed corn and planted last 3 rows of corn.
 
Watered my garage flower beds, watered my beets/okra bed--little baby okras popping their heads up. Planted about 50 more bedding plants at DD's---pictures taken to be put up on a new thread SOON!!--and planted them both an 18 inch tall Mortgage lifter tomato (that I buried very deep) in a tree pot, along with some nasturtium seeds, will buy and add some basil to that pot. We finally potted up both petunias and wave petunias in a long, plastic planter and put it on the south ledge of the front porch, along with 2 strawberry plants that we planted in a cute, little ceramic pot that I found cleaning out my gardening box behind the tool shed. DD's ripped out the old, wooden box and put together my Mother's Day present, a large Rubbermaid version with lid lifts and doors! :love The only thing in there right now is my 50 ft heated hose that I use in the winter, but they run $200.00, so now it's safe.
Potted up some sun loving bedding plants that I didn't have time to put into the beds but needed soil because (as usual), you buy them potbound. o_O
We almost lost about 24 lobelia, so I potted them up and drenched them. An hour later many looked like they might make it. We have had horrible hot and dry weather AND DD's schedule have put ME one month behind. Still...we carry on. :D
 
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