What Did You Do In The Garden?

After being gone for 2 weeks my garden is a mess. Tomato plants toppled over, plants bolting, plums on ground and inside fountain fermenting, and squash vines not climbing up the trellis but sprawled on the ground. Everything of course had grown quite a bit.

So today, I decided to remove some calla lillies that I had around the fountain. It was pretty tight in there and it looks much better. Told my husband the fountain water was grossed and he asked me if I had my rubber gloves which I did and to clean it. Well this princess was not about to do that! haha so he did it for me and a fine job he did too!

Trimmed all my tomato plants down to 6'. Cleaned up a tiny area in my shade garden. Pulled up some bolted plants in my raised bed.

Still have other stuff to do.

Mary

I changed the flower bed in front of the coop today. Made it much wider with nice new edging, redid the drip line, moved some of the plants around, and *tried* to get all of the crabgrass out of the bed. Ugh! I think tomorrow I’ll put in a couple of stepping stones by the porch. And maybe add a few more flowers and finally, add some mulch! This will make mowing in front of the coop so much easier!

ninnymary said:

After being gone for 2 weeks my garden is a mess. Tomato plants toppled over, plants bolting, plums on ground and inside fountain fermenting, and squash vines not climbing up the trellis but sprawled on the ground. Everything of course had grown quite a bit.

So today, I decided to remove some calla lillies that I had around the fountain. It was pretty tight in there and it looks much better. Told my husband the fountain water was grossed and he asked me if I had my rubber gloves which I did and to clean it. Well this princess was not about to do that! haha so he did it for me and a fine job he did too!

Trimmed all my tomato plants down to 6'. Cleaned up a tiny area in my shade garden. Pulled up some bolted plants in my raised bed.

Still have other stuff to do.

Mary

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Read your post before my morning coffee, thought it said trimmed to 6” (not the 6’ you typed). Thought, man you were aggressive....

ninnymary said:

After being gone for 2 weeks my garden is a mess. Tomato plants toppled over, plants bolting, plums on ground and inside fountain fermenting, and squash vines not climbing up the trellis but sprawled on the ground. Everything of course had grown quite a bit.

So today, I decided to remove some calla lillies that I had around the fountain. It was pretty tight in there and it looks much better. Told my husband the fountain water was grossed and he asked me if I had my rubber gloves which I did and to clean it. Well this princess was not about to do that! haha so he did it for me and a fine job he did too!

Trimmed all my tomato plants down to 6'. Cleaned up a tiny area in my shade garden. Pulled up some bolted plants in my raised bed.

Still have other stuff to do.

Mary

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i've said it before and likely will say it again, but Tru Luv!

today's plan, quick check of beans to get some climbers on their supports, watering, digging out some buried organic goodies that are ready, moving/removing some bulbs, weeding, mowing, siesta, putting up more pickles this afternoon. we'll see what actually gets done. (my vote is on the siesta)...

gotta get a-goin' while i can. bye fine people of TEG.

SweetMissDaisy said:

View attachment 32513 I changed the flower bed in front of the coop today. Made it much wider with nice new edging, redid the drip line, moved some of the plants around, and *tried* to get all of the crabgrass out of the bed. Ugh! I think tomorrow I’ll put in a couple of stepping stones by the porch. And maybe add a few more flowers and finally, add some mulch! This will make mowing in front of the coop so much easier!

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That is the sweetest coop ever! If it were mine I'd kick the hens out and turn it into a B&B.

well, I do have a friend here that says it’s her home away from home and thanks me for the upgrades when I make changes! But since I prefer chickens over people, no chance of a B&B here anytime soon.

ninnymary said:

After being gone for 2 weeks my garden is a mess. Tomato plants toppled over, plants bolting, plums on ground and inside fountain fermenting, and squash vines not climbing up the trellis but sprawled on the ground. Everything of course had grown quite a bit.

So today, I decided to remove some calla lillies that I had around the fountain. It was pretty tight in there and it looks much better. Told my husband the fountain water was grossed and he asked me if I had my rubber gloves which I did and to clean it. Well this princess was not about to do that! haha so he did it for me and a fine job he did too!

Trimmed all my tomato plants down to 6'. Cleaned up a tiny area in my shade garden. Pulled up some bolted plants in my raised bed.

Still have other stuff to do.

Mary

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Gardens are kind of like kids. They misbehave when you turn your back for a minute.

I don't know why trimming your tomatoes down to 6' seems so funny.
If I ever had a six foot tomato plant I would be checking for nuclear waste, haha.

You have done a beautiful job with that coop and it's landscaping, @SweetMissDaisy !

@Smiles Jr. had a question about plant support. I went back through my attachments and couldn't find a picture of what I put up in the way of a horizontal trellis. Here's what Johnny's sells: LINK.

It isn't very difficult to make these with baling twine. Posts are needed and, on wider beds, cross boards at each end to hold multiple horizontal string.

I have finished the first layer of trellis with the dahlias. I'm always kinda wondering late in the season why I have put that first trellis on. The plants grow tall enough that it's the 2nd and 3rd layers are soon the ones holding the plants and the first just hangs there ... wasn't wasted earlier, anyway .

Frugality: I reuse twine on next year's pea trellis. It comes down after pea season and doesn't need to hold up through a full season of sunshine. Also try to be frugal with my posts. Eight foot 1 x 2's have gotten the best of me standing on a milk crate and wielding a sledge hammer! The end below ground may last a couple of seasons, even pulled and stacked through winter. Shorter and shorter the posts grow through the years! Eight feet isn't need with the dahlias or any of my flowers. Truth be known, I cut off the first 12" so that I can reach the top of the thing with the hammer!

Miracle grew the first 2/3rds of the dahlia plants and I'll get to the others, today. They are just beginning to have one or two blooms on some of the earliest! Lots more growing to do, however ...

Steve

Love your coop @SweetMissDaisy, especially the little front porch.

Mary