What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

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From the topiary & bluebirds of happiness to the mundane . . .

I finally got all the cool season plants and seeds in the veggie garden today . . . !

Now it is just a matter of succession plantings and warm season stuff - when those can be chanced. We had a light frost this morning .

Half-hardy flower starts are also all out there - snaps & asters but I've still got calendulas and statice to set out. Planted sweet pea seed today . Gotta get to the glads!!

I'd like to transplant the zinnias - they must be getting root bound and they are so much healthier in the open garden. Of course, if it freezes . . .

Steve

 

[karanleaf]

I just started asparagus beans and eggplant, Getting the arch put up tomorrow And hoping to get the old grape vine support redone. :watering I love spring row

:happy_flower Karan

 

[Hattie the Hen]

I have started my rooster topiary by transferring the already rooted cuttings into a large pot -- it looks promising but he will have to be sitting down (for a couple of years at least)!! Now I will have to cosset it for a while to get it to throw out a lot of side branches & leaves.

My chickens were trying to join in this morning; holding up bits of cuttings. They will eventually lose interest in it, it's just when I am fussing with something they want to be in on the act. !!!

No more rain overnight but showers are forecast for later & onwards till Thursday, when it will be sunny & hot! SO THEY SAY......!!??

Good news! My raspberries have started to flower & you can see the beginnings of the fruit --- they are my favourites. I love to go out in the mornings & eat them straight off the plants; my favourite breakfast

I have got to get more veggies in, root veg this time. I have a nice bed prepared for them, no fresh fertiliser & cleaned of stones. My soil is quite well-drained & a bit sandy so I usually get straight roots. I'm very interested to try the salsify & the rainbow-coloured carrot mix.

Have a great day everyone! :happy_flower


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[karanleaf]

Don't think I will get much done today outside as the winds are blowing 25 - 30 mph + So I don't think the archway will go up today But I will work in the greenhouse. I will do some geranium and Begonia cuttings so maybe I will have some nice young blooming plants ready by fall and mature ones by next year
Hattie I sure wish I could see your Garden, sounds as if it is a wonderful place I hope to be able to fit topiary in to my many projects one of these days. But I have soo many now, Herbial tea garden, some daylilly beds, straw bale garden, and some paving sones to mold. I think my plate is very very full for this year. But something to plan during the winter months

Well I must check with the Post Office I am expecting a package.

Tata for now Taters,

:happy_flower Karan

 

[momofdrew]

Put in my second planting of carrot onion beets and swiss chard this past week...

 

[unclejoe]

Today I put in the green peppers, zucchini, 3 tomatoes, and a dozen marigolds. Then the rain put an end to the day.
I have my first strawberry turning red !

 

[Rosalind]

Today I set out the "backup" tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cukes, melons and squash that I started last month. These ones were hardened off in an unheated laundry room instead of in the (apparently too toasty) cold frame that roasted the last batch.

They're little. They're sort of sad. But they're out there with the basil and sage and creeping thyme, so hopefully they'll hang in there.

And I hilled up around one of my exuberant potato beds using compost made of last year's leaf rakings. It's really nice compost, too--I put an old rag rug over the top and the leaves all rotted down beautifully.

Also set out the last of the indoor-grown herb seedlings. All I have left is flowers to plant. I can hardly believe that my garden is officially In The Ground! Well, OK, my hands and my back believe every minute of it, but everything else--next weekend, I can RELAX! :tools row

 

[karanleaf]

Went out this morning and took a few new photos.

Here you can see the scarecrows buckets are just about full of water. And that is just from Friday. You can also see how the Chard and lettuce have almost doubled.

And here is our fence garden and behind it are DH's bucket potatoes Each of these have increased in size as well.

We took some of the salad mix and a few spinach leaves and had them on our sandwiches at lunch soo yummy

I have more lettuce seed to start more so I will sow some tomorrow.
I planted 3 Basil in between the tomato plants and some oregano at the end. :watering

I also planted some Swan River Daisies, African Daisies and Marigolds in my old tractor tire with my daylily and iris. :watering I sure hope they work out

I have gotten 1 flat of Magenta Pink Geranium cutting started and working on a flat of Salmon Pink ones now. row So I must go out to the greenhouse and finish that flat. :rose

:happy_flower Karan

 

[Hattie the Hen]

It's still raining -- HEAVY SHOWERS every 30 minutes -- and it is chilly. I haven't got any more stuff in today because I've been doing my volunteering in the charity bookshop. So many people coming to buy gardening books cheaply. We sell a huge number. We have noticed that many more people are asking if we can suggest good books on growing vegetables & fruit..........!! They are digging up their lawns.

We had a window full of gardening books a couple of weeks ago & the books that sold quickest were not the big books full of beautiful photos but the How-to-do it Books on veg production. I suggested we had a self-sufficiency window every few months.....!!

Tomorrow I'll try to get my other zucchini, squash, melon & cucumber plants in (grown from seed on 10th April inside & now in a little portable greenhouse to harden-off). I put one zucchini in a couple of days ago; just to test whether it would survive & grow away in the cool night temperatures we are still having. I dug a hole & filled it with grass cuttings mixed with rich compost from my deep litter chicken coops. Above this I made a 10" high mound of soil mixed with older compost, covered with blank plastic through which I planted the zucchini plant. I covered the whole thing with a large clear plastic bag. It is very good shape & not only survived but is very much larger & you can see the beginnings of new leaves. It is 2 weeks earlier than I have previously planted out so I think my idea of using a " hot mix" in the hole beneath the mound is working. FINGERS CROSSED!

My shallow bowls of salad are already showing through -- only sown on Saturday. All the potted on plants in the ugly little greenhouse are doing well. I just have fleece hanging over the doorway so there is a fair amount of air movement which is certainly making for stronger plants!

I just hope we don't have too much more of this heavy, windy weather in the next couple of days. I HATE WORKING IN THE RAIN We have been promised warm & sunny days from Thursday. HOPE IT'S TRUE.

Happy Gardening Everyone.


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Hattie the Hen]

karanleaf :happy_flower

Your garden is looking great, so different already from just a few days ago. Congratulations! You & DH must be so proud.
:rose Hattie :rose