What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I'm jealous. I have never seen vegetable 4 packs that cheap. Ever.
Sounds like you got a lot of stuff in the ground. So I'm even more jealous.

A 4 pack of kale at Pilgrims yesterday was $4 or $4 plus some change. I do not buy kale or greens.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I transplanted some peppers and tomatoes. I took all the onions, kale, collards, cabbage, leeks, Swiss chard, and celery out of the greenhouse and moved around on the patio in the shade and they are spending their first night out of the greenhouse. I dug up the blackberries the other day that came up in the garden and they are in pots to give to DD's mother-in-law. I can't remember if I posted that I weeded and tied up blackberries and raspberries and got all the dead stuff raked out.

 

[Trish Stretton]

I noticed that the birds were starting to come visit my Persimmons, so I have started cutting them off their branches.
I usually leave them outside for the first couple days with their skin on to ripen up a bit more before i start peeling the and hanging them to dry.

 

[flowerbug]

Yesterday, I cleared my raised bed of kale, mustard greens, spring onions, and bok choy that had gone to seed. Then amended with worm castings and compost. Seemed like that took forever. Then I direct sowed seeds of radishes, Joi Choi, orache, swiss chard, and carrots. Also planted a pepper, borage, and kale starts. Surprised my back was hurting after that!

Mary

i sure hope it isn't anything chronic and just the good kind of hurt that tells you you've done something...

 

[ducks4you]

Dug up where the bush used to be on the front lawn--opposite my Magnolia. Gave the soil with a few weeds, the reason for digging up, to the chickens to play with and dumped a wheelbarrow full from my stalls where there are pasture seeds. Regardless, I can come along next Fall and set some grass seed if nothing sprouts. Two asters that I planted last Fall didn't make it. I overwintered five $1 yellow mums, so I transplanted two of those to the spots. They are getting ready to bloom. Don't know if they will bloom again this Fall, but they will have plenty of time to establish roots to survive next winter.
I had mowed underneath my juniper trees, which covers something like 12' x 12', maybe more. I used D-2 over all of it to kill the weeds. Still stalling some nights, so I am dumping there from the stalls. Kill the weeds, then smother. Saves me 20 minutes of mowing every mowing day, so it's worth the time.
Dug up weeds in DD's bed yesterday, and picked up sticks. DH got their riding mower battery working, DD and I pumped up the tires. BIG plans today and I will take my camera.

 

[ninnymary]

i sure hope it isn't anything chronic and just the good kind of hurt that tells you you've done something...

No it's fine. Just the usual that I've done some gardening. I'm just surprised that it always hurts after bending over for a while considering how much I work out.

Mary

 

[seedcorn]

Went to another Big R store, got my cabbage and peppers that the other one didn’t have. Neither had San Mariano tomatoes so settled for super Italian paste. Any stories on them? What I read said up to 6’ tall...

Still have to find onion starts and eggplants. Usually they carry them.

 

[ducks4you]

Don't have time for pictures Now, but soon. I cleaned up under the canoe rack and NOW I know why the west legs are tipped south. There is a tree of paradise sapling that has a big tree root that is pushing it over. I spent 2 hours sawing it and thought that there were 2 trees, but it's just one. No more time to spend on it, so I will heavily dose it with poison (bc I have severely wounded it), cover with the cheapo AC cover that I just removed, poison all of the other weeds and then cover with a couple of old shower curtains. I have been storing old pipes underneath the canoe. They will go back, but it's time to recycle them. I am SURE that I can find something else to store there...like the old metal water tank that I use as a brooder. This will save me aNOTHER 15 minutes of mowing weeds this year, along with the 20 minutes of mowing I don't have to do under the juniper trees. Time well spent with my reciprocating saw!

 

[flowerbug]

squeeked a few hours of work on the north garden and took some pictures, also marked a few bunches of daffodils i'd like to move/divide. looks like we may get rained out for Thursday.

 

[Trish Stretton]

Been trying to get the last five metres of path done,( had to re do some), but needed something to pack up the hollow.
Trotted down to the roadside and began sweeping my driveway/footpath and gathered up a couple or four 10 litre buckets of small gravel out of the gutters on both side, seriously. I dont know what the council was thinking but the gutters were full of this stuff, thankfully.... and looked like a good samaritan in the process keeping the footpath clean for the kids going to school on their bikes.
Now I have a better hardbase than not quite broken down woodchip so maybe tomorrow I can finish this.
Have to say, I am over paths.