What Did You Do In The Garden?

[baibai]

It is a new season. What did you do in the garden today, yesterday, last week ?

Two backyard beds have been covered with the temporary hoop house. Seed for Asian greens and escarole has been sown; bok choy transplants have gone in. The flower beds around the house have been cleaned up.

I have now begun in the little veggie garden by leveling a few beds cultivated last year, fertilizing, and planting some seed potatoes, onion sets and pea seed.

What did you do in your gardens ?

Steve

I've planted Blueberry, grapes, and mulberries! In another area I have freshly planted a peach, apple, and pomegranate tree. (I call them pomegranate trees, don't hate me) Plus a bunch of different flowers, hoping something will take. Doing wildflower seed starters in a couple days

 

[heirloomgal]

The neighborhood Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium) has just begun to bloom and serves as my prompt to plant peas and potatoes. The peas are in the ground but the seed potatoes have just a few sprouts. I may go out and dig some holes where they should go in this afternoon since it has stopped raining .

The Tiara cabbage and onions have gone to outdoor beds after several days of hardening off. Both look good. The onion seed was planted in the unheated greenhouse nearly 3 months ago. They join the pak choy and mustard greens that didn't fit into the hoop house. These rain clouds kept the temps quite a bit above freezing this morning, sprinkled a little moisture and continue to shield the transplants from the sunshine that shown on the other days this week.

The greenhouse finally made it to room temperature by 2 PM but the tomatoes and peppers are spending the day in the South Window. There is barely enough room for them but that opportunity is quite a contrast to years gone by when I would be pumping heat into the greenhouse at this time of year.

Wow, seeds & plants in the ground already. So lucky!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@digitS' Good job getting seeds planted. It is a warm spring and all the critters are out early too. The Good, Bad and the Ugly.

 

[flowerbug]

@digitS' Good job getting seeds planted. It is a warm spring and all the critters are out early too. The Good, Bad and the Ugly.

not quite yet here, but perhaps we're finally on the uptrend again.

 

[digitS']

The first of the beets, carrots and, oh yes, spinach seed in the ground. The spinach is near a board fence so some afternoon shade may help avoid premature bolting.

 

[ducks4you]

Cut down weeds, now ready for 2D4 around my firepit. Cleaned out and dumped most of the firepit ashes.
Pulled up 2024 weeds, including some burdock and dumped in the firepit.
Lopped off some of the rambling blackberries. My yellow knockout rose is still alive and doing ok.
The other red rose east of is exploding.
Pulled up dead asparagus fronds. Found 2 growing--DD dumped from the stalls in front, so they aren't getting enough sun--pulled off the new asparagus that was 18 inches tall , left the other, ate the tall one.
I have had enough pulling and lifting and stretching, and I am feeling it!
Dunno WHY the PT's think that my only workout is the gym!

 

[flowerbug]

i got out and worked on pulling back the gravel from along the edge where the quack grass is at that needs to be taken out, but i know that the roots are going out underneath the pathway and along the edge further and that means getting enough gravel off that i can get those roots mostly removed from there before i dig all the rest of the roots out and then put it all back together again. i'm sure once i get this done i'll have to do it again in another 5-10 years because those plants/roots are very persistent and we're not going to be able to kill them off from along that edge unless i want to invite yet more groundhog trouble than i already have.

groundhog other den entrance startup then dealt with and that was enough for today.

 

[SPedigrees]

A few days ago, when they were just beginning to leaf out, I trimmed the climbing rose branches that were attempting to root themselves in the ground, and also did battle with the blackberry brambles up on the hill. Thankfully the blackberries were still somewhat cowed from last year's pruning back, and I emerged relatively unscathed. Note to self: Don't allow them to take over again!

I also reached the hard decision to kill (or at least cut back to almost nothing) my hardy kiwi which had finally reached full magnificence last summer. But my little trellises are nowhere near to being the support structure that this vine requires. They're fine for the roses; this picture was taken 5 years ago when the kiwi was but a fledgling stalk. The chicken wire cage had protected it from marauding rabbits in its infancy.

Four years later the kiwi looked like this and was pulling the trellises away from the side of the house, so something had to be done.

So very reluctantly I snipped the two trunks off near the ground. Planting this without a strong support structure was a big gardening mistake. If I haven't killed it, it may send up skinny little new shoots for a time, so I can still enjoy a few of its pretty pink trimmed leaves.