What Did You Do In The Garden?

[SPedigrees]

yikes I feel like a pin cushion.

Your pink roses are gorgeous.

I can totally relate to the pin cushion analogy!

Thanks. For a few years after I planted these roses they were just a few blossomless branches tentatively exploring the trellises, but my late hubby remarked that he really liked how they looked. The same year he died, they began to bloom prolifically every year. If he only could have seen how they look now.

 

[ducks4you]

Checking in so that @digitS' doesn't go searching for me...
Been mowing and weeding, severe tending to my garlic, porcelain garlic, 43 of them, have been weeded, Preened, each given a paper bottom wrap from cut up paper grocery sacks, and straw strewn in between them.
WONDERFUL Mother's Day gift from church--they were giving away ceramic pots. DD's grabbed 2 for me.
Since I love glazed ceramic pots I window shop them. The 2 18 inch pots are worth ~$75.00. DD's put them on the cement cistern. Since I have a guy coming to clean my gutters tomorrow I moved them to an empty space in the garlic bed so that he doesn't drop the ladder on them.
ALWAYS assume the worst and prepare.
Yesterday I had to split my time up--high of 91 degrees F! It was much easier at 3PM when it started to cool off.
Today I will finish the 21 German Garlic, and some other jobs.
I backed up my God riding mower and pulled loose the above deck belt. I brought it inside and DD promises to help me put it back on this evening, and I have promised to move it to the garage, where it's well lit and dry--we are expecting T storms this evening.
Hope to check in on my thread with pictures, on Sunday.
Seeing that I only missed 10 new posts, I gather that everybody else here is busy outside, too.

 

[Dahlia]

Checking in so that @digitS' doesn't go searching for me...
Been mowing and weeding, severe tending to my garlic, porcelain garlic, 43 of them, have been weeded, Preened, each given a paper bottom wrap from cut up paper grocery sacks, and straw strewn in between them.
WONDERFUL Mother's Day gift from church--they were giving away ceramic pots. DD's grabbed 2 for me.
Since I love glazed ceramic pots I window shop them. The 2 18 inch pots are worth ~$75.00. DD's put them on the cement cistern. Since I have a guy coming to clean my gutters tomorrow I moved them to an empty space in the garlic bed so that he doesn't drop the ladder on them.
ALWAYS assume the worst and prepare.
Yesterday I had to split my time up--high of 91 degrees F! It was much easier at 3PM when it started to cool off.
Today I will finish the 21 German Garlic, and some other jobs.
I backed up my God riding mower and pulled loose the above deck belt. I brought it inside and DD promises to help me put it back on this evening, and I have promised to move it to the garage, where it's well lit and dry--we are expecting T storms this evening.
Hope to check in on my thread with pictures, on Sunday.
Seeing that I only missed 10 new posts, I gather that everybody else here is busy outside, too.

I love all of that garlic talk! I love garlic so much! Whenever a recipe calls for one or two cloves I put in an entire bulb!!!
Pro-tip: if you don't want your significant other to hate your breath, make sure they eat it along with you and then no one notices!

 

[ducks4you]

Finished yesterday, right before a t storm.
I have:
43 porcelain garlic
23 Red German garlic
at least 3 of the wonderful, "cannot kill" garlic that @flowerbug sent me.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm throwing in the towel. I have to plant my starts. They are screaming from the greenhouse - Let Us Free!!

Its not warm enough during the day and way not warm enuf for the soil at night. But they need to go out, or they will start to fail.

 

[SPedigrees]

I'm throwing in the towel. I have to plant my starts. They are screaming from the greenhouse - Let Us Free!!

Its not warm enough during the day and way not warm enuf for the soil at night. But they need to go out, or they will start to fail.

I started my plants late this year, but that was fortuitous. If I'd started them earlier when I usual do, I'd be in your situation now. Cold rain has been the rule here this month and last month.

 

[digitS']

I have to plant my starts. They are screaming

Cold rain has been the rule here this month and last month

I almost feel like apologizing to my warm-season plants that are outdoors. The tomatoes have been out over a week. The sweetcorn went out about 6-7 days ago. (Peppers went into the narrow bed in the greenhouse and a few in the hoop house –– they are fine.)

It was 42°f (6°C) with 25mph wind gusts this morning. Mostly it has been cloudy and sprinkling rain but this wind is dang chilly. AND, our coldest night in May is supposed to come tonight!

Admittedly, the afternoons of above 80f and all the sunshine prompted me to set out warm-season plants earlier than I have ever done, I think. However, in recent decades, most of these plants went to the distant garden with its greater exposure than here at home. Still, close to NOW is a usual time for me to be setting those plants out on any year. This year and this sheltered at-home location fooled me.

Steve

 

[digitS']

A big section of the flower bed on the east side of the house was only growing forget-me- not, a few feverfew and some violets – volunteers all. Big section = 4' x 6' ±. It hurt my feelings to pull the violets but it was a mess. Gone.

Dug out about 8" of soil and buried some ½ finished compost along with some debris from harvested and pulled greens under it. More greens can be transplanted there and we will see how they do.

Flower beds here at home have been lost since the big veggie garden is now history. Only late AM and midday sun on that side of the house and along with the above mentioned, the daffodils. daylilies, foxglove and columbine are reasonably happy there. Those are occupied elsewhere in that bed .

 

[Vanalpaca]

This morning I cleared the remains of the hoop house out of the chicken run and dug 1 shovel spit all around the fence inside, maybe 60 feet. Raked it down into a couple piles. He'll till it for me tomorrow hopefully. It's designated to be Trucker's Favorite Corn as it's the north west side of the main garden and that gets 8-9 feet tall with 3-4 ears per stalk. I want to start the beans up the fencing and run pumpkins/and squash down the rows. I'm planning on running the rows east to west on this plot. Sorted out my straggle of tomato plants and set 2 pots per section in my greenstalk just to get them up more into the sunshine. I had several nice varieties make it through. Seed started was abysmal this spring indoors too hot with the woodstove. Now I feel guilty that I should be out there working!!

 

[Branching Out]

Today is a hot one so I'm watering, mulching with compost, and then weeding a bit. By the afternoon it will be time to relax in the shade with a cold beverage.