What Did You Do In Your Garden Today?

[897tgigvib]

Worked on my netting. until my brain is seeing netting...

 

[canesisters]

Finished my chicken tractor!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!

Pictures, please?

I started a thread for the picts, 'cause I just HAD to show off a little

 

[catjac1975]

Seriously -that's not a joke? There must be logic that is eluding me.

Yep...collecting rain here is illegal...how dumb is that?? We're gonna do it anyway, of course. We actually buried 4 55 gallon drums and filled them so they're ready. Once we have the rabbitry roof on we'll be collecting from that and it'll run from the collection barrel into our buried ones.

 

[MontyJ]

I started some lettuces today. I figured since it's going to be a cool wet spring I might as well take advantage of it.

 

[thistlebloom]

Today DH and I planted 5 bare root fruit trees, and I started 12 more varieties of tomatoes.
It was such a beautiful day with lots of sunshine.

 

[MeggsyGardenGirl]

Yep...collecting rain here is illegal...how dumb is that??

Wait...What? I don't understand. It's RAIN. Please help me understand. Where on earth are you and how could that law be enforced? You have rain police? Who benefits from a law like that? Yikes! (Sputter, mumble, grumble)

 

[digitS']

The first cultivation began for the 2013 garden the last few days! It was very light spading fork work since the beds were all prepped in the little veggie garden last year. Still, some of that work was done in August and I left things in quite a mess so there was soil to move around as well.

Shallots and some onion sets went in the ground with spinach seed on the outside of the beds. A short bed was planted entirely to beets.

I don't remember sowing beet seed quite this early but I've had good stands of Red Ace beets for several years so, why not "press the envelope" ? I have a packet of the beet relative, Perpetual Spinach, that I can fill in the smaller bed if they don't emerge well. I'd like that green to carry on into summer and will sow the seed late, anyway. For those who haven't tried it, it is much like chard without the heavy stems and seems to me to have a more beetgreen flavor. It has chard's ability to have nice leaves during the heat of summer.

The soil was certainly dry enuf to work altho' I didn't venture over into the shade. Next stop had better be the big veggie garden and I've little doubt that the snow melt has gone from the surface. No fall prep out there! Good thing I can't get away from the greenhouse too early nor stay too late . . . I'll be wimping out by the time this good weather passes. Really hope to be getting some good nights' sleep amongst it all.

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

It's raining right now. Some beans are sprouting among that first group of 20 cells. will soon need to put lights over them!

Also, will get more soil moved oday, at least some, rain or not.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Planted 10 pounds Purple Majesty potatoes. Spread rabbit manure and mulch around some of the fruit trees, some of the rose bushes and rhubarb. DH built a new box 4 x 10 to plant sweet potatoes in later, finished another box and is tilling now. I pulled up the old kale plants and some are alive with new leaves, but in the wrong place, so pulled them and did not see it, but there was a new kale seedling I thought was a weed. Looked better than the ones I started in the house. I need to weed the strawberries, but ground is dry, so I wanted the strawberries and garlic.

 

[seedcorn]

Planted onions that sprouted, garlic and dug out blackberry starts. One day I will get them killed off......