A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat What did you do in the garden today? #6

That's so opposite of me TK. I have started seeds but would much rather plant a plant. It's so much easier. One year I did all sorts of winter sowing then it was a nightmare getting everything moved to bigger pots then finally into the ground. It drove my husband crazy - all the pans and pots everywhere and me following the sun around the house trying to keep them alive. I had good luck with them though.

I think I'll do some tomatoes and other veges from seeds next year. This year I did all plants because of school and my new job and all, but I like having special types of veges. Hopefully we will do a seed trade on here and I'll get some wonderful tomato seeds that aren't in the stores.

This morning I was out with the stars watering a few plants and thinking about calling Diane. I didn't do it but one early morning I'm going too.

Good luck to all who are planting another garden.....I'm going to pull a lot of mine today after school with my boys.

We had another hard frost this morning so out it comes.

some of the gardeners around here have pretty much dug up their summer gardens and have just fall veggies out now. I guess that means it's time for me to dig out the pots for the peppers and get to potting them up. Good thing they don't have large root systesm.

I've about got my aphids under control. and the grass hoppers I believe have moved on as well. all I did today was water in some seeds (that will never come up, I"m sure)

I'll send you some ladybugs Cricket.

thanks..........and sending a bit of luck wouldn't hurt either. I hear 'even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then'. well.....???
got any blind hogs you can send?

I see more frost this morning, a light dusting across the grass.

OMG frost already

I mowed yesterday and cleaned an area that needed weeding, now I'm covered in chiggers

Oh Belinda, that's so awful. Is it mostly your legs? I hope!!!!

Cricket, I don't have trouble with aphids because of these ladybugs I reckon. I don't know which is worse except that aphids aren't all over your house!

It's damp and very humid here. No frost.

aaaa little higher I have this cream I put on them but hey I got places I can't reach, I had ashley do those before she left for school this morning

I did some mowing today to. I did as much as I could but I still have about 1/3 of the front yard to do.

Before I did that I put up two wrought iron plant stands on the side of the shed they look great. I'll have plants in them next year. This year it's too late.

I didn't get any of the tropic put in pots today but maybe I'll do better tomorrow.

I did get my first experience winding the thread on the weed wacker bobbin. That was interesting. I of course got grass all over me in the process.

some naked ladies and some irises, got some still in a bucket that I need to get planted

you sent me some naked ladies Remember? Hope they show up next year.

O.k. question for y'all. I hear the word 'chiggers' mentioned often. What are they?

We had 4 yards of mulch delivered...Our beds were created last year and we never mulched. It was so hard thanks for the hubby i did the spreading and he did the hauling

oh boy dhuber. They'll be great from now on.

Hmmm Bill. Maybe they'll show up at your house.

Well today I transplanted the outdoor celosia into a pot and brought it indoors. Then I did the same for one of the begonias. It is not happy. But then I didn't figure I'd success but since I have 5 outdoors I figured it was worth the risk. Then I reweeded the tree bed where I weeded last week. There are many many weed seeds it that area I guess.

Then I dug out the weeds that were comming up in the sidewalk bed. This is one weedy area here. It's going to take some work to keep it weed free I can see.

I didn't do any lawn cuttings today but I'll be back at it tomorrow.

I trimmed around everythign with the weed eatter today

I dug out all my carrots....

Would love to do my carrots and potatoes this week too, but we just had an inch of rain last night so I have to wait until it dries up a bit. I love this time of year......don't you all love it too.

do you get the lady bugs in your house? last fall/winter I had a ton that came in. they hung out in my big bathroom. hubby freaked out about having 'bugs'. I thought it was cool. when the weather was going to be above freezing for a few days, I'd try and swoosh them out so they could get something to eat. ha ha. they would always find their way back in, since I like to open up the house when the weather is nice. They were like my pets!

You want no part of them!
you will itch like you've been in poison ivy!
do you have a question about them? I don't know that they hurt plants at all?

they start coming into my house in November and it's horrible.

What is a chigger, I meant? I have never heard that term ever in my life. Is it a fly or bug....

Have to cut the grass today. Kind of sad though because it'll be the final cut before winter....

wonder if it's just too cold for them there
this should help, and they make a red bump like a misquito bite

http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/arthopo/chiggers/

Wow, I've never seen such a thing. We have nothing like that here...Makes me glad we get so much cold and snow well, only for a minute or two

Well this morning I went out and planted my lacy red maple tree. It's only been sittng on the deck for 4 months now. But I found a bare spot and I'll be able to see it changing colors in the fall from the deck. So I'm very happy with that. I hope it survives.

Then I finished cutting the front yard woohoo. Now I just have the side and back to go. Hopefully not more than three more days of work.

well..the chigger bites are better today, so I'm ready to get back out in the bushes okay wait and pull some weeds, that sounded that was my sister that got in the bushes

okay, I'm clearing off a ditch a little at a time and planting stuff as I go

That is so cool. I cut the ditch area the other day and I want to put some of my ditch lilies out there alittle later this year. I think they will do really well there.

I mowed and weed wacked everything.

I just need to weed things probably one more time before winter as well, tomorrows chore .... More frost for us tonight.

it' too dreary and damp to do anything today.

Have you had the really high humidity too where you are?

It's sprinkling here so no lawn cutting today. But I did get out in the future veggie bed and dig out a bunch more big rocks. And I took the rocks over to the tree bed and filled in the border almost to the third tree from the bottom of the bed. So a little more to go and I'll be done with about half of the border. This is a definite woohoo for me.

I cut a quarter of my back yard but is was still heavy with dew so I gave up. That's very heavy going.

Yesterday I cut the rest of the back yard. I'm getting stronger. That's the most I've cut in one day I think.

Today it's raining so my Garden chore is going through the seed box and picking out what seeds I want to plant this fall. And then deciding where I want to put them. Woohoo.

Well the rain stopped so I went out and moved the bird feeder to the back deck. That way when they fling the seeds it will end up in the lawn no problem rather than in the tree bed. That was getting to be a problem. I can't spend all my time weeding one little area.

Then I went out and dug up the white onion and some of the egyptian walking onions. I'm thinking I want them in my top ramen. Then I mixed my potting soil with the clay and transplanted 4 of the miniature chocolate peppers into pots. I'll get them inside as soon as my arms recover. Wet clay is heavy. But that means that about 1/3 of the future vine garden is cleared. As soon as I get the rest out I'll put in the clemetis seeds and will see if they are still viable.

today I cut down three saplings that were crowding my future veggie garden. And talk about wear me out. I got them chopped up and the branches put in the second compost pile but that was it. Well I also got 4 peppers moved indoors. I'd like to have done a bunch more but it will have to wait until after a nap. I have no energy left at all.