A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs What Did You Do In The Garden Today ?? # 7

it's been to wet to do much of anything around here.

Thanks dodge, no deer, I'm out too much in the open. Not close to any woods

Great pics....someone should start another Blooming Fine thread to post

I can do that......

today after the rain I weeded some more and then my DH & I put some round-up on the weeds in my mulched area---now to hope it does nto rain for a spell---when the weeds have all died, I will buy some more mulch---

Yup, must have been the start of spring yesterday, my peas and lettuce poked up through the ground! And I got my worm farm from the UPS man yesterday and the worms will come either today or tomorrow. I am blessed to have a neighbor that will pick up my worms at the post office and dump them in my worm farm because we will be gone....leaving in a few hours. We are weighing the pros and cons about taking our motorcycles!!! In March....in Wyoming?!? The weather is supposed to be nice this week.

Sunflowers....72? Got any snow left? I hope it doesn't melt too fast for you,

Have a good week all

How long does it take for that much snow to melt?

Sounds like over nite only

I got some seeds planted,, cleome, Osteospermums ,cone flowers,, zinnia the seeds are over 3 years old so we'll see what happens

Let us know what happens.......HD always said they are still ok to use.
I dodnt always use year old ones.

b

Last year I read lots of books from the library and one of them was Gardening by the Square Yard and it actually had a list of seeds and how many years they will last. So if I have any doubts I look at that book in the library! I would be more concerned with vegiesm but with flowers, I would think that if they start to grow you have it made!

Reshaping the front bed today, transplanting bleeding hearts and day lilies also.

Today is sucker day. I have a hundred trees or so that want to grow down low.

been out digging this morning, been digging all week end. I'm about to get all my bulbs dug up to move and it rained some today so I'll be able to move them easier now

picked my first lettuce and radishes today!!!! Also I was able to water my plants in the green house with the water barrels my DH fixed up Other than that I just admired my growing vegies

That is so cooll Bobbie, love fresh veggie

digging, digging, digging, digging.....

Same here...digging, raking and general clean up.

I hope that means you were feeling better today, Sunflowers. I worked my job harder than outside, but did get my lawn and flower beds fed!

Thought I'd show off the work from today...

Shape of the new bed on the side of the house. Ignore the size of the Rhodies...I'm just waiting for them to bloom so I can trim them back.


Front of the house before...


Dug out the new shape of the bed...


Another shot of the new shape...



More pictures in the next post.

Luke "helping" by playing with plastic flower pots


Maddie "helping"


Front bed completely dug out...


New bed around tree completed...

Don't work too hard Sunny--there is always tomorrow after all.....

Looking good Jenn----and lucky you to have not one but two helpers...

Today I planted 12 asparagus plants...

We had an asparagus patch at our old house. Loved having it there. We often had to give bunches of asparagus away tho...we couldn't eat it fast enough!! ::

Did you ever try freezing it for winter use ?? I do not see why that would not work...
I think I will try that next year--(not supposed to harvest any this year)

That is going to be beautiful Jen...great job

That looks terrific, Jenn.

No. I never tried to freeze it. My mom took some and canned it, but I didn't like it canned.

Today I went to a friend's house and got a truck load of aged horse poo. Now to lay all of my paper down and spread it out. Yay!!

My husband won't share the horse poo, he needs it to fertilize our feed fields.

Today I am expanding my vegetable garden..one scoop of sod at a time. I need more room for potatoes. What I wouldn't do for a small tiller.

Expanding your garden--wonderful---I used to raise potatoes--we usually had enough to eat until sometime in january. WE kept them in our cellar--but any cool place would work. I had them laying all seperate so if there was a bad one it would not spoil others. gee they were good.

We had a small tiller--my dad gave it to us---But since my DH does not like to keep anything he is not using daily, he gave it to my DD--and LORD knows she is not using it. I complained, so when we moved my garden, he cut the size in half--I guess now I cant say we need one, huh ??-----

Sunflowers, I came across a vertical option for potatoes a couple weeks ago. I pinned it on my pinterest board so I'll have it when I'm ready to try potatoes in a year or two....

Growing potatoes vertically

Oh well Carol, no tiller means less work for you

Jenn, that's a great idea. Here you can buy the special bags that zip open at the end of season..the potatoes just fall out. I've also grown them in a bag of soil when I was a Spark/Brownie leader.

I dug out a new 4ft by 12 ft section today...whoohoo.


Oh, DH came in and said it was 5ft by 14ft.. Time to measure my garden.

I was informed my plants were afflicted with a form of Rust Fungus. Trimmed them back more than I would have liked and went to buy some fungicide. I'm worried for my plants! ; ;

well I would not have used the tiller anyway--DH would not have let me----

5 by 14 huh?? and now you know the size of my new garden----but I think I am going to grow myself some potatoes in a tub this year---at the end of season I can dump the soil out in our very low yard----although that wire thing that Jenn posted about looks interesting for sure.....

Fungus and bugs are nasty.

Oh I also couldn't figure out why I couldn't get rid of 'white fly' by my old white fence. Well when I took the fence apart to make the new one I noticed...the white flies had nested under the plastic caps that cover the 4 by 4 posts. It was full.

So last night, I cut the rose bush to the ground, sprayed it with horticultural oil..then dug up and moved the old soil and plants and chucked them. They were overgrown anyway..hoping that solves the problem.

I just need to divide some perennials from another spot to refill the new bed.

Yesterday I filled the bed of our pick-up truck with aged horse poo, laid newspaper over the front bed that I dug out the other day, and spread out the poo. I had just enough to complete the front bed and get the first 3 feet of the next bed done.

wow you accomplised quite a lot, Jenn--and it is looking mighty good I must say.

That looks really good, Jenn.

I planted early and late potatoes, red varieties. Norland and Red Pontiac, never planted that kind before.

Today I also divided and moved some daylilies...slowly getting things in order.

Today we sat and watched the rain.