A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs What did YOU do in the Garden today??

If it wasn't for weeds I wouldn't have a lawn at all

I shoveled snow and redirected the pump....at this rate my snow should be gone in a week or so

You are a good friend dodge.

Junie, forsythia is easy to grow and beautifully yellow in the spring. Love it.

All I did today was water the seedlings.

Thanks Sherie,

All I did was take the trash out today.
Rain an a good day to sleep.

I did not do much either. I weeded my rocked area a bit, watered my onions, spinach & lettuces. Then I planted a few annuals in the front of the house. And, OH ! I swept the front porch & the apron of the garage of grass, after Rod mowed.

Also planted a Immortalilty Herb in a pot..
Any one do those?

zone not a perennial here

Good tea for cholestral levels
and Immune system

Yesterday I shoveled more snow

Poor Sunny. I hope that you get to garden soon, Sunny. You are way over-due for some gardening time.

Barb. I have never heard of an immortality plant. where did you find it ??

46° here this morning. It was so cold the other morning all the flowers fell off the azaleas. Really sad.

That's too bad...azalea's are so delicate.

Tackling DH's shed today...wish me luck.

SMH...Good Luck !!

Good luck in the shed tackle..
Your a real all arounder there.
Nice an warm here hope your snow is gone now

5-3-15

Here is what I did today:

I got 6 bags (.75 Cu. ft.) of topsoil & added them to my flower bed and covered most of it with that.
I need about 4 to 6 more.

Then I have 2 bags of 2 cu. ft. of black mulch. It goes into the beds up against the back of the house. I will have too much of that but 1 bag is not enough. BUT weeding needs to be finished first.

The flower bed I added the soil to is ready to plant my annuals into. I have one of the 2 beds against the house weeded.
Well mostly weeded. I want to get rid of my spiderwort in that bed as it is taking over the entire area.
DH says to use Round-up, so it is still there.

I also put my plants/flowers into the pot on the front porch and in a few other pots. Really I was very pleased with what I accomplished today.

Good job carol,
Let the good times roll...In the garden

What I did today, got the tiller out an figured how to make it go .. It did .
Then I till the entire garden area with it.......The fellow died who did it last year, So its my job........ again.

I am getting a bit jump to get some tomtoes out there .. I like being early.LOL

I am actually late .

I say if it needed done & you got it done (late or not) then you have every right to be proud of yourself. besides, didn't you figure out how to start & run the tiller ?? I know I could not do so.

Lordy, I miss my daddy, but esp. at garden time. he would load his big tiller & bring it over to my house & till my garden for me.

technically I could wait to plant until after next weekend. which may happen yet, as I need to weed & hand till my small veggie garden bed.

I'd love to own a tiller..someday.

Yesterday I hand dug some sod, I am expanding my foundation flower beds..then raked what bare ground we have. My snow has really taken a beating.

Sunny mine is many moons old.......Only one I ever had an it was worth every penny.

I beat the heck out of it , but it never fails to run. Hubby always made me do it so I did get a know how there.

Carol what happened to the tiller? Mom sell it/

I have no idea where my dad's tiller is. BUT it was a much bigger one that I would need now anyway. Dad did give Rod a small tiller. It would have been perfect for me. BUT "Rod" did not need it, so he gave it to my daughter. "SHE" said it leaked oil or gas or something & she got rid of it. She is a female version of her daddy, so it could have well not been leaking at all. Either way it is gone now. And if I bought one, it would be gone before I knew it----after all HE would not need it.

I understand Carol,
The Ho hum hubby

Glad he got you a new car anyways..lOL

Yes, I DID get a new car. Which surprised me.

however, just to be clear, he is not hateful. He (& Emily) just do NOT like to keep things...they worry about each day as it comes. IF you do not need an item on Monday, get rid of it..(to reduce the clutter).....never mind about needing it in the future.....

me, I like to keep things so I do not need to re-buy them.

Strange also.........
However if they have the money to do it , so be it.
I am like you , If I can use it, don't loose.
Seasons change do they throw out the winter clothes too? Or summer in fall/
Price way to go

NO they usually keep clothes..and stuff they like.

BUT to give you an example.
My SIL had a lot of T-Shirts he got while Active in the Navy. Many had ships names on them & could only be bought while assigned to and part of the crew of a certain ship.

While he was stationed over-seas for a year, she brought me the T-Shirts & asked me make a quilt out of them. I did not want to mess up his T-Shirts, so I hired out the work to make the quilt. IT turned out beautiful, but he was NOT happy....

See, SHE wanted rid of the T-shirts...apparently she thought he had too many..

And FYI: She has the money to act like that--us, not so much.

GAD an you paid for the work.
Did you keep it or not?

Well, she asked me to make it, so I figured if I didn't make it, I needed to pay for it.
Yes, when I gave it to her she was all happy with it. She gave it to her DH when he came home and while he liked the quilt, he did not appreciate the T-shirts being gone.
Yes, they still have it. I saw it last week.

They make me shiver..

Yesterday I expanded my front flower beds...well, so far I just cut and tossed the sod to the size I want.

Well, Sunny, ya gotta start someplace, right ???

Like they say you gotta make hay while the sun shines........
In her case dig that sod.

I wanted to dig one an got too lazy.

Yea, I gotta dig my garden out...it really got bad over winter this year. I guess the snow drug grass seed all over where it was not supposed to be. And this really needs to be done so I still have time to go buy plants.

Tonight I merely watered plants. In and out of pots

Beds are all expanded and my older plants have been divided to fill in the new areas....hoping to get my mulch this week coming. I am played out.

YAY for some outside work being done!!!
It IS good to be back playing in the dirt, isn't it??

Yesterday I bought mulch and garden soil

Not a darn thing. I've got to get busy.

Yesterday I made grandgirl a small raised bed out of a pallet....made me wish I had more pallets

I tore the pallet apart and made it 3 by 4 and a foot high.

You are a good grandmother, Sunny.

Awww
Cool
Sunflower, my one is 4yrs old an the other is 8 an we have a blast in my yard.
I let them pick daffodils for mom an they were elated.
Now I made some potted tomatoes an flowers for them to take home when the weather is good for that.
They bought me a plant an hummer an butterfly for outdoors for moms day.
I took them to Moms day breakfast an all 5 of us got a potted plant from church. Oh were they ever happy.Smiled the whole time.
It was only $1. to eat.LOL

Sunny wish you could post a picture because I've got 5 pallets and have been wondering what to do with them.

dodge I can't believe your grand daughter is 8. Time flies.

Today I picked strawberries. I'm giving them to a friend who is making pies. I've got enough for 5 or 6 pies.

Holy smokes your spoiled........
I cant grow them worth a hoot.

They are just in blossom here now.. Do you spray them at all?

No I don't spray. I just have a tiny bed and this is the 3rd time I've picked and there's plenty more. We've had a lot of rain so I think that's the secret.