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

I have been out pruning and weeding. Also yard cleanup. I am afraid to take up the leaf cover for fear it will get COLD again so I will wait for another week to uncover the sprouting plants. I did buy some seed starting stuff and will get that started.
End of May and the fountain will go back into the garden and I have to get another birdbath. Got lots of garden ornaments to place. 2 rabbits a willie, 2 frogs, a mushroom and several garden fairies.

Yesterday I pulled all the weeds out of the flower beds and the lilac bed. Put down weed block and cedar mulch, sure looks nice! Still have more beds to do(a Sorbet Peony & lily of the Valley ~ waiting for my order from Breck's), but I was beat by the time I got done. Hope the weed block helps, I am SICK of pulling weeds! Also got my hanging Willy in the south flower bed, plus another Willy and a garden fairy. The north bed has a stepping stone my son made a few years ago with his handprints, too cute! :wuv:

I pruned my peach trees yesterday. It took me all day. They look great! The forecast doesn't look good, though. The NWS is calling for a low of 20 Sunday morning! That will probably kill all the blossoms.

It's snowing here again :eeek:

i feel your frustration tamara, im tierd of snow,

It's been beautiful here the last few days,
a bit of a chilly wind, but still able to
enjoy that sunshine..
but I hear a cold front is coming thru tonight,
and down into the lower 30*'s...

But it is still April...

Another 2 weeks or so, I'll start to think about
getting serious in to it!

Boy have I been busy... out in the yard for almost 5 hours..

I went out[with my mom] and got 6 40 pound bags of topsoil, a little bag of peat, and a little bag of gypsum.. hope it's all enough.. finished it all today, my garden is ready to go
Had to loosen up all the soil[heavy clay] up as good as I could..

I planted my pumpkins, speckled swan gourd, birdhouse gourd[thanks Cheryl! ], ornametal gourd and dipper gourd, but I planted peas, bush beans, pickling cucumber, straight 8 cucumber, lettuce, and carrots!!!

I went ahead of myself.. hope they all make it...

Looks nice, Triss.
I weeded, fed container plants, finished spreading bark chips, picked and ate 7 Quinalt strawberries, and dosed a potted palm with iron.
Mark, that's alot !

It's not gardening,
but we did 3 miles *one way* of road clean up work
for the Boyscouts' Adopt~a~Highway Program...

No garden work for me yet, but love to hear
of all your work...

I won't be even thinking of getting into something
in the garden for at least 2 weeks.. *if that*

This week has a cold front, down in the 30's during the day,
so we all know the nights' ain't gonna be cute...

Keep up the good work though everyone..
Love to hear and read and dream about everyone else's
gardens!!!!

Triss, believe me, I was surprised that they have ripe fruit already.
I just bought and planted them a month ago. They had blossoms when I bought them. I just left them on. I usually never pinch the first blossoms or berries.

Weezie, 3 miles?????????? Wow !

Yeah, it was kinda funny too,
at this one house, there's a garden right on the roadside..
and the boys were up there, and I'm like don't step in
the garden... and they're lookin' at me like, what's the matter with youuuuuuuuuuuuuu..
and then they're tryin' to pull out markers for plants..
I'm like nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
leave'em there.. and they're lookin' at me like I have 3
heads or something... they're like, it's plastic..
I'm like, it's a plant marker..........
KIDS!!!!

It was quite the chuckle...

I sprayed the vegetable garden today with Spray-n-Grow and Bill's Perfect Fertilizer. I also sprayed my peaches and apples with Maxi-Crop to try to increase their frost tolerance. The NWS is now calling for 5 nights of below freezing temperatures with a low of 19 on the coldest night. It's not looking good.

That only took about an hour, but that's all the gardening I was able to do, as I spent the rest of the day cutting up 4 trees that were badly damaged by the big ice storm back in January. I'm pooped!

Sounds like you are all so busy. That's very pretty Triss, I love the blue plant. What is it?

You all have been so busy while i was to sick to move. But I'm back at it today and it's a good thing. A bus broke down yesterday and the customers took out their 6 hour delay out on the garden. This morning I went out and there were beer and soda bottles thrown all over the garden. They had knocked down the edging around the raised bed. They broke the spike off of the Willy. They had totally dug up the pink hycinth and pulled up all the plant markers. They also pinched off the one Chive bloom. All I can say is it could have been a lot worse. But I really wish they won't take it out on my garden. I didn't break the bus.

But along with fixing all of the damage I also managed to pull up the weeds in the raised bed. That's where I'm putting the tomatoes if it ever warms up lol.

I hope you all keep posting. I love hearing what everyone is doing. It keeps me motivated.

Tammy, I can't believe someone/people would
do that to a garden..
My heart goes out to you...

*I know how you feel when someone distroys
your hard work, like with my woodchucks,
but you know, I would expect that from an animal
that's looking for food, so I can't totally be~grudge him..
But people should, Hahahahahaahaaaaaaa, know better...

I sincerly hope and pray for when you get to find a new
place, it's one of peaceful tranquility and a garden
you realllllly can call your own...

thanks guys, I'm trying to take it in good part. At least the bus when it got fixed took those people away.

That's vandalism-I hope you reported it?

Our little town doesn't have a police department. We depend on the county. And they have much bigger problems than my garden. Everything survived, so it's ok. I just need to vent here when something like that happens so I can get it out of my system and get on with life.

I haven't gone out yet today. It seems a little cold. But I'll make it out there in a little while and see how it is doing. We are suppose to be down in the 20's this weekend so I hope that doesn't kill what is already up.

I'm hoping to take my plants out to harden next week. I'm not sure that's going to happen at this point. What a strange spring it has been so far.

We've gotten about 4" of SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
So, no gardening for me TODAY!!

We are expecting a couple of nights in the 20's, it was almost 80 last week. There is even reports of snow north of here a bit. I have a lot of stuff covered in the garden, I think that will save them.

Now is the perfect time to plant my japanese white radishes "April Cross" Hybrids. They like to be planted 2 weeks before the last frost outside. Now, if I can just convince myself to do it in the cold I'll have it made lol. I'm such a woos lol.

Mine's completely covered with snow, and it's still snowing
today... *real light, but still the type that accumilates..*

But it is only April for us up here in the North...
Don't expect to start getting in my garden for another 2 or 3 weeks yet, if that...

Do you know that I let my radish's go to seeds..
*they have a pretty flower and they attract benefical bees*

And they reseed for me too!!!
I just leave the flower lay where it fell
and out pops millions of baby radish's..
The following season..

*sometimes even TOOOOOOOOOOO many radish's*

I plan on letting some go to seed. Because I really want to keep these around. I love white radishes. I'll be curious to see what the bloom looks like. I don't think I've ever seen one. Thanks for the advice.

Here's a small picture, with a not beneficial bug
*it's a cabbage loopers' moth* but they are sooo graceful
to watch and they frolick around and play..*

I couldn't wait for my greenhouse (it's too cold outside to start it up) so I transplanted my sunflowers here in the house and it looks like most of them survived. I thought for sure I'd hurt lots of them since they were so leggy.

I ran outside as soon as I woke up because it was Snowing , I knew it was supposed to get cold ~~ But Snow????, talk about scrammbling for sheets, boxes , pails and what ever else I could find to cover brugs and seedlings My goodness

That's what I did in my garden today!!

I'm still getting snow...
It's covered everything, and back to wearing boots
again..
and all of my daff's were up and tulips and crocus's,
and snowbells...
but it's not been bitter cold, *and for us up here,
that is what kills the plants, bitter chilling winds*
and so far, it's just alot of snow..
I am hoping they are just insulating them for now..
and soon it will all melt away...

Well the snow has melted and I think I got very lucky. The blackberry lilly is the only thing that is looking bad. Everything else looks like it might survive. I didn't even have to dead head the blooms on the hycinths or daffodils they look great. Isn't that amazing?

Ohhhh Good TK!!! What a Blessing for Easter!!!

Today I recieved 2 -4inch planters of calbrachoa callie Blue/purple color for Easter . I planted in the Willy village area!

I love your Willy Village it is so cute.

Thanks TK!! I took some more Willys outside to place in the garden today and I even put the tire~swinging willy in his favorite tree~ and that's the extend of what I did in the garden today!

I went out and spent some time consoling my poor poor tomatoes. They look so bad all brown and shiveled up.

I swear I heard somebody playing taps.

heheehe, I believe it Pat!!!

I would have been out there weeping all over them. I'm such a pushover. And tapps definitely gets me every time.

I walked outside a moment ago and my hostas are trying to come up in their new location.

im sooooooooooooo tierd! i put all my seedlings out side and we got frost! so this mornin the tarp went on the greenhouse frame, i spent the morning re plantin all my seeds, and more :)and put them in the greenhouse, then i dug out the border around the shade pond, took out all the rocks logs, and hostas. took out most of the dirt, and put it back but in a diffrent way, im still not done, i ran out of daylight, i had to take a break from the pond cause bb kept getting to close, {we already fell in once! lol} so we weeded the rose bushes, seen the tarp flew off and had to put that back on. dont know how it flew off, i had the things in the holes in the ground!, i put rocks and bords around it, so hopefuly it stays down! i did notice my grass needs cut big time!

so now that the snows pretty much gone, whatcha doing in your gardens?

Well, my BF seems to be in love with melons and pumpkins and is making them a "house", you have to first understand he is in construction... so this is really something to keep track of, lol! He's started maybe 20 different varieties of each in the house, I swear they are about to take over the living room.

I've been working on rehabilitating the soil in one of the flower beds that's sorta under a pine tree. I dug up around my lilies that are starting, and amended the soil with new dirt and woodash, hoping to make it more tolerable for the dahlias. A few years ago I had some rot in that place and it has the most sun of all but one of my planting spots. So, today I added a little sand under the dahlias I planted, hoping it helps. That soil is rather acidic, unlike most of the soil around us that is alkaline.

My veggie garden just got rototilled yesterday, and it's next on my list... and so is starting some basils and other culinary and medicinal herbs... the list is too long right now...

it's about nap time... ZZZZ zzzz...zzzz

Lorena

I went out and looked at the snow still covering them all