What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

This morning I sowed carrots and radishes along with more chives

Chives take a long time from seed, when yuo get them it is worth splitting the bulbs and planting them out. On the other hand they also self seed everywhere if you let them flower, so don't forget to nip the flowers out, they do say that means they keep their flavour as well, but I can't say I have noticed it.

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Welcome to the forum, nice idea selling things for charity. We used to live on a quite busy road and I would put all my 'Extras' out front for people to help themselves, now we have moved to a quiet cul de sac I have supplied my neighbours with tomatoes lobelia and courgette plants, but maybe I will ask local charity shops if they would like some.

Finished making proper connections with my water butts from the patio, cleared away all the temporary hoses and swept up, the whole thing is looking much better with only one butt on the patio and a single down pipe into it from the gutter, it was a bit of a tangle of pipes before. Watered, running out of water again, one days rain was not enough, especially as I used a fair bit of it filling up the pond. Built a 'wigwam' for the french beans and brought them and the courgettes out of the greenhouse. Planted out three new strawberry plants from last years runners, three more to plant. They will replace old ones I shall lose next year, I keep three year's of fruiting plants going, they don't seem as productive in their fourth year, and I take all the flowers off first year. Weeded the beetroot a bit, and the carrots. The carrot seeds that went through the wash in my back pocket have germinated well, but in clumps as predicted. I have enough though that I think I will leave them for a bit until we can use the thinnings in salad, rather than try and plant them out.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I finally got all of the items I needed for the "high powered" homemade week killer. The Epsom Salt, 20% horticultural vinegar, and big jug of Dawn dishwashing detergent arrived. I mixed up two gallons and sprayed all of the Bermuda grass about twenty minutes ago. I hope it'll kill that crap all the way to the root.

My went went to visit our daugher, son-in-law, and grandson last Thursday. She is on her way home as I type. For Mother's Day, I got some 2x4s together and built her a plant stand. She likes to refinish furniture so I'll leave it for her to choose what color she wants to paint it.

 

[Amateur Gardener]

I cut down the Avocado branches which was hitting the roof of my house.

 

[Sean Regan]

Just fed the birds and cleaned out 'arry's food station and put out his cat food.

There's a feeder on a pergola post for Syd the squirrel. It's actually a female, "she's shown her teats." She's been coming for about a year.

Here she is. She's very timid. The post is only about 5ft away from our French windows.

So if you approach the window and she sees you, she's off. She bounds down the tops of the fence panels all the way down to the bottom of the garden and disappears.

I've noticed she's been eating more food than usual. But yesterday she got found out, she's been bringing a couple of mates and they've been taking turns in the feeder. I noticed the other two were on top of two different fence panels forming an orderly queue.

This is one of the other two, less "brown" under the eye.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Carried water from the furthest butts at the front of the house, I have almost used up everything else. Potted a bunch of seedling basil, a purple one called 'Around Midnight'. put my three amaryllis into a trough so they have a bit of room. It looks as though several side bulbs are developing despite them still being in the pots they came with and being root bound.
Pottered about.

 

[Meadowlark]

May is harvest month here in East Texas for our annual supply of potatoes and onions. This has been a dry week which is perfect for harvesting, drying, and storing onions. I let them dry a day or so in full sun before removing the tops and moving them into storage.

 

[Sean Regan]

I've reduced the number of pots on the "rose patio" from 12 to 10 as it's getting a bit crowded. The roses were starting to touch each other.

It doesn't look much less crowded, but it is.

But it means less room on the patio in front of the French windows.

Some of our David Austin roses are starting to come out.

Olivia Rose Austin.

Roald Dhal

Desdemona.

The rhodos and azaleas are really starting to make an effort.

Even the rhodos we bought reduced to clear in Aldi a couple of years ago are doing well.

First of the clematis

 

[Oliver Buckle]

We were out this morning. Started making a place for a cucumber in the greenhouse. Pricked out a lot of basil seedlings. Moved a pepper and some chili into larger pots. Brought some compost up to where I plan to plant mange tout out. Finished planting out my strawberry runners I put in pots last year, and hoed a bit.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I cut the front yard yesterday. Will do the backyard today. I've noticed that some weeds are starting to die finally. I'm finding out that getting rid of clover, dandelions, wild violets, and a couple other types of weeds is not very easy when they are well-established. We planted a pollinator garden a few weeks back, but I think it's a dismal failure. The only thing really growing well is that damnable Bermuda grass. I'm out there plucking that crap up every day.

The grass seed I put down a few weeks back is going wonderfully along the nasty fence line that I wanted to spruce up a bit. It does need to thicken considerably but it's growing, well, like a weed. LOL I am very pleased with how quickly it has taken hold there. I'll have to post a picture later.

I am happy to report that after crawling around on my hands and knees for weeks, I think I have eradicated about 99% of the dandelions in my yard. I crawled over my one acre yard and used a weed puller to get them out, root and all. I have had no new dandelions growing, and the yard is looking pretty good as far as those are concerned. Now I am moving on to the clover and crab grass. I'm happy with my progress since we've only lived here for 5-1/2 months.

Our romaine lettuce and spinach are HUGE! We've had to cut them back and give a lot away before it bolts. The radishes are looking great too! I can't say the same for the onions, carrots, and cucumbers. We've never had any luck growing onions. I just don't know the trick to getting those to grow right.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I pulled the rest of the radishes and spinach. I have cornered the market on buttercrunch lettuce so DW should be well set. I did some hoe work too.

 

[Meadowlark]

Finished up the onion harvest today including drying and storing. Well over 200 pounds with many approaching 5 inches diameter and 2 pounds but overall smaller on average than past years.

 

[YumYum]

Finished up the onion harvest today including drying and storing. Well over 200 pounds with many approaching 5 inches diameter and 2 pounds but overall smaller on average than past years.

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Wow. My red onions still look like big green onions. Your climate is just right for onions. What do you do with 200 lbs of onions?

 

[Meadowlark]

...What do you do with 200 lbs of onions?

Eat them!! When onions are sweet and tasty like these it isn't a problem using them.

We clean and chop several gallons for freezing and the rest go into dry shed storage, Normally, our stored onions will last up until next spring when the new crop starts yielding green onions.

TAMU, years ago, developed the perfect short-day onion for my zone called a 1015. A 1015 blooming onion is utterly fantastic!

The 1015s are far superior, IMO, to any other tasting onion including the famous Vidalia onion. Thanks.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Finished up the onion harvest today including drying and storing. Well over 200 pounds with many approaching 5 inches diameter and 2 pounds but overall smaller on average than past years.

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Hey when did those go in? September?

 

[YumYum]

Hey when did those go in? September?

Humm... I tried to start some onions around that time and the grass took them over. Total fail. Maybe I should try starting in a pot or something and transplanting. Still not sure they would grow like that this quick. I guess every region has its best crop. I'm in tomato country over here.