What did you do in your garden today?

[Elena]

Can beans live at freezing night?

 

[zigs]

Can beans live at freezing night?

No, that's why i'm putting glass around them. Frost is forecast next week

 

[Elena]

I see. I am going to grow the beans for the first time. Thanks a lot!

 

[zigs]

I see. I am going to grow the beans for the first time. Thanks a lot!

Good luck Elena

Do you know what type of bean yet?

 

[Elena]

Nagano. But I can't find information about the size of that plant.

 

[zigs]

I think that's a Soy bean, they're toxic if they're not processed. Think they need to be fermented, cooking alone doesn't make them edible.

Can you get hold of French beans instead? You can eat the whole pods of them.

 

[zigs]

Put these round mine, need to get some fleece to put over the top.

 

[marlingardener]

I found carrots! I planted Danvers Half-longs and Rainbow carrots, and nothing happened. I figured either the seed was faulty, or I planted too deeply or too late.
Went out to weed the onion patch, and found that we have carrots, lots of carrots next door! I now need to thin the carrots, rather than grieving over not having carrots. Sometimes patience pays off (also not weeding, since I would have pulled up the baby carrots).

 

[zigs]

Put parrafin around them before thinning, puts the carrot fly off the scent

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Dug up about 40 Common Blue Violets from my yard and planted them in the garden. Nice to know I already had a native plant growing here long before I got here, but by moving it to the garden, it'll avoid being cut, which means plants will be able to grow to full size and ideally serve as host plants for various fritillary butterflies.

Some of you know, Violets spread a lot, including into grass. That doesn't bother me since violets have been apart of my lawn for as long as I can remember. In fact, I'd hate to see a lawn without violets in it. Creeping Charlie, on the other hand, is the worst. Non-native here, and spreads like wildfire. It'll likely be the only non-native plant in my garden because it's impossible to keep out.

 

[Elena]

Tomatoes season is starting! 6 degrees Celsius is outsid!

 

[zigs]

Planted more potatoes out. Cleared last season's potato clamp out, the ones left were all sprouting.

Trying to get the ants out of my rose pot

 

[Becky]

Looks great @Elena! You have a nice set up

 

[zigs]

Did a repair on the fork handle

Sis didn't even notice it when she was using it

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

I didn't do much, feeling lazy today, sprayed mealybugs from hibiscus plant's bough & limbs that has almost died, after sudden leaf fall due to intense sun and mealybugs infestation.

Preparing new grow bags for different species of basil (dark and purple stem ones) and sandalwood plant.

I don't get it, why does not the red ants kill the white ants, while digging one of the isolated part of the garden found ant colony in upper layer of soil and white ants in the lower layer inside their distinctive cave like mould covered colony.

I know mealybugs are carried by red ants to feed on young leaves in exchange for the honydew (secretion from mealybugs) that ants relish but what is the relationship between red and white ants?