What did you do in your garden today?

[Tundra20]

its been really cold here single digit nights just yesterday it warmed up

29 days is a record in my experience...longest I ever went was 25 days. Gotta love carrots.

 

[Nahid0333]

I thought I'd start a new thread that can be continuously updated by everyone any day of the year. We have people on the forum from all around the world, so there is always somebody doing something with their garden. I think it would be nice to check in and see what our members have done. So whether you've been busy today or busy three months from today, here's the question... What did you do in your garden today?


I spent today preparing my vegetable garden. I had tons of weeds to pull. There's some kind of invasive grass that pops up in there, along with creeping charlie, so I pulled as much as I could find. I can start planting in about four weeks, so it's nice to have it all ready for the season! If I remember right, peas seeds can be planted before the average last frost date, so I might plant them soon. As some of you may know, growing fruits and vegetables is only a small hobby for me. I'm not into it as much as other forum members. I grow peas for my pond fish, as well as couple of tomato plants, pumpkins for decoration, strawberries, a blueberry bush, and a peach tree. I'm also trying lettuce this year. Tomorrow, I may add a few native plants to the outside edges of my vegetable garden so it looks a little more showy throughout the season.

good

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing today, as nothing needs doing at the moment. Just had a walk around looking for anything that wasn't just green.
This by the front door is in a plastic pot, in the largest size of Apta glazed pot they do.
We've an azalea and a rose in similar sized plastic pots which will get their turn.

A bit of colour in the troughs on the patio.

These troughs will get an examination for any rot, (unlikely) and another coat of paint, as will the pergola posts, and the tea-house, once the weather warms up.

Three years ago, a friend bought my wife some primroses in a pot for Christmas. Once they'd died off, I replanted them "here and there," in the border, there's about half a dozen of them and they do very well each year. Lots of bluebells starting to come up along the same border. I need to jet wash this edging. But I'm trying to keep off the grass at the moment to give it chance to get growing after the scarifying.

This is one of our three quinces on the side fence, it's always the first to blossom, won't be long now.

This "stands guard" at the end of the other side border, in the constant shadow of the tea-house, so very little sun, but always seems to thrive on neglect.

My phlox plug-plants are doing well on the shed window sill. I won't move them to the rockery for at least a month.

 

[gary350]

Today I planted 150 Candy onion plants cost $21, 150 yellow onion sets cost $4, 21 Red onion sets cost $1. I used my planting template for perfect fast 4" spacing. Sets are 5 times faster to plant than plants. In the past there is very little different in the harvest of plants vs sets. I think I wasted $17 buying plants. I planted 16 ft of onions in a 30 ft row there was already 100 garlic in the same row. Not sure yet what to plant in the other 10 ft of this row. After soil was raked flat it took about 10 minutes to plant 150 sets and longer for the 150 plants. Martins has sets $2 lb. Plants need 21-0-0 for 6 weeks then 0-20-20 for 6 weeks.

 

[UrbanWild]

I grubbed two more beds today and took a lot of brush to lay down on the mud paths that got created by all the snow, ice, and rain. The curse of clover is that it is nothing but mud in the winter.

Anyway, after the two beds were cleared and compost leveled, one bed got planted in tatsoi seeds and the other got planted in mache/corn salad seeds.

Then to washing an armada of buckets since I could finally use a thawed hose.

Finally got all the critter water dishes washed out and by that time I was washed out as well. I'm about to take a long, blistering hot shower as a reward.

 

[Meadowlark]

one bed got planted in tatsoi seeds and the other got planted in mache/corn salad seeds.

That reminded I needed to get some of those going.

 

[Sean Regan]

Should have been a golf day, despite it raining all night. I was ready to go at 7.45am, but I always check my e-mails before leaving the house and fighting my way through the rush hour traffic. As like today, an e-mail had just arrived from my club to say that after an inspection, the competition was cancelled and the course closed as it was unfit for play.
But there was never any chance of me going into the garden!

 

[tyronee]

Spent the morning planting some new herbs and finally got around to installing a water heater in my garden—no more freezing hands when rinsing tools or watering! I went through Mr. Waterheater reviews to find the best option, and it’s been a game-changer. Warm water makes gardening so much easier, especially on chilly mornings.

 

[Sean Regan]

Spent the morning planting some new herbs and finally got around to installing a water heater in my garden—no more freezing hands when rinsing tools or watering! I went through Mr. Waterheater reviews to find the best option, and it’s been a game-changer. Warm water makes gardening so much easier, especially on chilly mornings.

You're dead right there. It's nice to be able to "wash up" before going back indoors.

We have an 8' x 8' room in the back of our garage, it was originally the filter room when we had a koi pool, for thirty-odd years. It has a false ceiling and a decking floor six inches above the concrete base of the garage.

We have two back-up freezers in there now and it's where we store our garden furniture through the winter.
But I've always had a basin in there, (recycled two new bathrooms ago).
I also had a second hand Santon water heater in there for about forty years,

But that died a couple of years ago. So now I have this.

If anyone is thinking about having a water heater for use in the garden, it's best to get one that can give you a bucket of hot water when needed, like for washing your car, or in my case, rinsing out my golf waterproof trousers, no way would my wife let me put them straight into the washing machine.

Also, one that has a frost stat. When not in use, I always set the control to that, to avoid any frost damage in the winter.
This is a 2kw Zip Tudor. It was £150.00 but well worth it.

Of course, the problem can be the electrical supply. This has its own mini breaker. But I make sure I don't have anything else on, other than low amperage stuff, in case I overload the garage supply.

 

[gary350]

Today I am counting potato eyes on my seed potatoes.

12=2.....this means 2 seed potatoes with 12 eyes on each potato.
11=2
10=2
9=3
8=4
7=8
6=11
5=39......this means 39 seed potatoes with 5 eyes on each potato.
4=19
3=114
2=91
1=72
total = 348 eyes = 348 plants = 348 lbs. of new white Kennebec potatoes.

I have 4 rows 30 ft long. Seed potatoes with 12 eyes need wider spacing. Seed potatoes with 1 eye can be planted very close together. Best spacing for me in the past is 60 seed potatoes in a 30 ft row, 5 eyes each potato = 300 eyes. June when soil cracks open than means there are potatoes down there.

Looks like 2 rows will work. I'm too tired to think about in anymore today. Correct spacing probably 2 rows wait and see when potatoes are lined up on the soil in rows.

Yesterday & today I tilled garden. Tomorrow I till garden, 7 more days I will garden to kill chicken weed. 80° yesterday and 2 days 25 mph wind help dry up mud. Soil is looking good.

March 15 is usually my target day to plant seed potatoes. TV said, 80° is above temperature for us. Yea right our crazy weather we could have snow next week. LOL.

 

[Tundra20]

picked lettuce and some more turnips love this time of yr

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Down at our 2nd home in New Bern, NC. which has lots of "stupid' pine trees that drop lots of pinecones. recent storm brought down some limbs. So piling the limbs up ect. smaller things inside the trash can for Monday pick up. (they do not allow burning here). Our gardener will be by in a few days to continue. This community offers free garden waste pick up once a year, so have to get the pile to the curb, or just let the gardener do it. Tuesday we have a guy coming by to blow all the pine needles off the high roofs. If I had the money, I'd take down a few of these tall pines. So many other better looking conifers about. Pine needles even get stuck inside the door handle of the car. Nuts.

 

[gary350]

Down at our 2nd home in New Bern, NC. which has lots of "stupid' pine trees that drop lots of pinecones. recent storm brought down some limbs. So piling the limbs up ect. smaller things inside the trash can for Monday pick up. (they do not allow burning here). Our gardener will be by in a few days to continue. This community offers free garden waste pick up once a year, so have to get the pile to the curb, or just let the gardener do it. Tuesday we have a guy coming by to blow all the pine needles off the high roofs. If I had the money, I'd take down a few of these tall pines. So many other better looking conifers about. Pine needles even get stuck inside the door handle of the car. Nuts.

We use to have about 42 pine trees, now we have about 15. I love pine needles for the garden especially on potato plant rows. Pine pollen is very bad vehicles turn yellow color and allergies are bad also for several months.

 

[Meadowlark]

Planted out tatsoi and corn salad in HK containers and transplanted several tomato seedlings into larger containers for growing out.

Thinking about planting some flowers out. Temps here are really soaring into the 80's now.

 

[Sean Regan]

I received through the post a catalogue for Bents Garden Centre.
They must have had my address for thirty years, as it's that's long since we had anything delivered.

Bents Garden & Home | Garden Furniture, Plants & Homewares

Bents Garden & Home. A family business established in 1937, still 'growing our own' just as our grandparents did. Garden Furniture, Plants, BBQs, Cookshop and information about our Warrington Garden Centre.

www.bents.co.uk

So I ordered six begonia bulbs on-line for £7.98.