What did you do in your garden today?

[seohunter106]

NOTHING

 

[Tundra20]

Several days ago after I planted onions I kept thinking I am forgetting something. I returned several times to look at onions & still could not figure out what I forgot. High wind all day yesterday blow down power lines and trees all over town. TV weather man drama kept telling how bad this store is, it will be at our house about 8:30 pm after dark. I looked at my wilted onions 1 more time then realized I forgot to water them. LOL. OH well too late now rain will be here soon. Radar showed the storm broke up to almost nothing about 15 miles west of us before it arrived here. My rain gauge shows 5/8" of rain. TV said, 61 mph wind. Forecast is now 6 days of 35° nights and 50 to 60 during the day. I hope no more rain so I can plant potatoes maybe Saturday or Monday.

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ya wind was crazy here 30-40 mph wind pretty much all day greenhouse somehow made it rest of week looking good for some planting
not much here gardening wise other than cutting lettuce and broccoli n some beets

 

[gary350]

Today 3/7/2025 I planted 182 seed potatoes today. Center row is potatoes with, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, eyes. Left row is 5 eye potatoes. Right row is 2, 3, 4, eye potatoes places closer together. I tried to get an average of 200 eyes in each row that = 600 plants total. If each plant grows 1 lb. of new potatoes harvest will be 600 lbs. of new potatoes. I sprinkled 6-12-12 fertilizer in each row. Lucky we are having 30 mph gusty wind dried my soil enough that it was easy to till and no mud. Location Murfreesboro, TN. I hilled soil up enough to cover all seed potatoes with 3" to 4" of soil. Soil gets hilled up more later when green plants get 6" tall. I also sprinkled about 150 caster beans in each row I hope that will kill moles. If I only plant a small crop of seed potatoes we never get any new potatoes moles eat them all. Last year I planted 3 rows of seed potatoes and harvested 341 lbs. of new potatoes but I had no caster beans last year. Last year there were several potato plants with no new potatoes at all and several 1/2 eaten new potatoes. Wait an see what happens this year. We have voles also. I plant seed potatoes on the soil surface then cover them with soil to make hills. Hills crack open easy to allow new potatoes to grow much larger.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Been planting potatoes too, not as many as Gary. I have dug out a new bit of ground, put wood and then leaves into the hole , then mixed the earth I had taken out with well rotted manure and a bit of fish blood and bone and put it back, planted a short row of five Maris Peer and another of Pentland Javelin.
The way Gary plants multi shooted seed is a bit different. If I have a large potato I will sometimes cut it in half, or even more pieces, if it is a small one I might rub out shoots to get fewer growing more strongly.
I am gradually making up more 'earth' with left over bits and manure and using it to earth up, so by next year I hope to have a reasonable depth of good soil.
Mowed the back lawn today, left it fairly long, and it is very lumpy with a fair bit of moss in it, a lot more work needed, but no great rush, I'll let it recover a bit, it's still early days.
Planted a row of beetroot and started some chard and brussels seed in the greenhouse, sorted out my pots a bit and pruned the quince a bit more, it;+'s a bit late, but I had done the main part a while back, so hopefully all will be well.
Started potting on red onion seedlings, but it got a bit dark

 

[Tundra20]

wow yal did get alot planted i cut some bok choy this morning i just do cut leaf so it comes back fast lettuce is looking good to

 

[Meadowlark]

That last photo looks more like Swiss Chard to me.

 

[Tundra20]

That last photo looks more like Swiss Chard to me.

cherokee lettuce

 

[Sean Regan]

I gave all the roses another spray of Sulphur Rose. I'll do this every two to three weeks from now, to hopefully reduce any chance of black spot infestation.
I'm ever the optimist!

I checked the clematis.

The bad news, is that it looks like five haven't survived the winter.

The good news, is that thirteen have!

Checked on the progress of the creeping phlox plug plants on the shed window sill.
They are doing very well. I have to remember to water them every other day as it gets quite hot in there.

No hedgehog activity, as of yet.

I'll have to spend some time in next door's garden tomorrow getting more of the branches of trees we've cut down into green bins.

 

[Tundra20]

im wanting to get another clematis going love them ours was pink

 

[gary350]

I can't leave the last 10 ft of the onion bed empty so I planted 5 ft of French Fingerling potatoes and 5 ft of Kennebec potatoes.