What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

It rained last night so the garden was still quite wet this morning,

Oh you lucky, lucky man. There was a very minor precipitation this afternoon, it felt a bit like putting your face into a gin and tonic for ten minutes or so, not enough to get anything wet, there is a 30% chance of rain forecast very briefly next Saturday, I suppose that means there is a 70% chance of none.
Potted some basil seedlings. Over winter I cut the grape that filled the ceiling of one side of the greenhouse back to three feet. It has started sprouting again and I started building a frame to train it on and keep it down to three feet so it doesn't shade the entire house, I don't know if it will work, worth a try, but I shan't weep if it doesn't.
Digging weeds out of a bit of clay I turned over last year I broke a tang off the good quality stainless steel fork, the ground is that hard. Last year when it was grass I was able to cut out cubes a spade square and turn them over, now I can't even break up the clay that exposed to mix it with the rotted turf underneath. Meanwhile I water pots dried out by sun that I dare not plant out yet, I expect hail the size of marbles if I do.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Yup, you guessed it. I pulled more dandelions today. LOL This picture is one of the huge man-eating ones I pulled. This thing is a good 16 inches long, and the root went all the way to Taiwan, I think. Insanity.

I watered the areas that I overseeded as well. I have been wondering about these huge bees near my garage. Turns out they are carpenter bees, and they have pretty much destroyed the soffit on my garage, so I have to repair that. I don't mind them. They are huge but "friendly." I read that they don't like citrus and they don't like vibration, so after I repair the soffit, I'm going to paint it well, spray it down with citrus, and hang some wind chimes around the outside of the garage.

I pulled out a bunch of damnable Bermuda grass around and in my raised beds. The stuff is relentless. Tomorrow I'm going to get some more grass seed and overseed another part of my yard as an experiment to see if it fills it really nicely. I'm half tempted to buy the pull-behind dethatcher and aerator for my tractor but I'm going to wait one full season of living in our new home and see what I can do with overseeding and pulling weeds manually along with using some Scott's Turf Builder. Here's hoping!!

 

[Sheal]

I think that's a sow thistle not a dandelion Black-Thumb.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I think that's a sow thistle not a dandelion Black-Thumb.

That was my immediate reaction, then I reflected that there are many plants with flowers like that, and it may be the common name has been transferred crossing the Atlantic.
There are dandelion, hawkweed, yarrow and various thistles with yellow composite flowers like that in this part of the world.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I think that's a sow thistle not a dandelion Black-Thumb.

Whatever it is, it came straight from Hell. LOL

 

[YumYum]

Hehe. If you ever see what looks like a watermelon plant growing wild, don't reach down and grab it like me.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Hehe. If you ever see what looks like a watermelon plant growing wild, don't reach down and grab it like me.

Pray tell. What did you grab hold of?

 

[YumYum]

Buffalo burr! It didn't take me long to look at it.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

with over 300 Thousand daffs its off to dead head, fun. and a little weed pulling along the way. some grass cutting. considering what seeds to plant after Mother's day.

 

[Sean Regan]

Just tied up a few more clematis.

Digressing.

My wife is into orchids. particularly white ones.
She manages to get most of those I buy her to flower again after a "period of rest on a kitchen window sill."
"Isn't amazing how this one looks very much like the artificial one next to it?"

 

[Black_Thumb]

So yesterday, we planted all the stuff we had downstairs in our raised beds. We planted tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers, and carrots. We also put up the remaining fencing that you see around the outside. We have a LOT of deer here and they'll come and help themselves to whatever is growing. In fact, later in the evening, four deer showed up but they couldn't get in.

This morning, I went out to inspect things just because the deer just might have gotten a bit fiesty and broke through the fencing. They didn't but I found this mushroom this morning. NOTHING has been growing in this raised bed for weeks. The very night we plant, this mushroom shows up the next morning. Actually, there were about three of them but this is what they all look like. It's a Hare's Foot Mushroom, me thinks. Not edible but odd that it just showed up overnight.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

odd that it just showed up overnight.

Not really, the fruiting body is the product of the fungal web below ground, and it is quite normal for them to appear overnight in all sorts of fungi, including edible mushrooms.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Not really, the fruiting body is the product of the fungal web below ground, and it is quite normal for them to appear overnight in all sorts of fungi, including edible mushrooms.

I'm aware of that, but what is odd is that it happened the very same evening we planted our veggies and never before. That's really the oddity of it all. LOL

 

[Ruderunner]

Over the past few days I've accomplished, not much. Raining off and on the whole time. But I did get 350 onions planted and half of the new dog fence around our lower plot.

Still have about 100 more onions and 50 garlic to plant. Still need to till, and waiting on seeds to germinate.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing today. Too wet!

Cue for a song!