What did you do in your garden today?

[Meadowlark]

Beautiful spinach. I always have trouble getting spinach seed to germinate.

 

[Tundra20]

Beautiful spinach. I always have trouble getting spinach seed to germinate.

it is tempermentle but i have better success starting indoors then transplanting

planting direct seems to be hit or miss
temps gotta be spot on along with moisture

i have presoaked seeds and that may have helped but i start them nxt to my microgreens where its more controlled get almost 100% germination rate

 

[Meadowlark]

@Tundra20 wrote...it is temperamental but i have better success starting indoors then transplanting

Other than tomatoes, I pretty much start everything in the garden...probably why I have trouble with Spinach sometimes.

Swiss Chard has been my spinach substitute lately. I also grow Malabar spinach...very good and tolerates hot weather very well. It grows as a vine, and you just pick the leaves as it grows. I like it.

 

[Tundra20]

wrked on some of the beds cut some parlsely what a tough plant it is planted last yr in greenhouse and cut some beet leaves gona sautee them we like the greens more than the beets they get juiced most of the time

 

[CrazieAtes]

Found my first little guy of the new year!
I think it's English Thyme, but could be the Rosemary.
I have issues labeling

 

[Meadowlark]

Beets....did someone say Beets?

Many times more still in ground.... good year for beets.

 

[Tundra20]

Beets....did someone say Beets?

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Many times more still in ground.... good year for beets.


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those look reallllly good

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Beets....did someone say Beets?

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Many times more still in ground.... good year for beets.


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mine have just germinated, about an inch tall at the moment.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Potted up 12 The Sutton broad beans into three buckets that had tomatoes in last year. Started by weeding out the buckets and then topping them up with a nice mix and working it into the top layer. That makes six buckets I have now, 24 plants. The Sutton is a dwarf plant that is supposed to do well in containers, however, although I have more germinated I think I may plant them out in the ground to get an idea what difference it makes, as a sort of insurance. I don't mind if I get a lot, they freeze and keep well, but they are too useful not to have enough.
Cleaned up some peas I planted last Autumn as an experiment, not looking great so far, but one does have its first flower on, we shall see, even if they don't produce well to have them that much earlier may be worth it.
Also cleaned up around the garlic, they look like they are coming on well.
I am gradually getting back to using my right hand a bit, though I still have a sling. The swelling in my hand and wrist caused by an arthritis flare when I landed on it has gone down a lot, but the wrist is weak.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Thought I'd separate some narcissus clumps

 

[big rockpile]

I’m so sorry with the time change I’m literally going to bed with the Chickens. I close them up at 8 and go to bed.

But I did work yesterday. Watered in the Greenhouse. Repotted a Peace Lily and a Saco Palm.

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[Tundra20]

I’m so sorry with the time change I’m literally going to bed with the Chickens. I close them up at 8 and go to bed.

But I did work yesterday. Watered in the Greenhouse. Repotted a Peace Lily and a Saco Palm.

big rockpile

well if ur going to bed with the chickens thats not a bad thing if ur able to get up with the chickens
makes for a full day for sure

 

[Meadowlark]

Frost/freeze prep today. Predictions are for a low of 29 deg F here overnight. That's fatal for tomatoes I have planted out without protection.

Hence, I built a little "polly tunnel" out of Nsulate to cover them and while I was at it covered about 1/2 row of potatoes. Potatoes will survive 29 deg F but some protection should help prevent damage to the tops.

My back-up string of tomatoes is comfortably stored away on a tractor in a shed.

The long-range forecasts going back to mid-Feb have wildly ranged from lows of 26 Deg F to 53 deg F for this date changing almost daily...only my faithful pecan tree has steadfastly shown that a freeze was still likely throughout that period. More reliable than long-range forecasts...and has been so for over 1/2 century here.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have a lot of carrot seed, I think at least some is probably old enough to be useless. There is a bit of land I have had covered with glass for a while, today I started taking the glass off, cleaning up all the weeds that have germinated so well and planting short rows of carrots, a row from each packet. Managed the first two rows today and got the glass back over them, I'll do some more tomorrow all being well. I am not expectIng a lot out of most of them , so I am planting seed pretty thickly so even with a low percentage germination I'll get something, but I bet there will be some I am just throwing away.
The tomatoes in the greenhouse seem to be holding their own and the weather is warming so I have moved a few more down there, more to follow.

 

[big rockpile]

well if ur going to bed with the chickens thats not a bad thing if ur able to get up with the chickens
makes for a full day for sure

Oh I get up 5AM.

My routine get up. Clean up, take my Medication , read my Bible, take care of my special Plants, call my wife, let Chickens out and water them, feed the Pigs, check the Greenhouse out , eat Breakfast, then do what needs to be done.

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