What did you do in your garden today?

[big rockpile]

Was thinking need to get some stuff going but still too early.

Put some Garden Soil in my Raised Bed. Planted some Nasturtiums not realizing they don’t transplant well.

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[dirty hands]

Im antsy too.

I put out the borage to start hardening off. It wilted fast.

I dug and potted 7 mullien that I need to decide where to put them. They would get walked on or mowed where they were. 1st year.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

we have not bought store bought lettuce in a very long time i try to keep it going

Iceberg people don't know what they don't know

 

[Meadowlark]

Been trying for years to reestablish the Osage Orange (aka Horse apple) on this place with no luck...but help is on the way.

I purchased some seeds from @Martin Mikulcik and they arrived today...way more than I expected.

Outstanding packaging on the seeds...so good that a few of them are showing signs of germination.

The best course of action with summer heat bearing down seems to be to plant the seeds in a garden row where they will receive water and care through the summer. Then, next fall/winter during dormancy transplant them.

And that is what I did in the garden today.

Many thanks to @Martin Mikulcik for a super quality product.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Never heard of Osage Orange, looked on Wiki,
" Under severe pruning, the hedge apple sprouted abundant adventitious shoots from its base; as these shoots grew, they became interwoven and formed a dense, thorny barrier hedge. The thorny Osage orange tree was widely naturalized throughout the United States until this usage was superseded by the invention of barbed wire in 1874.[14][6][15][16] By providing a barrier that was "horse-high, bull-strong, and pig-tight",
Sounds much nicer than barbed wire, sometimes I question 'Progress'.

 

[Meadowlark]

Never heard of Osage Orange, looked on Wiki,
nicer than barbed wire, sometimes I question 'Progress'.

All you ever wanted to know about the Osage Orange:

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[Meadowlark]

Today was harvest day for the remaining spring cauliflower crop...with temps to hit the 90's F this weekend, their time has come.

I left a few leaves on one to demonstrate the 100% organic composition of these fine eating veggies. A few bug holes in the leaves hurt absolutely nothing...and in fact I believe they can spur the plant into hyper growth.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Went down the road yesterday and saw the lady who rides, collected eight buckets of horse manure and gave her five tomato plants. Ever since I have been processing those eight buckets. Dug a trench, buried six buckets of weeds, mixed the earth that came out with two buckets of manure, put it back on top of the weeds and planted two courgettes on it. Put a lot through the sieve and mulched around the tomato plants in the poly tunnel with it, then hoed it in, dug a lot of the stuff that didn't go through in where I am going to plant out tomatoes, and mixed a lot with compost to fill four fifty litre bags and planted aubergines in them. I like them in bags, they grow well in the greenhouse, but I move them out when they start flowering and the pollinate better. They will grow in smaller containers, but the crop is dissapointing, one or two to a plant. Potted on a few more tomatoes, Tigerella.
Running low on paper cups, looked on Amazon and found a deal of 500 for £15, free delivery, the last lot cost me a tenner for a hundred with delivery, so that's a bargain, and I will use them.
And watered and watered, it is so dry.

 

[DiggersJo]

Potted on our few little plants (cucumber and courgette ) in the lovely sunshine...

 

[big rockpile]

I might as well face it warm as it is I need to water every day in the Greenhouse.

I have been checking long range forecasts and it is too soon to go outside.

But what I do have outside is looking very good.

Got some Flower Seed in today. It’s a Wildflower Pollinator Mix Perennial. Got to figure how I’m going to work the soil up.

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[Tundra20]

Today was harvest day for the remaining spring cauliflower crop...with temps to hit the 90's F this weekend, their time has come.

I left a few leaves on one to demonstrate the 100% organic composition of these fine eating veggies. A few bug holes in the leaves hurt absolutely nothing...and in fact I believe they can spur the plant into hyper growth.

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nice are those a heirloom type or is that pinkish color come from the higher temps

 

[Meadowlark]

nice are those a heirloom type or is that pinkish color come from the higher temps

Yes, it is from the increasing high temps going consistently above 85 deg F.

The pinkish color was getting more pronounced each day with the increasing high temps and even though the pigmentation is completely harmless antioxidants, I went ahead and harvested.

In my gardening experience, this late April crop is the latest I have ever had successful cauliflower heads.

I ate a bunch of it this evening raw, and it was delicious...but I just had the feeling it would not be that way if harvested days from now.

 

[Logan]

Hubby has been cutting out the brambles that have grown in the holly tree and he did a bit of weeding.

 

[Meadowlark]

Finished off the spring garlic harvest today...a fairly meager crop but we don't use much...


Also topped off the onion basket...

 

[big rockpile]

I really didn’t do anything. First went got Green Onions and Oregano for my Breakfast of Trout and Eggs.

Been using Garlic Chives both are pretty good but Chives have a little more.

Got some Raised Beds planted and some of my Regular Garden. The Raised Beds are going to town. Garden is doing good but Raised Beds have me interested.

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