What did you do in your garden today?

[big rockpile]

Watered and mowed.

big rockpile

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Watered in greenhouses, planted a short row of potatoes, moved the tomatoes around in the greenhouse so I can get to my potting tray, but the missus has filled it with plants brought in from the cold. Swept the paths, planted out a couple more tomatoes in the poly tunnel, also some lettuces. Radish are showing between the tomatoes in the poly tunnel, and mange tout peas in the seed tray outside.

 

[torbenaskesen]

I cleaned up the beech hedges. Probably 80% of Denmark have beech as hedges, primarily due to our national anthem mentioning it

 

[big rockpile]

Too much like work today. Did some watering.

Then decided to fertilize everything. Got most of it. Decided next time to break it down into days.

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[JBtheExplorer]

I've been continuing to update my species list today. I've also added the updated version to my showcase.

109 species are listed. 90 are occurring in my yard and gardens. The other 19 are either still seedlings in containers, not yet growing, or not yet identified in my gardens. I do expect a few to drop off the list since some are unlikely to work in my conditions, but I'm trying them anyway. The big goal is to have 100 native plant species actively occurring in my gardens. I don't think I'll hit that number this year but I should reach it next year.

 

[Meadowlark]

Tomato production is on the rise!!!

I always try to pick them at the "breaker" stage so that they will continue to ripen with zero taste lost. Otherwise, the numerous birds around here will spot that red and get it well before I can.

Tomato season...only thing better is fresh corn and tomato season...and that won't be long.

 

[Meadowlark]

Spent 15 minutes this morning (less time than it would take to purchase in the grocery store) picking two gallons of Blue Lake Green Beans. The Blue Lakes are back!!

After two or three years of beans plagued by strings and last year rust, these are about as perfect as one can get.

Two gallons in 3 feet of a 30-foot row. With two pickings that should yield about 40 gallons of beans or 1.3 gallons per foot for those interested in yields.

AI measures bush bean yield in pounds per sq ft quoting an average of .5 to 1 pound yield per sq. ft. for bush beans. Projecting forward my yield is looking like 3.2 pounds per sq. foot assuming no disasters before final harvest.

More important than yield, quality seems to be back to outstanding in the Blue Lake bush bean and that is good to see.

 

[Tundra20]

this morning wasnt good came to garden and cucumber leaves are stripped not a rabbit cause whatever it is got my potato leaves which are in a tub cant reach them no deer tracks at tomato and some flowers stripped clean most of these cucumbers were from seed so gona have to purchase some i guess or just be behind on them
guess it could birds mabe idk any ideas nver had this much damage in one night

 

[Tundra20]

did get more tomatos thou and peppers squash are looking good this pic is missing 4 sugar rushes lol cant help myself

 

[Meadowlark]

... any ideas nver had this much damage in one night

Looks like possible hooved animal damage to me. Did you look very carefully for any tracks? That second photo especially looks like it. I would get down on hands and knees and very carefully scan for any tracks.... but maybe you have already done that?

 

[dirty hands]

Spent 15 minutes this morning (less time than it would take to purchase in the grocery store) picking two gallons of Blue Lake Green Beans. The Blue Lakes are back!!

After two or three years of beans plagued by strings and last year rust, these are about as perfect as one can get.

Two gallons in 3 feet of a 30-foot row. With two pickings that should yield about 40 gallons of beans or 1.3 gallons per foot for those interested in yields.

AI measures bush bean yield in pounds per sq ft quoting an average of .5 to 1 pound yield per sq. ft. for bush beans. Projecting forward my yield is looking like 3.2 pounds per sq. foot assuming no disasters before final harvest.

More important than yield, quality seems to be back to outstanding in the Blue Lake bush bean and that is good to see.

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Looks like a good meal. You're making me hungry.

 

[Tundra20]

Looks like possible hooved animal damage to me. Did you look very carefully for any tracks? That second photo especially looks like it. I would get down on hands and knees and very carefully scan for any tracks.... but maybe you have already done that?

ya i looked hard and ive made hard for deer to get in also a tomato plant got hit where i know a deer cant get to so idk
i put up a game camera hopefully it captures whatever it may be

cucumbers do still have there blooms so mabe they will hang on

 

[DiggersJo]

Not much chance, and really not a lot to do... I did get our first garlic scape off and there are many more on the way. Most of my time in the garden is feeding the birds as we have several pairs with chicks (you can easily tell as the worms don't get eating they take them away). I have live mealworms delivered and have had x3 deliveries in as many weeks from a local firm - can't keep up with them all - at least x6 times a day. Have at least one blue tit taking a worm off the spoon before I load the dish!

 

[Meadowlark]

Looks like a good meal. You're making me hungry.

The best thing about picking green beans, potatoes, and onions today is the reward...

 

[Tundra20]

welp it is a deer so its a new part of the garden ive added two yrs ago nver have had one issue least i know what i gotta do
nver saw tracks o well gona be some good meat this winter all i can say