What Did You Do In The Garden?

[journey11]

I don't know. I never grew 92 plants before. I usually start seedlings and lose a lot, but I did not have any problems with these. I have the best bunch of vegetables and flowers I ever grew and then got the chickenpox. Last year I gave a lot of plants to my neighbor and this year gave him some cabbage and collards and he let them die and told me he is not planting anything this year. I was going to share with another lady and she told me she FORGOT her tomato plants and left them out for 3 days and they died, so that did it, after taking care of all these plants while being sick, I am keeping them.
King of the North
Horizon
Sunsation
Quadrato D'Asti Giallo
Marta Polka
Corno Di Toro Giallo
Early Jalapeno
Big Dipper
Banana
Keystone Giant
Cubanelle
Ancho/Poblano
Thai yellow Chilli
Red Marconi

Chop a bunch up and dehydrate them. They'll all fit in 3 or 4 quart canning jars, and then you can easily add them to your cooking all year long. (I did also figure out to put the dried peppers, any dried food really, in the freezer for a couple of days first to keep little moths from hatching out in them...who knows how they got in there in the first place...must have been some microscopic caterpillars that rode in on my fresh peppers.)

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have dehydrated ones. I take frozen peppers and onions and put in scrambled eggs. We like stuffed peppers, and sliced fresh on salads, sliced up on pizza, I liked to stir fry with them.

 

[ninnymary]

Moved all the annual seedlings and purchased plants inside. Covered potato and tomatoes growing in the garden. Moved my hanging basket and covered the container planting. That's the best I can do to ensure there is no frost tonight -- on the theory "if there's nothing to hurt there's no reason for a frost".

Only the strawberries are left uncovered in hopes that they are hardy enough for Wisconsin weather.
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Doesn't the bed look great! Hardly a weed to be seen -- those few garlic scapes at the bottom don't count -- and the Alpine strawberries in the (mostly unplanted) bed to the left are looking just as good.
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You have tons of flowers! You will get sooooo many strawberries. Lucky you!

Mary

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I planted 47 peppers. There are 3 peppers with the tops broke off. I am hoping it was the wind and not birds.

 

[seedcorn]

I went and ran water trying to save frosted plants. How can it frost at 36 degrees?

 

[canesisters]

Re-ran the soaker hose on the square bale garden, planted tomatoes, set up the cattle panel trellis, planted marigolds & basil. Then tucked a bunch of portulaca and a few dahlias into the rocks on each side of the yard gate. Pulled weeds, sprayed weeds, mowed weeds, cussed at weeds, dug weeds....

 

[ducks4you]

BIG job that took some guts to start. I deweeded ALL the weeds that started (aGAIN!!) growing in the bed with stones and yews on the east and north side of the house. I also hacked and slashed the yews down because they were shielding many of the weeds that like the shade. A LOT of this was done by hand because there are small stumps left from the yews that I killed in the past, so I couldn't just mow them down. Also, two years ago I bent the blade in my favorite mower twice...in one month...so I'm trying to be careful. I would have used vegetation killer there today, but it's raining, so I'll be happy to do this on the weekend.
This is my year for weeding!!
I deweeded two other areas, one ~ 150 square foot and the other is the bed around my cistern, which is now covered with fresh stall cleanup.
(I also have the cheapo Spectrum weed & grass killer that works for about 3 months, so I can plant there in September.)
ALL of this will buy me some time NOT weeding this year.

 

[Smart Red]

Today Spouse and I spent some time weeding Connor's Memorial Butterfly Garden. If it ever warms up here in South-est, central-est Wisconsin, I have annuals and perennials to plant in there.

The shady part was already weeded and those perennials are growing well.

 

[KD_Olive]

This. Hahaha

 

[ducks4you]

I tilled in compost in the small bed north of the garage, east side. Tomorrow I will put in begonias, impatiens and geraniums AND some Preen.
I had scads of bean seeds and an old, unused, starter "greenhouse" with 72 seed pellets, YOU know, the ones that expand with water. I put a bean seed in every one of them last saturday, watered really well and put a clear, plastic kitchen garbage bag around it and set it on the east side ledge of my porch. I see sprouting!!! I am Hoping to grow these seedlings and transplant, though I've heard that beans don't transplant well. Still, with some structure for the roots, these might.