What Did You Do In The Garden?

[ducks4you]

I had two sweet potatoes from Last Thanksgiving!! ...and they sprouted slips.

Here is one of 3 that grew roots in literally 2 days!

I pulled the last 5, fed the potatoes to my chickens and almost gave up on them.
Yesterday, I discovered that even they were rooting.


Sure learn gardening things all of the time.

 

[majorcatfish]

today was just pure relaxation did a deep deep watering on everyone, just to release the dw from watering the next couple days. yes she knows to water the latest corn planting to be watered every day. hopefully next weekend will be my last week up in hickory,nc for a while....
after that 1 week in graham and then 1 week of an overdue vacation....hum guess that means a week of catching up....

 

[Beekissed]

Jap beetles eating the spuds and young apple trees, so put up a trap from last year's bait. Within a half hour had an inch of beetles in the bottom of the bag. Gave those to the flock and they were quickly turned into tomorrow's eggs and poop. Will likely trap more each day.

Dusted the taters with sulfur dust for the beetles and slugs...noticed some bloom starting. Also dusted the ground around the strawberries with sulfur for the tiny slugs that are eating the berries.

Planted more corn in the spaces where it failed to germinate last time when I planted it during cold weather...the first corn is knee high or better. Also planted more watermelon, lettuce, spinach, carrots and beans.

Suckered tomatoes and picked strawberries, wove the tomato vines through the cattle panels.

Garden is looking green and things are doing well thus far. Supposed to get a little rain off and on all week and next week, intermingled with hot weather, so that should make things grow a ton.

 

[ducks4you]

Planted some clearance basil in with my tomatoes. (72 cents/each, going to seed and potbound, at Menards Garden Center.) Also, transplanted the (above pictured) sweet potatoes into porch pots where I can monitor, water, and keep away any bugs. Again, I want GOOD ROOTS before they go into the ground.
This is THE YEAR to get crops into the ground in order to keep down weeds and get something of a harvest later on. Storms watered all of my beds last night.

 

[so lucky]

Did some weeding around the perimeter of the garden. I have annual flowers planted on three sides, and crab grass just loves to work its way in there. I got a soaker hose system laid out, finally, that covers most of the crops. Only a few items I will need to water by hand. The garden looks funky, but it suits me. There are a few volunteers growing here and there: a cucumber over there with the balsam, dill growing with the larkspur, a lone kale plant that survived the winter and cabbage worms last year. I am hoping it will go to seed, so I can collect it.
My zucchini has big fat blossoms, the cukes are blooming, as well as the beans. Peppers seem to be trying to recover from their near-drowning incident. Sweet potatoes are starting to run.
Yukon gold potatoes still aren't blooming. Are they a "late" potato?
Onions are starting to fall over. Better size to them this year. I did a better job of keeping the weeds out of them, and used ashes and bone meal at planting.

 

[ducks4you]

I'm doing that, too, letting volunteer plants that I like to crowd out weeds. I wish that I could start squash early, but it's gonna have to be on the porch until the squash bugs and viner borers have moved on.

 

[digitS']

Interesting differences always showing up on TEG. First off, Yukon Gold are a very early variety, So Lucky. I've decided after several tries that they just don't do well in my garden. I once tried wood ashes on half an onion bed. The untreated part grew better onions. However, even the water here gets above a pH of 8 during the summer.

If I go to the little veggie garden and spud patch today, I just might pull one of the big plants for early potatoes. Blossoms have dropped off the ones that flowered, already.

Watering is of critical importance in my gardens. On the windward side of the flower corner in the big veggie garden, one can see the difference in the size of the plants by the distance from the sprinkler. The location is a low point in the line and water leaks gallons and gallons after the water is turned off. The plants like this!

I spent several hours in the flower corner, yesterday and hope to return today with the MiracleGro. Unfortunately, or fortunately ... it has rained a little even before the forecast rainy (and windy) hours.

I also have fish emulsion for the onions with a hope that they make better growth. No, I didn't tamper with the pH in their soil, honestly, I think they have had too much weather stress. "Good roots?" Prying the bunching onions outta the ground is nearly impossible! Those are doing okay but the sweets look like they want to make bulbs and they are little things ... Cool and wind are normal June conditions so I guess it's been that blast of heat and the changes, kind of stunting them. I want nice sweet onions!

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

I planted 20+ 4 O'clocks and moss roses. It rained while we were gone and the weeds took off and grew...

 

[digitS']

Finished putting trellis throughout the dahlia garden.

Think they can get by without it where several are planted elsewhere.

However, I don't trust the glads. They aren't in a crowded bed this year so that may ... or, may not help. Better get some stakes and strings amongst them.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Got the string up for the pole beans. Built a new compost pile.