What Did You Do In The Garden?

[lcertuche]

It's hard to imagine frosts this late. We've been using our a.c. the last couple of nights.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

WooHoo I finally have a fence around my garden. It is a conglomeration of different types of wire and such but it's up! I planted my tomato and pepper plants this a.m. and hill up around the potatoes. I also tucked a half dozen sweet potato plants in here and there. I will be going to the store later for some seed. Since I can't have a pretty garden maybe it will be productive at least!

It sounds pretty to me!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Are you sure? It seems like God is providing you with replacement rabbits!

REPLACEMENT RABBITS!

 

[ducks4you]

Last weekend I planted the remainder of my onions (the ones that come rubberbanded) and onion sets. I chopped burdock and applied one year vegetation killer. I've been watering my almost 30 purchased sweet bell peppers and about a dozen jalepano pepper plants. (Am I the ONLY one who asks for sweet peppers at Subway and gets pickled hot peppers?!?!?!? I don't think any of them garden! )
I worked on the 2017 pepper beds bc ya know you HAVE to rotate crops. Pulled a gillion weeds but most came up easily. I also found 3 voluteer collards, which I only bought on a whim and don't eat...so they will go in DD's edible landscape.
Horses have their first crack at the north pasture. They will come in for grain and then get kicked off of it. It's been too wet to not worry about grass founder. They will get it 24/7 by Memorial Day.
OH! I took some avadados that my Cinco de Mayo friend had used for her guacamole (not cooked, just chilled) and stuck them in the ground around the irises, just for kicks. We'll see if any of them sprout.

 

[Beekissed]

Worked in my son's tiny town BTE today. Got the wire up on the arbor but still have to finish out the top, hung the new gate, got the lettuce and broccoli sets planted into the landscaping material of what will be a tiny low tunnel.

Planted Fortex beans, Boston pickler cukes, more zinnias, more marigolds, yellow str. squash, Crimson sweet watermelon. Even transplanted a nice little volunteer tomato to the proper place. Will put in maters, onions and peppers soon enough and also more lettuce in the tunnel. Fed and watered everything.

I'm building wooden trellising for their porch for the clematis and honeysuckle I planted in the fall, which now need a place to climb. Hope to work on that more tomorrow.

 

[PennyJo]

I hope you didn't get hurt too badly, Penny. Those falls are not fun as we get older.

Thank you Red I am alive still stubborn 3rd coop is up with 4, 11 month old EE pullets 1, 4 month EE and 2 3 month OE so more to do picked up 11 t posts run fence to meet backing up to neighbors storage business 8 ft chain link to keep the dogs out of. chickens they get a great group of .... it was made of wood we picked up free from a moving company that uses them as shipping crates.. a window from a friend and a metal roof that was the only thing we paid for
I also picked up a really healthy Shasta daisy today

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

It rained and rained, and then stopped for a bit kind of sprinkling, so took all the plants out onto the patio and let it rain on them and gave them a little bit of fertilizer and then covered them back up and it rained, and rained, and rained, and rained, and rained, and then DS and I went to town and the sides of the road were WHITE with sleet. The potatoes are starting to come up.

 

[digitS']

DW and I did a run around the backyard while hail fell, putting tomato plants under the deck roof.

It wasn't so bad but if the sunlight had appeared, it would have been shining under that roof so we left the plants there. Then, the hail began to fall again.

It wasn't so bad but those the leaves would have been bruised, there is no reason to think otherwise. Then, another hailstorm hit.

It was bad and the plants out under that stormy sky must have suffered from the pounding! We have had many hours of storm clouds lately, days of great billowing clouds hiding the sun. I'm beginning to feel like I have stepped back into winter.

There is 12" of "snow water equivalent" at the Lookout SNOTEL station near the ID/MT border. That's part of the 127% above normal precipitation. The closest SNOTEL to me is at 152% of average since October 1st. The WS reported recently that there is no location in the PNW currently considered in drought. Yay!

I'm afraid that there are dead and damaged plants in the garden but I'm glad that there has been someone here at home lately, supervising the conditions for hardening off. I wish we could add some light but, at least, there hasn't been much nearby lightning or damaging winds.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

It looks like I dodged a bullet. No sleet or hail at my place, surprisingly. The tomatoes and peppers are currently hardening off all day and night and learning to dog paddle.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I hope your plants made it digitS without too much damage. I have only had 1 or 2 days of hardening and then back under cover but that time is over. They are staying out all night rain or no rain. I will have to be careful with the sun. It is hard around noon until 3 trying to move them to partial sun or shade. Meanwhile, it is going to start raining and it is a cloudy, dark 43 right now.