What Did You Do In The Garden?
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Dirtmechanic
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They are still out in their pots. I love the potential! I have so much to get to this spring!
Mary
Trish Stretton
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I harvested my trial run of 4 Golden Dwarf Amaranth plants this week. I had planted out 6 plants but two had died.
The harvest wasnt enough to get really excited about other than it was a first to actually get any type of these to grow.
next year, I might have another go at the normal/giant types.
I'm still working my way around the paths and finally had enough dosh to get some more timber to edge the next lot of beds. The first of the new year got put in place today, all lined up so its straight and level, with the pegs hammered into keep it in place. The path along here has mostly been done except for the pavers along the edge, so now that the board is in place, i can finish this path.
The next lot of edgings/timber are stacked along the driveway, under the shade of trees, drying out. Just as well I didnt have to move these just yet cos they are so wet and heavy, I cant even lift them at the moment.
My harvest of baby butternuts was an embarrassment. They were supposed to grow to 6 inches long but most struggle to make 4, but at least the Indian cucumbers, (Hindi not American) have been pumping them out. These last for ages in the fridge and I just love them in a yogurt dressing.
The harvest wasnt enough to get really excited about other than it was a first to actually get any type of these to grow.
next year, I might have another go at the normal/giant types.
I'm still working my way around the paths and finally had enough dosh to get some more timber to edge the next lot of beds. The first of the new year got put in place today, all lined up so its straight and level, with the pegs hammered into keep it in place. The path along here has mostly been done except for the pavers along the edge, so now that the board is in place, i can finish this path.
The next lot of edgings/timber are stacked along the driveway, under the shade of trees, drying out. Just as well I didnt have to move these just yet cos they are so wet and heavy, I cant even lift them at the moment.
My harvest of baby butternuts was an embarrassment. They were supposed to grow to 6 inches long but most struggle to make 4, but at least the Indian cucumbers, (Hindi not American) have been pumping them out. These last for ages in the fridge and I just love them in a yogurt dressing.
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reguarly, watered the plants, grafted some tamatoes, and cut the excess dead plants.. Coffee, while sitting down in the patio.It is a new season. What did you do in the garden today, yesterday, last week?
Two backyard beds have been covered with the temporary hoop house. Seed for Asian greens and escarole has been sown; bok choy transplants have gone in. The flower beds around the house have been cleaned up.
I have now begun in the little veggie garden by leveling a few beds cultivated last year, fertilizing, and planting some seed potatoes, onion sets and pea seed.
What did you do in your gardens
Steve
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we actually got out and trimmed a few trees that were rubbing against the house and roof when the winds are up. it wasn't even too bad out there that i was able to go get the paper at the end of the driveway without having a coat or long-sleeved shirt on. so things are heading in the right direction.
i'm hoping today i can do something outside again, not sure what will actually happen until it does though...
i'm hoping today i can do something outside again, not sure what will actually happen until it does though...
Trish Stretton
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I got another bit of path done and another bed set up and am in progress on weeding out all the convovulus. Half way done, so may be this one will be for my Onions, leeks, garlic and shallots. Its a really wide bed at 5' wide compared to the 3'-4' ones.
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It's interesting that bindweed is a problem for you, @Trish Stretton . It sure is for me, too. There is a local story that it was brought in as an orchard ground cover, 100 years ago. Might be right but I imagine that it would be here by now anyway.
Other than a willingness to spray herbicide in the ornamental garden, the spading fork is good help. Bindweed roots are really something - deep, twisted and dirt-colored. The neighbor had beds with landscape fabric under and between. By the time DW and I moved the board frames and soil, the bindweed roots were all through that fabric.
I've been covering one side (my side) of that neighbor's garage with corrugated plastic roof panels. Our garages sit nearly in each other's yards. The roof panels was his idea several years ago for my garage wall. I guess that I did well enuf with it that he wanted his wall done. Both of us had our garages painted over the last few years but he liked the idea that garden-side walls would be protected from the sprinklers.
I don't know that I will get up to the gable section with cedar boards like I did for my garage just yet. I have the plastic panels sealed but there is lots of cutting and fitting with the cedar and I have to replace a fencepost and re-paint a couple of sections of picket fence on another property line. Meanwhile, the plant starts are growing and there is a hoophouse to set up over some backyard garden beds. It hailed on me just a little yesterday but I doubt if March snow will collapse the hoophouse as it has done a couple of times in the past.
Steve
Other than a willingness to spray herbicide in the ornamental garden, the spading fork is good help. Bindweed roots are really something - deep, twisted and dirt-colored. The neighbor had beds with landscape fabric under and between. By the time DW and I moved the board frames and soil, the bindweed roots were all through that fabric.
I've been covering one side (my side) of that neighbor's garage with corrugated plastic roof panels. Our garages sit nearly in each other's yards. The roof panels was his idea several years ago for my garage wall. I guess that I did well enuf with it that he wanted his wall done. Both of us had our garages painted over the last few years but he liked the idea that garden-side walls would be protected from the sprinklers.
I don't know that I will get up to the gable section with cedar boards like I did for my garage just yet. I have the plastic panels sealed but there is lots of cutting and fitting with the cedar and I have to replace a fencepost and re-paint a couple of sections of picket fence on another property line. Meanwhile, the plant starts are growing and there is a hoophouse to set up over some backyard garden beds. It hailed on me just a little yesterday but I doubt if March snow will collapse the hoophouse as it has done a couple of times in the past.
Steve
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I sat outside in the sun for a few minutes yesterday with my notebook, writing down things I want to do in the next few weeks. Raining today, so staying inside to clean!
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