What did YOU do in your garden today :P

[897tgigvib]

Back by popular demand, the annual whadjado in yer garden today!

Me, I'm working on framing up the south bed in the main part of my garden. I finished off all the mid thickness pecker poles that I had stashed and or was given, just a half hour ago. So tomorrow will be cutting a few pecker poles.

I'm aiming to get the purple seeded golden podded snow peas planted before March 1st this year. I know, pushing it even more than my tied for earliest last year's Saint Patrick's Day. But they'll be covered, so gotta get crackin on that one too.

So, past few, and next few days'll be some engineering stuff.

Yup, been wearing my big boy steel toed work shoes, walmart brand...hay, this is their third gardening season!

 

[digitS']

I looked around the corner of the greenhouse at the 2 garden beds here in the yard.

I was out there breaking into the "stealth compost pit" under the deck outside the greenhouse door. (Surprised that I could get thru the surface on about 2/3rds of the top crust, easily!) Yeah, I was curious what an actual garden bed might look like but I had no serious thought of trying to break thru the soil out there!

No, it was a slimy mess on top of frozen soil with frost that goes down, who knows how deep. You know, I have sometimes set up the hoops and stretched plastic film over those 2 beds about the 1st of March. Don't think I'll want to do that this year. Like I said - I looked at that part of the garden from around the corner . . .

Steve
always willing to go the extra 5 or 6 inches to do something in the garden

 

[897tgigvib]

I know what ya mean. Are you getting like me and need some nagging to get started? Kidding! You all still have some serious cold.

 

[so lucky]

I dumped a big bucket of chicken poo/straw in the garden yesterday. I think that will be the last one put directly in the garden this spring. The rest will have to be put in the compost pile, to age and break down. We got rain, wind and hail today, so the garden is a soggy mess.

 

[canesisters]

Turned Mt. Rotmore #1 yesterday! I was a little dissapointed to see that there were still a few recognizable bits of plants from last summer's garden. But THRILLED to see so many worms. I mean - SO MANY WORMS!!!!! Do worms make nests? Most fork-fulls had a worm or two, but every 4th or 5th had DOZENS!! They looked like those picts of snakes in the winter, when they're all tangled up in a ball to keep warm. Tomorrow, turn Mt. Rotmore #2 and start prepping the front flower bed - gonna grow scallop squash out there this year.

 

[Smart Red]

Sigh!We have 50 mph wind gusts and blowing snow. It is difficult some years to keep the lettuce seed from blowing, but today I doubt I could keep snow peas in place.

On the other hand ..... The three days of over 40º (F) temperatures -- with a day of rain -- has done a lot to melt the snow cover. No snow to the south brings spring temperatures up here faster.

I love spring!I want spring!I NEED spring!Hurry, spring, hurry!

 

[897tgigvib]

Hay Cane, how is that project in front of that building at your work going?

 

[canesisters]

It's on hold till spring.
I cleaned up the beds from weeds, sticks & pine cones and then planted a bunch of ornamental cabbage, pansys and violas. But it's been SO COLD that even the pansys are shriveled and miserable looking. Come Spring, I'll divide and spread the liriope and put something else in the small beds to bring some color.

 

[baymule]

I webbed hay twine for the English peas to climb on, planted 20 pounds of potatoes in the leaf/horse manure piles and moved my squash seedlings outside into the greenhouse (that failed me and froze the tomatoes ) I also extended the bed by the water spigot by 2 feet that more n' likely put it over the property line into the neighbor's yard.........but just a little bit!

 

[4grandbabies]

Finally got out my seed storage container, and decided what I need to buy for this year. I think I will mostly be using up left over seed. No big decisions. I hope that I can start my tomato and pepper seed this weekend.