What did YOU do in your garden today :P

[baymule]

Today I pulled up dandelions. Yeah, I know, but the flowers are so small now, and they are tall and beyond weedy looking. Just a bunch of headless stems.

I pulled up dead tomato plants, weeds and more weeds. I dug up some Egyptian Walking Onions and clipped the bulblets off the top of the stems.

I cut down a gi-normous sunflower (wild) that I thought I would have to take a chainsaw after. I did general clean up and put 3 big black plastic bags out by the curb.

I cut open some over ripe Chocolate Cherry tomatoes and squeezed the seeds out onto a paper towel to save them.

 

[ducks4you]

Yesterday I got my beet bed planted, put both a mini rose (pale green) in the front bed and a Hen N Chicks in the bed north of the garage, in the mostly sunny part. I also tilled up the pile of last winter's stall bedding and dumped it on the south side of the garage, which has been a constant weed fest fight. I'm throwing in every OLD bean and squash seed I can find the see what wants to grow and smother the weeds that attempt to break through 4 inches of compost!!
Harvested 3 Ruetgers tomatoes...the volunteers are further along this year than the ones I started in March. =/

 

[Lavender2]

Great plan @ducks4you , when all else fails, smother it and hope for the best! Great that you got some tomatoes, my plants have surely had better years, also.

I did nothing in the garden, it rained this morning so I didn't have to water, and it was nice to have a break and be lazy for change!

 

[Ken Adams]

This

 

[baymule]

@Ken Adams that is Garden Art of the finest!!

 

[Ken Adams]

Oh and I stared menacingly at my tomatoes that continue to grow lots of big green tomatoes but refuse to show any color...They did not seem impressed

 

[lesa]

I harvested the first ripe tomatoes!! Sliced them up with olive oil, balsamic and some fresh basil from the garden. Now that is heaven! Also picked beans and some broccoli. Really need to spend a few hours weeding now...

 

[baymule]

Oh and I stared menacingly at my tomatoes that continue to grow lots of big green tomatoes but refuse to show any color...They did not seem impressed

That's easy! Just go out there and growl at the tomatoes and tell them you are going to pull them off, slice them up, bread and FRY them in SCALDING HOT OIL!!! It will scare them to death and they will ripen immediately.

 

[baymule]

Today I didn't work in the garden, but I worked of the garden. I saved seeds. I had the dining table covered with drying seeds of various kinds. I rubbed Chocolate Cherry tomato seeds off the paper towels I had them drying on and put in an envelope. I sifted the Anasazi Sweet corn and the Painted Mountain corn and put them in labeled jars. I sorted the zinnia seeds, collard green seeds and put them in envelopes. I bagged butterbean seeds. I bagged up dill seed heads and dandelion seed. I spread Egyptian Walking Onion bulblets to dry until we get a place to plant them at our new house. Last year I planted a few white beets, but only one came up. So I let it go to seed and I cleaned the seeds and put them in an envelope. I felt very accomplished, surveying my mornings work!

 

[digitS']

Those seeds are your table stakes for a new season in a new garden, @baymule .



Take a healthy gamble and the Best of Luck!

Steve