What Did You Do In Your Garden Today?

[897tgigvib]

Today I finished preparing the beds in the front western addition of my garden.

Still some to do for 3 of the beds in the main middle part, and the back eastern side needs quite a bit more work on the beds.

 

[digitS']

Very little . . .

Got some ground ready for snapdragons and sunflowers. Of course, the snapdragons are smaller than a dime and won't be ready to set out for 3 weeks. That should be just about right.

Found some sunflower sprouts out there! Had to dig down but there are volunteers on their way up! It seems a little surprising to me that sunflowers start sprouting so early and can take a frost. We will have nicer (more beautiful) ones than the volunteers to set out .

Steve

 

[lesa]

Steve, the sunflower sprouts are one of the first signs of spring around here. They are under my deck (which is where my bird feeder is). I am amazed every year how early and frost resistant they are!

 

[897tgigvib]

Yep, I have some sunflower sprouts too. I may leave one or two.

 

[vfem]

Lesa, us too. I have a ton of sunflower sprouts around my deck from where I was harvesting seed last fall. There are also a few around my daughter's playhouse where the bird feeder is. I'm pretty sure I'm going to leave them all to grow.

I haven't done anything in the garden today, yet! But yesterday I worked until after 5 and had to take care of the animals after I got off of work. I decided to plant grass in the raised bed in the chicken run. Then I decided I needed to fill all the holes they dug in the run, so I took some dirt out of the run and lined all my rows in the garden I am yet to plant with the chicken dirt (I bet the stuff is RICH). Then I back filled the run with a mix of compost, leaves and dirt from the woods. I'll let them work that dirt for me for a little while, then I'll move that dirt into the garden and rotate more to the run again later.

My back hurts from all the digging, and you wouldn't think I got much done.

 

[897tgigvib]

I know what ya mean Vfem, sometimes ya work your buns off and realize some folks would look at it and wonder what ya did...

A few minutes ago, 7 am, it was 51 degrees and light enough, so I carried my flat of beans sprouting outside to be in the light for the day.

Gonna have some more coffee then get to it some more. That back east side is next...

 

[digitS']

Does greenhouse work count?

Well, while I was in there potting up peppers, I had to rotate things in and out of the water basin on the front path. To get to that pathway, one needs to step thru a narrow opening of the bearing 2 by 4's that go all the way to the peak. They are set at 24" on center and since you are stepping down from the little platform in front of the door, it is a little awkward.

One learns, however, but I always grip the redwood 2 by 4 as I go up or down, to or from that pathway. Well, one of these days I may have to replace those redwood boards. All of them! Dismantle the whole south side of the sunshed! But, not any year soon.

Still, I managed to get 3 slivers from that board today! First time I can remember that happening :/. So, I was in there for about 30 minutes planing and sanding that board -- after I dug the slivers out!

Later in the day, I put together a "nail getter" out of a big magnet so as to clear my parking space of "tire puncture devices" at the little veggie garden! Similar work and purpose . . .

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Worked on that back east side today, am about half done back there. That's the side that faces the lake. I've decided that the plant there that grew slowly through the winter is indeed a Dahlia. It must be from a small piece of tuber from those flame red yellow large striped ones I grew in 2010. Kind of amazing. It grew through the winter and probably grew upwards of 2 feet from when I had it in a wine drum and shifted that soil to the back bed. hmm.

 

[canesisters]

... hauled them outside... hauled them inside.....

 

[ducks4you]

Just watered my spinach bed this morning. **sigh** It's 4' x 12', and I'll be planting okra in it in June. Good thing it's been a late Spring. No rain since our 5 inches of Snow 2 weeks ago, BUT rain, rain, rain next Sunday- Thursday.