What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

@Sueby Oh that looks interesting, what's it called?

LOL, no kidding this is it's name in Amazon:

Stirrup Hoe and Cultivator Garden Tool Heavy Duty, Scuffle Loop Hula Action Hoe Weeding Gardening Hand Tools for Women Kids Men, Metal Weeder Scraper Garden Hoe Rake Weed Puller Long Handle 32-62 inch​

 

[Sally PB]

People have pretty much forgotten about paper roadmaps. You'd think storm chasers would carry them as backup to their phones.

I love paper maps...

 

[Sally PB]

For some reason, the chard seeds that I planted on April 9th have not come up. They were just in among the garlic, so I don't know what happened.

I plan to plant a row in front of the peas. I just need the peas to be a bit taller first.

 

[fuzzi]

The Persian shield didn't regrow (it doesn't always in my zone though), and my purple heart and small rose bush got trampled by the crew that replaced the siding on my house back in the fall so I've got to replace those at some point.

I lost almost all my evening primroses a few years ago when we had the siding replaced. I found three remaining from the hundreds that were about to bloom when the contractors arrived. I transplanted the three into my wheelbarrow garden, and nursed them along. I finally have enough to start putting them back into the front beds.

They are descendants of the ones my mother grew, 50 plus years ago.

They're special.

Before:

 

[Dinogrrl]

@fuzzi Aw, at least you were able to save some though.
Neither the purple heart nor the small rose were particularly meaningful to me. The irises that are all around them are, as they came from my grandma, but thankfully they were all dormant when the siding was done and they bloomed again beautifully this year.

 

[Swiss]

That view!!!

Gotta love dogs...no modesty

Our puppy will flip over on his back when he's starting to wake up, and I'll tell him, "This is a Christian household, you need to cover that up!"

 

[BReeder!]

We had great weather today. We should stay warm enough from here on it looks like. I tilled, raked out the soil and laid heavy landscape fabric. I then got some planting done, cutting through the fabric for every seed/plant I put in the ground. It was laborious, but the hopefully the thistle meets is match!
I got a bunch of corn planted today - a yellow sweet type, strawberry red and a blue. I also finally planted potatoes. I'm going to try potato towers this year - tires as the base with dear fencing and a few stakes forming the height and filling them with old straw as the plants grow. I transplanted watermelon and sunflowers out into the garden. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and several herbs are out in the greenhouse to acclimate and will get transplanted in a few days.

Unfortunately the pepper starts died while I was on a work trip this past week. I'll have to replant those.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Can you share that link?

I don't know how but I believe it's in the Hobbies section.

Here, I know what to do. I'll tag @ronott1 and he'll come link it for us! I believe he's the host over there.

 

[Minanora]

@WthrLady - daaayum!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1783949373660971141

I literally read that and heard Gabriel Iglesias say "Daaaayum" in my head.


Seriously though; that was a pretty brutal storm. Storm chasers. I used to relish that drama. I studied to be a commercial meteorologist to work for airports but never followed through. I love weather so much though. I just lost my scholarship and had to drop OU as an option and so, here I am!

I remember the EF5 that rolled through our area when I was a kid. I was with my grandma and we couldn't get a hold of my parents for almost 24 hours. We drove for hours, trying to stay out of the path of the beast. The sky was green all day. It was nightmarish. I can't forget that.

I don't miss living out there. Missing friends at school, learning that they lost their homes, or family members to tragedy. I loved everything else, I mean, aside from briars and sand burs. To heck with those things.





I GOT SO MUCH DONE! BAAAHHHHH! New pool liner is standing; but no water in it yet. We went to the dump for a second time. I hate going there. I feel so terrible making waste. We don't make trash usually, but the pool liner was 6 years old. and it sat empty for almost a year. When I went to cut it up, it was brittle, it was a matter of time; the liner was already leaking in several places.... it was going to fail soon and send 10k gallons of water to the house and well, under the house. It was already leaking in several places, even a few I didn't know about because the leaks were in the middle of the floor.

OHHHH My peas are making PEAS!!!!! YAY!!! Weeeeeeee!

My corn is coming up; both the popping (I always want to say "pooping" Lol) and the sweet corn. I'm so happy! Radishes should be next. I planted a bunch of basil, that's all coming up now. I can hardly wait to transplant it. I did my nematode spray yesterday, yay! I'm keeping up with it! I got most of my tomato stakes and cages up. I love it. My hands still hurt so bad; I can't do much for working on irrigation; I can't even open a "pop" can...

Photos of the things!!!!! yay! See attached; I didn't include the corn sprouts, they were too small to really see, TOMORROW THOUGH!!!! AAAHHHH CORN!

 

[Minanora]

So, I had a sugar free redbull for the first time in probably 10 years. Can you tell? Sheesh. it wore off; I'm burned.

The new liner. Tomorrow it gets formed out. I am so happy it's up already; I was so worried we wouldn't get it up before it got warm outside.