Your 2024 Garden

[tripletfeb]

Grind them as fine as you can.

I have a spice grinder I will use

I'm going to use Tomato Tone on my 'maters and peppers this year. It's organic, made by Espoma. I've used their Tree Tone on my fruit trees, and I think it has made a HUGE difference to my cherry trees. Their soil acidifier has made a HUGE difference to my blueberries too.

Anybody else use that stuff? I plan to sprinkle a bit around each plant when I put them in the ground.

I'll look into this, thanks!

I've used a coffee grinder to powder both eggshells and oyster shell granules.

Yup, plan on using my coffee/spice grinder

 

[fuzzi]

As one flower finishes blooming for the season... (Amaryllis)

Others continue to bloom (primroses)

And begin to bloom (pickerel rush)

Milkweed

Hydrangea (they'll get bigger & more blue)

Crinum lilies

And Summer squash!

 

[tripletfeb]

Finished my garden today. 42 green bean plants, carrots, strawberries, lavender, chamomile. Got all that in then remembered that I wanted to do broccoli

 

[Sally PB]

All the starts are out in the garden, in dog crates that are covered with sheets. 46 for a low tonight, then lows of 50s in the next week.

Tomorrow is supposed to be partly cloudy, so they'll get some filtered sunshine for awhile.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Went ahead and planted some seeds. Might be too late here for them, but maybe not. At least the strawberries aren't too late

 

[NanaK]

Thankfully the rain did not beat up the garden too bad. I did have to wrap some bean vines back on the trellis.

Tomatoes are starting to get tall so I pushed some vines into the weaving.

I noticed something ate the top of a few zinnia seedlings. I suspect an insect.

 

[fuzzi]

Thankfully the rain did not beat up the garden too bad. I did have to wrap some bean vines back on the trellis.

Tomatoes are starting to get tall so I pushed some vines into the weaving.

I noticed something ate the top of a few zinnia seedlings. I suspect an insect.

My feral cats have been walking on my raised bed gardens even though I have covered them with bird netting (they can't dig in the newly-planted beds). I have ordered some more plastic chicken fencing to put an end to that nonsense.


No mice, no moles, no shrews, and the squirrels are avoiding my yard, so I can deal with the cats. As my flock, the cats greet me every morning as the Giver of Food!

 

[fuzzi]

Peas

Bush beans

Summer squash