Just some pics from today:
How do you know when to pick radishes?
While I was away DH made an automatic overhead waterer for 7 of my greenstalks. 🥰 It's not quite finished yet but soon. Needs adjusting for flow & a couple more valves.
I'm growing tromboncino for the first time this year.
Just reseeded everything. :he Now to keep the stupid squirrels out.
I'm a bit disappointed that none of my sweet success cukes came up. A whole packet worth, & that wasn't squirrels, they just failed. So I reseeded with soyo long because...
Hey all. Back from vacation. Can't believe how much everything grew while I was gone!
I'm losing some strawberries for some reason, not sure why. Thinking of having the soil tested. A squirrel tore up my entire garden, I have to go reseed a lot of things. It actually moved the wire I had...
Morning all. A bit rainy, which is good - DH is officially now in charge of the garden, the dog & the chickens. I hope everything/one is alive when I get back. ☮️
I have used cardboard & wood chip mulch in the paths since I first started the garden. It doesn't last long or keep the weeds at bay. I'm a bit neurotic about weeds in my garden, I wish I wasn't, but they bother me & I seem to waste too much time on them. I was thinking of slate stone with...
I agree. I have not bought Sungold starts in years because the volunteers just do so much better! But sometimes they cross with my brandywines & make funny catfaced little maters. 😆
So what does everyone use as mulch on the garden paths?
I have edamame, borage & squash coming up, yay. I watered. Tomorrow the tomatoes & eggplant go in & then it'll just be reseeding what doesn't come up or what the squirrels/snails ate.
That's exactly what I was thinking - didn't seem to make much sense to me. I do, however, cut off seed stems if they show up early - I'll have to pay attention to that this year & see if it causes any problems. Thanks for the link.
Do any of y'all cut your onion tops back? I'm talking large sweet spanish bulbing type. I always have when they're little (couple inches) but have never done it when they're big. Seems like a lot of people are either YES, for sure or NO, don't be dumb. LOL. Opinions?
You never know what you might end up with, sometimes it's fun! I will let volunteer tomatoes grow just to see what they are, I've had some interesting crosses for sure.
ETA: last year I had a very interesting volunteer squash cross, it was light green & looked very much like a yellow...
I don't because I always plant different kinds so close that they for sure cross pollinate.
ETA: or I cross pollinate by hand pollinating if they're under cover.