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I've never heard of someone selling bare root tomato plants! 😲 I have heard of planting them in a trench, though. I'll keep in mind about digging too deep of a hole, thanks. That makes sense.

My hands and knees are feeling the work I did yesterday. I'm thinking I'll get a load of laundry going and go back to bed for a nap.

Does anyone here grow chard? I am not having much luck with it sprouting. I think I have 2 out of the row of 10-15 seeds that I planted a couple weeks ago. :hmm

I will keep that in mind. For tomatoes, I bury the plant about 5-6" deeper than it was in the pot, to encourage roots to grow out from the stem. Why do I type "roost" every time I type the word "roots"? You'd think that all I did was write about chickens.

Hubby put a bat house on the side of our house. The bats didn't use it, but they did move into the space between that and the side of the house. :rolleyes: He took it down, put it on the side of an oak tree. No bats.

I stored mine in the summer, and used them the following fall/winter. Good to know, thanks!

The sprawl was one of the things I liked about Bnut squash. It covered a lot of area. I had less and less weeding as the summer went on. :)

It's raining right now. It's not supposed to rain all day, but I think I'll take advantage of it right now, to get some inside stuff done. Like a nap...

Yes! And... it's raining right now! So that I don't feel totally guilty, I'll get a load of laundry going before I take the nap.

Interesting! I did not know that. Thank you. I thought all plants disliked have their roots messed with, to one degree or another.

Are they all ok?

Today, if it rains, I will: Do a load of laundry Take a nap Put some stuff away Today, if it isn't raining, I will: Dig more dirt Dig more weeds Haul a dog crate out to get ready to harden off plants Right now it's raining. If we have dry times during the day, maybe I can get some outside...

We are warm enough now to start hardening plants off. The problem is our last frost date is still a week or so out. Last year we had a freeze on May 26th, so I'm a bit skittish. Last year was the first year I got an actual luffa. I lost 3/4 plants in the May 26th freeze, which probably had a...

^^WOW!

I have to start my tomatoes and peppers inside in pots. This is how I do it. I use containers like this. And cut the bottom off. Then I turn it upside down And that's my pot. When it comes time to plant, I peel the lid off, and the taper of the sides makes it (relatively) easy to slide up and...

I have a bowl of food in the coop during the day, and two others in the run. No water in the coop. The bowl in the coop is the least popular; it's never empty by end of day. I don't leave any food or water out overnight, as I don't want to attract rodents.

I'm glad it does something good. :)If it just stayed out of my gardens... One thing I've wondered about... the field is full of brome, and other grasses, and hasn't been disturbed in over 30 years (as long as we've lived here) and probably decades longer. So that soil has had decades of grass...

Let me know if you need some "starts." What do you grow it for? Is it for grazing? I bet it holds soil together well. It sure does here.

And see the beginning of the tradition of standing for the Halleluiah Chorus! :thumbsup I'd go to see the world premier of Beethoven's 9th, Beethoven conducting. The audience didn't know he was deaf until he didn't turn and acknowledge the applause at the end.

Well, no nap. I actually don't feel too bad right now. I dug more dirt, more weeds, and I'm making (slow) progress. I put the sunflowers starts outside in a tall clear tote to start hardening off. The sides of the tote are keeping the wind from drying them out, and I have a sheet draped over...