What did you do in the garden today?

[Happy Chooks]

Oh, and I planted more strawberry plants.

 

[RedIII]

Carols Clucks, nice! It sounds like you have a plan.

Happy Chooks, it's too bad you don't live closer to me. I've got a ton of strawberry starts, and I'd have given you some for free.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Carols Clucks, nice! It sounds like you have a plan.

Happy Chooks, it's too bad you don't live closer to me. I've got a ton of strawberry starts, and I'd have given you some for free.

Awww, how nice of you. I didn't pay for them though, my DH's grandmother gave them to me.

 

[donrae]

Cut some feed sacks so they'll lay flat open, then laid them out on my pathways and tossed dirt/rocks/boards to hold them down. The darn weeds are already covering the paths with green.

 

[Darian]

I picked out TONS of weeds! It has rained soooo much in Maine this spring. I can barely keep up with the weeds. I did pick a few strawberries. Lots of stuff is coming up! I just love seeing the reward for all my effort. I have potatoes, tomatoes, onions, peas, green beans, peppers, cucumbers, watermelon, zucchini, squash, garlic, lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, various herbs, strawberries, black berries, raspberries, rhubarb, and grapes. I still have more to plant! Wow now that I have typed all this out I feel like a crazy garden lady Oh well the taste of fresh food is worth it!

 

[HappyHenMama]

I added metal support rods "electric posts' around my tomato plants then tied it all together with string.

Okay, so maybe that's what I need to do for my tomatos! I'm so upset...the squirells have discovered they like my tomatos and I get so upset everyday to find my not fully ripe tomatos half eaten!

Now they have moved on to the green tomatos as well, so they aren't even getting the chance to start ripening! arrrggggg! I'm so mad, I can't stand it.

But to get back to the thread topic. I picked zuchinni, yellow squash, green beans and pickeling cucumbers. Beautiful veggies.

 

[RedIII]

Okay, so maybe that's what I need to do for my tomatos! I'm so upset...the squirells have discovered they like my tomatos and I get so upset everyday to find my not fully ripe tomatos half eaten!

Now they have moved on to the green tomatos as well, so they aren't even getting the chance to start ripening! arrrggggg! I'm so mad, I can't stand it.

Ugh, squirrels are less cute to me than they used to be, just because they do this. My dad had a full on war with them last year. They'd sample all his tomatoes and throw them on the ground, then dig up his garlic and do the same thing. And what the squirrels didn't get, the deer ate. I told him he needs a greenhouse.

 

[3forfree]

I'm having a deer problem now, The only thing in the garden that's ripe are strawberrys, I put chicken wire around them to keep the small critters out, now the deer are eating the plants from above.

 

[Carols Clucks]

We have too many zucchini (I knew we would but mom was worried we did not plant enough)

And some great cucumbers


And a giant water bill....ooops Have to reteach mom not to blast with the hose since it is all on a soaker or drip system and might not look wet, but it is

 

[RedIII]

Carols Clucks, your zucchini dilemma reminded me of something I heard my grandpa say that made me laugh: "If you plant one zucchini plant, it gets lonely and dies. If you plant two, you have too many."