What did you do in the garden today?

[Liz Birdlover]

I am so not a pink girl, but I bet it would look great full of flowers!

Pink pots do make yellow flowers pop, or they're good for indoors house plants. I gravitate to terracotta, tan, Wedgewood blue or green pots outside, but when I got several muti colored pots on super clearance, I grabbed them up. They're perfect for planting indoor plants & people like to try & match pots with their interior decor. My house plants are awesome for air quality & they really grow so well, I root babies or cuttings then give plants as gifts. The pretty various color pots are very cheerful, with nice green plants in them. You never know who will grab what color either, that 1 pot you think is not attractive...somebody wants it!

 

[BReeder!]

mother's Day for tomatoes, eggplant and squash, cukes

I know, I know... but it's been so warm lately it was tempting.

 

[Sueby]

I know, I know... but it's been so warm lately it was tempting.

Same here. I thought about sticking some bean seeds in the dirt but it really is just too early.

 

[WthrLady]

Today is run cleaning day and the wind will be low enough I can mist the pasture seed.

 

[WthrLady]

Same here. I thought about sticking some bean seeds in the dirt but it really is just too early.

This time of year, we bounce from freezing at night to near 90 during the day. It's hard to resist the siren call of plants at the big box, many can't, but I know better.
The pop up garden center does banner business, usually repeat business, by selling veg this time of year. People plant it, and it OC dies by the second week of May. People rebuy, replant, and we'll get a late chill or hailstorm, and then the pop up places are gone and the big box are selling snow shovels by early June and poof, people have lost a garden season.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Another wet day, windy as well. Good to get more of the seed trays set up indoors & pickle some eggs. Might get down to 40s tonight.

 

[TJAnonymous]

My employer usually gives us Friday afternoons off so we can do whatever makes us happy... Happiness is debatable in the process but I'll be try to finish up the new tomato bed. I'll definitely be happy when it's done!

I'm also debating about buying a cheap outdoor greenhouse from Amazon to move this cacao tree into... I simply don't have high enough humidity to keep it happy in the house.

 

[igorsMistress]

No problem! I'm glad I got on tonight and was able to respond decently quick! I've been on head a lot less these days.


Coop update:
Slowly, but surely it is getting done! Just a few more finishing touches, and the coop will be done. Then, focus will shift to the run. We were originally starting to call it The Close Enough Coop, but changed to calling it The Patchwork Coop, and that seems to be sticking! Chicks arrive on Monday, I think. Their hatch date is Sunday, so Monday makes the most sense.
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Love it, especially the patchwork look.

 

[Sueby]

This time of year, we bounce from freezing at night to near 90 during the day. It's hard to resist the siren call of plants at the big box, many can't, but I know better.
The pop up garden center does banner business, usually repeat business, by selling veg this time of year. People plant it, and it OC dies by the second week of May. People rebuy, replant, and we'll get a late chill or hailstorm, and then the pop up places are gone and the big box are selling snow shovels by early June and poof, people have lost a garden season.

Seems so unscrupulous to take advantage of the people that just don't know any better. The only thing at our garden store now is cool weather crops - onions, lettuce & trees.

Got the eggplant seeds on the heat. I'm so excited to grow them this year!

 

[igorsMistress]

Yesterday was so awesome weather-wise, today we have rain coming, then very windy Friday with 50mph gusts. Humidity & wind really kick my butt, arthritis & fibromyalgia, sinus headaches, the works. Yesterday I felt & worked like I was 20 & today I am paying the price, feeling old, sacroiliac pain along with a barometric headache. Oh well, gotta take the good with the bad, right?

I can't paint on the jobsite til Sat & Sun, so today I can rake what I tilled, before it rains. (After I pop 2 Aleve). I wanted to spread the wildflower seeds in that tilled section, but with high winds I will hold off. I use straw over top of the seed so I can wait a few days, no sense letting wind blow straw all over. After raking this morning I will be washing & crating eggs for market, pickling some eggs for us, & potting about 50 house plants...my house plants had baby plants & I rooted them.
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Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), and hen and chickens, is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae.

The tomato sprouts...I guess they're growing, but darn, seems like slow motion to me. I brought them outside yesterday as it was 70s & sunny. They did like sunshine, after so many cloudy rainy days here.
But "Something" ate a few sprouts tender leaves off! What kind of bug would do that? The little jerk ate a few then took off before I could see the culprit that did this dastardly deed.

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I got the Brussel sprout seeds & 2 other types of tomato seeds started. Got more canning jars at Dollar General.

So...on a kind of funny note, I was in the newer chicken coop, which still is not completely finished, and I saw a visitor slither in. This 12x24 shed used to be a wood shop & I often found perfectly intact shed skins, some quite long. I donated them to Prime Hook refuge for educational purposes. Anyway, they're good mousers, so I left them alone. Rick despises & is quite fearful of them, so I figured I'd better relocate this one. If Rick has seen it, not sure if he would just run from it or kill it. So I took it for a ride, a safer place, huge natural growing area, where no one will mess with him/her. I asked Rick to drive but he wouldn't even come out of the house when he saw me holding it! I drove 1 handed & I have to tell ya, Mr./Ms. Snake was a better passenger than Rick...no backseat driving! I told Rick, he'd better be nice to his Lady Snake Wrangler, here. Lol
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Too long to get whole body in 1 pic while holding, had to take 3
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See ya later, hope I don't regret this...snake will be happy but I may miss a good mouser
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Super cool that you didn’t just kill it. Love that spider plant too, wow!