What did you do in the garden today?

[SheaLoner]

I'm building a walk in tunnel for my broccoli this year. Pvc or emt? What do you guys think? Emt will last years and keep it's form. Pvc is cheap and bendy but not really uv stable.

 

[Minanora]

My right hip and knee are absolutely screaming and throbbing. I can hardly stand it. It's rare that it hurts this badly. I'm nauseous from the pain. I can't bring myself to get up and make dinner. It's like they're leaching pain into the surrounding bones. Ugh. But I finished planting the pie pumpkins, snacking seed pumpkins, and first set of summer squash plants. We'll see how these do. Hopefully the neighbors gophers don't get too bold. I've killed two over by the raised beds and one out front in the last three weeks. I am getting sick of them not trapping their vermin themselves... Their blasted loud solar noise makers... Caster oil... Then I have to kill them. I've killed over 280 gophers over the last 9 years on our 1/3 acre. I don't feel bad in the slightest.

 

[jerryse]

84 today. Too hot too soon. Not used to it yet. 62 tomorrow. I need to mow again.

 

[Smokerbill]

I've been needing some loppers to trim tree branches for a while and found a pair of Corona FL3420 anvil loppers at a nearby garage sale today. Good quality, but...

One of the handles had been "MacGyvered", as the woman at the sale told me. A broken handle was replaced with a section of an aluminum cane. Haven't tried it yet, but for $2 it was still a good score. If the cane handle doesn't work out I can make a different one.

It's actually kind of a funny fix. Combination walking stick/lopper?

 

[TJAnonymous]

Hello, did you water soak your seeds in the refrigerator for 24 hours before planting them in the seed tray?

Um, no... The packet didn't mention that... I did have them in the refrigerator for over 30 days though.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Does the yard count?View attachment 3801393yesterday we went to home depot and priced these lawn chairs resort style, not ratchet style. We also checked Walmart. We liked the price better at Walmart almost 1/2 for the lawn chairs. We also got the big towels.
Yesterday we also got patio chair table cushions, red, from home depot ( originally for different chairs.) Then today we went back to Walmart, and found red patio cushions for half the price. Well the cushions were cheaper, but in this case we liked the cushions that cost more from home depot. We will return the Walmart cushions.

I've found that Walmart online is also way cheaper than Amazon for a lot of the same (Chinese junk) stuff. But the descriptions are better on Amazon so I will look them up on both and then buy it cheaper on Walmart.com.

 

[TJAnonymous]

My right hip and knee are absolutely screaming and throbbing. I can hardly stand it. It's rare that it hurts this badly. I'm nauseous from the pain. I can't bring myself to get up and make dinner. It's like they're leaching pain into the surrounding bones. Ugh. But I finished planting the pie pumpkins, snacking seed pumpkins, and first set of summer squash plants. We'll see how these do. Hopefully the neighbors gophers don't get too bold. I've killed two over by the raised beds and one out front in the last three weeks. I am getting sick of them not trapping their vermin themselves... Their blasted loud solar noise makers... Caster oil... Then I have to kill them. I've killed over 280 gophers over the last 9 years on our 1/3 acre. I don't feel bad in the slightest.

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I noticed a gopher tunnel right through my newly tilled garden this evening.



I haven't planted anything in there yet but this has been an ongoing problem for 3 years now....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Didn't do too much today. Got 4 new tub-beds set up and seeded some carrots, purslane, baby's breath, portaluca, and stocks in them. Ran out of soil and still have 5 beds to fill so I'll pick up more tomorrow.

Gotta get working on the big garden too now that it's tilled.

 

[WthrLady]

Does the yard count?View attachment 3801393yesterday we went to home depot and priced these lawn chairs resort style, not ratchet style. We also checked Walmart. We liked the price better at Walmart almost 1/2 for the lawn chairs. We also got the big towels.
Yesterday we also got patio chair table cushions, red, from home depot ( originally for different chairs.) Then today we went back to Walmart, and found red patio cushions for half the price. Well the cushions were cheaper, but in this case we liked the cushions that cost more from home depot. We will return the Walmart cushions.

I have those chairs. LOVE them. We often sleep outside when the weather is nice, or not so nice, if there is a good meteor shower.

 

[Smokerbill]

A couple of the crocosmia seeds I saved from my plant last fall and planted are coming up. I thought it would be fun to see if I could get the seeds to grow.