What did you do in the garden today?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

40 mph winds are tearing the crap out of everything outside. My poor little honeybees are desperately hanging on to my blossoming plum blossoms, they are so determined to do their jobs.

 

[Smokerbill]

I store boxes of canning jars on some shelves in my garage. These are brand new, unused jars so they have the lids on them.

I was in the garage spraying some birdhouse gourds with outdoor enamel when I started hearing the lids popping on the canning jars.

This storm that's arriving in a few hours is going to be a doozy! I pray anyone else in it's path stays safe.

Hmmm. So if you can foods when the barometric pressure is low you'd get more secure, tighter lid seals, right???

 

[TJAnonymous]

Hmmm. So if you can foods when the barometric pressure is low you'd get more secure, tighter lid seals, right???

Maybe? Wonder if anyone has ever tried?

The storms haven't arrived here yet, although one tornado has already went through about an hour and a half north of me. Between 5 and 9 pm, there will be over a dozen supercells stretching from Texarkana to Jonesboro. It's currently almost 85 degrees so lots of heat energy to feed some monsters.

Canning is really the last thing on my mind right now.

 

[Appalachickens]

Not in the garden exactly, but I picked a bunch of dandelions and wild violets in the yard and made jelly.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I just caught a glimpse of the weather news in the central part of the country. I do hope everyone is safe. I worked on cutting back the blackberry thicket in my backyard. Apparently all the briars that populated my slope last summer are wild blackberry bushes. I’ll clean up some of what’s left but keep an area specifically for blackberries. I’m not a fan but DD is crazy about them. And heck, can’t turn down free fruit. I also did more plugging away at the side slope where my heather is. It’s coming along and the shrubs are looking happy to see the sun. Good news, last night’s low only got down to 28F so no damage so far. Warmer temps for the next 7 to 10 days.

 

[500Chickens]

the only garden i have is in my head

 

[jerryse]

Saw dandelion in bloom as well as Bradford pear, Apricot, and Magnolia. First butterfly a white cabbage type.

 

[fowltemptress]

My asparagus is coming up! I'd never planted asparagus before last year, and I'm such a lazy, slap dash style of gardener I was very skeptical that anything would come of it . . . but it's back! And holy moly, it's looking so much different than the spindly little things that grew from the seed last year. I'm tickled pink over this.

 

[Eagle343]

My asparagus is coming up! I'd never planted asparagus before last year, and I'm such a lazy, slap dash style of gardener I was very skeptical that anything would come of it . . . but it's back! And holy moly, it's looking so much different than the spindly little things that grew from the seed last year. I'm tickled pink over this.

One of the easier vegetables to grow IMO.

 

[Nym]

April fools

Good one. Duckduckgo search engine was a blank search all day. I'm in Australia, so Ive had two days of Aprils fools lol