What did you do in your garden today?

[Dreamz]

I got nothing on the ground at all. This year will buy the tomatoes and peppers from a friend that has a big greenhouse. Just waiting on the corn to put in harden and beans this weekend. Have no potatoes sprouted to put on dirt, lol

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm pinching blooms on plants that need to be planted. too wet past two weeks. More coming Thur they say, so ???? Maybe weekend will be better

 

[flowerbug]

i did get some weeding/gardening done yesterday so that was an improvement in the right direction.

i'm hoping i can get some actual planting done today. at last...

 

[murphysranch]

Yes, way too wet here and too cold at night. We had a frost advisory two nights ago. Seeds are late, and have yet to come up in the new greenhouse. I need a dump truck of garden soil to fill my humongous raised beds after they settled this winter.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Planted out a bunch of herbs. Watermelons are up. They do a pretty good job of hibernating until it's warm enough for them. One pumpkin survived the cold tolerance test and I marked it for seed. It has two sets of true leaves already. Moschatas are coming up. No corn yet, but since it was only (re)planted this week I don't expect that for a while. The rain killed some of my tree seedlings, so I have four apricots and three almonds left from this year's planting.

Potatoes are looking very sad after all the rain. I think if I want to regularly plant potatoes I need to go the TPS route.

The interesting thing is the beans. Dry beans popped right up, even in the cold, but I haven't seen a single green bean. Not sure whether I should buy new seed, replant, or try something else in that space.

 

[FarmerJamie]

The clowder has mowed down the test pot of oat grass. Glad I have another pot planted. Need to buy more seeds.

 

[R2elk]

One pumpkin survived the cold tolerance test and I marked it for seed

I saved seeds from pie pumpkin plants that came up as volunteers and survived two separate killer frosts two years ago. They did well when I direct sowed them in the garden last year.

 

[LaurenRitz]

I saved seeds from pie pumpkin plants that came up as volunteers and survived two separate killer frosts two years ago. They did well when I direct sowed them in the garden last year.

My plan is to eventually be able to plant everything in fall and let it come up on its own time in the spring. What can be self-seeding or perennialized will be.

 

[R2elk]

My plan is to eventually be able to plant everything in fall and let it come up on its own time in the spring. What can be self-seeding or perennialized will be.

That may or may not be possible where you live. It will never be possible here.

While volunteers may often come up here (tomatoes in particular), the growing season is too short for them to produce like is possible in an area that has a longer growing season.

 

[CrealCritter]

That may or may not be possible where you live. It will never be possible here.

While volunteers may often come up here (tomatoes in particular), the growing season is too short for them to produce like is possible in an area that has a longer growing season.

Even here in now zone 7, volunteer tomatoes don't have enough grow season to produce much of any thing before frost gets them. I must start seeds indoors to get a tomato crop. We have volunteer tomatoes pop up in the weirdest places, outside of the garden. I'm thinking wild birds are mainly the seed spreaders.

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