What did you do in your garden today?

[Hinotori]

You could also have a post on each raspberry row end... and then put up strung between the 2 posts, if any support is needed.

My raspberries never needed help standing up.... I think blackberries are a but more floppy??

That's how the berry farms do it here. I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow. The canes are tied in loops to the wires. Blackberries and raspberries are treated that way.

 

[CrealCritter]

Braced the H ends with X twists of high tinsel wire and also stretched and stapled 2 pulls of the same high tinsel wire for the grape vine. I'm including page 338 of Storeys Basic County Skills book. This book continues to be my "go to" for a lot of questions and information. Grape vine wires are 3' and 5' off the ground. Also some other good info in the book about grapes. Let me know and I can post more pictures of the grapes pages. But I would suggest buying the book, it's a good one.

After farm babe and I were done stretching wires she said we should put something on the wires for people to see. I said why? She said someone come running through here and get hurt. So she grabbed an old towel and cut it into strips and tied to the wires. She just got done cutting strips and here comes Jake the neighbors dog. She grabbed those strips of the ground real quick, cause Jake would have took off with them. I think Jake thinks he's my dog 😂. I like him and according to my neighbor, I'm his favorite person. He is a pretty cool black lab, he swims in the pond with the ducks and makes me smile and laugh a lot with his puppy antics and face lickings

I mulched in 50 foot row of white sweet spanish onions with hay. Both rows yellow and white onions are showing new growth leaves, so are the 3 50 foot rows of cabbages we set out last weekend 👍

I set peppers outside again to continue hardening off.

And I finally got big momma aloe vera growing vertical instead of horizontal. Big momma survived the transplant and is putting on new growth. I wonder what she'll do in that new big pot 🤔 hard telling... she's a crazy cacti 😜

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

going to be 60 here today, overcast with a breeze. Going to head out and finish up the raspberry/blackberry bed, turn in the compost and cover with black plastic for a couple weeks until my plants come. I put in a wood border yesterday, so I will finish that off today. I need to make a couple H frames and wire it off, similar to your grape one @CrealCritter, with two rows of wires and eyelet screws. I have one more small (3x5) bed to add compost and turn and cover which will be for something, not sure what yet.

 

[flowerbug]

first day of getting some things done outside. washed a few windows, straightened out the fence that got run over by deer and then got wood, rocks and bricks out of the way of the culvert at the end of the drive so the excavator can get in there whenever we can get it done. i stopped after one side because i'd not done much work outside since the last time it snowed so i didn't want to overdo it. came in and took a bit of a rest. still feel good though so i didn't do too much.

 

[CrealCritter]

Farm babe, tractor and I dug 14 holes for grapes. The sun is beating down, but supposed to rain tomorrow and some next week. So to hopefully to prevent sun scorched leaves, we'll plant the grapes this evening.

Planted a dormant rhubarb that didn't come back this year. 1 out of 3 didn't make a comeback.

Worked some more on the water gap for the back pasture. Got the heavy duty gate thingy stood up and stabilized. Pounded a few 8 foot t posts. Just need to wire hammer stretch some more barb wire to fill in gaps, I can still get under the bottom wire on the banks

Kind of dragging today, not enough sleep last night

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[R2elk]

It's 14°F here. No planting anything in the garden yet. There are tomatoes blooming in the greenhouse and in the living room.

 

[CrealCritter]

It's 14°F here. No planting anything in the garden yet. There are tomatoes blooming in the greenhouse and in the living room.

I was just at Rural King, tomato plants are $4.79 each. Just think about that and you'll feel better about living room tomatoes 😉

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

 

[Mini Horses]

It's 14°F here.

Brrrrrr! Glad I'm here! 😁 that Easter bunny better bundle up!

 

[FarmerJamie]

I knew I was going for 50lbs of onions - didn't want to throw that over my shoulder, lol.

I have used my son for those tasks with multiple trips to the car!

 

[R2elk]

Would I be correct to assume these are for colder, shorter season areas? Is the fruit smaller? That would make sense...and flavor?

Northern Exposure is a short season (67 days) tomato listed as 8 oz. fruits. It is the most disease resistant, reliable short season tomato that I have ever grown. I get tomatoes as big as 4" to 5" in diameter and 12 to 16 oz.

While it can produce wonderfully in a colder, shorter season, it also can do very good in warmer, longer season areas. I had one plant in the greenhouse last summer that produced well in there where the daily temperatures got over 100°F. I have had one in the house all winter.

In my poor nutrient sand dune of a garden, they produced very well but were not flavorful and had an almost rubbery texture until I discovered Azomite. After the addition of azomite, they became very sweet, tasty and wonderful texture.

The reason I kept growing them even with the lack of flavor and texture is because once they were canned they tasted just like any other canned tomatoes. Now that I use azomite, the flavor and texture are wonderful.

I have tried other tomatoes every year and have never found any that will compare.