What did you do in the garden today?

[frustratedearthmother]

Sounds like a good day, MMD.

I watered, and watered, and watered... we are seemingly entering a slight drought. Also weeded a bit and added some more mulch...and then I picked some green beans. They're in a pot right now with some bacon and garlic and the cornbread is in the oven.

 

[Mini Horses]

No drought here!! Had been a touch dry but, not enough to be an issue. So, feeling I would be able to till, I stopped on way home last Tuesday eve and crumbled and bought plants. 9 tomatoes, 3 green peppers, 3 pimento peppers, 6 eggplant. I awoke to rain Wed AM....has rained every day since! Scattered showers and heavy downpours. can't till. All sitting there waiting. Figured I'd direct seed some more but these would give me a "start". Some start. PLUS, with all the rain, heat and fertilizer out there (thanks chickens/goats!) the darned grass is growing so fast it will be a major mow event. All weather reports say more and more thru Monday!

I wait. At least the plants were nice and very inexpensive from a small, local hardware. $1.50 per 3 pk. They are about 12" ones, heavy stems, good plants. If this keeps up I may have to pot them for a week or two.

 

[Beekissed]

@sumi and @Beekissed , I think it's super cool that you traded!

@frustratedearthmother , you are picking zucchini and squash and tomatoes, and I finally got mine in the ground today! But I'm behind this spring. Ive now got a fenced in garden to protect it from the dogs and chickens, covered it all in two year old non-sprayed hay, built several raised beds, and am finally filling those. Hot peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, yellow squash, and zucchini were all planted today, and okra was separated and planted in bigger pots.. and we finally got some rain, so I'm rejoicing!

And so it begins....I'll be expecting more beautiful pics of all that's growing.

 

[BarredBuff]

So, just realized I will be back on the home place this summer and into the fall. That means I am back in the garden! Green beans, sweet corn, green onions, peppers, okra, cucumbers, and tomatoes are in the ground. Ordered seeds for my fall garden and my late summer crops this morning before church.

I hope to get the last of my Roma and Rutgers tomatoes in the ground in the morning. I got them for free too! So, even better. Then put in the last of the cucumbers, and set out my marigolds. I'm also on the hunt for some Cosmos to go in the ground.

Exciting stuff!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

BB - That's awesome - I'm so excited for you!

 

[BarredBuff]

Set out 70+ Rutgers and Roma tomato plants this morning with two more cucumber plants and my Cayenne papers and some extra Bell peppers. Hoping for some rain today to do my watering for me...

 

[sumi]

It's been raining softly on and off since last night, so I finished up preparing the lawn area today. Just need to sow the seeds and rake over it again now. I'm hoping the rain will lure some more seedlings in the vegetable garden out as well I am NOT impressed with the seeds I bought. So many didn't come up.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sorry your seeds are being stubborn. I've had that problem a couple of times this year. Corn refuses to grow for me this year! Hope the rain will help ya out!

 

[sumi]

I hope it will! For all my efforts I have a lot of peas, a few carrot seedlings, a few swiss chard seedlings and two cauliflower seedlings I did some some peppers and tomatoes recently, so I'm waiting on those as well as the second planting of cauliflower now. I'm going to try the sweetcorn again, this time from the other packet of seeds I bought. (I accidentally bought two packets)

 

[Mini Horses]

Hoping for some rain today to do my watering for me...

Your rain is at my house. Wish some had stayed with you!

Of course, I can't make it go from E to W....otherwise I'd send it!! We've had over 6" in past 6 days and 4 more days of it coming. I'm not flooded but it's more than enough. Can't till, dig, all that with such wet surface plus couple inches down.

It's a bummer.