What did you do in your garden today?

[FarmerJamie]

After work, I will be temporarily planting peonies root in the garden beds to overwinter until I can get the flower beds built

Done

 

[flowerbug]

did a little work in the strawberry patch, digging up the bigger weeds (some of the dandelion roots were three inches across) and turned some of it under. much more to do but at least i got more of it done. it was pretty warm and windy and i really wasn't feeling up to it so i did what i could and called it good enough for now. not sure when i'll be back out there to do any more on it. the weather is going from warm to cold and rains in the forecast. my plans are pretty much to do very little outside if it is cold and raining and i have bags of beans to shell out plus chores inside i've been putting off the past several weeks. the garlic will get planted eventually... not sure when. it is very much a time of playing things by ear...

 

[Mini Horses]

Still watching my volunteer, chicken planted , tomato plants grow & bloom. Have fruit set. Weather has been warm & they're growing well. I have both slicers & cherry type. Fun to see, mature fruits questionable on slicers with time needed.

 

[Hinotori]

One of my thornless raspberries has been setting fruit. The rain has been back awhile so all it does is rot. There are quite a few half half ripe, moldy berries on it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Shocked to see that the turnips are up. They were not showing this morning - but late this afternoon - there they are!

 

[flowerbug]

brought in the hoses. i'd forgotten the other day to bring them in while it was warmer. one was split so it will go out with the trash on Monday. it's got a lot of years on it (at least 20) so it has held up a long time and been through some alterations too as the ends started leaking and i replaced them. i'm wondering if we'll be able to find anything next spring that will last as long.

 

[LaurenRitz]

brought in the hoses. i'd forgotten the other day to bring them in while it was warmer. one was split so it will go out with the trash on Monday. it's got a lot of years on it (at least 20) so it has held up a long time and been through some alterations too as the ends started leaking and i replaced them. i'm wondering if we'll be able to find anything next spring that will last as long.

Use your old hoses as dripline. Drill a tiny hole where you want an "emitter," kink one end and plug it in to the new hose to water.

 

[flowerbug]

yesterday was a few hours of weeding and turning under more of the strawberry patch. a few more hours and i should have the rest of it done, but that won't be happening today or the next few days - so maybe Wednesday... rains and family stuff going on and i can work on the dry bean shelling.

 

[flowerbug]

Use your old hoses as dripline. Drill a tiny hole where you want an "emitter," kink one end and plug it in to the new hose to water.

i'm always a fan of using things as much as possible but this one is ready to move on - in a perfect world it would be made out of something that could eventually rot and become plant food.

 

[Mini Horses]

Covered my chickens tomato plants with plastic. First night we've been in mid 30s with wind...so trying to protect.