What's happening in your garden today?

[Anniekay]

Today I installed 4 t-posts alongside my trellis which holds a Lady Banks yellow rose on one side and a Major Wheeler honeysuckle on the other. The hurricane knocked it down and it hasn't stayed upright since !! Keeps wanting to lean west.



Then I took my string trimmer and cut down all my deeply frosted, rusty colored Boston ferns so, that provies a good mulch for the shade garden.


Lastly. picked more broccoli and trimmed off more bottom leaves on the brussels sprouts.

 

[big rockpile]

Well I watered bunch of plants it the Greenhouse.

Sprouted some Petunias using Paper Towel put them in a pot and misted them. Set them on my Heat Pad.

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[Zigs]

Seemed to be a repotting day.

Repotted Snake Plants, Geraniums and Pineapple.

Planted one Pineapple.

Didn't the mods on the other forum call you a liar for saying you had a Pineapple Mr Pile?

You won't get such slander over here. They slandered me too

Still waiting for an appology from the bastards.

 

[Zigs]

Put the Scarecrows out for the summer, they'd been hiding in the shed

 

[Anniekay]

Put the Scarecrows out for the summer, they'd been hiding in the shed

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Is that Scarecrow another of Tetter's creations?

 

[Sean Regan]

No gardening today, it's a bit wet and I'd quite a few chores to do. Including "vacuuming everywhere." (Not that it needed it. My wife's physo was coming at 1.00 pm and you know what women are like, if there's visitors coming!)
But I did order eight creeping phlox plug plants on eBay to add to the rockery. I like this colour.






I'll pot them up and put them on the windowsill in the shed for the time being.

 

[Jersey Devil]

Is that Scarecrow another of Tetter's creations?

Never mind creation... is that Tetters ??!!!

 

[Anniekay]

Since all month we will be having it in the 50'sf for the low and 70's for the high, they even predict it will be 80 f by Wednesday, did quite a bit in the Garden today.

Planted out my two tallest tomato plants with three marigolds in one raised bed. Since my snow peas pooped out due to the extreme cold I turned one bed of those under and planted bush beans in there. That bed already has a potato planted in on one side.

Then I harvested one of my cabages and some spinach in another bed and planted a pepper and a Courgette in there. Then in another raised bed planted a Courgette and Two Peppers that were growing so nicely together that I left the siamese twins conjoined but gave them more room to grow on the end of that bed.

I added mycorrhizal (probably spelt wrong) fungi to all my root balls and in the soil beneath my bush beans. Added Bio Char and fertilizer as well.

First thing I did was dig out that enormously ugly Mexican petunia that looked like an elephant sat on it !! That thing spread runners all over, up and under my Irises so, eventhough it is not the time of year to move Iris, I had no choice but to do so to get the runners out. They look better now, anyways.

Right now I'm lounging with my Shiatzu back massager on and watching Gardeners World !!

 

[Sean Regan]

No gardening today as it was a golf day. Warm for the time of year.
Tomorrow, I've to go to a garden fence manufacturer in Eccles.
Waney lap panels are at least £20 each now. But this firm sells all the bits. I need a bottom rail and one strip of panelling. I'll get a few. At the moment there's only a couple of panels that need attention. But it is as well to be prepared in case I need more during the year.
I did the same three years ago for several panels where the top caps had weathered away.

 

[big rockpile]

Everything got fed Fish Emulsion and Black Strap Molasses. Special treat day.

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[big rockpile]

Didn't the mods on the other forum call you a liar for saying you had a Pineapple Mr Pile?

You won't get such slander over here. They slandered me too

Still waiting for an appology from the bastards.

Probably did. This would require retrieving a memory.

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[Tetters]

No gardening today, it's a bit wet and I'd quite a few chores to do. Including "vacuuming everywhere." (Not that it needed it. My wife's physo was coming at 1.00 pm and you know what women are like, if there's visitors coming!)
But I did order eight creeping phlox plug plants on eBay to add to the rockery. I like this colour.



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I'll pot them up and put them on the windowsill in the shed for the time being.

One of my favourite plants......that reminds me

Is that Scarecrow another of Tetter's creations?

We'll show you my creation when I've finished it .......coming soon!

Never mind creation... is that Tetters ??!!!

Watch it, you cheeky sod

Since all month we will be having it in the 50'sf for the low and 70's for the high, they even predict it will be 80 f by Wednesday, did quite a bit in the Garden today.

Planted out my two tallest tomato plants with three marigolds in one raised bed. Since my snow peas pooped out due to the extreme cold I turned one bed of those under and planted bush beans in there. That bed already has a potato planted in on one side.

Then I harvested one of my cabages and some spinach in another bed and planted a pepper and a Courgette in there. Then in another raised bed planted a Courgette and Two Peppers that were growing so nicely together that I left the siamese twins conjoined but gave them more room to grow on the end of that bed.

I added mycorrhizal (probably spelt wrong) fungi to all my root balls and in the soil beneath my bush beans. Added Bio Char and fertilizer as well.

First thing I did was dig out that enormously ugly Mexican petunia that looked like an elephant sat on it !! That thing spread runners all over, up and under my Irises so, eventhough it is not the time of year to move Iris, I had no choice but to do so to get the runners out. They look better now, anyways.

Right now I'm lounging with my Shiatzu back massager on and watching Gardeners World !!

There's no way we can plant stuff out here until May at least!

 

[Logan]

Nothing today it's frosty and cold.

 

[Anniekay]

Today I harvested all my spinach. Steamed some for supper and am steaming the rest to put in "baggies" to freeze for later.
Then I planted some zinnia seed, weeded the veg in the raised beds and got the back of my south facing border composted, weeded and watered, ready to plant out some prairie sage and cerinthe major in the morning.

 

[Logan]

Nothing today it's too cold and windy.

 

[Anniekay]

I can't do anything due to the drizzle so I went shopping at Walmart.

I bought plants !!
A pack of 8 Red hot poker roots.
A pink climbing rose to replace the one that hasn't thrived for me.
A pack of three Lily roots called Purple Dream. It's dark pink with a purple center.
Lastly a packet of Tithonia for 50¢ !! Tall orange daisy like flowers in bright orange.

And a little bit of food !! Who needs food ? Gardening feeds the soul, ya know ?

 

[Logan]

I've tried growing tithonia from seed but it didn't grow very tall.

 

[Anniekay]

I've tried growing tithonia from seed but it didn't grow very tall.

I looked tithonia up on line and there are so many kinds of them !! They even have little short ones that only get a foot high. Mine are the 5-6' kind but I will pinch out the leading shoot when they reach about a foot high.

You may have gotten the 2-3' tall ones, they look just like the big tall ones. Sometimes the seed is mislabeled or the plants crossed in the field and nobody noticed !!

 

[Logan]

Mine were supposed to be 2-3 ft but only got to 1ft and didn't flower very well.

 

[big rockpile]

Tied my Tomatoes up for second time.

Decided cuttings started in soil better than water.

Ordered some seed.

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