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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #25 on: Jun 03, 2012, 11:04:08 AM »
Thanks everyone.  I went grocery shopping today and you know they had miniature roses out front for 7.88.  Well I had to have the orange red one.  I just had to.  So now it is sitting in it's pot in the sidewalk bed waiting for evening when I can plant it.  Where will it ever end?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #26 on: Jun 03, 2012, 11:13:36 AM »
It never will end, Tammy. There are too many beauties out there to lure us. I have resisted buying plants until I get my spaces under control.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #27 on: Jun 03, 2012, 11:14:11 AM »
I am thinking you may want to invest in some blinders (like horses wear in races) when you go where there are flowers... :giggle:

I would have had a hard time passing up an orange-red rose, too. They are so pretty...
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #28 on: Jun 03, 2012, 11:28:44 AM »
I hope they have binders in a wrap-around style.  Where is the smiley with the sunglasses when I need him?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #29 on: Jun 03, 2012, 01:05:46 PM »
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #30 on: Jun 03, 2012, 01:23:39 PM »
lol see noone has the wraparounds lol.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #31 on: Jun 03, 2012, 03:09:58 PM »
i had to go replant some things... We have moles digging up my flowers

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #32 on: Jun 04, 2012, 09:02:06 AM »
I'm sorry to hear about your moles.  I have them too.  They eat all the tulips and crocuses and asian lilies that I try and plant.

Today I cut 1/6th of the back yard grass, raked it up, and composted it.

The compost got turned and I took the last of the finished compost and screened it.  It looks wonderful.  I don't think there is anything better.

The rose that I bought yesterday got planted and is looking great.  The temperature and skys are perfect for the transplant.  

I now have soil in the hanging posts on the shed.  I just have to figure out what I want to put in them.  I'm happily accepting ideas.  These are small pots maybe 6 inches.  

The containers now all have wonderful compost soil in them.  

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #33 on: Jun 04, 2012, 07:22:31 PM »
I hilled the potatoes again.  Some of them anyway.  We planted those suckers deep but I guess because of all this rain they've grown like weeds.  I've already had to add dirt 2 other times and today a few were too tall.  If I had bent them over they would have broken.  If we hadn't planted them so deep they'd be 10 feet tall by now.

I also sprayed my insecticidal soap on the squash.  The bugs have found my plants already.  I read somewhere to plant dill with the squash because the squash bugs don't like it.  Not true.  The plants where the dill has come up the fullest are the plants where I saw the bugs.  Next year I'm planting squash in raised beds.

I also brought in a lovely cucumber.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #34 on: Jun 04, 2012, 07:27:14 PM »
Awesome, Sheri. Enjoy the fruits of your labors.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #35 on: Jun 04, 2012, 08:53:20 PM »
Some bugs never get the memo.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #36 on: Jun 05, 2012, 09:17:40 AM »
It's still too wet to do anything in my garden.  The weeds are growing so fast, I may have to mow them before I can get the tiller through it.  :tickedoff:
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #37 on: Jun 05, 2012, 09:25:25 AM »
I can understand that.  I'm glad for the rain but it really is giving the grass a head start.  What I'm wondering is how all the weed seeds got into my compost.  That is disheartening. 

Today I managed to cut another 1/6th of the back yard which gives me 1/3 done and 2/3rds to go.  I then raked up the grass and stashed it into the compost pile.  Then I dug up a bucket of rocks to add to the ring around the birdbath flower bed which is currently full of grass sprouts.  You don't want my thoughts on that subject they aren't polite.  And that's it for outside right now. 

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #38 on: Jun 07, 2012, 03:19:26 PM »
Today I went out and harvested the ripe blackberries.  Dug up the canes that don't produce any fruit so I could get to the ones that do.  Then dug up the little canes that are trying to invade the blueberry bed. 

Other than that my work was limited to pruning the mums in the foundation and sidewalk beds.  Except for one clump which just grows bigger than the rest.  Larger leaves larger stalks.  That one I'm leaving alone.  We'll see what it does.  It doesn't have any buds on it yet. 

The prunings went in the compost pile and got mixed in. 

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #39 on: Jun 08, 2012, 08:58:45 AM »
Well today I managed to get over halfway cutting the backyard lawn.  I raked up the cuttings and mixed them into the compost.  Then I cleaned the birdbath and filled it with fresh water.  And with the rest of the clean water I watered that bed.  I believe it is full of grass from the compost.  Can you say aggravating?

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #40 on: Jun 08, 2012, 12:01:15 PM »
Walked out to see if it was dry enough to hoe out some weeds and noticed the deer had visited.  They seem to like young cucumber plants and of course peas.  They may have really damaged my cucumbers to the extent that I may have to replant.  I have 8 rows of peas so what little damage they done there won't matter much.  I guess after I get the weeds out this weekend, I'll have to put my electric fence up.  I did stake out some tin pie pans so when the wind blows it will make some noise.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #41 on: Jun 09, 2012, 02:22:36 PM »
I hope you have all the luck keeping those pesky deer away from your garden.

The only thing i managed was to not buy the purple dying miniature roses at the grocery store.  only 5 bucks.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #42 on: Jun 09, 2012, 10:47:06 PM »
i decided where i want to move some of my plants, does that count?
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #43 on: Jun 09, 2012, 11:27:41 PM »
Planning counts. It is sometimes the hardest part.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #44 on: Jun 10, 2012, 08:40:36 AM »
I have to agree with that.  I end up moving things over and over again because I just don't plan well.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #45 on: Jun 11, 2012, 07:40:31 PM »
Looked at the grass in the garden and then the rains came.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #46 on: Jun 12, 2012, 08:03:52 AM »
me too for the last 2 days.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #47 on: Jun 14, 2012, 11:07:09 AM »
Got a few more cucumbers this morning and killed a squash bug.  I'm gonna have to get out there when the Neem Oil again this evening.  This rain is killing me.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #48 on: Jun 14, 2012, 11:39:56 AM »
We don't have any vegetables yet. Between starting the garden so late, weeds trying to eat the plants alive, wildlife (deer and rabbits) trying to eat all the plants, and rain, I am wondering if we will harvest anything this year... :(
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #49 on: Jun 14, 2012, 11:53:16 AM »
I gave up and planted a Magnolia tree where garden was...soil is just to sandy to grow vegetables.

 

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